In one corner of a room to my left is a square bed with a white bedspread.  I am a small boy.  I have to pee.  My father says to go to the bathroom but I go over and pee on the bed frame.  My father tells me to clean it up because somebody will want to sleep in it later.  I ignore him and look closely at the bed.  I notice that the pee is miraculously running off the frame and not a drop is touching the bed or the floor.  It runs along the bed frame and flows across the space between the bed and the wall without any support and then exits the room through a small hole in the wall.

 

 

Dreams are only as good as our ability to understand them.  And our ‘understanding’ is often little more that a projection of our beliefs and opinions.  It would be easy to interpret this dream on a Freudian psychological level, to see it as an authority problem that developed in childhood.  But why would a dream that happened twelve years ago when I was fifty and an authority in my own right try to teach me about my problems with authority, problems that I got over twenty years before.  Perhaps it could be considered a meaningless psychic remnant breaking into consciousness, an old tendency shaken loose from the bottom of my subconscious like a bubble trapped in the mud of a pond breaking on the surface.  But I think not. 

Dreams tend to address issues that the soul is dealing with in the present.  And the obsession of my life for much of my adult life has been the purification of my mind.  So I believe this dream is not talking about a psychological problem but is using a psychic remnant to illustrate a spiritual fact.  And that fact is: nothing can contaminate you.  You are inviolate.       

 

How do I come to this interpretation?  The bed is square.  Squares are common Self symbols because, like circles, they are complete in themselves.  The white bedspread probably symbolizes a pure mind.  The bed and the bedspread are resting on the bed frame which I take to be the Self.  When the mind rests in/on the Self it becomes stable and pure.  White is a common symbol of purity. My father represents reason and traditional views, my conditioning.  From this perspective one would naturally think that urinating on a bed would cause the bed to be contaminated. The pee can be taken to represent any negative psychological state. 

 

The dream has the dream ego, the youthful me, ignore conventional wisdom and relieve itself of its impurities.  Many impurities are picked up in childhood when we are self ignorant, so the child is a fitting symbol here.  The voice of reason and authority intervenes and asks the child to clean up his messy mind.  But the dream has the child again ignore the advice and do something quite extraordinary; it has the child investigate to see whether or not the bed and the frame are actually contaminated.  And what does it discover?  It discovers that the Self cannot be contaminated!  The ‘frame’ is the only symbol left to be decoded.  Just a bed is supported by a frame the mind/body/ego is supported by the Self.  There is an important Sanskrit word describing the Self as ‘adisthanam.’  It means ‘the support.’  Without the Self nothing would exist.  It supports everything but nothing supports it. Therefore psychological work will not purify the Self and since the Self is everything that is and I am that Self I am free not to change myself.   What good would it do?