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All About Dreams – A Martha Jette Column

March 27, 2007

Martha Jette, friend and author will now be taking over the dreams column formerly presented by Parthena Black of Bella Online.  Many of you know Martha and will agree that her columns are always fresh and exciting.  Martha explains the unexplainable with style and grace.

 Numbers in a dream indicated a variety of things

Last night I had a dream that I went to a church bazaar with some friends. Once I’d chosen an item I wanted, I walked up to the counter and handed the woman behind it $5. There was then a bit of a scuffle and in the commotion, the woman claimed I hadn’t given her any money. She was therefore, going to hold me there at least temporarily.

As it turned out, it had all been a rouse to kidnap me and hold me against my will within the church. I realized there were others who had been fooled like myself. That evening as I sat on a couch with a blanket over me, I saw a spotlight surveying the church from outside. The woman told me to duck down, so as not to be seen.

The following day, I was ordered to do some work, which included sweeping the floors. While doing this, I noticed a doorway and thought I might be able to escape. However, when I opened the door, a man was sitting guarding the stairwell, so I closed the door quickly and went about my work.

Here then, are all the elements of the above dream and their meanings:

Kidnapping: Since I was the one kidnapped, it expresses a desire to be dominated.

Church: Various meanings, depending upon what part of the church is featured. However, in this case, seems to imply an inner conflict between sexual expression and moral or religious sensibility.

Bazaar: The merchants may represent people in our lives whom we find intimidating or excessively demanding.

Store Counter – a place where we make our final selection and therefore, indicating a desire to make a major change in one’s life.

Money: is a symbol of power and represents an ability to achieve an objective. Paying with cash represents impatience to take advantage of an opportunity with unrealistic haste.

Theft: The person who steals may represent someone we distrust.

The Number 5: symbolizes the five senses and the five points of the body in harmony with the cosmos as in the art of Leonardo da Vinci.

Confinement: stands for one’s own set of beliefs and behaviors that stand in the way of personal development.

To Struggle With Someone: indicates resistance toward entering upon your spiritual path, as Jacob wrestled with an angel in the Bible.

Light: refers to consciousness and new insights illuminating the mind. A flashlight represents a search for truth and integrity in a world of ignorance and corruption.

Broom: represents the dreamers desire to sweep away old ideas and habits and to begin a fresh approach

Door: Since it opened outward into the stairwell, it symbolizes a need to open up with others.

So what can I determine from this dream?

I believe this dream represents my personal life. I have been on my own for the most part, since my divorce in 1978. That’s a loooooooooog time! I have had a couple of relationships though none that became lasting for various reasons. I’m afraid I cannot tolerate certain behaviors particularly if they are just plain stupid! One man drank too much, while another was obsessive/compulsive, while yet another was a chronic complainer, etc., etc.

At the same time, I’ve attended various churches in the hopes of finding the right fit, so to speak. However, there have always been points on which I did not and could not agree with the doctrines presented. In this area, I’ve more or less gone along my own path of enlightenment through independent reading and learning. I guess you could call me an agnostic, since I believe in God and Jesus, yet also in much that is unseen in this world due to personal experiences with spirits and angels.

Given those eclectic tenets and my personal life in general, I believe the dream represents my “struggle” with both the church and relationships during this lifetime. The presence of the $5 and the number 5 represents my overall self and my desire to be in total harmony with the universe. However, due to circumstances as well as a rigid upbringing, I’ve been forced to “duck” from the light of new insights and opening of consciousness.

Being “confined” by restrictive thought patterns, I’ve been unable to step forward and escape my own mental prison. Sweeping with the “broom” represents my desire to do away with those old ideas and habits that have kept me from spiritually progressing.

Since I mentioned the number 5 here, I thought you might like to know what all the numbers represent:

Zero: Since zero indicates nothingness, it expresses desolation. However, if the zeros fall to the right of another number, it represents fertility and abundance as zeros multiply by 10.

One: This number represents harmony and union in a family or other group, but also an imposed uniformity that denies diversity.

Two: This number represents duality that permits motion, movement toward truth. Examples include mother and father, coming together and pulling apart, or even being of “two minds.” Finally, two is the number of Christ – the perfect union of God and man.

Three: This number represents mind, body and spirit – the complete human.  For the religious it represents – Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Four: This number represents the material world – the four points of the compass, four seasons, four elements of air, water, fire and earth. Jung also related the number 4 to the conscious and unconscious: thoughts, feelings, senses and intuition or a movement toward self-awareness.

Five: This number represents the five senses and the five points of the body in harmony with the cosmos, as in Leonardo da Vinci’s work of art where the feet are spread and firmly planted on the ground and the arms are outstretched.

Six: This number represents the universal struggle between good and evil as in the six-pointed alchemical star composed of two superimposed triangles. Six also represents our sixth sense of psychic intuition.

Seven: This is a sacred number that not only represents various cycles including the seven days in a week, but also perfection and completion.

Eight: This number represents wholeness of self. It also symbolizes infinity and eternity because apart from zero, the figure eight has no beginning and no end.

Nine: Since pregnancy takes nine months, this number symbolizes the completion of a creative task. As it is also 3 times 3, it can also be a sacred number representing perfection and psychic balance.

Ten: In the Jewish and Christian traditions, ten is the symbol of the law and the Ten Commandments. It is also considered to be a perfect number: 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 = 10.

Eleven: This number represents transgression, betrayal and sin.

Twelve: Referring to the 12 disciples and the 12 tribes of Israel, this number symbolizes a vision of truth.

Thirteen: Traditionally believe to be a number of misfortune it is also the number of the traitor, Judas Iscariot who was the thirteenth person at the Last Supper. However, this number may also represent optimism, as the thirteenth month is the first month of a new year and a time to look forward instead of back.

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