I had a dream a few years ago and I still want to figure out what it all meant.


First I was in a house. It was raining pretty heavily outside. 2 guys outside were looking at me through the window because they were trying to get me! I ran away and suddenly I was on a beautiful meadow, with a big leafless tree with big branches hanging over me. The sky was was twilight. Then I see a big swarm of humming birds flying through the sky. They all fly at me and impale me with their beaks untill I'm stuck in a cocoon of humming birds. As I lay there under the tree, cocooned, everything around me became engulfed in an inferno. Suddenly it was over. I opened the cocooon like a body-bag and rose. I realised that the two chasing me were probably dead, instead of me. The grass was gone - everything was black, and it seemed like I was the only one alive.

Now what do you guys make out of this dream?

Much - in fact, just about everything - depends on what your life situation was back then and what it is now; and very important would be any remembered dreams in the days and weeks immediately following.

If it were my dream, I'd be thinking Uh oh, major trouble. Inner World? Outer World? Hope the answer ain't "Both!." My reading is that the hummingbirds finished what the two guys couldn't; and it ain't like you found yourself in Tahiti or on the French Riviera.

I know the guys from RL and they were people who I trusted and they betrayed me over some petty dispute. The humming birds seem to have saved my life.

They protected me in a cocoon, though it seemed they were going to kill me at first. I think the message might have been that I need to let go of control sometimes. What at first instance, seemed bad, ended up saving me.

It also seems to me that I would soon go through a transformation. I was reborn like a pheonix from the ashes. That was a while back and I have thus started my transformation months ago.

The fact that I emerged into a scorched world...
I guess it means that the place of prosperity I'm in will come to an abrupt ending, and I will be going through hard tiimes.

Though I don't remember how I felt when I emerged, I was quite happy about the dream when I woke up. I could remember it clearer than usual, I still can.


I think I may now be close to what the scorched world represented. A world wherein I'm not blinded. A world without bullshit. A clean world.

That you woke up happy is a good clue that your interpretation is on the right track; and my personal opinion is that loosening up on control is one of the more important messages dreams give. (After all, so much of what we see as "control" is really the illusion of control.)

I don't know about a world without bullshit. If you ever wake up to that, let me know; I'd like to join you. And I'm not so sure scorched earth means an end to prosperity. Given how forests respond after fires, it might be a new beginning. The Plains Indians learned long ago that prairie fires started by spring lightning cleared away weeds and underbrush, and the farmer settlers set them intentionally to clear the ground of anything that would compete with the crops they were going to plant. (They also found bullshit quite useful. Still do.)

I'd say the next question is, how has that dream changed you? Can you see differences in yourself? If your life seems much the same before and after, the dream may still be on your mind because its message is still valid and important: Time for some changes! Or, more accurately, time to explore what those changes should be, to inner world and outer.

So there's a few things going on here...

1. I'm being chased.
2. I find sanctuary under a tree.
3. A swarm of humming birds impales me all over my body.
4. An Apocalypse wipes away everything that's not protected.
5. I emerge from a hummingbird body-bag.

I thought the humming birds were killing me, but they saved my life.

What is the message here??

I suppose the 2 guys chasing me were a warning about the apocalypse. If I hadn't run from them I wouldn't have found the tree and survived.

Bad brings good... I guess that's the message. Just scratching the surface here....

And I am actually getting rid of a lot of psychological underbrush as we speak. I have been for the past few months. I try to sort out my thoughts, see which ones are correct, which have been changed or blunted by others, and trying to follow my own original path.

It was a time for cleansing. And it still is. We come into this world clean. And if we don't watch out we end up dying dirty, psychologically.

I was thinking of getting a scene from this dream tattooed on my back. Or perhaps a tattoo of a man wearing a cape made of hummingbird feathers, under a tree, watching the sunrise.

Looking for my path!! I gotta do some psychedelics...

On your back? Don't think so. You can get a stiff neck looking over your shoulder into a mirror to see it. Could you draw rhe scene? Know someone artistic you could work with to do it? Trust me on this: you want whatever it is to be where you can see it.

It's not a matter of looking for your path. You're on it. The question is, why this one?
A pad and pen by the bed to make dream notes is probably a better idea than the mind-benders. Any approach takes time, there's a language barrier between the inner and outer worlds that we never fully breach. You're not so much decoding a message here as you are building a relationship.