[Yoda]

I have vivid dreams from time to time. Some have recurring themes such as eating food with Bill Cosby.

But today I had another dream which involved the death or near-death of my 22 y/o son. In the first dream I had to kill him to save the earth. The second, I destroyed hundreds of city buildings like knocking down dominos and thought he would die but he didn't. I pondered about what it meant that I would sacrifice the life of my son for a greater good. Still not sure what that means. Another dream where my sisters and mother let him die.

This evening I dreamed my son was about nine years old and people were holding captive, him, myself and his little sister (he never had a sister). They allow me to go feed my horse but tell me they will kill my children if I don't come back to the house but I thought they would likely kill us all anyway. So I ran for help. I awoke as I was in a car following a police car that was heading to my house and the cop was helping the assailants not us.

What do you think?

[Perna]

Hi, Yoda, interesting dreams! I love your recurring theme of eating with Bill Cosby; much better than mine where I was cleaning up my apartment and there were usually roaches scurrying everywhere! Therapy, over time, got that one to stop as well as extinguishing my need for some distressing habits/defenses I'd had most of my life.

Looking at your dream examples I noticed a lot of opposites, parallels, and the keeping of things even or in balance?

You talk of killing your son to save the earth then of destroying (the earth/a city/buildings) but your son stays alive.

You are in the middle, have your son and a daughter on either side (like an old fashioned balance weight scale, http://www.medicalscale1.com/wp-cont...ight-scale.jpg)

Feed the horse or kill the children. Get the police but the police are on the wrong side. You can't win in all these dreams, either way you go. You have to quit thinking in either/or mode?

Maybe your dreams are telling you to "let go" instead of balancing on the fence? You do a push pull thing with your energies and stay "stuck"? You're trying to stand in a moving stream?

Famous folks in our dreams are telling us to "Go for it" by integrating the positive qualities we admire in them into our own personalities.

From: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29218.asp

In other words when food (which is obviously "not me") is taken into the body it becomes "me."

(another dichotomy/opposite for you :-)

From: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...ting-in-dreams

I think your dreams are telling you to let go and trust in your Bill Cosby attributes to help you when you feel overwhelmed instead of fighting so hard not to feel overwhelmed. Get swept downstream by the current and find a spot where you can more easily pull yourself from the water; yes you'll be entirely wet instead of just wet up to the waist, and coughing up water for a bit because it is hard to swim but, ultimately, okay and in a better position.