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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Two Women’s Metropolitan Safari
Posted by Atecia Robinson on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:41 AM
This was Elizabeth Dearborn Davis’s hope for the two girls when she met them a year ago when they were accepted into the Akilah Institute. “When you teach a woman, you empower a nation,” said Davis.
More than two years have passed since Davis moved to Rwanda. After the genocide she became inspired by the resilience and reconciliation she witnessed. She wanted to aid in their progress of those affected by the Genocide. Within 20 months her vision for a school that emphasized leadership, development, market-relevant training and entrepreneurial skills was realized. Within 20 months she has changed the lives of young Rwandan women like Allen and Noella.
“I have no siblings or parents, but I have hope for my future. I want to become an independent woman and start my own business. Akilah is giving me the skills to reach my goals,” said Noella.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: A prophet appears too late (maybe)
Posted by Dream Momma on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM
“dear dream momma, first you need to know I married a drunk and stuck it out for many years.
Don’t you just hate it when your inner guide shows up too late? Or, maybe this Wise Man showed up on time but you, in all your youthful confidence fueled by inexperience, ignored him or her. Think about it. Who tried to warn you off the loser you married? Grandma? Grandpa? I bet somebody did. Dream Momma wonders if you became enraged with him/her too?
At any rate, here you are reminded of your mistake. Angry all over again about lost love, time, and spirit. I’d be angry too. But wait, maybe this is a warning dream. A dream that is telling you “beware.” If that’s the case Dream Momma wonders if you’ve met another charming addict that you’re going to allow in your bed (both literally and figuratively). You need to know right now the odds of you making that same mistake again are sky high.
Here’s what you need to do. Journal and grieve your lost love, your lost time, your lost spirit. The anger will subside. Next find an Al-anon meeting, one where all the partners aren’t on pity-pots and learn how to avoid the trap of repeating the same mistake twice. Finally, find a decent therapist that will help you rewire the “I’m attracted to addicts” synapse in your brain. Good luck. You CAN do this.
Dream Momma
Monday, August 8, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: Transvestite midget clowns ... stealing underwear?
Posted by Dream Momma on Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Friday, July 8, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: Dual Identity
Posted by Dream Momma on Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:38 PM
I remember feeling a vague sense of warm happiness when I woke up. But I have no idea what the dream means or what it might symbolize. Any suggestions?”
Dream Momma is so happy to return to her blog for Creative Loafing with this remarkable, journey dream. Why is it remarkable? Because it describes, in a symbolic nature, the individuation phase of psychological development and the relationship between the animus and anima.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: A white batmobile tells a story
Posted by Dream Momma on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM
“Dear Dream Momma, 
Dream Momma just loves these spiritual dreams. They can be so powerful and transforming if the dreamer pays attention and digs down to their true significance.Now, it’s always important to identify the primary symbol and oh so easy in this dream. In case my dear readers have missed it, it is the white batmobile. So, our first task is to discover its meaning to the dreamer. But wait, we can’t do that …Dream Momma will have to go into her bag of tricks and imagine. In the Old Testament the wandering Israelites defeat the city of Jericho by marching around the city walls six times. One the seventh day the walls fall down. Hmmm. Could it be our dreamer’s spirituality gets “lost” in the desert until Sunday when she gets grounded again? Likely. The dream also suggests the fantasy of a “large ship coming in” a term we all use in hopes of a financial windfall rather than a spiritual enlightenment which is what this dream is all about.In this dream the grandparent morphs into a male spirit guide who is probably the dreamer’s animus in her waking hours. That is good, all women need an active animus as a guide and protector.In addition, an ancient war (hard to tell-there were so many) is referred to and her friends leave the dream by going into the boathouse. Not too glamorous a place to hang; more of a hiding place or a desire to find that elusive "ship." Wisely, our dreamer remains in the house with her grandfather, but wait …there is a shift in viewpoint and that’s the corrective inner experience in the dream.It is then, after the shift, she connects to her spirit guide and the renegade white batmobile named Jericho. Fascinating! So, what does all this mean? Alas, that is not for Dream Momma to say but she can urge the dreamer to connect the dots to strengthen her spiritual groundedness (no that’s not an oxymoron), pay attention to her spirit guide, and embrace her hero within. There's clearly a journey ahead.
Dream Momma
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: boyfriend blow-off
Posted by Dream Momma on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM
“Dear Dream Momma, I can only remember the tail-end of this dream. I am in a bar or club setting while outdoors with my boyfriend who, 
Meanwhile I have also agreed to help him with some sort of engineering or surveying project nearby. The landscape is Grand Canyon-esque, deep gorges and a fast-moving river nearby. There is some sort of white box mounted on a pole that requires my attention periodically or the river will soon become out of control. I am annoyed and feeling put-open, as my boyfriend is now out with the group of women as I attend to this project.
The final stage of this project involves a large black poodle, with a natural haircut, towing a rope of some sort with it’s mouth and/or on a long-leash, running up and down a ledge over the river, and, as this is being completed, one of the boyfriend’s friends, now more distinct, a very neutral-looking man in his mid-to-late twenties, very matter-of fact, comes along for the final stage, pulling a silver metallic quilted square from the white box, about the size of a baby blanket, and stating that it is the prototype.
I am still very annoyed as this man receives a call from my “boyfriend” who is relating the fun he is having with the group of women, and interrupt the call to have him ask the boyfriend to come get the equipment, which must be removed. The “neutral man” requests that I call directly, but I cannot get though, and am having a bit of a tantrum. He then relays my message, to no effect.
As I am ranting about “How inconsiderate, what a jerk, etc. . .” the neutral man explains that he lives with 2 men, naming them, and that they behave the same way. He is being overtly tolerant. I know the men’s names; one is a client, the other a prospect in my working life, but I am apparently unaware of their prestigious statuses, per “neutral man.” Who is now obviously bewildered by my naïveté and lack of awareness of ‘how the world works.’”
Dream Momma wants to thank this dreamer for such a classic dream about co-dependency and the pissy attitude that often goes with it. There is also what Carl Jung calls the anima/animus we mere mortals struggle to balance in our psyches. Yikes! What’s a human to do?
First let’s look at the passive/pissy nature of the dreamer’s female energy. Ugh! Words like ambivalent, agree, put-upon, and annoyed all roll of her keyboard. She then proceeds to have a tantrum “to no effect.” OMG, no wonder her boyfriend wants out.
But wait, her inner man, neutral and reasoning appears in her psyche. This is good news! He tries to reason with her, in effect saying all men are pigs who want to screw around and use compliant women. Duh! Her animus is very paternal, patient, and tolerant yet in the end Dream Momma can envision him rolling his eyes at his female counterpart. Often, when we’ve been over-culturalized into a gender role as a child, we truly do lose our perspective.
What this dreamer needs to do is embrace her animus. He’s there waiting for her to wake up. She needs to step back and begin to understand her passive female whose clearly co-dependent (see paragraph two) and angry. She needs to find the savvy female (who uses her animus effectively) who can say GFY to the philandering boyfriend.
Here’s how to kick start the solution. First, say GFY to the guy loudly in a crowded outdoor bar of your peers. People will cheer you, believe me. Secondly, practice saying “no” arbitrarily five times a day. This dreamer needs to understand her “no” won’t be catastrophic and lead to banishment like it did when she was a child. Finally, read a book called The Robber Bride to learn and understand how much men really hate codependent women.
Dream Momma
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: White seagulls symbolically transform
Posted by Dream Momma on Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Dream Momma loves these archetypal and deeply spiritual dreams and believes this dreamer is blessed to have an interior world sending such impressive images to the conscious level. Hmmm. She needs a moment.
She’s back. The number five is most often found in organic form and of course the five pointed star is highly symbolic…but, in this dream, Dream Momma believes it is about the Five Acts. That is, desire, faith, humility, hope, and love. It is Dream Momma’s belief that this dreamer had a true spiritual conversion on the deepest level and this dream is communicating that to him/her. The colors are spiritual values and the brilliant white light (the merging of all color) is the significant moment of integration.
Moments are significant. More important than most people realize. Cartier Bresson speaks of “the decisive moment” (when you click the camera to capture the winning image). There is “the moment of conception” that is often referred to in procreation. Let us not blow off the million “moments” in history that are too numerous to even comprehend before your morning cup of Joe. Then there is the truly “Ah-ha moment” we all have experienced (for better or for worse, i.e. he really doesn’t love me. Sigh.). More importantly, Carl Jung wrote about something called the transcendent function and the moment it comes alive to integrate knowledge with feelings. The only difference between that moment and the Ah-ha moment is it cannot be captured by words. It is too powerful. Dream Momma believes that this dream expresses the transcendent function in all its glorious power. Lucky dreamer.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: Feeding off yourself
Posted by Dream Momma on Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:36 AM
“Hi Dream Momma,
I had this dream last night. I dreamt I was overweight, wearing edible nacho overalls with cheese leggings, and that I was in my elementary school gym.
Dream Momma is impressed with this symbolic dream of both independence and self-nurturing (eating your own clothes). It is loaded with so many food images she is getting hungry just reading it. Now in the dream you function solely on your own. You ignore the all-you-can-eat buffet (a symbol of plenty) and choose another form of symbolic food that is denied you because you are not an alpha-dog. What perversity is going on here anyway? Eat your clothes, ignore the buffet, and seek something unavailable. Sounds like Mary, Mary, quite contrary. Dream Momma also wonders who you might ask to get the food. Not that you would of course but, just for a second imagine who you would ask, if you would ask anyone at all.
Now usually when we act perversely it is a guise for something deeper. Dream Momma wonders if you were chubby as a child or used food to deal with feelings of loneliness or social isolation. Hard to say but even your remarkable strip dance doesn’t turn too many heads but what it does do is take the heat off (people laughed).
Dream Momma suggests you revisit your childhood via journaling and write about all the times you said to yourself, “Just go with it,” and the feelings that preceded that thought. If the word lonely appears more than once Dream Momma suggests you open yourself up to friendship when and wherever you can.
Dream Momma
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: a hero in the making
Posted by Dream Momma on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM
“Dream Momma, I dreamed I was at a water park that had been converted into the park from an old zoo. We were playing in what had been
Dream Momma likes this dream. It is an internal Hero’s Journey in which the dreamer rescues a new, undeveloped part of his psyche with tremendous (elephant size) potential. This dreams speaks to each person’s need for self-discovery, self-awareness, and self-nurturing. In the first sentence we have the conversion; something new from something old. There is play so we have a sense of youth and freedom. But then wait! A loud noise (wake-up call) occurs and or dreamer transforms from a child on the playground to a hero in the making. The mystery and the key to fully understanding this dream is to identify the elephant (a major primary symbol in the dream) and the vaguely define “bad guys.” Ultimately our hero takes home the under developed baby and internalizes it (“became best friends.”)
Dream Momma asks this dreamer to work very hard to identify what the undeveloped, yet potentially large, elephant symbol is (all the better to nurture it) and then, if desired, identify the bad guys. Hint: They are all symbols and they are all you.
Dream Momma
Friday, February 18, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: The Stairmaster from hell
Posted by Dream Momma on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:18 PM
“Dear Dream Momma, in my dream I am on the Stairmaster working out. I have my water bottle and drink from it. That’s it. That’s the dream. 
Yes. The key symbol in your dream is the water bottle and what you do with it. Duh! Anyway, you drink from it while the Stairmaster drains you. It’s almost as if you’re a sieve. Water goes in, sweat comes out. Nowhere in the dream do you do anything else. Your only action is drinking water or, more symbolically, trying to nourish yourself. You never get anywhere on the Stairmaster and most importantly; your thirst never gets slacked. This is not good.
Now at your age (sleeping with a boyfriend and not married so 20-30ish) you are in the grip of two huge developmental tasks. One is securing a profession and the other is finding a life partner. The question you need to ask yourself is have you made any progress in either of those vital tasks? The dream is telling you “no.” It’s telling you you are climbing but not getting anywhere and your are drinking but are still thirsty. This is not good. You need to pay attention to that like NOW.
Here’s a small therapeutic task that will help you. The next time you have that dream write it down and then write is differently. For example, write a story of you getting off the Stairmaster, finishing the water, and submersing yourself in a wonderful temperature-perfect hot tub. Write another story about you getting off the Stairmaster, drinking all the water, and meeting your boyfriend so he can give you a massage. You get the idea. Good luck and let me know what happens.
Dream Momma
