last night i was in the snow in my dreams.

i was naked and smelled of someone elses urine.

sweat soaked my entire body, forming sheets of ice that would break and fall away only to form a new layer within seconds.

reindeer aproached from all directions with birch limbs in their mouths and began whipping my slush covered body with them, causing me to turn bright red all over.

i was aware of the feeling of falling into the ground, a feeling that is common for me with psilocybe mushrooms, and with the two experiences ive had with DMT.

the next thing i new i was holding a flaming birch limb.

then i woke up.

Maybe its a sign that you need to cleanse yourself?

In Russia it's a common practice to sit in a sauna and use branches with leaves (often birch) to wave hot air into people and circulate lymph. The branches are waved toward the feet and then towards the hands rather quickly and this creates a lymph flow. The branches cause a convection wave. This is only done after a good 45 minute to 1 hour of sitting in the sauna to generate a nice sweat. The branches do touch the skin so that some of the medicine can absorb.



That practice I mentioned above is meant to make lymph circulate while you are sweating so that way toxins that you weren't removing are excreted. Normally exercise will make lymph flow and the heat generated will make you sweat out the toxins contained in the lymph system. This has to be a consistent practice in order to completely purge toxins, not to mention you need to stretch beforehand and use your muscles correctly during.

Go to a sauna every day for like a week and you'll notice a huge difference in your emotional state IME.

The sweating forming ice seems like a symbol for being unable to have a complete purge/catharsis.

IMO the reindeer are a nice symbol for the new year and the holidays involved, and in Russia it's a tradition to use the sauna on new years.

The flaming birch limb is probably a symbol for a pure emotional state transforming into a superfluous emotional state.


It's a nice dream I think it's for all of us.

nice interpretation.

i figured all the red and white around latley had dug up some memories of the old fly agaric, what with the smelling like someone elses urine and the reindeer and what not (not that ive ever drunk someone elses urine...)

i am very familiar with birch leaves being used in saunas and have had them used on me on more than one occasion, so i figured this part to have something to do with a cleansing...

i have a very strong connection with plants, and often day dream about certain ones living in my vicinty, magical ones or not. Under the right circumstances i have believed i was accutually communicating with them on some level. Sometimes i feel like the flicker of the leaves of a tree are meant for me....

urine?
snow?
reindeer?

were you sleep-eating amanitas?

i know right? it is that time of year....