It happened again last night, or shall I say early this morning. I had my third dream with Loreena.
I was on a bus with 2 other friends to a hotel for a weekend vacation. Sharon started singing Annachie Gordon and we all joined in. Sharon sounded exactly like Loreena. In real life, her voice is very different, still she has a beautiful voice.
We reach the rustic hotel and we were dressed in late 1900's dresses; yet it was not in that era. We were carrying carpet bags and we walked up to the regristration desk and Loreena stepped up to us and checked us in.
She was a lot shorter that real life, still, very sweet. All of a sudden I realized my dress was on backwards and my big collar was getting in my face.
It was my turn to check in and I said, "It's Cheyenne Rivers!" I thought, no it isn't you know it isn't Cheyenne Rivers, you know perfectly well who it is. For the life of me I couldn't say Loreena McKennitt. I kept saying Cheyenne Rivers, who is the main character in my book. I apologized profusely. She didn't mind at all. My friends left me.
Finally I was able to say, "I am honored to meet you Loreena. I have to tell how much your music means to me and how it moves me." She replied, "Please sign here." I looked at the paper she placed on the counter and didn't see the place to sign my name, so I asked, "Here?"
"That looks like a good place," she replied.
I walked around the side of the desk and I turned to her and asked if I could have a hug and "The Mummer's Dance" started playing and she looked up at the ceiling startled to hear one of her songs. It was as if she didn't know she knew of the song at all. "Yes," I reassured her, "It is your song, one of your best loved songs throughout the world."
I hugged her anyways then she hugged back and we stayed for several minutes. I felt this warm, compassionate, love enimating from her. That song ended and "She Moved Through the Fair" started playing and she said in her gentle voice, "You are ethereal,"
"I've heard that word before, but what do you mean?"
She didn't answer. She went to clean the bar. I went to find the restroom without any luck. I ended up outside with all the excited of recieving a hug from Loreena and her calling me ethereal and not knowing exactly what she meant.
I woke up not finding the restroom, the bus or my friends, but very happy to know there is something more to me then I knew yesterday.
Thanks again, Loreena!!!

Lady Deirdre,

To help decifer your dream may I ask:
What emotions did you have before, during, and after the dream?
What changed after you had the dream?
Have you had any more since?
How close are you to the faeries?
So far it sounds like it is a blessing of how special you are to this Earth, that your gifts are not taken for granted and you are loved.
The feelings you have for Loreena have been reflected back to you.
I hope that helps.
Blessings of Beauty,
Gina

It seems a bit weird to tell people on a forumn about your dreams...especially if they involve someone like Loreena...but here it goes...

I was walking in the forest, and i heard the first part of the beltane fire dance---u know, the part with the drums---and i tripped and fell and landed in a faery ring...the faery queen happened to be Loreena...weird eh? well, all i remember is that she threw dust in my face and i woke up...it wasnt in a mean way, just like faery dust or something...the magic kind... it was pretty cool...i dont remember all of it, but that is the part that stuck out in my mind...

try to give that some meaning!

Many thanks Zefiro and Mihalis!!! The dream makes more sense now looking back at where I was and where I am today. I could still use more wisdom, a lot more.
Loreena's songs are part of my growth. The first snow fell this morning as it gives me peace in my heart and soul. Many thanks goes to you too Loreena.

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Originally posted by Gina:
I have tried to understand my dreams, no such luck. My dream with Loreena was very different then all others I have had and remembered.
Usually I am participating in the dream, this one was watching from afar. As I sat in the audience, I watched a play on stage. There were a circle of kids sitting around Loreena as she sat in a chair telling them of a story. Then the dream went into real life as a train went past me as I was still in my chair. Loreena was on the train continuing the story to the kids. The play ended with them back on stage as in the beginning. I have no idea of the story which was told, I just felt her compassion for the kids and senerity in which she spoke.

Anyone care to decifer?

Well dreaming of kids as far as I know is happiness !

Loreena telling stories may show wisdom ...

I think we all could be the kids of the dream that listen to the stories which actually are the Loreena's songs...

..and the train and generally a moving vehicle as far as i know means progress generally that something goes on,continues...

Loreena tell us stories in a new album that continues her glorious career ..

Mihalis

I have tried to understand my dreams, no such luck. My dream with Loreena was very different then all others I have had and remembered.
Usually I am participating in the dream, this one was watching from afar. As I sat in the audience, I watched a play on stage. There were a circle of kids sitting around Loreena as she sat in a chair telling them of a story. Then the dream went into real life as a train went past me as I was still in my chair. Loreena was on the train continuing the story to the kids. The play ended with them back on stage as in the beginning. I have no idea of the story which was told, I just felt her compassion for the kids and senerity in which she spoke.

Anyone care to decifer?

Oh now I got it..

Well I could get seriusly myths about dreams but noway about cards...

"tarots" mean??

I listened from someone here that the dreams of Monday,Wednesday,Friday and Sunday refer to you (i.e the person who dreams) whereas Tuesdays, Thirsdays and Saturdays the dream refers to the other (maybe the participant of your dream)

Another belief I heard is that the dreams of Friday, always become true...I dont know...

So are we dreaming right now ??
Will we ever wake up ??

If Ancient Muse is a dream, I dont want to wake up !!

Mihalis

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Originally posted by Zefiro:

Which Plato's work talks about dreams?

Although I dont know a lot about Plato's statements on dreams (yes I am Greek, shoot me ) , I searched and found this good infos :

Plato

Plato was not systematically involved with dreaming although in many cases it is evident that he attributed great significance to it. Since there is not a detailed essay on dreams in his work, we have to abstract his general theory by studying separate pieces of information scattered around his literary work.
A section of Republic IX prefigures the Freudian concept of a dream as "wish-fulfillment". In this passage (571b-572b, cf. 574d-e) lethal and incestuous dreams are said to express desires harbored by outwardly decent people without surfacing in their waking thoughts. In other places Plato is referring to his ideal state as a "dream city" suggesting that dream fantasies indulge wishes in compensation for their non-fulfillment in waking life. Again in Republic IX, Plato is describing varieties of dreams in terms of parts of the soul operating independently of one another. Evil dreams are produced when lower elements of the soul assume control while the rational apparatus remains asleep. The opposite happens in the dreams of noble men when these lower elements are quiescent enabling thus the rational soul "to look for and reach toward the perception of what he does not know, be it past, present or future" (572a2-3). It is evident that Plato is influenced by the spiritual legacy of his ancestors that considered the world of dreams as an alternative objective reality where the rational soul attains a liberation to pursue the truth. This idea is also obvious in the Timaeus and the Sophist where Plato attributes dreams to divine agency.

In the Theaetetus Plato is raising another important question regarding dreams that has also been a fundamental argument in many eastern doctrines and traditions. The question is whether an acceptable decisive factor actually exists to judge if we are awake or asleep at any given moment. Dreaming and waking appearances are regarded as equally true for their respective subjects. Therefore many thinkers after Plato have referred to waking reality as nothing but another dream from which we might one day be awakened.

Mihalis

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Originally posted by Zefiro:I do.
We should ask Freud

Better ask Socrates: He thought dreams were spirit-related, Freud thought they were supressed aggrivated frustrated thoughts...

I like Socrates and Plato better.... makes me feel less freaky

Wow, I wish I had dreams like that. My dreams are just so odd. Like when I dreamt that I had a big ocean behind my house and my boyfriend just got transformed into a spider... out of nowhere and I was stuck with his brother... That was just messed.. haha.

@ Mihalis: yes, I don't think they are bad sings in your case... they're just part of your life, an important part - if I understood well.

@ Zefiro: the quotation you posted is wonderful . I know "La vida es sueno" by Calderon de la Barca.

Do you have recurrent dreams? I used to dream about a car accident where I injured myself, or of a spiraliform "never ending road" apparently leading to nowhere, or maybe to the top of a tower...

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Originally posted by Zefiro:
what about "Cursum Perficio, Pax Deorum, Afer ventus or Tempus Vernum"?

Wow I would say quite "dark" songs but i love them too...

Especially the Cursum Perficio is like music of sacrifice ceremony lol

And back to the point, usually I dream something that I think of a lot, during the days...

Some people say that via dreams we can "forecast" our direct future ... I dont think so..We usually dream of things we already think of a lot or a fear (for example death) or maybe things we want to happen ...

I dream of violin very lot personally...According to some people violins (especially broken ones) are bad signs ...I dont think so however.. Its just I play 5 hours the day , listening to violin (apart from Loreena) all the day ..so its 100 % logic to dream of something that is part of my life..dont you agree ?

Greetings
Mihalis