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Looking for a fun podcast traversing the dreamscape? Sometimes exciting, sometimes erotic, sometimes a terrifying nightmare; in any case, we use the world of dreams as a safe place to explore feelings and experiences. Analysis of dream elements can reveal deeper meaning and applicability to our conscious self. Bring your favorite cup of whatever while we dive into dream interpretation. Just think, what stories will we venture together?
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The Lodge in the Enchanted Forest
A dream opens like a pilgrimage: a purple dress that feels like identity, a glowing wall of fog that invites courage, and a forest lodge built on offerings—tokens of what’s been surrendered and transformed. We follow that path with open eyes and a steady pulse, planting flowers on the far side of uncertainty and learning why release can be the most creative act we make.
Inside the lodge, a gnome as old as soil points to a trophy wall that isn’t about conquest but about letting go. That insight reframes resilience: the bones of who we are are shaped by grief metabolized, lessons integrated, and beauty honored without clinging. The courtyard hums with comedians and musicians—joyful, magnetic, yet missing women. Naming that absence becomes a call to balance, a return of feminine energy and intuition to the creative room. Later, when play turns to snarls between dogs and kids, the body’s protective reflex rises fast. The stillness that follows teaches a hard truth: love can slip into control when it tries too hard to predict; peace asks for grounded release, not passive retreat.
We thread these scenes with the High Priestess—pillars of duality, the veil of mystery, the intelligence of intuition—connecting dream symbolism to everyday choices in creativity, parenting, and personal growth. If you’re navigating transitions, seeking balance between strength and softness, or curious how surrender becomes structure, this story-driven analysis offers practical reflections you can carry into your week. Listen, journal a symbol that stuck with you, and share your own dream. Subscribe, leave a review to help others find the show, and tell us: which moment changed how you see your inner lodge?
Welcome back. Welcome, dream travelers. It's me, Sheree. Welcome back to Cuppa Terrific. Tonight we step into a dream that unfolds like a pilgrimage: a walk through mist, memory, and meaning. This one begins with a gift. But before we get into the dream, I have to tell you the weather has been nice. We are slowly getting into our fall season. It's October 7th, 2025. That's right. I recorded an episode the week that it is being released. And I am happy to say I did enjoy my pumpkin chili. It was delicious. And today I am enjoying some blueberry black tea with honey. And it is quite tasty. I don't know what you're drinking tonight, but I hope that you are cozy up to it. Yum yum yum. And my dogs are snuggled up next to me behind me right now, so you might hear them a little bit in the background. But without further ado, I will go ahead and start reading uh a little bit about my my dream that I had. I'm wearing a purple dress, my favorite color, and a gift from someone who knew me well. It's elegant but soft, flowing as though it remembers another life. When I wear it, I feel seen, radiant, whole, and ready for something new. Ahead of me, a white wall of fog. It's glowing, but neither frightening nor cold, but just impenetrable. Still, I know I'm meant to walk through. And as I do, everything familiar falls away. On the other side, I find myself kneeling at the edge of a forest, hands pressing into cool soil, planting flowers. Each seed I bury feels like an act of renewal, a quiet promise that life can return even where it once felt barren. Then deeper in the woods a structure rises from the mist, a lodge enormous and alive with light. At its base I see a trophy wall that stretches around it. But the trophies are not hunts or victories, they're offerings, plaques and tokens left by travelers before me, little doors you can open that are full of little gifts of gratitude and surrendered. A gnome greets me there, small, earthy and ancient. He gestures towards the wall and says These offerings are the foundation of this place. Each one is something let go of but not one. His words settle deep. The foundation of this lodge of this self is built from what has been transformed. In the courtyard beyond, laughter and music spill into the air. A group of comedians who are also musicians invite me to join them. They're funny and charming and alive with ridd with rhythm. But as I look around I realize there are no women among them. So I tell them how it feels that our world often overlooks women's humor, women's music, women's gifts, and I say it's not in anger but in truth, a truth that calls balance back into the space. Later, inside the lodge, I find my sons playing with dogs. At first it's joyful, but the dogs turn aggressive. Their play becomes snarling and wild. I rush in to separate them, protective and fierce, and then it's over. The room grows still, and in that stillness I understand. Even love can become aggression when it tries too hard to predict. Peace requires release. The dream fades, but I remain there in my purple dress, quietly aware that I've just walked through a sacred intuition in dream. Okay, guys, let's go ahead and unpack some of these elements here and do some nice dream analysis. I hope you guys like the dream. To me, it felt very much like a fairy tale or something having it. It was a lovely dream to have. It felt like I had, I don't know, woke up to myself or passed through something that was very difficult in my life and got to a better state. So it was uh it was a nice dream to have. But here are some of the elements that I I picked out. The first one was the purple dressed. So the purple dress was both a gift and it was in my favorite color. Um because I'm wearing the purple dress and it's my favorite color, and it's a gift from someone who knew me well. Um, it felt strong. Um it didn't just feel like clothing, it felt like it was an identity. Because purple for me, it's always been about balance. It's always been about red and blue, perfect mixture of both, the strength and softness, action and intuition. And the fact that it was a gift also made me reflect on um and think about how we receive recognition, and that sometimes to get a gift or receive recognition, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, much like when you wear a dress, you are seen wearing clothing. And the next element I picked up on was the fog. I felt that fog before. It's the sense of standing on the edge of something new. Usually I like this feeling, this exciting feeling of what could be, this opportunity. Um not generally afraid of what I can't see. Not usually anyway. I know there are plenty of things in life that may appear to be something and it's actually not. So the idea that something is hidden from your view doesn't really scare me. So the idea of something being beyond the fog doesn't really scare me either. But the idea of not knowing what's coming next and trusting that I'm ready to walk through, anyways, felt really nice in the dream because I knew I was ready to walk through it because once I was on the other side of it, I was already planting flowers, was ready to make peace with and even improve what was on the other side. Um, so that was a really good feeling to feel like I had more to give. Uh, and I I do like gardening and I love flowers, and um, like I said, this dream had a very fairy tale-like feeling to it. It was just a very nice feeling in general. But reaching on this other side of this boundary could have also been me just reaching another state of um my dreaming, also. I just reached deeper into my my dreamlike state. And the next step was finding the lodge, which I think the lodge represented finding the center of myself. So it's like um finding my heart, at as cheesy as that might sound. Finding what I identify as myself, the whole of myself. Um, not whole like a black hole, but whole as in like uh what Zhung would say is in I identify the all of me. Um it's a place of deeper knowing, but it's also kind of surrounded by mystery because it's including what I know of myself and also what I don't know of myself. But I'm not afraid of this place because it's so familiar. The thing that was kind of the mystery though is like the trophy wall. And it that trophy wall really stuck with me. And I kept thinking about it for days, like what this really meant. Um, and I kept I kept thinking about it. Um and it it was like it built the foundation of everything, and it I had to really think about it. It was the foundation that built up the lodge, it went all the way around this lodge. Um, and it was everything that I had let go of. I had just put and in all these little little nooks and crinnies, um, these little windows. It's like feelings of grief or lessons learned, maybe really hard things, or maybe even moments of of beauty that I couldn't hold on to. Um and I think that's true for a lot of us. There are things that we just can't hold on to for one reason or another. Um maybe these are also moments of where you give true forgiveness. You know, you forgive someone for something. You're actually giving something to yourself when you give forgiveness. Um, the strongest parts of who we are often come from what we've learned in surrender when we give those things up. The next element I picked up on was the gnome. And uh, the truth be told, of all the mythical creatures, while I really love unicorns, you know, as a kid, I really loved unicorns as a little girl, and I loved fairies. I guess I always thought that maybe I would be like a garden fairy or something like that. As I've gotten older, I realize that probably most identify with a garden gnome. Um, but it makes sense that one would show up in my dreams, and uh he kind of felt like a little guide. He kind of explained stuff for me. Um he was gentle and very, very old, like like just as old as dirt, right? Like, not to be rude to him, but he was like this rock of a being, and he had the roots of wisdom. Um and he he said that all these offerings that were around the lodge were there to keep the lodge standing. And when you combine the idea of these offerings as moments in my life that I things I've let go of, and the lodge being parts of myself, you could say that these things really make up the bones of who I am. And it was like being told, you're safe here, you've built something real from everything that you've lived in your life. And that was just a really comforting thing to have made it through this forest and make it to this lodge. And and, you know, I walk into this very mirthful place in the center and find these comedians and musicians, and I find that I'm able to speak my truth to them. Um, the scene was joyful and it was layered, but I did notice that there weren't any women among them. And while I didn't necessarily mean for it to, in the moment, necessarily mean that there were no men and women in the world, I think it meant something in my waking life that there's an there's been an imbalance in my own creativity in life between my feminine and masculine energies. And in my dream, I felt safe in that space to speak up and to reclaim that space for my feminine voice to say, Hey, you need to reclaim your feminine energy space and and find that balance and rhythm that's been missing in your life. And then finally, this last scene that kind of shows up is the scene with this uh uh with my son and the dogs. It's a very powerful moment. It made me face my own instinct to protect the boys. Um once I kind of got a little bit nervous that the dogs were possibly dangerous and could snap and hurt my children, and then I wanted to rush in and fix everything, which probably made it worse. Whereas if I had just trusted and been gentle and calmly reacted, the dogs may have been loyal and calm in return and wouldn't have been so wild, and they wouldn't have reacted to my energy in such a scared way. I mean, it was my dream after all. They may not have reacted that way if I had not been, if I had not let fear take control and my distrust of everything. Um, and when I calmed down, when I had calmed them down and I had calmed down, it felt like I was kind of calming down a certain part of myself too. Looking back on it, it felt like the dream was really overall a story of integration, of um balancing both strength and softness, and balancing both a sense of intuition and logic, and of learning that peace doesn't mean you have to be passive. To be a peacekeeper doesn't mean that you have to do it pass passively, and also that surrendering doesn't mean weakness over a great amount of time, it can build to be a great strength and a great feat. So every element in this dream, from the fog to the laughter to the aggression, was a conversation between parts of me still learning how to coexist with one another. And I just wanted to add that as this particular dream had to do with, you know, these particular elements of the lodge and the dress and having a voice and speaking truth, there is a tarot card that really spoke to me for this dream, and I wanted to share it with you. Um, for those of you that don't know, I look at the tarot deck um for a lot of uh a lot of inspiration, and it helps me to kind of pick out some dream elements as well. And the classic um deck, it is the high prete the high priestess card. Um, and the high priestess card is the second card in the deck, or number two card, which is the third card in the deck actually. Um and the high priestess card is the card of it's the card of there's a it's like a woman sitting on what looks like a throne, and she's wearing this in in the classic deck. Um she's she represents like what is the unconscious, um, using your intuition, what is a mystery, and what's spirituality, and you know, go figure, she's the high priestess, of course, that have to do with spirituality of what is your higher power and what's your inner voice. Um, but some other things that are in the visuals of this card are there's uh she's wearing this beautiful dress, this beautiful flowing dress, and she's got a crown on, and that's kind of like uh and she's got the moon under her, and she's got two giant columns that are being held, this holding up um uh the that are kind of holding up the structure that's around her, and the the structure is like Solomon's temple. Um so the pillars are representative of both good and evil, and they they represent both masculine energy and feminine energy, and then good and evil, and then negative and positive. So both this idea of balance and the duality of nature. So, like I had said, that there was a lot of balance that was going on, um, that I was saying that kind of came with the color purple, as well as that I was picking up on needing to find a balance in things. Um so yeah, that was that was definitely going on in this dream. And she also um is a believer of magic, and she believes in the different seasons of the earth, and she's a grasp of the power of our emotions and how those things are all interconnected, so about like our feminine energies and um the the balance of all of those things, and that kind of came out with me calling a balance to that in the courtyard, and I I don't know, I just thought that this particular card really spoke to me in relation to this dream, and if you had any thoughts on that and if it um rang true for you, then I'd really like to hear about what your thoughts were. Not every one of my dreams makes sense, and yours probably don't either. Not every dream has meaning, and that's okay. Sometimes dreams just get a hold of us and they have meaning. Sometimes they're just really funny and really funny things happen. There were definitely sections in this dream that didn't make sense, um, that uh that kind of were a little bit weird to weave into all of this. Um, but after analyzing it and thinking about it for a few days, it made more sense, and I realized that there was a greater overall meaning. Um, but that's not always the case. Sometimes it's really just funny that you know you find out you find yourself in a situation where polka dotted um elephants are flying, and I don't know why, but they are in your dream because dreams are just like that. And that's pretty, pretty funny. And sometimes though, they can be our most honest mirrors. They can speak in images when when words just can't reach us, they can tell us messages that are really, really important. And in this case, I feel like this was just a dream of helping me find some comfort in going through the transitions I've been going through recently in my life and finding some peace in those transitions. As I said, it was a very delightful dream to have, and I was able to reflect on it for a few days, and it was nice to feel like I had kind of gone through some things that helped me feel like I have kind of, you know, got somewhere with something. Um, if you've had a dream like that that lingers, or one that makes you wonder what it's trying to say, or if there's a message, I'd sure love to hear it. And you can send it to me. Um you can send it to me at cuppa.terrific@ gmail.com. Um, and then maybe I can read it on a future episode and we can explore those symbols or meanings together. Um, because in the language of dreams, sometimes those scenes there could be a lesson, and where there's a lesson, it could lead us back home. But for now, thank you for joining me on Cuppa Terrific, and may all your cups overflow.
