I am shown I need to be alert and take care of problems showing up.

I am driving my car and see a small scorpion fall into my cup holder between myself and the passenger seat.  I don’t want to risk being stung and take my cup in the other cup holder and kill it.  Then I see another scorpion fall into the cup holder.  I kill that one as well.  And then a third.  As I killed the third, I thought to myself, “I need to tell my husband my car seems to be infested.  We need to find a way to take care of this problem!”

SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS:

Driving-associated with one’s journey or direction.

Car-symbolic of yourself, your work, or your current situation.

Scorpion-associated with danger. May correspond to that which is hurtful, bitter, or stinging.

Cup-represents a mission, a duty, a higher purpose, or a journey.

Killing-associated with that which you are trying to kill or dispose of or that which is trying to do away with you.

Husband-actual husband or what he represents to me

I am on a my personal journey (driving my car) when I find I seem to have a problem with something that could be hurtful, bitter, or stinging (scorpion).  I use my sense of mission, duty, or higher purpose (cup) to rid myself of the problem (killing scorpion).  But I find more problems that are hurtful, bitter, or stinging (scorpions) keep coming up and I have to rid myself of those as well (killing other scorpions).  I realize I might need some help using logic (my husband) or emotional support (actual husband) to help me deal with these problems.

Another dream indicating a difficult period for me in which I need to stay aware of what is going on and use my sense of higher purpose to keep me on the path I desire, and not be sidetracked by problems that hurt me.  It seems I will have a series of problems and I will need help in dealing with so many.  I know this is a period of change for me that will hopefully lead to greater enlightenment.

In this dream, I am being shown two directions I can go, but one appears more dangerous than the other.

I am with my husband and we need to go somewhere specific in a very busy city.  We know where we are going, we have been there before.  The office we need to go to is in a very busy area with many businesses so that during the week there is a lot of congestion on the roads right before and in the area.  We know this and don’t look forward to having to go there.  We are also on foot, but for some reason need to take the freeway.  In my head, I can see a map of the area and that there are at least three different ways to reach the same place.  My husband chooses the freeway which will get us there the fastest.  We step onto it at a moment when no cars are coming and it is clear.  We are at a spot which passes under an overpass, and here it narrows and there are no shoulders.  It  bottlenecks at this particular spot, but widens to its normal size in both directions once past the bottleneck. There are other people also choosing to walk the freeway in the same direction we are.  Some are white and some are black.  Everyone is at least middle-aged, perhaps a few are older.  My husband and I lead the way and pass through the bottleneck and begin walking.  But then a car comes our way.  For whatever reason, we must walk against traffic to take this route, which is the shortest to our destination.  The car is going very fast and I realize this is highly dangerous.  We could easily get hurt or killed if we stay in this direction.  I fall back to where we started under the overpass, past the bottleneck.  My husband keeps going without looking back and disappears over the horizon.  The other people had started to go as well, but became scared and came back to where I was.  I don’t want to get killed trying to make this journey and wonder if there is another way to go.  Just twenty feet or so away there is another section of the highway, parallel to the one we are on.  The traffic is going in the same direction as the one I am on, but that section makes a turn that will lead me to my destination and I can walk with the flow of traffic.  I assume this would be safer.  There is more congestion in that direction, and it will take longer, but I think I am far less likely to get hurt or killed.  Either way, once I get close enough to my destination, there is much traffic congestion and I will be forced to a slow pace anyways. The other people standing with me seem to have the same idea.  We look around to find a way to the other section of freeway.  The only thing connecting the two freeways are spanners of metal.  I wonder to myself if I can just cross on one of those.  I keep looking for a spanner that is wider and safer and possibly see a concrete connector that is wide enough to form a pathway between the two freeways.

SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS:

City-one’s community, environment or current situation

Destination-where one’s efforts are leading

Husband-my actual husband or what he represents to me.

Freeway-associated with the journey of life.  May indicate the direction one is pursuing.

Bridge-transformation or journey in understanding.

Walking-one’s current activities, situation, state of mind, or journey. One’s course of action or conduct.

Speeding Car-symbolic of yourself, your work, or your current situation, possibly a dangerous situation.

People-various aspects of oneself.

Journey-a passage through time, experiences or awareness.  One’s life journey.

White people-various aspects of myself that are known to me consciously.

Black people-various aspects of myself that are unknown to me or suppressed.

Concrete-something real, stable, and unyielding.

In the dream, I am moving through a current situation (city) with a specific goal in mind (destination).  I am using logic to help me get there (my husband).  I am going through a transformation or journey in understanding (bridge).  The direction I am pursuing (freeway) has several different ways to get to the same place (I know this in the dream).  But my logic (husband) leads me to try the fastest path.  This path goes against the flow of traffic (the direction people should take).  My current activities, situation, state of mind lead me down this path (walking).  But I perceive the direction I am going as possibly dangerous to myself (speeding car) and reconsider my efforts.  There are various aspects of myself, some known (white people) and some unknown (black people) that I am taking with me on this journey.  Because I believe the shortest path to achieving this goal might actually cause me harm (speeding car),  I try to find a safer way.  I think I might have found something real, stable (concrete) to help me get going in a safer direction (moving with traffic in the same direction).  It will take a little longer, but I will be less likely to be hurt (hit by moving car).  I am shown that whether I take the fastest route or the safer route, either way will still take me to the same goal (destination) and that once I am close to that goal, there is a natural slowing of the process that cannot be avoided (traffic congestion).

An interesting dream, in that it is telling me that efforts I am making are leading to a specific goal, but I can rush and possibly hurt myself, or slow down and get there with less damage.  Either way I will get there.  My natural fear wants me to slow down and take the safer route.  I have actually had several dreams telling me the same thing, so this is obviously something very important that I must pay attention to.

I had this dream several years ago, but it taught me an important lesson in using dreams to help myself.

In the dream, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my husband and children.  We were having dinner and talking about nothing in particular, when my husband said something that really upset me.  I became quite angry and began arguing with him.  The argument quickly escalated and I awoke still very angry.

SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS

Kitchen-where one is fed physically, mentally, spiritually.

Table-putting things out in the open.  One’s family. 

Food-nourishment or sustenance of a physical, mental or spiritual nature.

Husband-my actual husband or what he represents to me.

Children-my actual children or what they represent to me. Being full of potential, but presently undeveloped.

Argument-conflict with others or with one’s self.

In the dream, my husband (my actual husband) and I are putting things out in the open (table).  We are receiving nourishment or sustenance physically, mentally, spiritually (food).  In the process, my husband says something which makes me quite angry (I conflict with him over this issue).  This conflict turns into a full-blown argument and leaves me quite angry (I was unable to deal with the conflict in a positive manner).

At the time of this dream, I awoke and wondered if it meant we would have an ugly argument with no happy resolution.  I don’t normally argue with my husband so this would be unusual.  Just a few days later, we were at the dinner table, eating and talking, and my husband said something which made me quite angry. In that split second, I remembered the dream and knew the argument would get worse if I continued my current reaction.  And so I stopped myself and decided to not respond to his provocation.  The meal continued and we began talking about something else.  The meal ended peacefully and we were both happy.  I think my husband was quite surprised I didn’t become angry and start arguing with him.  He seemed to appreciate my non-confrontational response.

The dream indicated an event where my husband and I were sharing physically, mentally, spiritually.  This event would end in discord. But the dream also acted as a warning, letting me know what was coming up and giving me the opportunity to react in a different manner.  I was able to choose a different reaction to what was happening and thus have a much more positive and loving outcome.  The experience also taught me that I didn’t need to react instinctively every time my husband upset me but to react with purpose, the purpose being of sustaining a loving and mutually respectful relationship where each person is allowed their own differing opinion without rancor. Because I heeded the warning of the dream, I was able to have this specific event with my husband where we shared physically, mentally, spiritually and it ended in harmony instead of anger.  It was the next step in the development of a close, loving relationship.