"I was challenged today and it took me out of my comfort zone.. I was told to find a picture of a door post it, share what is behind the door and how the door feels when you touch it.
It is forcing me to see, feel and get through the door...
"The door is a stepping stone, it shouldn't lead to riches, but rather a next step to where your at currently.
Learn to see, touch, and describe you next adventures so they come to light for you. Attract your desires to your minds eye. This allows your brain to work toward these small goals. Mental Road Mapping! "
See, feel, taste, touch, and own!"
Almost instantly, the first image that popped into my head was a locked door, that was hidden behind another locked door, and then finally a 3rd door...which eventually opened either to beach with the most gorgeous blue water or a forest/field o the most beautiful and colorful flowers, that I could just relax and nearly meditate in.
So far, I haven't been able to find a picture of the doors I was thinking of, but the image I had was that the lock, and the door itself, are holding me back from something - I fight (myself) to unlock it, finally get it unlocked, only to find myself in another room with another door and lock to contend with.
When I finally get past all the doors and locks - I have let go of everything that concerns or stresses me, and I am left with the purest version of myself; the place where I am the calmest and the happiest.
To cut to the point - when you get rid of all my stress, you get me to the real me - either on the beach, or in a field of flowers.
Interestingly, in both the field of flowers, and on the beach - I was by myself. I may be an ambivert, but I generally regain my strength and recharge my batteries by spending time alone.
When I googled "What does a door represent?"
The following was the first hit:
A door or doorway symbolizes the transition and passageway from one place to another. A door is often used to symbolize the passage from one world to another in religion, mythology, and literature. A doorway may be used in lore and literature to symbolize a short transition, while a hallway might be used as a contrasting longer transition. Even when people literally use the door of a building to enter or exit the outside world, they are going through a type of transition each time.
http://www.sbrusticdoors.com/blog/symbolism-of-doors/
This reminded me of a college course I took in Mythology, and I distinctly remember the Professor stating "House dreams represent our psyche" - that if you dreamed about a house, it was a dream really about yourself.
While the door represents what may be a transition, The house represents who or what is changing or desiring a transition.
I tend to remember many of my dreams and being an overanalytical person, when I do remember them clearly, (sometimes I will wake up long enough to write them down so I can remember them in the morning) I will analyze them to figure out what they mean or what problem in my real life I am trying to solve that I can't or am unable to in the real world.
#1
(Disclaimer: this is one I wrote down at 3am when I woke up from it - these are my raw words and emotions without any editing)
A dream so real, I could feel it.
It was intense, but a good intense.
When I woke up, the tears were running down my face at the extreme sadness from my dream, but also extreme joy.
After the nurse called out loud for the cat, The cat came to him in their final moments to comfort him and escort him. As he travelled, the cat magically disappeared. Think like the end of Ghost where Sam moves on.
At this point I woke up and the happy, peaceful, but sad, tears were running down my face.
I felt like I was the cat..trying to make others feel better.
#2
I dreamed I was in charge of something, and the meeting was held in a conference room. Somehow, the meeting room became a large plane crashing into a thunderstorm in Dallas. Because I am a detail-oriented person, I tend to dream very detailed too. I remember shutting down my laptop and placing it into my red/blue lunch bag, because, let's face it, if you're on a crashing plane, the first thing you want to protect is your laptop so you don't lose it.
I heard the words "Brace for impact" in the dream, but yet I didn't feel I was in immediate danger; somehow I was on this plane, but I was not scared. I just sensed the action in my dream.
The next scene was the plane had crashed, and had broken into a few pieces, and pieces were burning. Somehow I had survived, intact and without injury, and yet feeling I wasn't really on the plane, I was observing myself, involved, and yet on the outside looking in. Very Strange.
On Friday, something that I was involved in, in small part, crashed and burned due to someone else's actions. You could infer I had ESP and my dream was alerting me to pending harm.
#3
(More like Dream #2a, even though it was weeks later) because it was nearly the exact same dream, but a slightly different situation:
The minute I woke up, I instantly knew what the dream was really referring to in the real world.
I was on a boat and someone was missing. I swam and found them, but couldn't see them clearly underwater. In trying to get to them, something exploded. This happened 2 or 3 times where I tried to get to them or fix the situation, but this underwater bomb exploded and prevented me from doing so. On the final try, i woke up and was on the boat. Someone was being treated medically but yet I don't think it was me. I felt fine and did not feel like I was in any danger or pain.
Today, a situation exploded exploded that was not my fault but was the fault of someone who had caused trouble before. I think in my dream I was rescuing that person (that was the bomb going off multiple times). We resolved "the bomb", after multiple tries, but it was because I found the issue so quickly.
#1
(Disclaimer: this is one I wrote down at 3am when I woke up from it - these are my raw words and emotions without any editing)
A dream so real, I could feel it.
It was intense, but a good intense.
When I woke up, the tears were running down my face at the extreme sadness from my dream, but also extreme joy.
After the nurse called out loud for the cat, The cat came to him in their final moments to comfort him and escort him. As he travelled, the cat magically disappeared. Think like the end of Ghost where Sam moves on.
At this point I woke up and the happy, peaceful, but sad, tears were running down my face.
I felt like I was the cat..trying to make others feel better.
#2
I dreamed I was in charge of something, and the meeting was held in a conference room. Somehow, the meeting room became a large plane crashing into a thunderstorm in Dallas. Because I am a detail-oriented person, I tend to dream very detailed too. I remember shutting down my laptop and placing it into my red/blue lunch bag, because, let's face it, if you're on a crashing plane, the first thing you want to protect is your laptop so you don't lose it.
I heard the words "Brace for impact" in the dream, but yet I didn't feel I was in immediate danger; somehow I was on this plane, but I was not scared. I just sensed the action in my dream.
The next scene was the plane had crashed, and had broken into a few pieces, and pieces were burning. Somehow I had survived, intact and without injury, and yet feeling I wasn't really on the plane, I was observing myself, involved, and yet on the outside looking in. Very Strange.
On Friday, something that I was involved in, in small part, crashed and burned due to someone else's actions. You could infer I had ESP and my dream was alerting me to pending harm.
#3
(More like Dream #2a, even though it was weeks later) because it was nearly the exact same dream, but a slightly different situation:
The minute I woke up, I instantly knew what the dream was really referring to in the real world.
I was on a boat and someone was missing. I swam and found them, but couldn't see them clearly underwater. In trying to get to them, something exploded. This happened 2 or 3 times where I tried to get to them or fix the situation, but this underwater bomb exploded and prevented me from doing so. On the final try, i woke up and was on the boat. Someone was being treated medically but yet I don't think it was me. I felt fine and did not feel like I was in any danger or pain.
Today, a situation exploded exploded that was not my fault but was the fault of someone who had caused trouble before. I think in my dream I was rescuing that person (that was the bomb going off multiple times). We resolved "the bomb", after multiple tries, but it was because I found the issue so quickly.
