Today I’ve dreamt I was a mermaid, I was in the sea near the beach and I saw a closed bottle of champagne inside a bucket of ice, over the rocks, and I knew it was from a bad guy who would use it to celebrate his deed. So, I’ve noted the fishnet he had put around the part of the water where I was in, and I tried to swim to the shore while the net was closing. I don’t know if I got it, but the feeling I had is that I did it, because – after that – I was already in another dream.
Later I went to lunch with my mother and she told me that she had dreamt she was on the sea with some ships (and my father was there too) and she passed by a place where there were two “of that statues you like” (she doesn’t know my statues of gods are actually gods I worship), and – when she said that – I immediately thought in Aphrodite (of the sea, and specially came to my mind Aphrodite Cytherea) and some one more deity. After that, in the dream, she remembered I could want and would like to have them, so she went back to that place to take them for me. She asked some women if she could get the statues and they told her yes, but, when she got there, the statues were not there anymore. Then she got lost and she didn’t find not even my father, and the cell phone didn’t work because the numbers had been deleted.
The only thing I told her is that I was also dreamt about the sea, but I didn’t told her how was the dream. I hope to understand what relation it may exist between the two dreams and what they are trying to tell me. I’d like to know to where the statues were gone, or if they gained life (who knows if they were the women to whom she asked if she could take them), and what kind of revelation through my mother was that… I hope you can help me with it.
The curious thing about the champagne is that it reminds me the foam (aphros) of Aphrodite.
Timothy Alexander
on Oct 6th, 2008
@ 1:01 am:
…and doesn’t the Little Mermaid turn to sea foam in the traditional version of the story?
Alexandra
on Oct 6th, 2008
@ 2:07 am:
really? and what could it possibly mean?
Timothy Alexander
on Oct 6th, 2008
@ 2:12 pm:
I believe that the moral of the traditional story was that children should not be disobedient. This is as opposed to the Disney version, which teaches things would be better if parents just give children what they want from the get-go.
Alexandra
on Oct 6th, 2008
@ 8:55 pm:
Know what? It has touched me in the sense that I think I really did something like that (as Aphrodite’s daughter, being “disobedient” to what she has shown to me) in two moments of this year…
Timothy Alexander
on Oct 7th, 2008
@ 12:13 am:
I actually know a women who, after “converting” to Hellenic Polytheism, found herself needing to make propitiatory sacrifices to Aphrodite, for a year, to make amends for past offenses as a Wiccan.
Alexandra
on Oct 7th, 2008
@ 2:34 pm:
Wow… *sigh*
OK then, so I think I should try to make my own amends with her.
Timothy Alexander
on Oct 7th, 2008
@ 3:20 pm:
I have found loose emeralds do wonders.
Alexandra
on Oct 8th, 2008
@ 2:05 am:
Thaaanks! I’ve done something today which was well-accepted by her, but I intend to do more, so I’ll try the emeralds too.
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