Shackles

The dream this morning is one I am not wanting to write. This dream gets to be a little disturbing and might illicit some unwelcome attention if I get too specific about the details. The nature of this dream could well be another remote viewed incident and certain powerful people or agencies might not like me revealing certain details contained within this dream. I am torn about how to report this one. I must proceed carefully.

The dream takes place within a prison cell. I am a prisoner dressed in plain grey coveralls. Another prisoner and I have shackles on our wrists and ankles. The room is empty and we are seated on the floor. We have been intensely interrogated for several days. Our captors have gleaned very little information from us. They have become frustrated in their efforts to gain one particular piece of information.

Finally, they resort to a new tactic, it is a specially formulated truth serum cocktail. It is administered by a unique method, a device has been hooked up to my right leg and a needle has been inserted into a major artery. A guard dressed in a black uniform enters the room and inserts a cartridge into the device. The cartridge contains the drugs. The drugs are slowly released into a subject's system and the effects will last for six hours, with a moan, I roll over into the foetal position as my trip begins... This is when I wake up.

I think it best that I do not disclose why I am a prisoner and who are my captors. I have already said too much about their interrogation methods. I will leave it to the reader to surmise who they are and why they have resorted to drugs. The drugs are more a form of slow death rather than a practical useful technique at getting information. These men know this.

What can we learn from this dream? If we look at it from a purely personal individual  context. The shackles are the primary symbol and the drugs are a secondary symbol. The shackles represent a feeling of being bound by debt or a limitation of my abilities. It could mean I am unhappy about where I am in life and I am unable to use my abilities or act in anyway.

Actually, I do feel constrained. The new job is challenging. Some days I feel like I can do this and other days doubts will creep in and I feel like I am in over my head. I have struggled with self confidence all my life and was passed over for promotion for many years. The new boss is very demanding and expects a high level of success and professionalism. He plays the role of my interrogator in the waking life.

The drugs symbolize an escape and a torture simultaneously. Life can be full of ways to get distracted from pain. These distractions can be our undoing. Food, sex, sports or whatever gives us comfort and pleasure, can become an addiction. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy and what is good becomes something we use against our selves. A drug can be a medicine or poison.

Now, that I have this all sorted out for myself, the last step is to make some comment on the significance of this dream on a grander scale. Let's return to my comment about this being a possible remote viewed incident. During the recent fourth of July holiday several things occurred. There were rumours of several thwarted terrorist attacks and numerous businesses, like Delta Airlines, having so-called "computer problems". I suspect these incidents were cyber attacks. Let us not forget China was recently blamed for hacking U.S. Federal government employee databases.

It could well be I glimpsed the activity of some guilty parties involved in all this. I will let you surmise who is these parties might be and what they are guilty of having done, and that's all I'm going to say about that.