Three Black Ravens

Dream:

Three ravens are pecking away at the pink insulation of my house.

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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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Black occurs most often in negative dreams, but sometimes black represents the unknown in a positive sense. A general rule regarding black is "Black color in your dream = waking feeling of danger or mystery."

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The Universal Dream Key, Patricia Garfield, p. 13.

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Black: The unconscious realm. Moving into darkness = suppression, “death of the ego” (first stage of transformation). Beautiful shiny black = a positive view of the unconscious from which a new self and new potentials emerge.

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Working with Color in Dreams, Bob Hoss

www.dreamgate.com/dream/hoss/index.htm

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The blackness in my friend's dream of Darth Vader reminded me of this dream of the ravens, which occurred before I was diagnosed with a blockage in a coronary artery and needed a stent. (See www.heartak.com/(5)_the_ravens.html)

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And what about the pink? Is this the pink of my heart? Am I not in the pink of life?

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One of the guidelines in dream interpretation is that every element in the dream is important: clearly, the black color in this raven dream and in the Darth Vader dream convey a certain ominous tone.

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However, another guideline in dream interpretation is that each element of the dream needs to be understood uniquely, that there is no universal translation of a dream element. This is why many of the "dream dictonaries", where you look up a particular symbol to see what it means, can be very misleading. They may be useful in providing ideas, but to take these dictionary symbols as true for one's own dreams is to miss the uniqueness and the individual meaning of the dream.