I Had A Dream

Lol. Sorry, Heneral Luna's doppelganger (referring to guy on photo above), but I really need to share this dream I had this morning. Because as a lost, jobless, directionless, 30-year old who's turning 31 in less than a month, I HAVE THE RIGHT.

Okay, serious mode on.


So this morning at about 6AM, after my puppy woke me up, I went back to sleep and had this really weird but vivid dream. Everything seemed random but when I read about the interpretations on Google (where else?), it all made sense. I know most people don't pay attention to dreams and some friends even argue that my dreams are just "leftover thoughts" from my experiences during my waking life. BUT then, snakes are recurring things in my dreams, and I don't really get up close and personal with snakes on a weekly basis.

I pay close attention to the dreams that I can remember because they are getting more vivid and weird lately. This one in particular, because I woke up breathing heavily after.

So, the 1st thing I remember was that I was teaching a kid to swim. It was at a pool at first. I was teaching her to float, and then suddenly, I was already carrying a baby in my hands. So it became that I was teaching the baby to swim (I don't know where the girl went. I hope she didn't float to the unknown). I knew that babies were natural swimmers, so I was bending and then straightening my knees so that the baby and I would go down and up the water's surface. I was kind of dipping the baby in and out of the water so to speak. I know that sounds wrong but in my defense, the baby looked happy doing it. At this time the pool became a beach, and we were near the shore. Things happened in between and I remember the beach turned into a small pool again (really small, maybe about 3mx4m), and the water was almost drained out so that I could see the white tiles. I was confused where all the water had gone and remembered that I actually left the baby on the table. I picked the baby up while it was crying.

Cut to, no more baby, just the dried pool with white tiles. And then black crabs were coming out of nowhere and crawling towards me. Oddly, they were crawling forward instead of sideward like they should have in the real world. There were maybe 20 of them so I ran and stood on a chair for safety. They vanished, and just as I was about to go down, I saw a green baby snake. And then another. I was about to say, "thank goodness, it's not a boa," when of course, my eyes caught a green adult boa in front of me. AND OF COURSE, it has already slithered its way towards my body, and we were already face to face. I remember telling myself to stay calm or play dead, but my heart was beating so fast that I knew it was going to bite me soon.

And then I woke up trying to catch my breath.

I found it weird to have this kind of dream during my "morning naps" -- when I try to extend 30 minutes more sleep in the morning...because usually I'm already half awake. So there should be no room for a dream to creep in like that.

And so I quickly searched dream interpretations and was creeped out when I saw very specific examples:

1) Dipping a baby in and out of water - holding on to a past where you felt wanted/needed/significant
2) Crabs crawling forward and towards you/attacking you - to stop running away from something, or to face a problem that you have long been avoiding, or to let go.
3) Green boa (see how specific?) - snakes generally mean danger/betrayal, but green snakes mean getting in touch with your true self, and a potential natural transformation or change within you. The way I reacted to the boa counts, so when I felt afraid, it means I'm resisting or apprehensive about this change.

So in all, despite the random occurrences in the dream, the message is somehow very coherent and sensible. If you're new to my blog, my entries are mostly about finding myself, so this dream interpretation strikes a chord....a big, fat, juicy chord.

I know that how my life goes is still up to me, but this dream gave me both a heads up and a reality slap all in one go. It is timely, too, since my birthday is coming up, and I have been pondering about whether it's time to let go of my 20s frustrations or not.

Legit or not, this dream is a trigger point. It's probably the universe's way of telling me to sit at a corner and re-evaluate my goals once again. So thank you, Mr. Sandman.

Right. So, I know you guys must be like this right now:

Thanks for reading until the end anyway. LOL

note: I do not own the images in this entry.