The lost graves.

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Oct 8 2009
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I was jogging down the road, and I see an overgrown yard on the side, just past an old red wooden house.  I go into the yard and come across a large gravestone (the type that stands perpendicular to the ground, about a yard long, knee high, and maybe four inches thick?).  I stand there looking at it for a moment, and I get the feeling that maybe I'm in the body of someone else.  It feels like I'm in a woman's body even though I'm a man IRL.  As I'm standing there, I notice that's the grave of a mother who died of a terminal disease, and there's a grave for her young daughter right beside it.  I don't really look at what's written on the stone, but the story feels like it's decades old and that everyone has forgotten about them, just like their graves lie hidden behind the overgrowth in the yard.  Slowly, I turn away and keep jogging, then I wake up.

 

Comments: I'm not sure what to think of this dream.  I think it has some significant symbolism, but I can't quite divine it. I'm torn between whether this is something external or some aspect of myself that's been 'buried'.  Thoughts?

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explora wrote 47 weeks 1 day ago

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If The Lost Graves were my dream:

I think I would feel similarly torn making a distinction as to whether the dream was about myself or actually related to the lives of real people, now forgotten by their friends and family on Earth.

I think you've given your dream a great title. It makes me reflect on the place of the dead in our busy lives. It's a somewhat chilling image - graves hidden behind the overgrowth in the yard, the mother and daughter's forgotten lives.

Nick

Wolvendeer wrote 47 weeks 1 day ago

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Thanks for your reply. I'd say whether it is a dead aspect of myself or an actual mother and daughter, it's rather sad when they have no one left that cares for them or remembers them and they call out in the dreamscape for anyone that can hear. I may try to return to that dreamscape and see what develops from there.

Dreamlife wrote 46 weeks 5 days ago

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I have'nt been feeling quite myself, flue or something? Wanted to say that I appreciated reading about your dream.

dl.