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All About Dreams – A Martha Jette Column

June 26, 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.

Mine Your Dreams For Gold

Have you ever wondered how some people became famous? They did it through their dreams!

In a book entitled “The Committee of Sleep” Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. tells us about celebrities and other folks who took information from dreams and became famous.

First up is Billy Joel, who says he often dreamed about musical arrangements.

“I know all the music I’ve composed has come from a dream,” he said.

Stephen King also found his inspiration in dreams. He says he took dream images and used them in such novels as “It” and “Salem’s Lot.”

Way back in 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley dreamed the basis for her novel “Frankenstein.”

When Paul McCartney was just 22 years old, he dreamed the melody of “Yesterday.”

He awoke and immediately played it on his piano.

Artist Anna Maria Gundlach designed pots from what she saw in dreams.

In 1964, golfer Jack Nicklaus was not performing so well on the greens. However, he had a dream in which he discovered a new golf swing and immediately regained his high scores.

"Wednesday night I had a dream and it was about my golf swing,” he said. “I was hitting them pretty good in the dream and all at once I realized I wasn't holding the club the way I've actually been holding it lately. I've been having trouble collapsing my right arm taking the club head away from the ball, but I was doing it perfectly in my sleep. So when I came to the course yesterday morning I tried it the way I did in my dream and it worked. I shot a sixty-eight yesterday and a sixty-five today."

Well much to my dismay, I didn’t dream about anything that would make me famous this week. However, I did dream that I was sharing an apartment with another woman and the landlord came to fix something. As soon as he left, I turned on the bathroom sink and water started rising on the floor until it was just below my knees. Now what did that mean?

Landlord/Landlady: Since your home is an image of you, dreaming that you don’t actually own it means that you are not in full control of your life.

Water: According to Jung, water symbolizes our unconscious from which we draw our creative energy.

Flood: While it wasn’t an actual flood, the water was rising rapidly, so I feel this may be important. Dreaming of a flood symbolizes one’s feeling of being overwhelmed by the pressure of school, work, family or a relationship.

Just as I suspected when I first awoke, the dream symbolized my feeling of lack of control and the pressure I currently feel to get a number of articles written by the end of the month. I do hope I can pull it off.

This week, the dream symbols relate to water in different ways:

1)      Sea Voyage: Jung felt this dream related to exploring and embracing the messages of the unconscious.

2)      Sinking Ship: This dream symbolizes a doomed love affair.

3)      Docks: These represent safety and the uneasiness we feel when setting out on a new voyage of self-discovery.

4)      River Crossing: In Greek mythology, five rivers (Acheron, Styx, Cocytus, Lethe and Phlegethon) linked the realm of the living with that of the dead. Thus dreaming of a river crossing denotes death.

5)      Rowboat: Since you must row the boat, it symbolizes the struggle you may have while on a voyage to explore the unconscious.

Source: 1001 Dreams by Jack Altman

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