Here's another random entry from my dream life. Last night I dreamed I met an elephant in the street, near my house. It ran up to me like a puppy and we immediately became friends. The dream was very vivid and may have been lucid, the elephant responded happily to me when I patted its trunk. I can remember the bristly hairs on the trunk and the wrinkly skin in vivid detail. As I was figuring out where the elephant came from, a passerby said that the elephant probably came from a circus that was north of our location and not too far away.
I can't remember whether I took the elephant back to the circus, kept it, or returned it to the wilderness.
It didn't happen to be ...
a PINK elephant by any chance did it???!!!
Regards, Kathrinn
Normal grey elephant
I'm the one who's pink. ;-)
Dreams can have meaning
Often animals in dreams are described as spirit guides. Was it trying to show you anything?
I have never taken much stock in dreams because they can be interpreted in so many different ways. However, a cousin had a dream that was quite specific where he saw his father in a room sitting in a chair. The ceiling was torn away and his father was pulled into the sky. He knew in the dream it meant his father was going to die. He then saw a calendar flipping pages like you used to see in the movies to show days passing and then it stopped on a specific date which he knew to be the date his father would die. He asked in the dream why he was being shown this. A discarnate voice answered that he was so upset by his mothers passing that he was going to be allowed to be forwarned. The date was 7 months in the future.
My cousin told many people in the family besides his father and most thought it was just a weird dream. He was very upset about the dream but also fascinated. But there was nothing he could do but wait. Then on the day in question, his father was in the hospital for a chest cold, but he was doing ok. The entire family was worried obviously because of the ominous dream. Later in the evening he was doing well so everyone thought he would be ok. And then we got the call that he had an arrest and had died. You have no idea what an impact that had in my life concerning dreams. To me, besides the possibility of an unbelievable coincidence, it meant that 1) the future can be told and that 2) someone was out there to tell it to us. It was, essentially, divine providence the way it happened. But in that case, it was clearly a message being conveyed.
It might be worth noting that this individual practices religion with conviction and I’ve always wondered if that played a part in this or if it could have happened to anybody. Well after his father’s death, I asked him about the dream again because I was so very interested in any other details he could give, I was almost obsessed with it. Really there wasn’t anything more. I asked if he recognized the voice that talked to him and he said he did not. I asked how it differed from other dreams, and he said that it was extremely vivid and did not feel like a “regular” dream.
Of course with dreams, it can also be just an interesting imagination, but when it's vivid I usually try to tie it in to my current events, especially with what I’ve seen in how dreams can (but so infrequently) work.
Spirit guides
The elephant was taking me to the circus, so it was an animal guide of sorts. The circus to me represents creativity, fun, enjoyment, the Tarot Fool.
On the other hand, animals kept in chains performing in circuses is cruel. So the elephant could have been warning me and asking for help to return to its natural environment. But I had a positive feeling about the circus in my dream, so I'll go with the Fool/creativity interpretation.
Forget Something?
I love dreams - for me, often with the very vivid dreams, my Higher Self/Spirit is trying to send me a message as guidance.
Is there some kind of circus or chaos in your life (something/someone big, boisterous and immature)? Have you forgotten or let something something slip away that might be causing an area of your life to have "gone south" (down/awry) or feel lost? Check your car's trunk, or else, the nose may represent your own personal boundary between your self and the rest of the world. The bristly hair my represent a personality characteristic of a person (represented by the elephant). Since your dream did not have an ending as to what to do with the baby elephant, your Higher Self may be asking you to sort this out (get it "right on the nose") and decide your own solution in order to return your life's path to the true direction (north/up).
Just suggestions from my intuition, but since you are the best one to determine what your own dream symbols mean, get to it, Rick! :-)
There's an elephant in my head
Thanks Truth_Seeker! Dream symbolism is definitely personal. I've never agreed with dream dictionaries (and don't get me started on Freudian psychoanalysis!). Afterall, a rabbit means entirely different things to a farmer and a child.
Elephants are a positive symbol to me, amazing anaimals. I have a phobia of clowns, but the circus is also positive, similar to The Fool of Tarot. Letting go of inhibitions and enjoying life. It also represents travel and foreign cultures and ideas. Creativity.
The elephant is lost, not in its natural environment, and it's asking me for help. In essence, I need to return to my natural environment, return to my truth path. That's what I get from the dream.
Now, for last night's dream -- I was on a spaceship with my gf (I'm single in real life) and we flew to a mushroom planet, and I started to eat the mushroom planet. I wonder what that could mean!
Mushroom Planet
Wow, cool dreams, Rick!
The gf could be a spirit guide accompanying you on an astral journey. (Or she could represent your "feminine" mystical intuition/psychic energy.) Seems you are open and ready for bigger experiences and you are so hungry for this you are devouring an entirely new mind-expanding world!
One cool thing to watch for in dreams - and this may only be for me in my lucid dreams. When someone else is with you, look at their eyes. Certain characters who are very important to me often have neon-blue, glowing eyes - this is a hint to me that this person is either a spirit guide or my own Higher Self in symbolic disguise.
Shrooms
I can't remember glowing eyes, but I've been thinking seriously about going on an ayahuasca healing trip in the near future. Perhaps this dream is telling me to try mushrooms first?
Shrooms in space
That sounds like a sane interpretation (although it's hard to be sure with dreams). At least for me, dreams of space and spaceships often seem to be dealing with personal spiritual experiences and growth, sometimes tragic, sometimes promising.