hi, last week i had this weird dream and i believe it means something because i cant stop thinking about it.... I was in a very big shower with other people around me (they seamed familiar but i cant remember faces) and in the middle of the shower was a weird plastic bag. i remember i had a very weird feeling while looking at the bag and all of us in the shower where expecting something evil to come out of it and where anxious to see what it would be. Eventually a baby came out of the bag and as soon i as i saw it i felt the urge to take care of it...i took it and then i dont remember what exactly happened but suddenly i was in the shower again and 3 BIG BLACK BEETLES came out of the bag.... i now its not a frightening dream but i remember i felt VERY weird,confused and afraid during the dream....
Your being in the shower with people watching you makes me think of you making yourself vulnerable. The baby could represent yourself at your most innocent and vulnerable. I think the beetles represent something that you feel is threatening you.
did you get any additional insight into this yet? I had a somewhat similar dream in that there was a HUGE beetle in my dream, bigger than any beetle I've ever seen before, lke about the size of a toddler's fist. At first the beetle appeared dead, but then it moved. It crawled under my son who was sleeping, but I made my son move so that we would get the beetle out from under him. I shooed the beetle out the door to get it out of the house, but as i watched it go out the door it began turning into a hybrid looking ugly bug-baby/toddler, then it morphed into a cute & normal looking baby/toddler. It's completely strange I know. I also felt compelled to take care of the child even though it had turned from a beetle into this child, surely I could not shoo it away now that it had the form of a child. Immediately after this a friend told me he had something for me from STAPLES, he said it was a gift certificate but then he handed me a soiled halloween costume that was only a huge oversized baby-bonnet that had stains on it and he said it was worth $8. I didn't know what to make of it in the dream but I took it graciously pondering why he would give me such a strange item. Dreams can be so bizarre.
Hello. I've had beetles in two dreams lately also, though mine appeared as lots of small ones rather than a few big ones. Mine also appeared in falling water, once from a hose and once from leaking plumbing. If I was dreaming your dream, the water in the shower would represent the subconscious spiritual essence that our deepest intuitions spring out of. I don't understand it very well, but I feel it - we're all swimming in it, and we all need it. The beetle represents a corruption or a wrong in the thoughts, forms, and events that spring out of that deeper essence. We are among those forms, so I guess its appropriate for the beetle to turn into a baby. I guess the nurturing love is probably a significant part of the right response, rather than the squash-everything-that's-ugly approach that we're all also prone to in different ways. Its not that we're supposed to embrace wrong or spread ugliness. Spoiling our kids isn't good either. But even a beetle has some beauty in it, and we can help it grow into something better. Our own selfish desires are like that also I think. I hope that helps. Your dream helps me understand mine better.
This is actually an incident - or series of incidents - from waking life; but I think it sheds light on what VZ2010 and Shadowofwind have said above. I bathe rather than shower, and one fall night as I was filling the tub I looked and saw a cricket trapped by the rising water and, of course, unable to jump its way out. I scooped it out and dumped it on the rug where, after getting its bearing and perhaps its breath, it hopped on its way. A couple of days later, I woke up, opened my eyes, then woke up FAST! There, on the pillow beside me, was a large, ugly bug ... a cricket, needless to say. And, when you get over the initial shock, you do indeed notice that a cricket is very pretty in a form-follows-function sort of way, besides having a very pleasant chirp. The little guy showed up on that pillow two or three more times; and waking to see him wasn't frightening at all; but a pleasure. You'd be surprised how pleasant it is to start the day with the sight of a friendly (grateful? worshipful?) cricket! The point is, and it's especially true in dreams: You can't always take symbols at face value. Black bugs can be babies, ugly ducklings conceal the swan-to-be, the caterpillar is a butterfly waiting to happen. You must always remember in dreams that there are two hells: the one the Bible and Quran talk about; and the one we create - with no small help from parents, teachers, friends, politicians and (sad to say) pastors - between our ears. My experience is that when a dream scares you while it's going on, it intends to. That's probably what it takes to get your attention!
What a lovely sentiment. By the way, I have seen cygnets. They are not ugly at all. They are adorable. I don't know how Hans Christian Andersen came up with that idea.