Jeff Barco wrote:Hey Tom,
Thats really interesting stuff...
So your saying that each person in the dream represents a character trait of me in my eyes? What about each persons involvment in the dream, does that represent my own expectations?
JB
There's a whole body of work out there on the language of dreams. Rarely would a dream ever "speak" directly to you. The subconscious uses symbols, archetypes, and emotions to get its points across to the conscious. Deconstructing a dream can take a lot of work. Nothing in the dream is real nor does it represent real things. But it can help you resolve real issues if you are willing to understand what it's trying to tell you. For instance, a car is rarely a car - it represents the way you go through life. If it is being driven recklessly, that's how you are living your life - recklessly. Most people will never take any of this seriously. But as Carl Jung found out, dreams, or more accurately listening to dreams, can be the easiest way to improve the quality of your life. "He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens," - Jung.
Take each person in the dream and honestly ask yourself what they are to you - good, bad, kind, mean, smart, egocentric, etc. Then realize that each of those aspects are part of you. Now look at what they are doing in the dream. See if you can draw any conclusions from that trait doing that action. Start with Bill since he is a main character here. All the while keeping in mind that a plane is not a plane but simply a symbol of something else. Complicated, I know. Most people bail out at this point. It's hard to convince people that we all contain every aspect of human behavior - from the very best to the very worst. It's just that good people don't act out the bad. But if you repress the bad without acknowledging it within you, you end up with other problems. There is no one right interpretation of a dream, only ones that feel right to you.
On the surface, I'd say you are pushing too hard at making something happen in your life. The plane - the vehicle you are now traveling in - needs a skin on its frame to fly. But an aspect of yourself has stripped it off. You need to look at how you are dealing with things in general right now. Perhaps you need to slow down a bit until all aspects of yourself are ready to advance. And I say this with no knowledge of what's happening in your life so I could be totally wrong.
Can o' worms.... but you asked... ;)
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