Review
I’ve been analyzing a pair of waking dreams that were
simultaneously occurring in the dreamer’s life. Waking dreams are experiences
that happen during the day while the dreamer is awake, but which we are
choosing to interpret as dreams.
Last Wednesday’s post examined one of this dreamer’s waking dreams
about a security system installation that was not going well. The interpretation
ended up being a cryptic message--something about the dreamer wanting a better
warning in regard to things (ideas?) that invaded his innermost space. He said
what was going on was leaving him with his “energy, enthusiasm and patience
draining.”
Now let’s examine the other waking dream to see if it helps
clarify the issue.
The shattered glass
waking dream
What follows is a summary of the second waking dream.
While paying bills in his home office, the dreamer heard a
loud crash. He looked in the general vicinity of the noise, but didn’t see
anything amiss. It wasn’t until his lunch break that he found himself walking
on broken glass on his way to his kitchen. He realized that a thick rectangle
of protective glass over a halogen bulb had come loose form a ceiling light
fixture and fallen to the floor. This was a surprise because the glass had been firmly held
in place, and no one had jostled the fixture.
Revealing the
metaphors in the dream symbols
Next, the dreamer and I isolated the symbols, and I then
gave the non-directive prompt, “Tell me about it.”
Tell me about…
* Bills: I’m
compensating those who have provided me with services.
* Crash: A
startling interruption.
* Lunch break: A
pause to replenish myself.
* Walking on broken glass: Something has shattered and this is clear
evidence. It’s also potentially dangerous.
* Protective glass:
The light fixture is very hot, and this helps protect you from getting
burned.
* Jostling the fixture:
That would be disturbing the source of light. But no one did that. It
just broke and left the fixture vulnerable.
Reassembling the
dream
Now we retell the dream replacing the symbols with the
explanations the dreamer came up with. At the same time, we add phrases to
remind him that each symbol is an aspect of himself:
I am engaged in
compensating the parts of me that provide me with services. There is a
startling interruption. I pause to replenish myself and see that something has
shattered within me. There is clear evidence of it, and it could be dangerous.
The source of light within me is very hot and my protection against this is
broken. This part of me has been left vulnerable.
Initial assessment
Both of this dreamer’s waking dreams have now been retold in
this fashion. Perhaps you noticed that both of them have a similar theme of
being left vulnerable to some kind of inner disturbance. One spoke of an “invasion,”
the other about an inner protection “that is broken.” Tomorrow, we’ll learn
what the dreamer felt this is all about.
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