Thread: Weird dreams...
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Old May 13, 2013, 01:28 AM
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What are your associations to foxes and small furry creatures in general? What do they make you think of?

Being pursued could mean that a part of yourself, a particular feeling for instance, is trying to come to the fore, and you are scared of it. Being eaten alive could mean that it threatens to take over your entire self, or feels that way.

What are your associations to these dice? Do you like them? Do you associate to childhood by any chance? How old are now, may I ask? Was childhood long ago, or recent? The dream seems to suggest the dice are highly valuable to you. You even keep one at home to protect it, but you then don't have access to it. So if you are protecting some part of yourself, the downside is that you no longer can access it, can no longer use it. You want to steal, so you feel your own capacities are insufficient.

The old woman comes between you and talking to your mom. I wonder if the old woman is your mom, a particular side of your mom. When this side came out, you no longer recognized what you loved about your mom. You keep trying to reach the mom you know and trust, but the old woman comes in the way. She is "distorted," in other words this side of your mom comes out and you no longer recognize her.

The playground scene: so you have pretty negative associations to childhood it seems. You talk about hating a part of the playground. The children aren't happy, in fact don't even express any emotion. You can't move--you can't play with them, you don't feel able to access the happiness of childhood.

This old woman then plays happy music in complete disregard of the children's state of being. This sounds like non-empathy, as though your mom, in this altered state, was completely insensitive to your feelings, and you had to go numb to protect yourself.

My impression of the whole is that it is talking about your childhood and your mom. The thing pursuing you may be your feeling and memories of childhood. Perhaps you didn't feel empathy from your mother in general, so you were unable to allow your own feelings to flourish and show themselves. What you keep locked at home, the dice, may represent the best qualities of childhood, but you are unable to access it. So by trying to hold the negative feelings about childhood at bay, you are unable to access the enjoyment either, and you feel less whole as a person (the need to steal).