Okay, so I know this thread is kind of like one of those blogs that only the person posting visits -- about 99% of all blogs apparently

But I had an interesting experience yesterday that put these dreams in perspective:

Whenever similar information crops up twice or three times in my little world, I assume the Universe is trying to tell me something. Yesterday, the places for the message were Estes' [i]Woman who run with the wolves{/i] and a church group. The idea was that even though we can think we have worked through negative emotions surrounding some scarring event, the truth is that being human means that it's going to crop up again and again.

I have indeed noticed in the past that life seems to be like a spiral, and each instance of some experience or learning is like looking out on the same vista by from a place higher up, as if one is ascending a spiral staircase in a castle tower, with only a few turret windows.

It's also interesting to me that once I can make sense of [b]why[i/] or what something means, I am less distressed by it.