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what colour is it? Black would be a native species and protected. White is feral and has no closed season.

White. The purest, most beautiful white.



I wouldn't shoot it if I were you. In mythology swans are sacred to Aphrodite:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite

Whilst Aphrodite herself may be all sweetness and light, she might send one of her bad-ass pals after you :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28mythology%29

Always best to avoid offending the gods/goddesses, if at all possible, lol.

(I keep adding to this message, it might end up like an essay, lol. I mythology)

I had a dream the other night of just one word, written down. Can anyone help me with this please?

The word was JILN. This means nothing to me at all, all I can find about it is that it's possibly an area in China? Do these letters mean anything to anyone? An acronym maybe? I would love to be able to make sense of this (because I don't believe the unconscious wastes energy by producing nonsense) so somewhere, there is a meaning in those letters.

The meaning of the letters is not the important message of the dream, it is the fact that you have a mystery in your life.

The mystery of JILN. Yes, maybe so. But it has become like a bone that I can't stop chewing.

In a lot of my dreams, I end up unintentionally making people mad and I have to run for my life. Usually these end with me somewhere where I can see the people I angered in the distance, looking for or running toward me. Then I get so scared that I wake up. There was one, however, where I remember being chased to the top of a skyscraper, then I looked down at a river and I jumped (and I actually felt like I was falling).

Another type of dream I have is one where I have the ability to fly or walk on air. Then I'll be up so high that my acrophobia acts up and I either can't go any higher or I fall.

Yet another dream is the one where I embarrass myself, often by being late, showing up someplace in the nude, or having the urge to go to the bathroom in unusual places.

I also have dreams where I'm alone with someone I like and they hate me.

Finally, there's a type of dream where I come really close to an experience that I want to have, only to be repelled when I try to approach it.

I love dreams where I fly. Don't know what it means. Pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff.

I often have dreams where I am the driver of a car and my view is through the windscreen. Sometimes I will have a spate of these dreams where oncoming traffic veers into my path and the dream ends suddenly before imminent head on impact.

I often have dreams that I remember later in the day, but then I have to try and figure out if they were dreams or reality. Sometimes I have to check with someone else, sometimes it just becomes apparent that what I was thinking was real was just a dream. Anyone else have experiences like this?

Every lucid dream I have had has ended with me flying. The first time I had one of these I did this by leaping from buildings. Once I transformed my hands into bat-like wings and flew that way.

When reading the book "Eragon", I frequently dreamed that I was the dragon, Saphira. I have also become an albatrosses and flown low over the sea. In the best flying dream I had, I flew around a field in the park behind my house. I would rocket into the sky, then stoop low down to the grass, so low that my chest would brush the blades of grass. I later discovered I could hover by turning my body vertical and flapping my arms rapidly.

Anyone had dreams of driving?


Normal driving, gears stuck, you steer one way but the car goes another... had all those dreams...

Driving is supposed to be symbolic of life's direction.



Also, If you have depression and sleep shallower, you dream more. Usually we have several dreams a night (one for each REM cycle, with deep sleep intervals between) and remember only the last one.

I often have dreams about driving. In fact so many of my dreams and the like seem to be as if I'm looking through the windshield, even daydreams.

I seem to see so much through the lens of driving. My special interest perhaps?

Makes you wonder at special interest being subconscious, heh?

I often have dreams about people or cats. In the dreams I have about social situations I dream that I go to talk to people and then they turn their backs and walk away. One dream I had was that there was a big party going on in a huge house. I knew I wasn't invited but I decided to walk past the house out of curiosity. There were some people standing at the gate who said Hi to me and offered me punch and some refreshments but did not invite me inside. I once had a dream in which I was in a room filled with lots of beautiful cats. I went up to each cat and tried to pet them but the cats quickly walked away and wouldn't let me pet them.

My mother died when I was 23 so I often dream about my mother. In the dreams I see her briefly and she seems like she is happy where she is. I believe my mothe was autistic. I once dreamed that she was closing the swimming pool up for the night. She had the keys and was locking the gate. We went swimming a lot when I was a kid. I once dreamed that she was in a field of beautiful wildflowers with flowers over her eyes. In the dreams my mother does some things she never did in real life. I dreamed that she bought a lot of natural food and slimmed down a lot. I dream that she developed social poise that she never had while she was in this world. So it must be my subconscious telling me that she is in a better place.

Once I had a really scary dream that my father tried to run over me with a car. In another dream i dreamed that he had a pair of plyers and was pulling at the skin on my face with them.

When I dream of driving, I can't see. I look harder and harder and it just gets darker and darker out there.

I've had very similar dreams (just had one the other night, in fact) where I'm driving. Only difference is, the windshield is usually partially obscured, like I'm driving in a rainstorm and the wipers aren't working. I try my best to stay on the highway and avoid other cars -- and for some reason I usually succeed -- but it's always a nerve-wracking experience.

A few other themes that seem to recur on a regular basis:

The New Job

I work in the architecture business, and my first job with an architecture was with a large, prominent firm in Chicago that does a lot of interesting design work. I have good memories of working there, but I ended up leaving the firm on bad terms.

I sometimes dream that I've just been re-hired by that same firm, and it's my first day back. (Oddly, their office always looks different in each dream, and never resembles their actual office, but I always know I'm at that particular firm.) I'm given a task to do that's supposed to be done by the end of the day, but end up spending the whole day goofing off or spacing out. I then have a panic attack when I suddenly remember that this task is supposed to be due any minute... That's usually when I wake up.

Flying

The old standby. I don't have these dreams much anymore, but I had them more often when I was younger. It's usually more like floating than flying, and I have to pump my arms to stay airborne. Problem is, I sometimes go too high, and I'm freaking out because I'm afraid I'll start falling. And sometimes I do.

Abandonment

I don't have this dream very often, but it's always very emotional whenever I do. In the dream, I'll meet somebody who becomes my new best friend or lover. I finally feel complete for the first time, and we have a great time together, as if we were always meant to be with each other. Then, I'll turn my back for a split-second, and when I turn back around, my companion has vanished as if she never existed. The sense of being rejected or abandoned is always incredibly intense.

Physical Suffering and Dismemberment

My worst nightmares are usually in the form of me watching somebody else endure unspeakable suffering, or being dismembered while still alive. Oddly, these dreams almost never involve me personally undergoing any physical harm, but watching others suffer. It always starts as if I'm watching it in a movie, but then I soon find myself "inside" the movie and part of the action. In one particularly vivid example, I was looking at a severed head laying on a counter in some sort of medical facility, being kept alive with a bunch of hoses and tubes attached to its neck. Of course, it was unable to speak, and there was no hope of it ever being re-attached to its body. So it just laid there on its side, looking at me while the machines kept it alive. That freaked me out in a major way, and I woke up in a panic.

Taking a Leak

Sometimes I find myself in a strange bathroom, usually a public restroom but not always. It's a different one each time, and I end up standing in front of a toilet trying to take a leak. I try and try, but nothing relieves the urge. Usually at this point I wake up, and discover that I really do need to take a leak in a major way, and make haste to the bathroom!

... What if you're trying to control / predict life too much?

I had a dream the other night in which a voice said "you are going to die soon". I hope it meant symbolic death rather than actual.

I've started taking notes of my dreams and
trying to make sense of them ! Last night I
dreamt I was being pursued by sharks.I
managed to swim to the shore (which is good
considering I can't swim IRL) but then I saw
the sharks getting out of the water and
walking upright balanced on their tails.They
were also carrying big glasses of water which
they poured over themselves to keep them
wet.
In other dreams people I've known in the past appear out of the blue,in others the people seem to be hybrid characters of 2 or more acquaintances.