Crouching tiger hidden sewing dragon dream

Dream

A man wearing tiger print shirt must bend to ascend a narrow attic staircase. He feels like the low ceiling is closing in on him.  In the attic, he sees a woman sewing garish couch cover and pillow shams in a pattern of fushia roses with green stems. Her sewing machine is shaped like dragon. The woman offers dreamer a round box of chocolate and journal.

Interpretated Symbols:

• Tiger 

  echoes you can spiritually grow immune to traumatic events in daily life.

• Low Ceiling: (Tight Fit) Represents limitations, barriers, feeling trapped, a sense of restricted freedom and potential.  Reflect on life situations where you feel confined, unable to move freely or comfortably. 
• Bending Over: 

  Suggests a need to humble oneself, conform to external pressures, or adapt to restrictive circumstances in order to fit through and move beyond discomfort. 

   
• The Man: 

  The dreamer's own feelings of uncertainty about how to navigate a situation or deal with unresolved issues with or concerning a man. 
• Chocolate: symbolizes good things on the way.

• Woman: 

  This figure can represent the dreamer's inner feminine self or a nurturing aspect of their persona.
• Sewing: 

  This action can symbolize efforts to create, repair, or control something in one's life. It implies taking action to modify a situation.
• Garish: 

  This word denotes something that is excessively bright, gaudy, or in bad taste. It can point to a feeling of something being unpleasant or overdone.
• Couch pillow cases and cover: 

  Pillows and couches often symbolize comfort, home, and relaxation. Covering them with garish designs could suggest a superficial attempt to create comfort or happiness that isn't truly authentic.
• Attic: often symbolizes your subconscious mind, representing hidden or neglected aspects of yourself like repressed memories, forgotten thoughts, or unacknowledged emotions ready to be faced/ dealt with.

• Dragon: can signify a powerful, dominant force in life, representing either positive aspects like wisdom, prosperity, and good fortune (especially in Eastern cultures) or negative challenges and unresolved fears that feel like pins and needles yet youa re working through

Themes:

Unsatisfactory environment: 

The dream may reflect an underlying dissatisfaction with one's home life or a relationship, where attempts to make things outwardly pleasant are not fulfilling. 

 

 Discomfort with self-presentation:  The "garish" items might represent a feeling that one's outward appearance or efforts at self-expression are not aligned with their true desires, and the act of sewing suggests a struggle to change this. 

 Overcompensation: The dream could indicate a situation where someone is trying too hard to create a certain impression or outcome, but the methods or results are ultimately  incongruent and/or overwhelming. 

 Desire for authenticity: The dreamer may be feeling that a situation or a personal characteristic is artificial or inauthentic, and they are trying to "sew" a new, more genuine reality for themselves. Authenticity requires letting go of what is not working. Refelct on relationships, work and personal situations inviting refresh. 

Build strength by facing the unknown

Notice how many different ways can we face the unknown. Each of us must put up with limitations we create and impose on ourselves. We cannot have faith in God or Higher Forces if we resist knowing and trusting ourselves. We may say we love others and seek truth yet, how fearless are we? Unless we conquer each fear, our love is tainted and truth is compromised. Bravely jump. Radiate divine light.

The Point of Meditation

Notice meditation is about opening the sacred heart or Third Eye. This is not a vestige or organ living in the head. Its a blossoming of awareness that presents based on expanding consciousness. One aspect is not the part of you that identifies the "I" that associates you with the limited physical body. As we examine this first "I" more, it is a mosaic of childhood conditionings used to fulfill agendas that even this "I" does not understand. It does not know what it says and is completely unaware of what is beyond it. The second eye is an entity frozen in time, the Inner Child, the self you were long ago that refuses to dissolve, that runs the show to gain power or sensory gratification that it did not have as a child. It has many different agendas. It is anti-love, or resists love for it knows not what love is. This second eye arose from a sense of rejection. It was created in an environment that was not unconditionally loving. It may not know its gender or whether its alive or dead. Until this unfulfilled or empty ghost is flushed out and seen as it is, it cannot be dissolved. Until then, the second eye perpetuates itself through activities of the first "I" (unbeknownst to the first "I") that projects the second eye in the form of "the other". Things go on with the second eye that the first "I" doesn't know. The second eye enjoys the vex, suffering, self-defeat. To get beyond suffering, you cannot simply analyze the first "I" because the second eye controls the thoughts the first "I" is allowed to retain. The truth keeps falling away, yet it consistently slips away as the first "I". The key is surrendering to the Third Eye, pure awareness, love and the unborn, eternal Self. It sees all. As one turns inward, the first "I" comes to surrender to divine nature and the second eye can be fleshed out, cherished and integrated into the whole. The first outranks the Third Eye. Only as the rightful owner of the mind is allied with the conscious mind can all vexations and unconscious agendas be overruled and absorbed by the Divine. It is not "I" that actually lives within us but Supreme Reality, that which is beyond any name or form. We can point to it but it only reveals itself as we make our way through the winding web of illusions and love ourselves fully. We can surrender to it. If you are meditating and the mind refuses to be quiet, this is simply resisting the ever-present divine within you, the very life of our Being. To surrender through the act of silence can overcome the ani-love force that has created illusion, ignorance and the wheel of reincarnation. Liberation arises as one accepts oneself fully and knows one has been the divine all along.

Move through self-created limitation

Notice the difference in experiencing "challenges" while asleep and while awake. While asleep, we identify with the energy of the illness, pain body, grief or situation as victim. That may be what we needed then so as to navigate through the world at that state of consciousness. Benefits of the dis-ease, or dense energy state include; attention, not engaging in what you are unready or ill-prepared for. Yet, when awakened, walking the path of alignment into higher consciousness, experiencing illness, chronic pain or other life challenges is not about forgetting physical pain or mental suffering. Rather its about reknowing ourselves outside the labels and other self-created limitations. Who am I outside the illness, pain or self-defeating relationship. It dawns, "I am no longer bound by pain or ailment, former identity of what hurts or seems wrong with me. This process is about remembering who we are outside what we gave our power away to; an idea of illness, dis-ease, intense emotions, controlling or self-destructive relationships. People identify you with how you identify yourself. Listen to the self talk. Who are you outside of those things that kept you contained, feeling less than you are? When such things happen, its a prime opportunity for Spirit to move energies through our body that help us awaken to an expanded perspective of what we are going through. What seems dark or unpleasant is a path for Spirit to bring through more light , to activate DNA, awaken more of the DNA, to uncoil the tension. To remain in alignment with higher consciousness while going through prickly "challenges" is to let go of victimhood, negativity, and the low density stuff that keeps us in conditions that reflect limitation. The body may feel terrible, yet the mind can stay in a higher vibration. Rather than wallow or complain, use the time of feeling ill/ low energy/held back states to move ahead with a book project, creative painting or other inspiring pursuits that are catapulting your forward. Thus, only one part of us is in disease or self-created limitation mode. This is an opportunity benefit from challenges; to journal, meditate, stay in a place of neutrality. Once you get past resistance, being here helps shift stuff. Allow the energy to move through you, no matter how long it takes. Make the most of this time- study, read, write. While parts of you are dying, other parts of you are simultaneously strengthening, blossoming or being reborn.

Insights on Healthy Boundaries

(Sacred geometry 756 by Endre Balogh)

Notice a lack of boundaries invites a lack of respect as well as offers valuable opportunities for understanding ourselves and Soul growth. The consequences of our actions point to the possible unconscious nature of our choices. While we exist to love each other, we are not here to be one and other. One cannot force another to be aware of or feel his own feelings. One cannot think for, believe, grow aware or know viscerally for another. One cannot work through another's disappointments that another's self-created limits may produce. In essence, One can be a mirror but cannot grow for another. One only makes certain journeys alone. We are not powerless and at any moment, can consciously change our thoughts, feelings, behaviour and life direction to take responsibility to a whole new level. This is not about control, but rather, true freedom. As we accept the freedom of another, we do not get angry, feel hurt or withdraw as they set boundaries. Their behaviour invites us to better understand our own. As we come to recognize the hidden motivation behind our setting boundaries (or lack of them), we are empowered. Quantum shifts in life conditions occur as we grow aware of and heal possible guilt, deep fear of other people's anger or harbouring our own, fears of loneliness or abandonment, fear of rejection, and codependence. Making the unconscious, conscious allows us to shift from fear-based patterns to a more consistent love vibration. Shadow work guides us to new insights and expansions in consciousness. As we see through our impulses and patterns, we know what we stand for and tune into our energetic message. Often, boundary issues arise due to lack of initiative or insufficient assertiveness. Taking action is about finding inner courage. It is about speaking one's mind with kindness through the feeling heart. Deepening awareness shifts us away from an ego- driven life so we feel into limitless possibilities and tune into dimensions of experience previously unknown to us before this moment.