Posted by vwoolf on January 2, 2005, at 1:33:45
I dreamed this a few nights ago while spending the holidays with a huge family party. Any interpretations?
The whole dream was impermeated with a feeling of dread. In it, my son is still a small child. He is utterly depressed, to the point that he will not move or react to anything. I don’t know what to do to help him and I feel full of despair and rage. We are on a bus. He is sitting across the aisle from me, next to the window, with his head down. There is a youngish woman at the back of the bus who wants to carry him away. She is evil and has powers of illness and death. She touches his hand and spongey blood oozes out. I try to hit her, but where I make contact my body bruises black and blue. The bus now separates into two parts, and she and my son are on the other half which turns into a Roman chariot and sets off on another course.
My husband and I are with my son again and are trying desperately to make him tell us what is wrong, to get him to react, but to no avail. Exasperated we put him into a coffin and bury it. We go to one of the government ministries in Rome to sort out some endless bureaucratic business to do with a license. I suddenly become aware that we have left my son underground and that he will be suffocating. I try to run back to find him, with visions of him going mad and clawing at the coffin because he thinks he is dying alone underground. There are hoardes of people everywhere - it is a public holiday in Rome - and I can’t find the place. I wake up with a feeling of dread and horror.
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