Strange communication

[Sanity Claws]

I don't know what to make of what happened in a dream last night.

It was as though someone was talking to me and wanted me to remember a word. Something similar happened about a month or two ago and I apparently didn't remember the word right. Last night, the guide or whoever was shouting it also gave me a visual image to remember the word. It sounded like eponomy and the visual clue was a container of Bon Ami; the two sound very similar, except for the initial e sound and p instead of b. I woke after hearing the word another time; it was as though someone was yelling in my right ear.

I checked the dictionary and did a google search after waking and couldn't find such a word.
(weird, huh?)

The other time it happened, I remembered the word as eunomous (I have to check to make sure) or something like that. I also checked that word and found it does not exist either.

What the heck is going on?

[MorningGlow]

1. Does this resonate with you?

Eponym: (n) 1. A word or name derived from the name of a person. The words atlas, bowdlerize, and Turing machine are eponyms; 2. A person whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something.

or

1. a name, esp a place name, derived from the name of a real or mythical person, as for example Constantinople from Constantine I; 2. the name of the person from which such a name is derived in the Middle Ages, "Brutus" was thought to be the eponym of "Britain."

Eponymy: (n) Derivation of a name of a city, country, era, institution, or other place or thing from that of a person.

Eponymous: (adj.) 1. (of a person) being the person after whom a literary work, film, etc., is named the eponymous heroine in the film of Jane Eyre; 2. (of a literary work, film, etc.) named after its central character or creator The Stooges' eponymous debut album

[Sanity Claws]

2. No

I'm familiar with that word but I can't see what it has to do with anything going on in my life.

I looked for words similar to what I recall hearing but found nothing that had meaning to me.

I shrugged off the first time it happened, thinking my brain was just clearing stuff out. But last night made me wonder whether something else is going on -- some kind of communication but what?

[MorningGlow]

6. Ehhhh then I got nuthin'

:rofl:

[Sanity Claws]

16. Thanks for the suggestion

I can see why you are ROFL. I would be laughing too, if I had read something write this just a few months ago.

[rumpel]

13. Since I stumbled onto Michael Newton's material, I agree with MG

It may be your name in LBL...

[Sanity Claws]

17. Now that is interesting!

My name in real life starts with "E." I wonder if there is some connection in our names through our lifetimes.

[rumpel]

27. it may be..

in the books, people mention very uncommon names, by which they are known..in the soul world..

[PinkTiger]

35. Yes

And Bon Ami is French for good friend.
It is aIso a brand name for a cIeanser, simiIar to bartender's friend.I don't know if they stiII make it or not.

[japple]

3. The visual clue is what stumped me. A can of Bon Ami? I came

up with this, but it doesn't have an "e" sound at the beginning of the word.

bonhomme (or bonhomie)
n.
A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.



Maybe you should ask your higher self for clarification before you go to bed tonight. Keep us posted. This is most interesting.

[Sanity Claws]

4. I'll ask for help

I see you chose to use the word interesting. I think it's ultra weird. LOL.

[Kind of Blue]

5. or literal translation: Good Friend n/t

[JanusAscending]

30. I thought of that before you wrote it.

As MG can attest to...that's the name of my daughters "Etsy" website for her custum made jewelry!!!

[bigmonkey]

7. Autonomy?

Just what came to me, FWIW.

[Sanity Claws]

18. I don't see that as a message for me

I have been too autonomous in this life. I'm more inclined to believe that I'm supposed to learn bonhomme.

But thanks for the suggestion.

[northernlights]

8. epiphany?

jumped into my mind at first glance. :shrug: Our minds do funny things trying to translate...

[OneGrassRoot]

9. That was my first thought, too...

even if it didn't "fit" with what Sanity Claws' perceived as the image tying in with the phonetics of the word.

An epiphany about a good friend, cleanser...hmmmmigraine....

:hi:

[Sanity Claws]

19. That would not have been hard for me to remember

I was raised Catholic and Epiphany entered my vocabulary at a very young age.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

10. 1 week ago I had almost the same dream

I'd never heard or seen the word before and when looking up it's meaning- can't really find a clear one.

Usually have a difficult time remembering any of my dreams, but this was clear as day- and I said it a few
times repetitively in my dream to remember it-

The word is 'extronte.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Geez, that's fascinating....

I hope you guys get more clues. Now I'm really intrigued. ;)

:hi:

[Sanity Claws]

15. I was also repeating the word to remember it.

Are you sure you recall the word accurately?

My miserable failure to remember the word after the first dream I think caused me to get a visual clue.

I didn't mention how odd the Bon Ami part was. I have never used that product. In fact, this week I had to get some kitchen stuff and got Comet instead. In the dream, I was brought to the supermarket where the kitchen supplies are kept and was looking at the shelf. At first, I was confused. Then I realized that the Bon Ami on the shelf sounded like the word I was supposed to remember.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

28. At first I thought it was extonte

but a few hours later it struck me as being extronte

pronounced like extrontay

[Sanity Claws]

20. Does your name in real life start with a similar sound?

Just wondering.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

29. can't get much more boring than Deb, or Debbie, or Debra

nothing at all sounding like that.

I also remember strange flying craft- Jetson style if you will.
but not much else

[Kind of Blue]

12. Gosh, I just remembered a dream I had

years ago in my '20s. I woke up from a nap and was going about my business when I noticed that a building wasn't where it normally is and it its place was this gigantic but colorful abstract sculpture. I thought that I had lost my mind so I ran outside of my apartment, took the elevator down but I couldn't reach my resident manager. I ran outside and walked around the sculpture touching it as people walked by looking at me strangely.

I ran to a building that people were coming in and out of. It was familiar so I felt safe to enter. A janitor was by the elevator and I babbled to him that I was in the wrong place. He directed me to room - I forget the number. I walked into the room and it was a classroom, filled with girls about my age and it was a language class. The professor told me by name to take a seat but I thought something was wrong with my ears because I understood his gesture but couldn't quite understand what he said. They were all fluent in this language and it was English but in a very, very weird form. I remember the word recommendate for recommend and other words that seemed like broken English but sounded quite elegant.

I was totally panicked now realizing that I didn't really wake up. I started praying to go back home. In a few seconds, I woke again but was totally paralyzed. I could think but felt like I was in cement casing. I prayed and cried till I passed out exhausted. Woke up finally able to move.

Sometimes I don't doubt that we may travel to parallel dimensions or something. I wonder what Jung would say about these strange English sounding dream words.

[Sanity Claws]

21. Parallel world

Interesting experience.

[Dover]

14. This is a fairly common occurence in my dreams as well...

Do you remember more about the context?


I'm not sure what to make of that dream phenomenon. In my own dreams my attempts to decipher the words' meanings has always failed to reveal their significance.
But this is interesting - the other day the word that came in a dream was 'fisk' which was linked to some type of Jewish food I was partaking of in the dream. The food was special (used in ritual) in that it either was, itself, always regenerating (an infinite supply that would never run out) or affected the person eating it in a similiar way (never dying). Can't recall which it was, but the Jewish name for it was clearly 'fisk'.
I think in my mind there was some connection to "lutefisk" which my memory just wasn't fully able to access during the dream. Of course in real life it's not Jewish at all, but rather has Nordic roots and is usually made with dried salted cod or other whitefish (which btw I've never eaten).

I don't know the story behind Lutefisk, but I just looked it up and found this interesting bit of information:

Folklore holds that lutefisk originated during the Viking pillages of Ireland, when St. Patrick sent men to feed spoiled fish to the Viking raiders. When the raiders were found to enjoy the spoiled fish, St. Patrick ordered his men to pour lye on the fish, with the hope of poisoning the Vikings. However, rather than dying from ingestion of spoiled fish, or of subsequent poisoning of the spoiled fish, the Vikings declared lutefisk a delicacy. This is obviously a fairy tale, since St. Patrick was in Ireland about three centuries before the Vikings' arrival.

Some Scandinavian descendants claim that their strength and longevity are derived from eating lutefisk at least once a year. Although lutefisk is eaten by Norwegians, more lutefisk is eaten by Norwegian Americans and Canadians of Norwegian descent. Surveys show that as few as two percent of Norwegians consume lutefisk on Christmas Eve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk


Hmmmm...

And it just occurred to me that quite separate from this dream I had been looking for salted cod in the grocery store so I could try a Basque/Spanish dish I just heard about called "pil pil".

What does it all mean?



On edit: More about Lutefisk:

The lutfisk was a Christmas dish already during the medieval times. A remnant from the Catholic days, when you had to fast before larger festivals. This is about Lutfisk History.

It is said that the lutfisk was invented because some fumbly person happened to drop some lye on a piece of dried, soaked fish and thus discovered that the dry fish re-took its original shape and became white. Whether it was by mistake or not, it must have been a successful discovery in those days. Since salt was very expensive and hard to get, it was considerably cheaper to dry fish than to salt it. In some parts of the country, the dry fish could substitute bread. Dry fish was also brought on travels and for those who worked far away from home. We are told about sturdy men from Dalarna who brought dry fish on the haymaking. It was soaked in some swamp to later be banged to a relatively soft and palatable
consistency.

The lyed dry fish has its origin in the medieval times. Olaus Magnus, who lived during the first half of the 1500s and wrote History on the Nordic People, tells us, "Above all, the Nordic people eat dry fish such as pike, perch-pike, bream, burbot, and the fish which in the Gothic language is called "sik" (whitefish). All these different kinds of fish are stapled like wood.

When you want to prepare these fish to eat, you put it for two days in strong lye and one day in clean, pure water to make it as soft as you want it. After boiling it with an addition of salty butter, you can put it upon the very tables of princes as a well-liked and delicious dish."

Lutfisk on the Christmas Eve table is a remnant from the Catholic days, when all meat was strictly forbidden during fasting. Fish and porridge were the substitution foods, and since (more or less) only dry fish was accessible at Christmastime, this fish came to be the Christmas fish.

[Sanity Claws]

22. The word was not in context

I was just repeating the world.
Then, I was in the grocery store and looking at a lower shelf where the kitchen supplies were kept. I couldn't figure out why I was there. Then I recognized Bon Ami and how closely it sounded to the word I was repeating. Only difference was the initial E and the change from P to B.

In real life, I have never used Bon Ami. I tend to get Comet.

[MorningGlow]

23. So your dream did kind of reference immortality

As lutefisk (and, in my Italian heritage, baccala) lasts indefinitely. Interesting!

And, apropos of nothing, for the record my dear departed dad wouldn't eat baccala even if someone held a gun to his head.
:rofl:

[Dover]

34. True!

I wonder if I might have the same response as your dad. Of COURSE it lasts indefinitely. NO ONE will eat it!!!

[Shallah Kali]

31. could it be Gefilte fish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefilte_fish

[Dover]

33. Hi Shallah. That's really interesting..

I'm not sure what the Jewish part of the dream was about in reference to the food. I don't think I would (or could?) dream about gefilte, though, since I've never heard of it (and am not of the Jewish faith). I barely knew about lutefisk except for hearing occasional jokes about its strong flavor, so am not sure how/why I would have associated it with ritual in my dream.

In a Christian context I think of the story when Jesus fed the masses with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread that never seemed to run out - metaphorically perhaps about faith and how we can change perceptions of lack to one of abundance.

[japple]

24. I googled "eponamie" and came up with this.

http://www.goddess.com.au/goddesses/Epona.htm

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The maiden goddess Epona is usually portrayed as riding a white mare side-saddle, sometimes with a foal, or standing surrounded by horses. Her symbol is the Cornucopia ("horn of plenty") which suggests that she may have been honoured as a fertility goddess, although she is most commonly known as a goddess of horses and travel. She fed her beloved horses from her cornucopia filled with corn and apples, symbolic of mother-love and abundance.
From the iron age, the Celtic goddess' faith spread across the whole of ancient Europe, eventually being embraced by the Romans and to a certain extent, Christianity. Epona had a shrine in almost every stable of the Roman empire - in fact, she was the only Celtic goddess to be honoured by the Romans with a temple in their capital city.
To find out more about Epona - her history and how her energy applies to you as a modern woman - you may join the innergoddess group (free) and receive a goddess message by email every Monday via Yahoo Groups. Your details are strictly confidential.

So you might try googling "epona" and see if anything speaks to you.

[Sanity Claws]

26. This is interesting

I am Irish and feel an affinity for Celtic myths.
I will follow up on this.
Thanks for the suggestion.

[bigmonkey]

25. My French dictioanary has "bonhomie"

as "simplicity, good nature, heartiness"
then follows the definition of bonhomme, then at the tail end of the definition, a contrast - "un faux bonhomme" - a humbug, a hypocrite. Seems like authenticity is in the mix too.

[japple]

32. This has been the most fun and interesting discussion we've

had in a long time. I hope you find your answer, SC, but even if you don't, I've thoroughly enjoyed the postings.

Best of the season!

[winyanstaz]

36. What about the word Apiffiny

- sudden realization: a sudden intuitive leap of understanding, especially through an ordinary but striking occurrence
- appearance of god: the supposed manifestation of a divine being

You may be going to meet your inner spirit guide or your own Higher Self on a conscious level.
Anyways...let me know if that is the word as that is the word I heard.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

37. Euonymus is a genus of bush.

Golden Euonymus:


Here in Texas it is pronounced yo-on-a-muss. It's probably pronounced "you" since "eu" is Greek for Good.