gate
Posted on May 25th, 2008
by 
tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
There is something about gates. They appear in my dreams, with pastures and open green fields beyond them. In my dreams they are never gates that would keep me out, they just delineate space, wild on one side, calm and green on the other. And always there is this play of sunlight and shadow at the edges and there are no animals to be found in these fields except me.
In waking life I like having an obstacle to climb over so that I can be somewhere set aside. And in waking life Willow goes through the fences with me and runs in the pasture flat out ears flapping banking and careening across the ground happy running. Willow is a dream dressed in fur.
In waking life I like having an obstacle to climb over so that I can be somewhere set aside. And in waking life Willow goes through the fences with me and runs in the pasture flat out ears flapping banking and careening across the ground happy running. Willow is a dream dressed in fur.
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dreams
September 2008 
this blog entry is a sweet dream for me. the photo is luscious, gorgeous, perfect. I'd go through that gate too.
That gate looks as though it swings open and shut. I dislike gates that are locked.
This gate came straight out of my dreams and when it appeared in front of me for a minute I wasn't sure I was awake.
It does open but I climb over on principle. This is a cow pasture though, so I could more easily have slid between the wires of the fence, which is what Willow does. But there is something about the gates for me.
I don't remember ever having dreamed of a gate. They are interesting as symbols. They are part of a fense or wall that closes one area off from another, but the gate is also a potential passageway to enter another space. And in this instance the gate acts as liminal space between two different environments, forest and field. More interesting is that both sides of the gate are open outdoor areas. Also, they aren't much of an obstacle. Even if a gate is locked, you still usually can climb over them. Another thing is that even though there are no animals present in the field, gates and a fence imply the presence of animals.