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The tree in my living room (a dream)
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Dec 29, 2009
My subconscious is sending me messages again. 
I dreamed that there was a tree which had been growing in the middle of my living room for twenty or thirty years. The tree was not a problem at first. In my earlier dreams about the room, I had been very relaxed about sweeping the floor, with the result that the dirt collected and grew so think that grass and flowers started growing there. At some point, though, I started feleing guilty about being such a sloppy housekeeper, so I swept all the dirt together, put it in a large container, and planted a small tree there.
Years went by, and the tree grew as high as my ceiling. I regularly trimmed the top branches off so it wouldn't poke holes in the ceiling, but finally I looked at it (in last night's dream), and realized that the tree was getting so big that it really had to go. I turned around to get my ax and saw, and when I looked back at the tree, it had pulled itself up so that all saw was the container stuck to the ceiling. Poor tree! I never should have promised to let it grow inside! 
Anyway, I yanked it back down and evicted it. A very bad time of year to put a tree outside. 
I feel so cruel and heasrtless! 
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 29, 2009
You should.
That is reprehensible. 
You are guilty of being un-environmental while in a somnolent state. Shame on you.
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Dec 30, 2009
i wouldn't worry too much. a lot of trees stay outside during even the coldest winters
The tree in my living room (a dream)
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 30, 2009
This one was my pampered pet tree. I deceived it into thinking it could enjoy my indoor paradise for the rest of its life. But it's funny how much warmth its wood gave off after I burned it to keep the house warm. 
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
I would keep this dream to myself. A Freudian-minded Druid might put a curse on you...
The tree in my living room (a dream)
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 30, 2009
I believe that the Druids were mainly concerned with protecting oaks. This tree was not an oak. A birch, maybe, or even an aspen, but not an oak. But you wouldn't know that unless you had been in my dream. :-0
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
Many trees were sacred to the Druids, including birch. ( doubt they ever met a tree they didn't like.) Don't know about aspen - is that purely an American tree?
What I'm overwhelmed by in this dream is that - unlike the cucumber one, say - it has serious symbolism.
A long-lived tree indoors? Guilt over cutting it down? I mean, wow...
Above all, the massive symbolism of trees...tree of life, kabbalah, etc...the mind reels...
http://magdelene.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/kabbalah-tree-of-life.gif
I mean, was Kether in Malkuth, and Malkuth in Kether? Is that why the tree was cut down? I am agog...
And then there is the musical symbolism...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FigrgO8EAYA
The question is, are we talking Jungian here, or Freudian, or Reichian, or what? 
You are aware that the first parable in the Bible concerns trees?
'The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them...' Judges 9
http://hareidi.org/bible/Judges9.htm#9
I mean, this could be heavy, man...
The tree in my living room (a dream)
AlsoRan80 Posted Dec 30, 2009
Oh come on Dimitri,
Just because you have a new left etye is not reason to frighten the life out of Paul H.
Naughty......
anyway good wishes to you and Elektra for the New Year and 2010/
I hope you both have a very happy and successful year.
Kind regards
Christiane AR80
20/XOO/09 17.40 GMT
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
Christiane, Elektra is laughing. She says I should be ashamed of myself...
The tree in my living room (a dream)
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 30, 2009
It was a non-Druid tree, Dmitri. 
My grandmother died in 1978, shortly before I bought the place I live in now. I needed furnishings for the place, so my mother offered me the Tree of Life bedspread that my grandmother had made. By this time, it was falling apart, so I didn't keep it...
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
This gets worse and worse.
Obviously, the trees are out to get you...
The tree in my living room (a dream)
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 30, 2009
I'm a forgiving sort of guy. If I am nice to the trees, they will eventually realize that I am their friend, and they will protect me.
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
Hm. How forgiving are the trees, though? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh2UzWgSw3Q
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Dec 30, 2009
i just saw the film 'avatar'. now there was a big tree in that!!!
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Dec 30, 2009
I talk to the trees! that's why they took me away
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
As long as the trees don't talk back...
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Dec 30, 2009
you'll wake them
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
Ah, it's winter, they're sound asleep.
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Dec 30, 2009
some are, some are just grumpy
it doesn't help that I'm barking mad
The tree in my living room (a dream)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 30, 2009
My dog frequently barks up the wrong tree.
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The tree in my living room (a dream)
- 1: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 29, 2009)
- 2: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Dec 29, 2009)
- 3: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Dec 30, 2009)
- 4: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 30, 2009)
- 5: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Dec 30, 2009)
- 6: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 30, 2009)
- 7: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Dec 30, 2009)
- 8: AlsoRan80 (Dec 30, 2009)
- 9: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Dec 30, 2009)
- 10: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 30, 2009)
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- 14: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Dec 30, 2009)
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