Odd images in meditation/journeying

[Julysea]

This may sound odd but it's a serious question - do other people get really odd and maybe inappropriate images in meditations and journeyings? I mean, I'm always reading about people finding their power animals and their spirit guide and it's always some archetypcal image or deeply significant image, but I often get really weird stuff. Last night I was doing a guided meditation about meeting a 'wise person from an earlier culture' and who popped up but William Wallace as played by Mel Gibson in Braveheart! Does this mean it's just my subconscious playing tricks are the things imparted by this experience still valid, even if it's imparted by Daffy Duck (or similarly absurd)? Is it just that TV/films/fiction books play such a huge role in our subconscious these days that characters from them are bound to pop up from time to time? Are they the new expressions of ancient archetypes? And lastly, why Braveheart - argh, I saw it once many years ago and hated it!

[Turtle]

This may sound odd but it's a serious question - do other people get really odd and maybe inappropriate images in meditations and journeyings? I mean, I'm always reading about people finding their power animals and their spirit guide and it's always some archetypcal image or deeply significant image, but I often get really weird stuff. Last night I was doing a guided meditation about meeting a 'wise person from an earlier culture' and who popped up but William Wallace as played by Mel Gibson in Braveheart! Does this mean it's just my subconscious playing tricks are the things imparted by this experience still valid, even if it's imparted by Daffy Duck (or similarly absurd)? Is it just that TV/films/fiction books play such a huge role in our subconscious these days that characters from them are bound to pop up from time to time? Are they the new expressions of ancient archetypes? And lastly, why Braveheart - argh, I saw it once many years ago and hated it!

Something about the Braveheart charactre must have struck a cord with you and the mental image you have is 'as portrayed by ...' We have many images of Jesus 'as portrayed by...' and perhaps a few interpretations of Merlin 'as portrayed by ...'

Maybe you could look into the historical Braveheart and see what he has to say to you. If it's something that sticks with you, chances are Mel will disolve and you meet the 'real' Braveheart.

Turtle

[DaRC]

Or it maybe just a blue-painted warrior; a much more ancient Celtic archetype...

[Julysea]

Yes, it may just the the blue-paint thing...

[Lily]

I once got one of these....

[Merlyn]

You would love he old tyme books of OZ.

What is speaking to us may sometimes be totally unexpected.

[treegod]

A few years ago I did tried doing guided meditations but kept getting cartoon images, which had no coherence or meaning whatsoever. But I think, having intense work, my mind rebelled against doing anything serious and just wanted to relax, so incoherent, meaningless images it was.