Dreams & Spirituality

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I know there are some people who don't remember their dreams. I do. Having the tool of journeling, it enables me to continue to recall my night visions of sort. I have had dreams whose meanings escape me. Others however serve to act as warnings, insights, and even prohecy. One such dream helped me to aviod a life long pattern of having unhealthy relationships. This particular dream took place on a lake shore, out back of the Anglican Church that I joined, where I had been baptised and confirmed in my early teenaged life and spent many happy days there. Though there was not any such lake in reality, the water in the dream represented a spiritual symbol, amid glorious sun and clear blue sky. By my side on the bank, stood a man I had known in real life. I also was well aware of his personal problems in reality, however he matched that unhealthy pattern and I couldn't seem to help feeling the fear I was going to repeat the same mistake, until I'd had this revealing dream. In the dream he beckoned me to plunge into the water with him, feet first. I was reluctant and expressed I could not, because I had my clothes on. He again pleaded with me. And so, I decided, I would jump, believing he was going to do the same with me. Feet first, I leaped in. Upon surfacing and finding my footing firmly on the bottom of the lake bed, I stood up and out of the water, only to find the top of my body completely naked and exposed. To my absolute horror, my chest was covered in leeches. I looked up to the lake shore where my prospective lover was, of course, still standing on the bank. He'd left me to my own devices, standing there alone, in the water, vunerable, exposed, and covered in gross, blood sucking creatures. I was very upset. I felt I had been deserted, let down, led astray, abandoned and humiliated. This particular dream clarified very profoundly for me a powerful insight and allowed me to not involve myself with this man, nor men like him in the future. I was breaking the pattern. This man later went on to marry again, for a fifth time, and is supposedly to marry again soon. Carl Jung believed dreams to be a spiritual experience that, is a way of communication and a window to an understanding of the unconscious. I believe this and have found within my own experiences of spirituality. Now, if I could only figure out the meaning of my dream about being inlove with Canada's Prime Minister, Steven Harper. Wow, that one has really got me stumped. Hmmm that was a nightmare I think! Sweet dreams to you all. Namaste