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Old Jul 04, 2012, 10:44 AM
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So last night i had a strange dream. Let me start by saying im completely straight, i adore my fiance and im 100% anti drugs. Well my dream last night, i had been cheating on my fiance (im completely against cheating as well and i love my fiance so much i could never imagine wanting to be with someone else) but here's the twist... i had cheated with a crack head woman. I didnt actually cheat in my dream but knew during the dream that i had cheated with that woman and the whole dream was about me freaking out that the crack head woman had given me aids and herpes and worrying i would give it to him.
A little history, my dad is a crack head nearing the end of his life, he has aids. Ive been around those people enough to know that i never want to touch it or those people
Any insight?

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Old Jul 04, 2012, 11:19 AM
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If it were my dream, I'd look at the extremes of it and think my unconscious was trying to get me somewhere in the middle; where I could look at other men and enjoy them, talk to them, appreciate them as well as have more compassion for those caught in drugs and the AIDS disease and not have to run to the other "side" where I'm thinking I'm 100% the opposite.

Your fiance occasionally does things that bug you! Your father is not just a crack head with AIDS. Drugs and disease, really lousy parents and disagreements with SO's aren't things we can pretend away, like they don't affect us. I think your unconscious is telling you you do not want to live in a "bubble" of your own making, going to the opposite extreme from what you don't like is not where you want to try and live, it's not tenable.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 09:54 AM
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I'm going to keep saying this until I'm blue in the face...

Everyone and everything in your dream is some part of you.

There, I said it. Now, the first thing we can look at is "Who is the crack head?" I think you answered this for the most part. I'd guess she is the personification of those parts of your dad that you see in yourself...the parts that you don't like to see (because she is a crackhead, therefor in your eyes she's a "bad" character). The freaking out could be the expression of fear that those flaws you feel you share with your father will be destructive to your relationship. The cheating may also be an expression of your subconscious trying to relate to your father. Do you love your father as a parent (albeit a lousy one)? If so, this may be the source of the "cheating". And the AIDS and the Herpes would be symbolic of what showing love for your father could do to (again) your relationship with your SO.
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