DS2738
Dream Date: unknown
Female, United States
I visited your site today because recently I have been remembering a recurring dream I had when I was 5 or 6 years old (I'm 53 now). You probably wonder why I would remember this now at this time of my life. Anyway, in the dream I was riding in the car with my mother when, all of a sudden she would fall asleep behind the wheel and I would grab the steering wheel from her. The first time I dreamt this, it scared me awfully, then I would have the same dream over and over and it got to the point where I would just take the wheel of the driving car while my mother passed out, seems she kind of faded away after she passed out but I always ended up driving the car myself as a young child, then I would wake up. I suppose it means nothing now that I'm grown, but wondered if you had any thoughts on this.
Female, UNITED STATES
Mother: dreamer’s superconscious mind
Car: physical body
Sleep
: means of assimilating
This dream submission brings up an experience that many people have had and yet rarely find a place to talk about. In order to understand the more universal perspective of this kind of dream experience, and then guide our dreamer to a personal understanding, we want to talk about the stages of growth and consciousness first.
The first stage of growth is infancy. This is obvious in all realms of life— the newborn infant, tiny seedlings, animal babies, first day of school, starting a new job, the first year of marriage, life after the death of a spouse. This stage of development is about receiving, absorbing and experiencing. The first seven years of a child’s life is all about infancy.
Adolescence (8-14 yrs), adulthood (15-21yrs) and wisdom (22-28yrs) are the following stages of growth and development. The second stage of development centers on experimenting and using what has been learned. Curiosity, questioning, action and independence are qualities built and explored during adolescence. Adulthood is a time of producing more than is consumed with what has been learned throughout life. Think of an apple tree in the autumn. After receiving water, nutrients from the soil and sunshine throughout the spring and summer it has now produced an abundance of apples that can feed a lot of people or go to seed to produce dozens more apples trees and so on. Wisdom is a time of understanding what you have learned and developing the capacity to teach it to others. In nature this happens by the power of universal law—the apple seed just knows how to be itself and develop through the stages of growth. For people, this kind of growth is choice and dreams can be an integral part of making conscious choices.
The dreams that this woman remembers occurred during the latter stage of infancy since she was almost 7.
While they were frightening, in retrospect they show an evolution in
her where she was claiming more responsibility for her physical life. This would have shown up in her beginning to put ideas together on her own, take care of her physical needs like brushing teeth, getting dressed, bathing on her own and maybe even fixing basic meals for herself. While she was moving her attention more into the physical world, she was also beginning to become aware of the separation between the inner and outer minds. We suggest the reader make time to read about the divisions of mind at this link: http://www.som.org/NewPages/Newsite07/SOMNavigation/TheMind.html
Consider this. We are born from divine spirit and move into a physical life to learn, grow, understand and evolve. Part of claiming divine birthright is claiming physical life. Children in the early years of their life are still aware of the connection that exists in all of Mind. Sensory stimulus and living with adults who have moved into a more physical way of thinking all draw the soul’s attention away from the core Self. Realize this is a neutral experience and the judgments one places on this separation define either the understanding or misunderstanding present in the individual. Children who are raised by people that understand and cultivate the stages of growth stand to create a new generation that is strongly aligned with the purpose of life and there are many parents who are reaching for this now.
Dreams feed back the dreamer’s thoughts, attitudes and feelings from the previous day or so. We have found in our research that most people remember a dream that they consider a disturbing or frightening sometime between 4 and 7 years of age. These dreams have a similar theme and even similar action—some kind of separation from a parent or grandparent that leads to distress in the dream as well as upon awakening. In the introduction of The Dreamer’s Dictionary Barbara Condron shares her dream like this and it’s influence in her life.
Why would our dreamer be thinking about these dreams now, at the age of 53? More than a random memory these dreams stimulate her to reflect her life. How does she understand her inner authority now? Is she fulfilled in her spiritual life? Does she listen to herself and respond according to soul needs? These are good questions for her to ask and to make time to answer. Her curiosity about the meaning of these dreams can lead her to greater study of dreams in the present time. Dream interpretation and meditation are the most direct way for anyone to cultivate Self-awareness. They are in fact the foundation for the course of study in the School of Metaphysics, parent of dreamschool.org .
One suggestion we have is for this dreamer to download Keys to Your Heart and give herself time to explore her experience of Love during the last 8 years—a significant time astronomically and astrologically related to the transit of Venus between the sun and the Earth.
This is quite an in depth answer to a question that our dreamer doubted even had meaning—we are glad she asked!
Book we recommend is The Four Stages of Growth by Daniel Condron
Experience we recommend is
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