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September 3, 2009
Many years ago, probably when I was in my mid-20s, I woke into a dream.
In the dream I was kneeling on the earth, with an old woman lying in front of me, her legs to my left, my right arm cradling her head. Her hair was fine and soft. Her eyes were bright and she appeared content. Thinking back, it seems she was near death. Our eyes were intertwined and through vision and mind we communicated without spoken words.
Behind her stretched a huge, bright orange pumpkin patch, on a very slight downward slope. Pumpkins seemingly stretched out to infinity. And the sun was shining on us: the woman, myself, the field. Peace, wisdom, and silence are the words that come to mind as I recall the general feeling of the moment.
That's pretty much the entire remembered portion of the dream.
Years later I found myself at a pumpkin patch, a farm where you could go to harvest your own pumpkin. As I looked out at the vast orange field, I spun instantly back into the "dream," right back to the field of pumpkins and the old woman.
And I realised what I'd experienced was a true event, and not just a dream...
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Pumpkin dreams
— Sep 04, 2009
This post caught my attention as I had a recurring dream about pumpkins as a kid. Bit traumatic really, somehow I was sitting (stuck I believe) on a shelf filled with pumpkins in a veg store, then my mother walks in and the whole shelf comes tumbling down, with one of us (can't remember if it was me or her) breaking an arm in the process. Childhood in general was pretty stressful which dreams generally reflected. This particular one stood out as I had it (or variations of it) quite often. Anyway, reading your message now, just looked up some pumpkin symbology in dreams. Here is some of what I've found:
"Pumpkin - To see a pumpkin in your dream, implies openness and your receptiveness to new ideas and experiences. A pumpkin is also symbolic of the female sexuality. Alternatively, it may relate to the popular fairy tale of Cinderella where a carriage turns back into a pumpkin. In this regard, it may represent some situation in which time is running out." http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/p3.htm
"Squash ; Pumpkin
If one dreamt there was a squash or pumpkin grown in his house in its season means his dignity and blessing will increase.
If an ill person dreamt about a squash or pumpkin means he will cure ( Because when Yunus was thrown by the fish out in the shore and he was ill an squash grew above his head and he ate it).
If a jailed person dreamt about it means he will let free, if a pagan dreamt about squash means he will be a believer, if a traveler dreamt so means he will be back home, if commits sin means he will contrite sins.
If one dreamt had some cooked squash or pumpkin means he will achieve his wish or will have a chance to pray to God.
Squash or pumpkin may also mean :1- dignity and rank 2- money and blessing 3- discipline in the affairs."
http://www.sleeps.com/forums/dream-dictionary-advanced/6978.htm
Pumpkin - To see one augurs that the dreamer will have admirers; to eat them, indisposition (Gypsy).
http://chestofbooks.com/new-age/dreams/Lore-Interpretation/Dream-Diction...
Pumpkin – witchcraft, deception, snare, witch, trick. http://www.dreaminterpretationtoday.com/Dream%20Symbols%20%5BGoll%5D.doc
Pumpkin-Having fruitful job. http://www.squidoo.com/dreammessages
real time
— Sep 04, 2009
Oh so weird, right now I'm reading this at work, and as I finished reading the original entry and I start to read the first comment which is also about a pumpkin dream, someone comes and sits down nearby and says "Hi pumpkin" to the guy next to her. Everyone laughs a little cause she doesn't normally say that and she laughs and says "How many people do I call pumpkin?" Someone else says "How many people do you call squash?"
synchronicity
— Sep 07, 2009
Synchronicities are exclamation points.....I wonder what message this spoke to John.
I wish I could post a photo of the field of pumpkins that I mention I found myself in years after the dream; don't have it on disk, just kodak paper.
As for the interpretations - interesting to pull together Cinderella's "time coming to an end" theme with the old woman passing from this life to another. The number of pumpkins may also suggest, however, that the dimensions of life aren't limited to just here and now but stretch on infinitely....
Stace Tussel
Re: Pumpkin Dream
— Sep 10, 2009
I'm new to this group and I'm really looking forward to being a part of it. I've conducted Dream Circles for over 15 years and I've tracked my dream life since I was 15. As I read your entry and entered the dream with you I was struck first by the fact that you woke into the dream. I'm not sure if you became lucid and knew it was a dream but the fact that you woke into the dream many times means that your subconscious is waking to your conscious life at least in regards to the message of the dream. Since you dreamed this in your mid 20s I'd look back to that time to discover what was going on for you in your waking life and what is the connection between you at that time and who you are at the present? Your dream was quite beautiful and had lots of archetypes in it. One of the things I've learned about dreams is that they have many different levels that run from the mundane to the sublime. So, that dream contains many levels for you to explore. Also, everyone in your dream is you, at the same time, that it represents other people. The feeling in the dream is, many times more often than not, more important than the image. If this were my dream I would look at the fact that you, as a young girl of 20 something, was holding in your arms (almost like a baby) the old woman that is inside of you. The old woman is the wise woman inside of you. In other words, the woman you were to become. Because pumpkins produce so many seeds it reminds me of birth or in some form being seeded. Your pumpkin patch was infinite. Perhaps this referred to being fertile or perhaps the desire for fertility if not physical fertility than perhaps creative fertility. Since old women are not typically fertile it shows a juxtaposition between youth and old age. Perhaps something in your life was also at a juxtaposition? As an archetype the old woman and the abundant harvest of the pumpkins reminds me of Mother Earth or Gaia. The over all feeling of the dream was peaceful, loving and filled with a silent wisdom. I call these types of dreams "big dreams" because they usually have a big message for the dreamer. Dream language is such a personal language that no two dreamers have the same meaning for the same symbols. However, there are certain symbols that everyone understands from the collective unconscious.
Thank-you for sharing that dream. It was quite rich.
Love and Light,
Shriya
Thank you, Shriya
— Sep 11, 2009
To say I woke into this dream is probably inaccurate. I remember this as a vivid dream, not as a normal dream....and I have numerous others that have similar overtones of shamanic initiation. The others have more widely accepted themes associated with shamanic tradition. Perhaps I'll post more of these as Dream Team discussions, or it may be better to correspond privately about these, since again, they're probably less dreams than they are OBE or interdimensional forays.....
Stace Tussel
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