DREAM 1... I keep having this same dream, have had it about 8 times now. I'm walking through a forest following a small river upstream. after a while i reach a waterfall with steps climbing up the side. As i climb the steps i look into the waterfall and notice that all the stones that the water hits change to a vivid light purple, with UV blue spiral symbols on each. At the top of the waterfall however the scenery is much darker, the sky is dark and clear with loads of stars, but the water in a lake at the top is murky and deep. There is a wooden throne like structure on an island in the middle, and a small wooden boat at the lakes edge, when i get in the boat the weather changes, and a mist descends, as i reach the island it is vibrant and full of life. i spend what feels like a few hours on the island, and feel so happy and content, everyone i love is there. When i leave the island i find i have been there for several days, sometimes weeks, each island experience is slightly different and as i leave , everything is different outside the sky is clear blue, the mist has gone but as i descend the waterfall the purple stones are now black with silver symbols. Despite this i know i have come to understand something that was previously out of my grasp. When i wake up however i have no recollection of what my epiphany is, and dont know what it is im suposed to have learnt. Like i said have had this dream a few times now, and dream dictionary's are really getting me no closer to understanding it. ******************************************************************************************* DREAM 2... i am going on holiday but have forgotten my passport, dash back home to grab it but on the way back the taxi driver goes up a side street labelled taxi queue only need a pass card to use the taxi lane, unfortunately each person in the car has a pass card except me. i have to get out and walk. a young guy leads me across a field full of rats to a forest where he disppears. I call out to him and he pops his head out from a tree. In the tree is a three toed sloth who is moving unnaturally fast and introduces himself as Nirav, he asks me to touch his face and he touches mine, he whispers something in my ear that i never remember but always wake up feeling peaceful and energised.
Forget the dream dictionaries (other than the one on this site). They tell you more about the authors' psyche than yours. The good ones, like the one here, give you ideas to explore, not definitions. I've sent you a PM suggesting you merge your two threads into one, and in the meantime have come up with some very strong intuitions. I think it's quite likely that these seemingly enchanted places really aren't - until you are there! And those changes as you leave the island are because you've been there! And, without you, that talking sloth would be mute and (forgive it) slothful. In time - and you'll know when that time is when it happens - you'll sit on that throne. In short, you've not only landed right in the middle of your very own faerie tale, you're the heroine. (Hero, if my guess is wrong). If this resonates with you, I'll expand on it later. Quite late here.