I had a dream of which I can’t fully understand the message. I dreamt I’m in my room which is well lit but due to some work going on there are some boxes piled up on my bed. The floors are bare and the room is bare. I think that I will have to sleep in my mother’s room in that case. I enter my mother’s room and see that it is semi dark. I can see the bed but it’s not a well lit room. I tell my mother I have to sleep in her room. Somehow a light catches my eye and falls on something above the bed. I can’t tell at first what it is but with more light it illuminates an alligator in silhouette above the bed. So the alligator is dark and I can’t see any details and it seems to be waiting for me. At this point I wake up🤨

Since I didn’t understand whether the alligator was negative or positive I just invoked the Mother and dissolved it in her light.

The new well lit room are portions of your being touched by the higher Light. It is however yet to be organised for you to live in this part. Your mother’s room is the old nature of ignorance, the parts still to be illumined. The Alligator is tamas which is tying you down to the old comfort zones of the old nature.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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I take notice of such dreams but I have not understood the significance of this dream. What does the alligator mean and why is my mother’s room dark?

Since I didn’t understand whether the alligator was negative or positive I just invoked the Mother and dissolved it in her light.

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