Creatures from 2 Worlds

Did not really quite want to blog today but I was also quite bored and so I thought I entertain myself by blogging.

Recently, I had lunch with a sister from church as she wish to share about a dream that she had about a month ago about me and coincidentally, I had wanted to share with her some thoughts that I have about worship ministry.

Anyway, this blog is about the dream.

She told me that she had this dream where she and bunch of other people were at my place. Could not remember what she said about what they were doing at my place but that was not the main focus of the dream. In the dream, I had 2 pets. They looked kind of like lobster with legs like centipedes and one of them was larger than the other. While they were at my place, these 2 creatures/pets started to have a fight and both for some reason were able to escape from their enclosure. Me and the folks that were at my place started to run after the creatures and tried to look for them. They ran up and down the apartments trying to looks for the creatures, someone saw the smaller creatures had ran into someone else’s apartment and this sister managed to spot the larger creature and notify me about it. When I reach where she is, somehow there is a container in my hand and I was able to coax the larger creature into the container that does not have a lid. I told the sister to look after the larger creature while I go look for the smaller ones. She was a little apprehensive as the container does not have a lid and the creature while calm for a period started to stir a little and attempted to escape but that’s when this sister woke up.

I told this sister that I do know have the gift for interpretation but may have to certain degree “understanding”. So as I thought about it, the following was what I could derive.

I am a huge fan for “Alien” and “Predator” so much so that the image on my mobile phone’s home screen is an “Alien” instead of pictures of Josie or Nathan. I guess that could be where the “creature” is in the dream came from, a reflection of my interest. Anyway, the 2 creatures could represent 2 different and opposite of aspects of my life. What they represent specifically I do not know as they could mean a lot of things that is held in conflict within me. Anyway, the size of the creatures represents the degree of importance or “hold” the creature have in my life. Whether the larger one is “good” or are the “better” things are indeterminate as the reverse could also be true depending on what the specific representations are. The fact that the 2 creatures been initially calm and had started to fight indicates co-existence with the occasional conflict and thus the “escape” and thus the period of turmoil. The fact that I was able to coax the larger creature into the containing indicates control over the creature but sadly, this was not repeated for the smaller creature but the dream also ended prematurely. The fact that the smaller creature escaped into another person’s home could indicate “slyness” or the ability to hide.

Here is what I can understand of the dream. The 2 creatures represent conflicting ideas or sentiments within me but regardless, they both are intrinsically part of me as they both are my “pets”. The larger creature is “manageable” whereas the smaller creatures need to be found to be controlled. As I reflect further, the larger creatures could also represent the ideas, thought and feeling that I have that are “open” and largely also spoken of in all my blog entries.  The smaller creature requires further management but is not largely “spoken” about in my thoughts and reflecting and an example is my anger and how it can create conflict with the larger creature and it can hide and difficult to find to control.

As with my other blogs and personal thoughts, all things happened for a purpose including this dream by this sister and although it does not have an “earth-shattering” impact on first encounter and even after reflecting on it, I find that the purpose could be for me to share the following that for every single one of us, we are a sum of all the various emotions, experiences, teachings, beliefs, etc that we have and embraced. Be emotions, experiences, teachings, beliefs, etc “good” or “bad” is immaterial as the larger creature represents that which are easier to manage and handle and are “nurtured” better and thus the larger size. It does sometime “escape” and that is when we lose control and we need to find it and bring it under control and back into our life. As for the smaller creature in your life, it is harder to fine (i.e. determine) and thus you will need to seek for it a lot harder as it “hid” well.

Complex?

I think so too but I guess this dream is a reflection about me with regards to the complex, intertwining emotions, experiences, beliefs, etc in my life.  However, I had learnt to embrace them as they are all part me and thus are my “pets” but I need to control them and nurture them so that they can grow stronger and bigger.  In the Alien(s) movies, the Aliens are intelligent and they work together, sometime sacrificing one for the greater good of the colony. And so, for my pets, I have to make sure that they complement each other rather than fight each other, as in, let the sum be greater than the individual.

This I believe is also a confirmation on what I had posted earlier about everything having a purpose and how I would need to pray to God for revelation concerning His will as the “vagueness” of the dream represent.

Hope you will find this blog interesting.

In Him We Trust