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Old man's coins

Hi everyone,

This morning's dream was as follows:
I am at somebody's house, where a little baby girl is on a bed and suddenly falls. Her mother comes to look after her. I am sure there was more going on, but that is what I recall. At some point I decide to leave.
I walk down the stairs and come out in the street. My youngest brother is walking beside me. An old man, looking like a bagger, approaches us and throws three handful of coins in the street, then entered a door. We started to collect the coins from the street - and realized that most of them were big and old - having stamped in their sides, old figures and names. I started to wonder where the old man had found them. I was trying to choose the ones that were current, but together with them I collected the old ones too.

This is it. Wish you can give me some insight.

Thanks,

Elona

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Re: Old man's coins

Elona,
I get the impression the dream may be addressing some past experience. The baby and its mother is part of the beginning, but you decide to leave. That leaving may represent leaving something left behind, or putting it behind you so not to recognize it or even repressing it.

Then there is your young brother on the 'street' level. Old man and old coins again remind me of the past. And both are something you are sharing with your 'younger' brother {was he younger than he really is the dream?}. Old figures and names, again perhaps something from the past, stamped onto the psyche. Where are they from? You are trying to put it all together. The new {the present} with the old {the past}.
Make any 'sense' for you?

Gerard

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Gerard,

Thanks for your input - very helpful as usual.

I agree that the dream might be related to past experiences, to something I have repressed and hided or negated to myself and others. The night before the dream, I had a fight with my mother, with she accusing me of being a tough, tactless, and unrespectful person, especially with my fiancee and with her. I am not an easy person, and sometimes I'm not aware about it. Probably, at some point I have hurt my mother with my attitude, if she thinks that, but I also must have issues with her from the past, although I doubt I might as well be modelling her(!)

I have no clue though what the old man, and my youngest brother have to do with all this.

Thanks,

Elona

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Hi Elona

Could this dream be about picking up / collecting / hanging on to / hoarding ,, old things ,,, in particular old things that are 'supposed' to be valuable? That have had something 'stamped' into them ,,, ie: forcefully imprinted. Was this the way it was for you ? were your values 'forcefully imprinted"?
I am alluding to Patriachy ,,, are you scrambling to collect material things, or power?

your thougths
Justin

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Hi Justin,

Interesting the idea of stamped values, yes, in a patriarchal society as the one I was raised, of course this was the case. Could the dream mean perhaps that I am trying to resist change and keep valuing old patterns? I don't know, I have mixed feelings about that.
It could be that I perceive the need for material things at this moment, but surprisingly the meaning of the old bagger, the 3 handfull of coins that he performed in front of me and my brother is still uncovered to me. The only thing that comes to my mind is a wedding ritual in my country, where relatives of the bride throw a mixture of rice, candies and coins when she leaves her parents' house!!!

Elona

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Hi Elona

I was just reading this and remebered your post -

"Arguably, the core of our yoga practice is the work that we do to purify, reforge, and replace the inner patterns that in Sanskrit are called samskaras. Samskaras are the accumulated impressions—in scientific terms, the neuronal patterns—that create our character, our ways of thinking and acting, and our perspective on life.

The word samskara can be translated just the way it sounds in English: as "some scars." Samskaras are energy patterns in our consciousness. I always picture them as mental grooves, like the rivulets in sand that let water run in certain patterns. Samskaras create our mental, emotional, and physical default settings."

I cannot find the link now, however it is part of an article by Sally Kempton - Change for Good

JC

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