Topic: Labyrinths
A labyrinth dream this morning re-piqued my interest in labyrinths.
I had a non-lucid dream in which I, along with many others, were wandering lost through a maze in a warehouse-type place. The floors were slippery. But what was most notable about the dream was that there were maze-workers who knew the layout of the maze and dressed in costumes to scare, and sometimes help, the people lost in them. I came across their "dressing rooms," and because I did one of the maze-workers recruited me to dress-up and come with her to find somebody lost in the maze. I dressed as a sort of frightening-looking woman from the 1800s.
I've had lots of maze dreams. The storage room in my dad's house, in a dream, always leads into a complex labyrinth (that's been a constant in my dreams since I was a kid).
Here's a long quote from the so-called Dreamhackers (a Russian dreaming group who, supposedly, worked together in the 90s) on labyrinths:
Another archetypal element on the dream map is the labyrinth. Here is
an extract of a letter from "Doc":"I don't remember whether I told you about a method of healing which
can be realised through "controllable" dreams. It is such a
fascinating and frightening area, that some might compare to the
delirium of a lunatic! But the essence is this: the self is an energy
unit that can be split into parts. One or more of these "parts"
wanders into a so-called "labyrinth". Labyrinths can be above ground
(i.e. in buildings or consisting of walled surroundings) or
underground. Those above ground are somehow connected to our everyday
problems, and those underground with health, energy levels, and so
forth.Whilst investigating the underground labyrinths, I carried out
complete cures on two people, who were deemed "incurable" by
medicine. In a controlled dream I helped them to get out of a
labyrinth, and it resulted in instant healing! One woman was
rejuvenated. She was 28 years old, but she felt like a 15 year old
again......Inorganic life lives in such places. Actually, "labyrinths" are a way
of dialogue with us, and in my opinion, the inorganic forces do not
realise that such traps and energy loops deprive us of our life
forces and our health...With labyrinths be very cautious. For this type of research you will
need some experience in "dream control". Losing dreaming attention,
becoming disoriented in a labyrinth, you will become just a
titbit-a possible victim for some ruthless beings, and in "everyday reality"
you may contract an incurable disease. Nevertheless, if you can't
stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen.. Estimate the risk on your
abilities. My curiosity has cost me a very heavy obligation-constant
contact with certain beings, which, together with a heap of problems
in my life, brought a lot of inexplicable semi-miraculous moments.An extract from a Sergei Izrigi letter:
"By and large, there are two types of labyrinth: an archetypal one
(common to all mankind) and a personal one (pertaining to the
individual). In the first category are: a labyrinth of life (LL); a
labyrinth of events (LE) and a labyrinth of obsessions (LO). These
three formations penetrate the tonal. We meet them in dreams just as
we do in real life. Being our individual labyrinths, an archetypal
labyrinth has specific qualities in the material world. For example,
they cannot be represented on a dream map as a concrete place (though
layers of a map are connected to them by a complex interconnection).
In reality, we can only speak about them from a position of
philosophy, of psychology, or from a position of mysticism. But
certainly, each of you has had experience of the rotation of the
Wheel of Destiny, or travel in the "labyrinth of accidents".
but you can avoid its teeth.