Karoliina
Moderator Emerita
I had a dream last night, where I was first at an art exhibition of Albert Edelfelt. He was a famous Finnish painter, who was born in the 1850s and he worked and lived mostly in Paris. Now this could've been only because I saw one of his paintings yesterday. But later in the dream I went to a library to look for Alexander Dumas' book Camille.
At first these things don't seem connected (Camille was published in 1848 that is before Edelfelt's time), but Camille is also located in Paris, and it tells about a courtesan. I read last year a book I really liked written by an art historian, who was trying to track down a model Edelfelt used a lot in his paintings, who supposedly was a courtesan and his mistress. Then I realized that a 19th century woman with strawberry blonde, curly hair, who I've seen a couple of times in my regressions, looks a lot like this model/courtesan in Edelfelt's paintings.
Well the dream continued. Next I was in an event of some kind, where two young women were on the stage singing the Auld Lang Syne. They had wine glasses in their hands they were toasting. I was in the audience, and everybody there were singing along, toasting and a bit tipsy. The women on the stage wore big dresses that were mostly blue and white, with a little red in them. One of them was blonde, the other had red hair. I was identifying with or admired the redhaired one. In the audience I was either with two other people or with one, and somebody else was usually with us. She could've been the woman on stage. Anyway I had a competetive relationship with this person, who was with me, and we were "fighting" over somebody we both liked. I believe we were young men courting the same girl. My companion and I acted civilized on the outside, but he made a lot of nasty remarks "in between the lines" so to speak, and finally I lost my temper and pushed him to the ground. People started fussing.
That was all. I knew the melody of Auld Lang Syne, but not the lyrics. Now I read that it's apparently about toasting at one point, and that people in the English-speaking world usually sing it during the New Year celebrations. My dream could've been a New Year's eve, but my first thought when I woke up, was that it was a graduation party of some sort. I read today it's sang in graduations in Taiwan, but the people in my dream were Western.
I'll try to think about this more when I have the time, but if anybody has any thoughts on this, I'd be interested. Something makes me believe this dream had a lot of clues about a past life/lives.
Karoliina
At first these things don't seem connected (Camille was published in 1848 that is before Edelfelt's time), but Camille is also located in Paris, and it tells about a courtesan. I read last year a book I really liked written by an art historian, who was trying to track down a model Edelfelt used a lot in his paintings, who supposedly was a courtesan and his mistress. Then I realized that a 19th century woman with strawberry blonde, curly hair, who I've seen a couple of times in my regressions, looks a lot like this model/courtesan in Edelfelt's paintings.
Well the dream continued. Next I was in an event of some kind, where two young women were on the stage singing the Auld Lang Syne. They had wine glasses in their hands they were toasting. I was in the audience, and everybody there were singing along, toasting and a bit tipsy. The women on the stage wore big dresses that were mostly blue and white, with a little red in them. One of them was blonde, the other had red hair. I was identifying with or admired the redhaired one. In the audience I was either with two other people or with one, and somebody else was usually with us. She could've been the woman on stage. Anyway I had a competetive relationship with this person, who was with me, and we were "fighting" over somebody we both liked. I believe we were young men courting the same girl. My companion and I acted civilized on the outside, but he made a lot of nasty remarks "in between the lines" so to speak, and finally I lost my temper and pushed him to the ground. People started fussing.
That was all. I knew the melody of Auld Lang Syne, but not the lyrics. Now I read that it's apparently about toasting at one point, and that people in the English-speaking world usually sing it during the New Year celebrations. My dream could've been a New Year's eve, but my first thought when I woke up, was that it was a graduation party of some sort. I read today it's sang in graduations in Taiwan, but the people in my dream were Western.
I'll try to think about this more when I have the time, but if anybody has any thoughts on this, I'd be interested. Something makes me believe this dream had a lot of clues about a past life/lives.
Karoliina
"Auld Lang Syne" is an extremely old Scottish song that was first written down in the 1700s. Robert Burns is the person whose transcription got the most attention, so the song is associated with him. Your dream could have also taken place in Europe as well, then. I am not sure when the song was sung back then, it could have been used for any celebration, or gathering. I'll have to do some reading and see what I can find 
