Hi! I recently had two very powerful dreams, I was wondering if there was anyone around here (especially Jungians) who could take a stab at an interpretation or analysis? Both dreams have me vexed! Thanks

Dream #1 (3 weeks ago)

I was in a fantastical city, kind of 1930's futuristic crossed with something out of remote history, like Babylon or ancient Rome. I was walking with a beautiful young woman straight out of a Grimm's fairy-tale, wearing those German peasants clothes, with the long blond hair etc. We were making our way to the tallest building, a huge skyscraper at the center of the city, which was like a labyrinth. The city was filled with things from different time periods, from mythology etc. Just a jumble of vivid people and things. I asked where we were and the girl said, "Brooklyn." I said, "I don't remember it like this." She said, "Memory's can be misleading." We reached the skyscraper and climbed up stairs that wound around the exterior of the building, like a fire-escape, and reached the roof. The roof was guarded by a terrifying werewolf - absolutely monstrous. Huge, black, with shining eyes of gold and huge, dripping fangs. The werewolf let the girl pass but stopped me from following her. It started to intimidate me; even though I was frightened in the dream I started yelling at it that I wasn't afraid and that it couldn't stop me from passing. As I stood yelling at it, the werewolf gradually became more human looking, until it was almost entirely human, but with strange, patchy, dark skin and a wolf's eyes and ears. It let me pass. I looked for the girl but she wasn't there. I turned and saw the werewolf turning into a dark-skinned prince (Persian or Indian), beautifully dressed; he told me, "She was only the bridge to carry you here to me."

Dream #2 (Earlier this week)

I’m living on a tropical island, one in an archipelago of identical gumdrop-shaped islands. The isles are green, lush, verdant etc. real tropical paradises. There is no crime, no pollution, no high technology, no noise etc. But it gradually dawns on me that I am a slave in a slave society. We are all put to work every day picking mango-like fruits from trees for the upper classes to consume; they live in crystal palaces at the top of the island and we workers never see them. Our work is overseen by ape-like guards in red uniforms carrying whips. They are strange looking creatures with hairless, Bonobo-like heads. There is a “University” where we are brainwashed to never eat the fruit and not to drink moving water even though there are waterfalls everywhere on the island. We also learn about a distant continent where these rules are not obeyed and are told that they are constantly at war, all the children are conceived through violent rape and put into slave factories making weapons until they are old enough to be conscripted into the military etc. So we all live in fear of breaking the rules. Now and then we see flying islands sailing overhead among the clouds – the so-called “Rebel Islands” – and the Ape Men shoot at them although they never threaten us in any way.

Somehow (the pieces are either forgotten or the dream skipped over them) I start receiving messages in dreams and realize that the Water is talking to me. The Water calls to me, guides me to a hidden waterfall in the forest. The Water begins my education, it teaches me that it is host to millions of micro-organisms that form a single, higher consciousness and that drinking it makes minds free. The ruling class treats the water with chemicals, killing the micro-organisms. When the Water is combined with microbes that live in the fruit, it gives long life, perfect health, infinite knowledge etc. The ruling class doles out a very small extract in our food so that we remain healthy enough to go on perpetually farming the fruit for them. The Water tells me that they are completely evil, fascists, and that they are planning to take over the world. I am told of a secret grove, at the bottom of the island, at the foot of a perilous cliff, where I can eat the fruit and drink the Water freely. When my body is saturated with the microbes, I will be part of a telepathic network and will be able to free the minds of all the slaves on my island.

But first I must be taught how to use the power of the Water. I return every day in secret and the Water teaches me how to control it, to use “water magic”. By inserting my hand in different ways into the waterfall I can change the shape and color of the water. I get better at it every day. I am also taught how to send my mind out on “vision journeys” (or something like that, I can’t remember the exact words) and in this way I discover that the distant continent is actually beset by a plague and that the Water and fruit of the islands could save the population but the elite class are keeping it from them; and that the Rebel Islands are actually home to gurus and sage masters who have reached a higher state of consciousness; they fly over the slave islands, putting themselves in danger, attempting to free our minds with their chants, mantras and meditations.

Somehow, I become close to a girl on the island. I think we are in love. I take her with me on my dangerous journey down the sheer cliff, climbing down vines to a rock sheltered alcove where the waves beat against the island. We find the waterfall and fruit there. She eats and her eyes are opened. I begin to teach her water-magic. But we are disturbed by two Ape-Man guards. Using water-magic, I kill them both, simply by putting my hand under the falls and sending out an arc of shining, blue water, which is “pure life essence” and destroys them since they are the result of genetic manipulation.

I look at the girl and she looks at me and we realize that the “revolution” has begun and we must both be warriors now. At the same moment we think, “The Rebel Islands!” and look up, searching for the flying islands among the clouds . . . .

(Dream ends here.)