Interestingly, as a Shaman, I have always found that I receive messages in many forms, not just my dreams.  The imagery I encounter in every day happenings if overlooked can cause me to move in the wrong direction; whereas paying attention brings great rewards.

Recently while driving on the interstate a tractor trailer next to me had a tire blow. Fortunately it was on the opposite side of the truck and all went well. The next day on the same stretch of interstate a large truck in front of me had a tie-down strap loose and the ratchet was bouncing up and down on the highway in front of me. I suddenly had visions of the movie ‘Final Destination’ and moved out of the way. A mile down the road a truck was on fire and the road was completely covered in smoke and fire extinguisher debris. At this point all three instances are swimming around in my brain looking for answers. I was certain this was a message of some sort, but exactly what I could not put my finger on. I was on the verge of a lot of travel and so naturally I had some concerns. The next day someone in my company was killed by a truck and I considered that it was related to what I had seen. However, a couple days later it hit me that I was looking at these instances all wrong.

I decided to look at them from the dream perspective and the symbology behind what I had seen and view the coworkers accident as unrelated. I was driving so this would represent my path I am on. The three instances with the trucks tell me that I have taken on too much and am not seeing things clearly. This is a simplified interpretation, but it fits as just days before this I was taken by surprise with something I did not see coming. The messages were to ‘wake me up’ to pay attention. As a result of this ‘awakening’ I have let go of some projects that were not serving me and am focusing on those things that do serve a purpose for my growth as a spiritual being. It is so easy to get caught up in what happened and what is going to happen and lose sight of ‘what is happening’ and miss these subtle and not so subtle messages that are all around us. Staying present in each moment and paying attention can bring a lot of insight as to the direction you need to move to stay on your soul’s path.

I receive many dreams in my email and enjoy assisting others in discovering what the dreams mean to them. Occasionally someone will have an interest in learning how to interpret their own dreams. This was the case with Amy and I will share some of her dreams and interpretations and then share the first dream she interpreted on her own.

Hi Kimberly,

I just read your article in this month’s issue of BelleSpirit.  You know how the universe is always sending us messages?  I’ve always been intrigued by the thought that our dreams are more than just dreams, however today, on Facebook, a friend of mine had on her status about a book she’s reading called Spiritual Psychology and it incorporates learning to read your dreams.  A friend of hers commented on the status about how she interprets dreams as well.  And for some strange reason, I commented too, and asked her how one learns how to read dreams, that it sounded interesting.  I don’t even know why I commented on it.  Then looking at this issue of the magazine this afternoon, and I found myself totally captivated by your article.  I don’t know if there’s something to this for me or not, but I’m certainly tuned in now, that’s for sure.

Last week I dreamed that I went to the Toyota dealership where my dad works to buy a car.  He’s a mechanic though, and I wasn’t there to see him, just the salesman.  We were in an office, with the door closed, and I remember the walls weren’t painted but rather covered in that old brown paneling that used to be popular.  The office really was bare, a desk, carpeted floors, 2 chairs and furnishings were outdated (hence the paneling).  Didn’t see any pictures on the walls at all.  I was sitting on one side of the desk or actually, more at the end of the desk, so that it really wasn’t in between us at all as he was sitting across from me, and the salesman was showing me figures for the cost of the car that I wanted, and I was disagreeing with it.  I seemed to be the one in control, working the deal, even though it doesn’t work that way in real life when you go to buy a car.    Then he left the room, his name is Justin, he’s worked with my dad for years, and my ex-husband works part time milking cows at his parent’s farm.  Then all of a sudden, without having gotten up and walking there, we were in a different room, with white walls and much more comfortable, but still an office, and Justin was there, but so was a friend of his, Devin, who used to be a friend/co-worker of mine and I haven’t seen in a few years.  Devin and I sat and talked and talked, catching up as though he was my best friend from days gone by.  Justin eventually left the room to let us finish chatting.  And sitting with Devin was just that total feeling of sitting with an old friend, talking and catching up…you know that warm friendly feeling.

And that’s all I remember. So….what do you think?

Thanks!

Amy

Dear Amy,

This dream seems to be related to work/career. From the dream I would say that you are bored or tired of your current job and don’t always agree with the policies or decisions and have been considering changing jobs.

Kim

Amy responded to the interpretation with this:

Right on!  Actually, I’ve already handed in my resignation.  As of Sept 7th, I am done, and headed back to school for Holistic Nutrition Consulting.

Amy’s second dream to me:

Hi Kim, just wondering if you could interpret another dream for me?

This morning I dreamed that I was sitting with my bf and his ball team, at what seemed to be a park pavilion (that’s where they sit after their games) and there was an air ambulance helicopter nearby trying to take off with a patient inside.  The trees were making it difficult for him to take off though (kind of covering the area that he was trying to take off into) and he ended up crashing.  I thought that we should run over and help, but the guys didn’t want to and so we all just sat there without helping.  Later on, my kids and I went over to the crash.  Everyone was gone by that point.  The young girl patient was still in the bed, inside the crashed helicopter and she was sleeping.  I told the kids to be quiet so they didn’t wake her up, but they were loud enough that she woke up and began to sit up and say where am I? And that’s all I remember. Strange eh?

I’m doing a chakra cleanse, and I’m on the Sacral Chakra today.  No idea if that has something to do with it or not.

Amy,

The dream is related to your spirituality and beliefs. It does represent renewal so the cleanse you are doing is relevant. It seems that you are blocked in some way, possibly because you are growing faster than those around you so you are holding yourself back. If you continue to hold yourself back you will crash and be left feeling even more lost. It is ok to move forward on your own in your spiritual beliefs without the approval of others. You do not need others approval or help to grow and evolve.

I will explain the dream. The girl in the ambulance is you and the helicopter represents your path because you were in a park it represents spiritual beliefs and renewal.

Amy responded:

Yes, I believe you might be correct, although I hadn’t thought about it that way at all.  But yes, I think subconsciously, I have been struggling with moving forward because of what others will think, mainly my family.    I also struggle with knowing which way to move forward.  I often feel lost, or that others know so much more than I do, forgetting that I have to learn along the way to get to the point that others are at, that I can’t just automatically know things.

Sooo, while I’m not sure “how” to move forward, I do know that I am constantly moving forward, never backward.  Thank you for bringing that to my conscious thought!

I responded to this email with additional information for Amy:

Aha! Here is where most people get stuck; they think they need to ‘know’. That is an ego mechanism that says I need to be in control of this. To let go of ego and trust that spirit will guide you allows you to move forward instinctively. Spirit will give you the messages and that is how you know. That gut feeling. In the dream your gut said lets help. You were looking outside yourself for others approval. Instead of jumping up and doing what “you knew”. Sometimes others will follow when you take the lead. The ego says “I need approval”, “I need to be in control”, “I need to know how this works”. It is all inside of you when you surrender the ego and follow your gut.

Amy: Wow Kim, do you have any idea how right on you are?  Like I’ve told you before, come Sept I am going back to school part time and will be done my full time job but am looking for a part time job to work my way through school.  Last week I had an interview for a job that I thought was perfect for me.  However, I didn’t get the job, which has left me with mixed feelings.  I know that the universe has a bigger plan and it will be revealed to me in time, and yet, I feel that need to control, to have all the answers right now.  I think the biggest thing for me is that I want out of my current job so badly that it somewhat blinds me to following my gut…….although I do still think that job would have been perfect for me.   I know in the end, though, that it will all make sense to me.  The universe keeps showing me over and over that I am supposed to stay at my current job, to sit and wait.  But having the need to control makes it hard for me to accept that……that and the fact that I am so dissatisfied at my job.

Anyway, I am desperately trying to hand it all over to the universe, but am not sure how to.

I heard from Amy again only this time she was not looking for me to interpret her dream as much as she was looking for how to look at the symbols to assist her in doing her own interpretation.

Hi Kimberly,

I had a dream last night that was so scary and so vivid, I woke up in the night, terrified, and was still bothered by it this morning!

I would like to learn to read dreams.  I just bought a signs and symbols book, but not dream symbols.  I think they’re likely the same, if not very similar anyway?  Aren’t they?

Anyway, if I tell you my dream, can you tell me what the key things are that I should look up in my book?  Actually, I should probably buy a dream symbols book as well so I know certain things like when you say an office represents my career.

I dreamed that we lived in an apartment in an American city somewhere, in the middle of a hurricane.  I wasn’t in the same room as my daughter when it happened but I heard the scream from another room.  Something must have come through the window somehow, something sharp from the hurricane and it sliced 3 of her fingers right off.  And because it was in the middle of a hurricane, we couldn’t take her to the hospital.  So the dr told me to put her fingers on ice for the night and he’d see her in the morning.  So she slept between us for the night.  Everything was so vivid, and I could feel my daughter’s pain even.  She’s only 7, and I don’t know if that has any meaning or not, other than she’s just a little girl so, can you tell me what the key things in this dream are?

Amy

After I gave Amy the symbols I wanted her to look up she responded to me with the following:

Ok, so I’ve looked up the symbols.  What I take from the dream is that because I’m in a chic and lavish apartment, it means that financially and/or emotionally I am headed in the right direction in my life, and the fingers being cut off signifies my anxieties about my ability to accomplish some demanding task.  Because I was in a bedroom, it signifies aspects about me that I keep private, so maybe the task is something that I have not yet shared with the world?

Being in a hurricane means that my mental/emotional forces are building up inside me and are making themselves known.  But I don’t really know what “forces” means.  And as for my daughter, it says that it signifies my waking relationship with my daughter and the qualities that she projects.  But I’m really not sure how that fits into the meaning of this dream.  Any ideas?

So if you tell me how you would interpret this dream first, then I’ll tell you what I think it pertains to in my waking life.  I think it fits right in, but I’m just thrown off by the meaning of seeing my daughter in my dream and I just wonder how you interpret it.

Thanks for your help Kimberly!

My response: Seeing your daughter could represent an aspect of yourself, your vulnerability and innocence. So look at it from that angle with the other things you have to work with.

Amy came back with this interpretation for her own dream:

Ok, what I think this dream is pertaining to is….I’ve been contemplating starting my Reiki practice.  Tomorrow night I will be getting my Level 2 certificate which means that I will now be able to do so.  However, I get scared off easily, as was the pattern in my past.  I have taken courses and never followed through with them because I was too scared to do something about it.  So I am trying to set my fears of failure aside and just go for it. I worry that I’m not good enough, that I don’t know how to set up a business, blah blah blah.  But like I said, I am trying really hard and making small steps ahead. Today I had a girl, out of the blue, ask me if I do Reiki and what are my rates.  So I can SEE that the universe is pushing me forward too.  And I believe that having this dream is just one more sign that I am heading the right way!

If you have a dream I would like to hear from you. All free interpretations are subject to publication. Email your dreams to: Kimberly@newbeginningsholisticwellness.com

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