upon beginning the violet flame meditation during the day & ascension meditations before bed at night, very intense dreams are occurring for me.
the common theme is me rescuing myself & others from a hostage situation or some type of imprisonment.

in the last one, i am preparing to marry my husband but i can't because he's been taken hostage at gunpoint along with several others. some i know, others i don't. i set out on a commando type mission to rescue him only, but then realize i need to help everyone get free as well. once i free them, i go on another mission to the house where the masterminds behind the hostage-taking are living. the house is very hippie-ish, with a strange combination of healthy living & drug use in evidence. they have a collection of crystals stuck into the ground in a makeshift altar. i yank an amethyst crystal from the ground & run away with it just as i hear them returning. some of them see me, but they don't seem to be able to stop me from leaving. i call the police to report drugs at the house.

after that, i bought an amethyst crystal & have been wearing it ever since.

the first one of the hostage series was the most detailed with me trapped in a cleverly disguised, underground mental institution. i spent all night watching the routines of the workers & memorizing the musical door codes for my escape. there was a doctor determined to keep me there for some reason i didn't know. i finally escaped through a crazy labrynth to the outside world with the help of other inmates & ended up pushing through a trapdoor in the floor of an indian man's house. i told him my story & begged him to help me or at least not turn me in. he agreed & showed me how to leave the premises. he also called my friends & family for me.
i told them what happened & then devised a plan to free the others still trapped. the indian man helped & everyone was free, happy. then i woke up!

this theme has become so frequent in my dreams of the past month, that i don't even panic anymore while dreaming...i remember a funny moment where i'm trying to console my fellow prisoners by saying, "look at this horrible decoration & design work- relax, these guys can't be that smart & have such horrible taste!"