Posted by vwoolf on December 20, 2004, at 8:05:47
In reply to Re: Exotic Dreams - analysis anyone? » vwoolf, posted by Toph on December 19, 2004, at 11:01:27
Wow, Toph, you’re spot on. You should make a profession out of dream interpretation!
Just to tell you how well you read it:
1. Rigid, harshly controlling, and coldly detatched express the idea of the institutions, but even more so, they describe my mother, and the voice I have internalised. It’s quite scary - these are also the words I used to descibe my T after our first meeting - quite a projection.
2. I compromised myself sexually with my father in order to be his favorite, to be the best, to gain a favored place in the family. I naturally find this humiliating, shameful and conflicting.
3. Becoming a woman was a great obstacle course in a strict Catholic boarding school, I can tell you. I won’t go into details.
4. The animals I think symbolize my desire to free myself of the control and rigidity of my mother’s judgements, possibly through therapy.
5. The person collecting eggs (positive, life-giving) and avoiding snakes and pitfalls is probably my T.I am most impressed with your ability to read the symbolism. I couldn’t see all this, but now you have pointed it out it is very clear. Do you want to try another?
What do I find exotic? Well, when I visited the US a few years ago I couldn’t get over the water and forests. I spent some time in New York State and the vastness of the rivers and the size of the trees really struck me as exotic. We have water restrictions here again (it’s summertime) and it is so depressing. Everything is turning brown and burnt, and the first bush fires have already started. And this is just the beginning of summer.
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