Tell Us A Dream #3
Posted: Sunday, January 24, 2010
by Gregory Lewis
PopGnosis
Dreamettes
In this latest article, we're going to examine several dreams that have been sent to me from different people over the last week.
I was driving my van to the top of the mountain where I lived in a cabin. It was the coldest day of the year, 30 below zero, maybe colder. My son was in the back seat. I had trouble parking in my parking space because it was so cold and the snow was hard and slippery, so my van began to slide down hill. But, I was able to safely park it. I told my son to get in the house as fast as possible, and go straight to my room, we would sleep together tonight. The boy in the dream isn't my son in real life, but he was my ex-wife's son. That was 15 years ago. He was a little boy in the dream. Somehow he made it to the house and got inside, I could hear rock music playing loudly, so I knew he had turned up the stereo. For some reason I could not leave the van. I woke up. In real life I live in a warm climate where it doesn't snow. "Fran"
The image of snow and extreme cold sounds unpleasant. It is also unpleasant that you were driving your vehicle, but didn't seem to have control over it. Your dream is expressing an unconscious fear of "backsliding" in life; it symbolizes a life going out of control. The cold is an insecurity, a distancing from a youthful idealism. You are in the driver's seat, but the boy, which really represents another part of your self, your youthful idealism, sits in the back. The boy leaves, disappearing from view. This dream is a caution that you are losing touch with your youth, and in your youth, your ability to maintain surety in an uncertain world. The ground beneath you is unstable, slippery, and your life, represented by your car, doesn't move in the direction you would like. Perhaps joblessness or the fear of finding a job?
Gregory
I get a check in the mail from Dr. J (an old college professor), for some outstanding accomplishment he said I did years before. I didn't remember it. I am in a city where I used to live, overlooking Main Street. The check is for a small amount, no more than $10. I have trouble reading its amount. I am perplexed about why I got it, but somewhere along the way Dr. J shows up and asks me to remind him of the trick or stunt I did. I try to remember, it was that I leaped onto a narrow shelf made from a four-by-four piece of lumber attached to a wall, about four feet up, and then I jumped or flew a far distance. He asked me to recount that to several people. I did. Dr. J. seemed proud of me. I did this trick back in my more acrobatic days, but wondered if I could do it now. "Norbert"
Greetings Norbert,
In this dream I read an incentive to perform the miraculous and astounding feats you might think you were capable of doing as a younger person, back when things might have been easier for you to negotiate the struggles of life. By feats, I don't mean actual acrobatics. That is only a metaphor. I get the sense that you used to be able to pull things off at the last minute, and maybe you had an uncanny ability to excel at some project, maybe school, or maybe finding employment. Things are different now, but your dream suggests you still have the energy it takes to succeed. There might be an implied warning that you will have to try harder. The image of leaping onto a narrow ledge sounds like a young man's game. Back then you didn't need but a little bit of space to "launch yourself" far. Could you still launch yourself, without that buffer or margin of error? In other words, prepare now for what you desire much later. Don't prepare a day ahead of time.
Gregory
In a house with my friend B. Outside, many people are walking by, as if to a parade. Some teenage boys walk by, and I notice they are doing something to B's motorcycle, tied to a bike rack next to the house. They are taking the chain off. Me and B go out and chastise the one boy doing the deed. The motorbike is lying on its side. He says he's doing it to increase traffic or to bring more people. We lecture him about why that is a silly idea. – "Rick"
Greetings Rick,
You are in a house with your friend, but there is a parade going on outside? You may need to get out more and associate with people. Again, as is usual with dream characters, they tend to represent different aspects of the self, and are not usually direct representations of the people you know. The dream puts on masks. Or, I should say, the dreamer takes different roles in the dream, and it is we who put on different masks. In the dream, we truly become multiple personalities.
A motorcycle is a vehicle of activity. Boys taking it away, or disabling it by taking the chain off…now what could that mean? That youth has taken something away from you, perhaps something that is not being used. As the old saying goes, "use it or lose it!" So motivate yourself, and go out and join the parade of life. I don't sense anything threatening in your description, only a kind of harmless mischief. Increase more traffic or bring more people also sounds like it could be a pun related to building a web site. At least, that's the kind of language web developers would use.
Gregory
Keep those dreams coming, folks. It's a big world inside!
Gregory
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