Posted by Tamar on September 15, 2005, at 19:43:37
In reply to Dream interpretation? Long and vivid as usual, posted by gardenergirl on September 14, 2005, at 22:13:14
Hi GG
It sounds to me like a dream about how you act in the world.
And if so, it sounds as if you’re fairly uncomfortable with several things. Your opponent in the reality show with the busts could be an aspect of yourself, particularly if you’re facing some kind of internal conflict. If the questioner reminded you of your T, perhaps it indicates a conflict with your animus. The theme of competition (in which you didn’t win) may suggest feelings of incompetence, and may suggest you would like to be more confident and assertive.
The incident with the car crashing through the window, and then your expression of anger at the people near the little cars, also suggests conflicts to me; perhaps conflicts of values. And there’s an inescapable motif of violence and destruction in the image of the car going through the window. The window might represent the boundary between your inner self and your outward persona. And I think it’s about your interactions in the world rather than about internal conflicts. The flies may symbolise annoyances or fears, and you go away from them because you think you’re the cause of their presence. Perhaps there’s something happening in your life that makes you uneasy and you just wish you could escape? Your concern with your body odour might indicate feelings of being contaminated, and your fear that someone might complain also seems to point in that direction. Taken together with the flies and your escape to the store, I wonder whether you’re experiencing something that is causing you to evaluate a number of deeply-held convictions about yourself.
Your inability to find appropriate food might indicate that you’re feeling uncertain about your sources of support. You examine what’s available but none of it’s quite right. Maybe there could be some trust issues. I guess a question might be how this relates to the previous section of the dream.
Wandering down hallways that lead nowhere (or to a place you don’t want to go) is a common theme in dreams. You’re trying to get somewhere but you don’t know how to get there, and you’re repeating previous journeys, even though you don’t want to. Doorways often symbolise opportunities. The opportunity you see (the way out of the store) seems only to point to a long way of going back to where you came from. So instead of going around the outside of the store to return to your point of origin (which would be a new journey, but you realise it wouldn’t be the best solution because it just takes you back to where you started), you decide to turn around and go back the way you came, which seems sensible because it’s a quick way of returning to things that are familiar, and perhaps you think you can set out again from there. However, it might indicate a fear of trying new solutions. And it’s interesting that you’re not inclined to go into the stock room area, even though you suspect it will lead you where you want to go, because you don’t feel you’re allowed to go in there.
So maybe there’s a conflict about whether you *feel* you want to go where you *think* you want to go, and maybe you’re seeking comfort in familiar patterns, even though you know they’re not helping.
Avoiding the rain is also interesting. Rain is often a symbol of cleansing, and even fertility (the latter would connect with the stock room and the narrow hallway). As a symbol of renewal it’s interesting that you avoid it. Of course, in waking life we do avoid rain because we don’t want to get wet. But avoiding getting symbolically wet might have a quite different meaning. Taken with the journey in the hallway and your feeling that going outside isn’t quite right (but at the same time going into the stock room area isn’t quite right) suggests to me that you have a number of opportunities but that you don’t feel comfortable with any of them. And in fact it seems that any of them might get you somewhere, but your decision in your dream is to go back the way you came.
There seems to be a lot of anxiety in this dream, and a sense that you’re not feeling very successful in what you’re trying to do, particularly in relating your inner life to the way you act in the outside world. Of course, I’m sure that you are in fact very successful in what you’re trying to do, but perhaps you feel underconfident. If that seems way off-base, perhaps there’s simply a sense that you want to feel revitalized but you’re not sure how best to go about it.
Sorry, this got a bit long. But I hope it’s vaguely interesting.
Tamar
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