Any significance to this rather long dream?

Question

Several years ago I dreamed that I was at a rest stop along a highway. A funeral procession was walking by, carrying my foster daughter on a bier. Horrified, I asked what they were doing and someone replied, "The little girl is dead." I started screaming, "She's not dead! She's alive!" Then I turned and saw a large square of metal, the shape and color of a fuse box, but solid. Suddenly lightening hit it and transformed it into a crystal with 100 facets, and from the center it glowed with an amethyst light.

I turned back to the funeral procession; it had disappeared and in its place was a flowering tree. Somehow I knew there were 100 blossoms on the tree, the same number as there were facets in the crystal.

At the time, my foster daughter was healthy, and I had no interest in crystals or colors or anything of the kind. But it was an amazing dream that has stayed with me.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

"a rest stop along the highway" could mean.. along the road of life, you take a break and ponder this dream.

your foster daughter is just as much a symbol in your dream as any other.

it likely means that something about you that is thought dead is actually alive.

something closed off or put away gets rejuvenated .. something about you, or of special treasure to you.

the rejuvenation brings transformation.. from something common to something beautiful.

amethyst means something of esteem, or outstanding quality.

the crystal with 100 facets is repeated by the tree with 100 blossoms.

something that is repeated in the same dream sequence means that its very important. its a way of getting your attention.

the number 100 might mean "fullness" .. or "abundance" .. or again, something of great value.

all of this is subject to your own discoveries of what each dream symbol means to you.

ponder your life and see if any of this fits.

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Answer 2

Dreams are hard to interpret because it is an individual experience. However I would look up all you can about crystals, I have forgotten what amethyst does, but this seems important. Also research numerology for the 100, then you need to understand what this all means to you personally. Good luck.

Answer 3

I won't give any predictions as to what it means, but I'll be glad to talk about what I see in it from a Freudian point of view:  there is a lot of transformation going on in your dream.

Highways are easy symbols for your un/subconscious to use:  they signify the "going through life" that we all do, past going behind us, and future up ahead.  If you're at a rest stop, though, I would guess that would symbolize a pause in your movement forward in your life.

Then it almost seems to me that you're pausing specifically to let the funeral go by.  Freud was very specific about his interpretation of death-dreams:  instead of foretelling death, or indicating you secretly want the person to die, they symbolize a change in your relationship with that person, usually caused by changes in that person herself, in this case, your foster daughter.  Maybe at the time, she was going through some changes in her personality that your un/subconscious was picking up on, and wanted to tell you about via this dream.  It's interesting to me that other people, the people that made up the funeral porcession itself, had to tell you that she was dead.  Even though you saw her on the bier:  your un/subconscious pointing out something to you that your conscious mind didn't want to deal with.

To complicate things, every person and thing in your dream isn't actually a representation of them -- i.e., the foster daughter in your dream isn't really her.  They are representations of different aspects of yourself.

So instead of your foster daughter dead on the bier, it might be a part of you on the bier:  that part of you that she symbolizes.  Like, if you thought of her as kind and innocent and in need of "fostering," then in the dream, she represents that part of Ector who is kind and innocent and in need of protection.  That part of you is, your dream might be saying, not dying, but undergoing some kind of change.

Likewise if you think of your foster daughter as canny and manipulative, that's the part of you that is canny and manipulative is undergoing some kind of change.

The rest of the dream strikes me as real metaphysical and mystical.  I dunno how to look at that at all.

But some things in it are very interesting to me -- like how you knew the gray box was solid.  If it looked like a fuse box, how did you know that it wasn't hollow or full of wires and fuses inside?

Lightening probably symbolized great and fearsome power of some kind -- obviously a transforming power because the solid gray box is now a beautiful crystal, glowing amethyst.

That color seems important to me too:  amethyst is kinda like gold, but also kinda like amber.  Gold can mean wealth, or spiritual riches, or preciousness (in the good sense of the word); amber is the color of caution:  traffic lights, tow trucks, hazard markers all use amber light to warn us of possible danger.  (That kind of fits in with the fearsomeness of the lightening, too.)

But since it's encased in crystal, there is a safeness around it.  Not only a safe casing, but a beautiful one:  to me, anyway, crystal means beauty and clarity.  I guess it can mean mystic wisdom too, as in a fortune teller's crystal ball.

Then we realize that the fuse-box, turned crystal is really a seed:  it produces a flowering tree.  100 facets, 100 flowers.

I can't make a guess about what the number 100 means to you, but to me, it represents a large number that is also symmetrical, square:  10 tens.

At this point I'm tempted to go with the pun route:  Freud noted that often our un/subconscious minds use puns to tell us stuff.  Bear with me if this seems silly to you...

When I think of 10 facets that become 10 flowers, I also think about 10 faucets that become 10 flow-ers.  Not "flowers" as in plant blooms, but in 10 things that are 'flowing', as in flow-ers.  

What does it take to make a faucet flow?  Power, energy (re the lightening) that opens it up (like a seed becoming a tree) to flow forth with water (life) and become sources (flow-ers).

Man, that is even a bit "out there" even as I read it myself.

Anyway, it's what I see in your dream.  I'm no expert, but I have read "Interpretation of Dreams" a few times.  I really do think it's one of the great works of the 19th century.

(((Ector)))

Answer 4

What a beautiful dream. Death in dreams doesn't usually mean "death" but often transformation. Your dream says transformation of a black metal square with no light into a glowing gem with facets, and if you didn't get it the first time, flowers blooming on a tree. Amethyst color can mean a number of things, often to do with spiritual growth or idealism. The foster daughter may represent something other than your foster daughter to you, and whatever that is was being transformed. There may be something that she does or represents to you about you. In order to move from one world to the next, even during this lifetime, there are closed doors (death) and then open doors (gems and trees).  Those dreams that are strong and stay, at least for me, have been about spiritual growth and direction. I would say they are from the Eternal.

Addendum:

I just read this in the parsha this morning; Numbers 23. And on the following day Moses came to the Tent of Testimony, and behold, Aaron's staff for the house of Levi had blossomed! It gave forth blossoms, sprouted buds, and produced ripe almonds. 24. Moses took out all the staffs from before the Lord, to the children of Israel; they saw and they took, each man his staff.

The staff/tree blooming represented Divinely chosen leadership of that tribe regarding Divine service.

Also:

100 is the gematria of Kuf. It is the crown or reward of following HaShem. The Kuf represents the birth of Yitzchok. Avraham was 100 when the child of promise was born to Sarah and him, Genesis 21:5

Roadwise the Gematria number 100 of Kuf represents Hashem's command to Avraham, Lech Lecha, meaning "Go! Get out!" "Leave your homeland, [leave] your place of birth and [leave] your father's house."