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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
I have this one too Tera.... except for me it's not gum, it's broken teeth. I hate this dream..... the more I spit out, the more there is.... just like you said... it's like it grows.
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Originally posted by TeraBabes
The one recurring dream I have is very bizarre. It happens in different settings, but the recurring part is that I'm chewing gum (which I rarely do in real life). I spit out the gum, but there is always more left in my mouth.
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I know a bit about dreams but I have a friend & teacher who I write regularly who knows much more. She is, believe it or not, a legtimate Zen Master (has recieved formal Dharma transmission and is ordained) and the abbottess of a Chan (Zen) Buddhist Order in mainland China. Her secular career, before she started studying Zen, was in psychology, so she is doubly qualified.
I mentioned your recurring dreams in an email I wrote her last night. She usually doesn't respond this quickly, but I got a reply this morning. This is what she had to say:
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"Now.. your friend's recurrent dream. These are usually not archetypal dreams but rather the Buddha Self (the Dream Director) is trying to get somebody to do something that the person needs to do. At this "personal unconscious" level of dreaming, the dream is quite likely to be in metaphor. For example, if I use the expression "kick the bucket" to mean "die" and I dream that I'm walking down the street with Uncle Earnie and there's a bucket on the sidewalk and he kicks it... I have quite likely dreamed that he has died.
Likewise your friends probably use the expression "spit it out" to mean "spill the beans" or "confess" or "tell something that you are having trouble articulating". It is never sufficient to analyze a dream with such a limited 2nd hand sample... but my guess is that the person has done something that she is ashamed of or that she knows something that she thinks she should reveal - but is afraid or ashamed to tell.... So she should visit a priest (if she's a Catholic) and perhaps go to Confession... or find someone - not necessarily a psychologist - that can wind up costing her a lot of money - to tell. Sometimes it helps to write a fictional account of something... let a character in the piece articulate the subject that she is not able to speak about in real life. The same is true of the fellow who dreams about spitting out the broken teeth. He has been "chewing" on something for a long time... mulling it over and over and over. He's in worse shape... part of him (a vital part) is broken... an infection (mentally) and he's in trouble exorcizing it. He, too, needs to talk to a priest.... or create a fictional dialogue in which whatever it is is given voice."
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Take it with a grain of salt, as she indicated she is only making guesses from a 2nd person account - a personal or telephone interview is needed for these sorts of things - but I thought you two might be interested in what she had to say.
Shes an interesting woman
