The Ivory Gate of Dreams. Amanda Kelly

with his friend had happened and start mourning over him, for the first time in 23 years. The opening dream helped him to discover his problem so that he could begin to work on it. For he said that he would not succeed in going to that place one more time, it became obvious that he needed a therapy with a psychologist to become healthy again.

      This dream is a showpiece of an opening dream. Naturally, the man experienced his dream as a nightmare. The examination of the nightmare under the magnifying-lens will follow later on. The opening dream had to appear to the man as a nightmare in order to put him in the position to finally discover the trauma by intensely remembering the dream. He suffered a lot from the disorder of his inner feelings towards his life. Therefore the watcher over the dreams was now ready to let such a shocking dream pass through. Due to the man´s fortifying meditation, he could finally take up contact with his sub-consciousness again. He now was ready to open the above-mentioned box in the sub-consciousness and set free its contents.

      The distinct structure in the dream plot proved that his sub-consciousness did trust him to be capable of dealing with the dream likewise. This is why the opening dream for this human being represents the beginning of the work on the way to himself. The description of the opening dream is supposed to express two of a kind: the opening in the sense of a beginning, a new start in life - and - the opening in the sense of a unique presentation of the truth, the facts.

      Here comes one more example of a man who is handicapped. He was born prematurely and not brought in the incubator in time. As a result his hip did not develop itself perfectly and remained crippled. His father was disappointed in him for not being a normal boy. Repeatedly he had been beaten by his father when he grew up, because he was not like the other boys. As an adult, he often dreamed of “hazardous people pursuing him all the time, so that he has to run away.” He believed that the dreams are a result of his childhood experience and would refer to the cruelties of his father. However, this is only half the truth.

      If someone is the victim of pursuance in a dream, it means the one is not able to meet with the expectations of a certain person. Such a dream wants to put light on the fact that the dreamer should give up his feelings of guilt. It is not the problem of the person, who has such a dream that he cannot meet with the expectations of another person. For the above mentioned man was highly convinced only of himself and has compensated his handicap by having obtained great general knowledge, he refused any information about dream interpretation. He did not give in, because he had become a bit hard-headed through his experience and did not want to be told about anything and anyone. Especially about things he had no idea of. A perfect example of the absolute inhibition.

      Unfortunately the man did not want to listen to the fact that those dreams only appear to inform him that there is no need to fulfil the expectations of his father. His father did not appear in the dreams anyway, because the man inhibited the blame of having been beaten as a child. A correct interpretation would have helped him to deal with the problem and this way stop this type of dream forever. The way this man ignored the science of dream interpretation only led to more misunderstandings of the messages from the sub-consciousness, either falsely or not at all. Therefore his dream-power will be forced to produce even more scary dreams, until the man will be able to find out its meaning by himself or eventually he gives in to advice from other people. His dream-power only wanted to open his eyes at his attitude towards his father in order to make clear to him that it was not his fault that his father was disappointed in him. He would have been able to work out the chaos of his thinking. He would even come so far to drop his tendency of expressing himself to be the best-educated man of all. This way he would not only achieve mental peace again, but would surely appear more sympathetic to other people as well.

      The classic among the opening dreams is possibly a whole serial of dreams that are dealing with the experiences of a former relationship. Although the relationship does not exist anymore at length one dreams a lot of the former partner and oneself, just like it performed itself in reality. The dream-power wants to request you to come to an intense understanding over the past. Through the dreams you get the opportunity to make up your mind, whether you set yourself free from the former partner to be ready for a new relationship; or you prefer to hold on to the former partner, because there is no questioning a new option. This creates clarity.