Lugus, that was great, thank-you I haven't heard such good explanation for Shiva and Shakti, and the way the kundalini works. I've been doing some kundalini awakening meditations for a little while and have had great results. Although it seems most people are so misinformed with the actual meaning of it. Kali has been of great interest with me also. I have read that she appears dark, not because she is evil but because of the great distance between some of those to her. Does that make sense? I'm just learning.LOL
I am not up for correcting anything you've said, as I see what you are saying and it makes a great deal of sense. How do you come to know so much about these topics? Are you a teacher?

I am so in wonder at the fact that you stated: Kundalini must rise up to meet Shiva because She is active while He is passive.  She can move up but He can not move down.  ?Shiva is the universal latent or masculine energy, and Shakti is the universal active or feminine energy.? http://www.swamij.com/loop-secret-shiva-shakti.htm   This is why I sometimes see dreams with a man at the top of a pole or a tower while the woman (or serpent) is at its base.   

This explains why so many times I have dreamt that my female companion in my dreams is always on the move and the man is so passive and just sits there?
I don't know who the people are in my dreams just that they have been the same ones throughout my life, there's usually about 7, sometimes only 2, male and female.
The female is very beautiful, and always gets me moving. She appears Egyptian most of the time.  She's always encouraging and forthright with me accomplishing what I set out to do.  The man is usually a messenger of sorts.  I can usually remember word for word what he tells me. Good advice always.

Thanks so much for all that you wrote, can't wait to read more. 

Yes I have had the same group of dream friends since I was born, mostly they were just companions observing and following me in my dreams, they are always there and always friendly.  I've wondered who they were, and feel very connected to them. I've even sketched their pictures from time to time.
They don't play any key parts though in my dreams, they only offer advice and encouragement. If I am working, they work along side me, as an example, though they never interfere with the way the dream plays out. I don't think they represent the 7 chakras though the number does correspond.
In some dreams they are all there, and in others only 2 -3 of them are present. I do not feel like they are aspects of my subconsious, they are external energies, like spirit guides in nature. I always hoped they were real and one day I would meet them in real life, but that's just wishful thinking.  If I ever do I will be shocked.
I have read about spirit guides and found that they do in fact age with us and are with us our entire lives.  Just normally people only have one or two though. So this I question, if that info is true or not.

Thanks for the info on Kali, I will check out the link you posted for me.

As for the Egyptian male and female, the idea of deities is a new one for me and I will have to think about that one for a while. Aldus Karnak is a name that came out of nowhere to me one day and I posted what I could find on that under my post of my dream called egyptian ghosts.
I've had other names pop up from time to time in dreams that make your point about mythology ring true, and what you said about how we get some of our dream knowledge from the collective consiousness.
Persephone was one, and she's easy to find, but there was another that I cannot find, maybe you've heard of it, it is to do with Greek Mythology also and is a male name... I starts with a P and ends with tes.
Like Pertemetes. That sounds close though I'm not 100% sure. In the dream we were on a ship sailing for Crete, to meet someone that was going to show me how to travel to the underworld and back.In other words communicating with spirits. It was a test I was supposed to undertake. That's all I can remember.

Other names I've had have been Tyron, which I know noone by this name and he said he was going to do some shootings, and another was Russell which was a gory dream of a man of deformity being beaten, horrible, I'll spare the rest of the details. The names have alway stayed with me for years.

Aldus Karnak: I got the same when looking up Aldus, which sort of fits, but the meaning of the name Aldus is 'from the old house' and Karnak is a very old historical place in Egypt. I posted more of this under my dream 'egyptian ghosts'
Ptolomy was one of the names of the men on the ship with me also. I remembered that one easily as my mother had a horse of that name.
The Tyrone shooting might be it, but it's hard to tell, I had the dream 15 years ago now. He appeared as a dead person though and was very dramatic in his telling me what he was about to do.

Periphetes sounds really close but I'm not sure, thanks for your considerable effort in finding all this information for me.
Another name I dont' know if it's worth mentioning that I keep getting is Hoang, I believe is an Asian name.
When I got this name there was a young man of this name that committed suicide in HongKong I think, I looked it up anyway and that's all I found. This is either the name of one of my spirit guides, or just possibly a person that wants to communicate. I find it hard to believe and keep asking for whoever is communicating to validate themselves with facts I can check out, stuff I couldn't possibly know, to see if this is all just fantasy or real. I have to be skeptical, or I'd be a nut.LOL So thats' maybe why I am getting actual names and places in my dreams/visions now because I've been getting validation. Does that make sense? Muni is another of Asian decent, and means a Jain priest. A regular priest, not one particularly high up.
If I meditate, it is always interrupted either by my brain chatter or by somone trying to communicate. Last time all I could see was this person who was horribly burned from head to toe, and he was angry, his name was Tom, or Thomas. There's probably been a ton of Toms who have died by burning. One connection of him to me that I can think of is when the Salem witch trials were just starting a few of my ancestors left England and went to the states and lived with the Puritans in Salem Massechusettes, 1600's. My relatives were on the side of the Puritans doing the burning, and possibly one or two were also burned on the stake.  The collective consiousness is where I think this info comes from, it does make sense, especially hearing legendary stuff I've never heard of. It's really something.
Thanks for the help, and for putting your time and thought into this.

FYI, this conversation is FASCINATING!

i have a few questions:

so i THINK i've had diety dreams (raised Roman Catholic), one was when I was very young, and I saw someone who I identified as the virgin Mary in a dream. Later I had a conversation with someone I identified as Jesus. Both appeared to me disguised as ordinary, ie. the virgin Mary was a non-religious statue or shrine thing and "Jesus" was a friend of mine who played him in a school play. My question is why the disguises? or rather, how do they relate to your (Lugus's) knowledge on the subject.

And thanks for mentioning the female/bottom - male/top relationship. When I read that I had a cinematic flashback of a series of dreams I've had (some recent, some back when I was four) that relate to me climbing towers or reaching the top of towers, and men (my father, my brother, boyfriends, friends, etc) at the top. Sometimes I climb to get away from a tsunami, sometimes I'm already at the top and there's an earthquake, sometimes it's because i have a class up there or i'm meeting someone at a restaurant. thoughts?

anyway geehuth the fact that these names appear to you like that is AMAZING! and if my lowly opinion matters in any way, i don't think you're nuts, just...well connected, lol. keep asking for facts tho, it seems to me like that's really the only way to connect these people to the waking world, to find out who they are/were outside of your dreamscape.

Hello Everyone: I am new to this forum, having stumbled upon it during research of my dream, which is posted below. If anyone can offer any insight or ideas or understanding as to the meaning/why they are here/their aspects I would be greatly appreciative. It's exciting for me to learn that others dream of Gods and Goddesses, saints, etc. too!

My dream:

A truck is in my driveway.  It is a workvan with the words "Tumi" on the side. There is a workman. He appears to be an Indian man (I got the impression he was Hindu) in navy blue work clothes there. On the grill of the van is a full figural of Shiva and Shakti! In my consciousness in my dream, I understand that Shiva is "Green Shiva". He has a flute. The workman tells me he is there to clean my mirrors.   I am puzzled because I didn't know I had an appointment for him to come and clean my mirrors. I then see him in my bathroom where I tell him "I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or else I would have cleaned up." He tells me, "Don't worry about it, no problem."
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I looked up "Tumi" (having never heard of it before) on the Internet and learned that it is a sacrificial ceremonial knife that was once used in ancient Andean cultures for surgery, perhaps for operations that were organic or mental in condition and that the Tumi is associated with an Incan sun god, Naymlap, of whom I had never heard until I began researching this dream on the net a few hours ago.  As for Shiva and Shakti, the flute is much more indicative of Krishna, but I can state this only in this consciousness. In my dream, it was definitely Shiva and Shakti on the grill of that truck.

Any clues? I'm puzzled as to why they are visiting me.

AmberTina     

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