I have posted some interesting dreams to this forum and this one
is a doozy. Here goes...

The dream starts with me in my house. There is an evil, scarey thing
outside. I am afraid of it. My mom is standing behind me to my right.
She can't help me with the thing outside.

The window is in front of me. It has curtains on it so I can't see
what is outside but I want to look.

Just under the window is a dresser with drawars (drawers this is the
dream spelling). It is a cheap dresser. I think there is a flashlight
in the drawers. There are four drawers.

So, I want to get the flashlight that I think is in the drawers.
I start to look in the bottom drawer. The thing outside is a crow
and it says "Look higher." I look in the top drawar and the crow
outside says "Look lower." I open the second drawer just below
the top one and I find clothes. I can't seem to find the flashlight.

But now I know its a crow outside the window and it is tapping
on the glass trying to get in my house.

I wake up.

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I woke up from this dream very afraid and it took me several minutes
to stop shaking so that I could write the dream in my journal.

I looked on the web for the crow dream symbols and it isn't good;
harbringer of disappointment, message bringer, imminent change.

Oh well, here is the dream as I wrote it in my journal.

Regards,
Magiknight

I don't believe that a symbol in a dream can tell you your future. You control your own future. A dream symbol can, however, be a warning to you from your unconscious about your behaviour, and what could happen if you act a certain way.

A crow in a dream can stand for something about your personality that you need to control.

Of course, the meaning that your unconscious gives to the crow has to do with how you feel about crows in waking life.

I think of crows as very clever birds, so I associate crows with wisdom.

If, in waking life, you think of crows as being unlucky, then the dream could be a warning that if you behave in a certain way, something bad thing will happen to you.

It's under your control, though.

Your dream makes me think of Poe's The Raven

>the meaning that your unconscious gives to the crow has to do with how you feel
>about crows in waking life.

This is very good advice for me to think about.

Unfortunately, my personal perspective on the Crow is rather negative and somewhat scarey. I am taking your comment about "The Raven" very seriously and I am reading over the poem at the moment.

The Crow being outside my house indicates that it is outside my persona, ie, in my unconscious. I can't see it because it is hidden in my unconscious and I am seeking to "illuminate" it with a flashlight. This seems to indicate that I cannot perceive the full meaning of the bird because it is hidden from my conscious mind in some fashion, but I want to find it and learn about it. There is certainly an ominous feeling whenever I consider the symbolic "meaning" of the Crow.

The talking of the Crow indicates that the unconscious complex is actually intelligent and it has gained some amount of mental or psychic energy. It is also giving me "advice" on which drawer to open. This implies some control of my persona. That in itself is rather frightening.

Oddly enough, there is something about The Raven being a craven bird that sticks in my mind. This is a clue to the nature of the complex and possibly it's eventual integration with my conscious mind.

I don't think I can avoid the upcoming battle and I am afraid. This is the other part of the Crow symbol. There appears to be some truth in the idea that the Crow is a hargringer of dire consequences.

Thanks,
Magiknight

craven
adj : lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful;

What exactly is this "upcoming battle" that you can't avoid? Maybe you can't avoid it completely, but you can do something so that the consequences aren't so bad.

Marcia,

Thank you for the reply.

>It's under your control, though.

How do you know this? I ask because "control" seems to be part of my dilemma.

I guess my comment is dramatic but it does reflect the emotions that I felt after waking from this dream. To give some context, I am changing my life in a huge way. During this time, I am recording my dreams and "expressing" them. This post is part of that expression.

This dream seems to point me towards a complex (the crow outside), or, possibly, a part of my shadow that I must "battle" or "assimilate" into my concious self.

From my perspective, the crow symbol appears to indicate that I am going to have to deal with the impact of burying hateful feelings in myself for many years. There were several other dreams that led up to this one and they all have the same motif. The motif is "something hidden that I want to find or see just outside my house."

The night after the crow dream, I had this dream.

"I am in a house with my wife. We are going into the basement to check it out. There is an empty corset in front of us hanging on a wire hanger. The corset starts to twist like it was dancing and I wake up saying "Someone's there." As I wake up, there is an impression that the corset is inhabited by somebody, I just can't see them."

I have been writing down my dreams since 1992 and I don't have anybody to talk with about them or the symbols. This is one reason why I post to this board. Thank you so much for your comments.

best regards,
-Magiknight

Had a bad dream about a crow

I had a dream that I was laying in bed and I saw a shadow to my right, it was talking low so I decide to elbow my girl to wake her up. Then it turns into a crow flying over me chanting I couldn't move or speak it felt as if I was being forced to fall back to sleep . As everything was going black I forced myself to scream fuck you and then my girl woke me up. By that time I was already awake and it felt like I was never asleep. I feel like my scream made it disappear. I was scared and did not want to go back to sleep for a long time after.

You need to keep some things in mind here.

1) It's not just dragons, wriggling corsets and talking crows that are influencing (not controlling) your persona. It's those "hateful feelings" and they, in the long run, are what actually threaten to go from influence to control. You don't have to like the message this bird is bringing; but you'd better act on it.

2) It is not at all surprising that your complex has intelligent and has psychic energy. Somewhere in his writings, Jung describes a complex as a "personality in potentia". In what was once called Multiple Personality Disorder, and what I believe is now called Disassociated Personalities Disorder, we see them actually usurping the Ego function. In milder forms, a complex may manifest like the Susan of my Dream Diary.
And, as her case indicates, a complex is not necessarily bad in and of itself. Yours seems bound and determined to get you to focus on issues you need to resolve; and no window, or no foul language, is going to stop it.

3) It's significant that you speak of a complex seeking to control your "persona." Jung adapted that term from the Latin word for the mask worn by actors in ancient times, which the "sound" came "through." The persona is not the true self. It is the "mask" we wear as we present ourselves to the world - such as The Nice Guy, The Tough Guy, or The Sensitive Man. As has been said of masks, if we wear it long enough, we come to believe it is who we really are, and can go beyond denial to terror when confronted with the reality there is more to us than what we want to believe.

In sum, analyzing symbols is not going to make them go away. It's as you work on those hateful feelings and things hidden in the house that you stand to see annoying crows become soaring eagles; and ferocious dragons becoming Puff of Honalee. And perhaps that wriggling corset will come to be filled with a delightful tease like my Susan!
(Though I hear her saying she'd never wear such a thing.)