[Opinion] Had a weird dream last night and cant stop thinking about it.

[101pranjal101]

I was walking through some kinda forest, except it didnt feel like a normal forest. Everything was really quiet and the trees looked way taller than they should be. After a while I came to this clearing with stones arranged in a circle. In the middle was what looked like an old altar or table made of black stone.
There was a brass key sitting on it. I picked it up and heard 3 knocks from somewhere behind me. When I turned around there was just... a door. Standing by itself with no walls attached lol.
The key fit the lock so I opened it. Instead of a room there was just a night sky on the other side, full of stars moving around in patterns. I remember feeling kinda scared but also like I was supposed to be there.
Then a woman in a dark robe appeared. I couldnt see her face properly. She pointed at a crescent moon and said something like 'the gate opens when the name is remembered'. Im not 100% sure thats the exact wording but it was close.
The part that really stuck with me was an owl. White owl just sitting on one of the stones watching me. It blinked 3 times and then everything went completely silent. Not normal silence either, like the whole dream froze for a second.
Then I woke up. Checked my phone and it was 3:14am.
Probably just a random dream but it felt unusually real. The key, the door and the owl all seem symbolic somehow. Anyone here have thoughts on what it could mean? Or seen similar stuff in dreams before?

 

[ZalgothraxTheUmpteenth]

I am of the belief that all dreams have some meaning wether it is being delivered by a spirit with paranatural knowledge or your higher or lower self trying to communicate directly in one of the few ways they have so I feel all dreams are worth setting down and having a hard look at what it is and what it could symbolize, how did it speak to you spitrually? How did it feel? Besides words what do you think it was trying to convey? I have had a sorta similar dream where I found myself deep in a forest with unnaturally high towering trees and I came across a clearing and in the middle was the largest tree I could ever imagine and as it swayed in the wind its creaks and groans felt like words and I felt drawn to it and as soon as my hand touched its trunk I woke up in a cold sweat, i still havent divined what it could mean but it has stuck with me

 

[Rynnshng]

I was walking through some kinda forest, except it didnt feel like a normal forest. Everything was really quiet and the trees looked way taller than they should be. After a while I came to this clearing with stones arranged in a circle. In the middle was what looked like an old altar or table made of black stone.
There was a brass key sitting on it. I picked it up and heard 3 knocks from somewhere behind me. When I turned around there was just... a door. Standing by itself with no walls attached lol.
The key fit the lock so I opened it. Instead of a room there was just a night sky on the other side, full of stars moving around in patterns. I remember feeling kinda scared but also like I was supposed to be there.
Then a woman in a dark robe appeared. I couldnt see her face properly. She pointed at a crescent moon and said something like 'the gate opens when the name is remembered'. Im not 100% sure thats the exact wording but it was close.
The part that really stuck with me was an owl. White owl just sitting on one of the stones watching me. It blinked 3 times and then everything went completely silent. Not normal silence either, like the whole dream froze for a second.
Then I woke up. Checked my phone and it was 3:14am.
Probably just a random dream but it felt unusually real. The key, the door and the owl all seem symbolic somehow. Anyone here have thoughts on what it could mean? Or seen similar stuff in dreams before?

Hi,

There is, I believe at least, an interesting factor about dreams, and that what the logical mind dismisses as random is actually one of an infinite number of ways our subconscious communicates with us, which, while seeming absurd or strange, always follow a similar pattern; to which I am indebted to the work of Carl Jung for describing it in his work with psychology and alchemy.

We are each best at interpreting our own dreams, but the framework is something I think we all share. The commonality of going to a strange place that we recognise as strange for its altered state, such as taller trees, and a circle represent the private, internal, personal realm but it is a realm by which we are all archetypally connected as human beings.

Coming to a strange place is to arrive in that realm, often with some significant object on it which represents a means to communicate with that realm, a ritual object presents itself that suggests a secret, something fantastic, something occult (hidden) that we are to take possession of.

The three knocks represent themselves throughout human stories, representing a thesis, antithesis and synthesis, or said another way, two bad examples or tries, and then the desired example or a success. Three knocks has a resonant symmetry about it - think how it would change the dream if it were one knock or two. Once in possession of the secret we are to try to leave with it, and you are then presented with a door - the logical brain expecting the dream world to conform to its own experience as a predictable space meets resistance, as this realm shows itself to the dreamer as outside of that safe stable known realm through its fantastical imagery and symbolism. It breaks the laws of time and of space because they don't apply there.

Often, the figures in dreams are simply ourselves, disguised or unconscious to us, and so they appear as outside of us - yet somehow, strangely familiar. And the truth of that is that we are simply unaware of that part of ourselves, or we have forgotten them - wherein perhaps it is They who send the dream, hoping to be integrated back into our consciousness and take us a further step toward psychic completion. Therein, the cryptic messages of such figures can be understood or at least framed, as two worlds trying to merge back into one us.

Owl's often signify wisdom and sometimes dreams will emphasise the same message in a variety of ways, and we may even have the dream over and over, perhaps with the identical imagery or some modified form if the unconscious thinks we might be prepared to understand and be strong enough to handle a reintegration of lost or repressed psychic contents - which, can be harrowing at the best of times.

This, motif, occurs over and over in our dreams, a struggle to express whispers we generally cannot hear, that come across in a garbled distorted language that can even presence as nightmare. Often, we simply do not know who we really are, and our dreams remind us that we have forgotten many parts of our subconscious, to be who we think we are. Nonetheless, their voices can still be heard rising from the dark, every time we go to sleep.