Take Care Of My Fish?
3/02/2007
As I write this, I'm barely awake in a strange gap between waking and sleeping, lest I forget the all-too-brief dream I had last night. Once again, I dream vividly in a hotel room far away from home.
In the dream, I bought a fish. It didn't exactly talk, but it sent out a general telepathic field to me. It was difficult for me to take care of it, so I snuck it over to B & T's house to see if they would raise it. They said yes, reluctantly, and put it in a sink full of saltwater.
When I returned to my car (which was a very strange 3-wheeler with a flatbed truck on the back, the fish had hidden itself under a sheet in the back of the vehicle. It had grown to a much larger size and was panting for air. "Hurry and get me home" it said, but I didn't have a large enough tank to put him in. So as i was running home, I stopped at a pet store and asked if they had a tank large enough. "We have human-size meditation tanks," they said. "Maybe that will be large enough." So I browsed the tanks. One had a diffuser on the bottom. As I was getting ready to decide, I woke up.
So... I have bought/bought into something. It keeps growing, perhaps beyond my ability to nurture it, and it will not allow itself to be passed onto others. In popular 'lore,' water represents 'spirit' and fish represents fortune/good luck. It was a type of Koi, so if I were to go this direction, VERY good luck. But something tells me that my subconscious mind is not attaching itself to popular notions. It rarely does.
Fish also tends to represent "that which is formed yet remains unconscious." The fish sneaking itself out of water and onto the back of my car could mean that whatever the fish represents is pulling itself from the waters of the unconscious and into the conscious.
"A fish is a common symbol of fertility, which in psychological terms means (a promise of) personal growth.
"If the fish is in the sea, the sea may symbolize the unconscious, the fish unconscious urges (over-eating, etc.)
"According to Jung, fish, being cold blooded and primitive creatures, may symbolize a deep level of unconsciousness.
"'Fishes and snakes are favourite symbols for describing psychic happenings or experiences that suddenly dart out of the unconscious and have a frightening or redeeming effect' (Jung).
"They may also, says Jung, represent libido or greed.
"A fish is a symbol of Christ and may therefore function psychologically as a symbol of your true self."
posted by novachild @ Friday, March 02, 2007,
