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We are looking at a lighthearted waking dream about finding
dimes in unusual places. The “dreamer” was getting ready to evacuate prior to a
tumultuous environmental event, and as she was preparing diligently, dimes
would show up in odd locations, even though she doesn’t use cash.
On Wednesday, we isolated the dream symbols, and I asked her
to comment on each one, offering a metaphoric association. Today, I am
restating her dream. But in place of her symbols, I am inserting her
descriptions of them. I am using as many of her own words as I can. However, I
am also inserting short phrases like, “There is a part of me” or “inside myself”
to remind her that all of her dream symbols are facets of herself.
Restated dream
I am in a space within
myself where my energy is spent. I have nothing left to give. I’m feeling a
sense of not being equal to the task at hand, that there could be requirements
of me that I am unable to handle.
There is a storm
brewing inside of me, and I need to make sure that everything is safe. I’m
independent which I really like. But it means that I have no one else to rely
on. It’s all up to me.
I’m in the place
within myself that is my environment. It’s where I live. I love it—and have
loved it for a long time. But I’m getting the feeling that it may be too big
for me now. It may be time to downsize. There are structures that have been
built, and I don’t need so many structures. Then I find within me an unsecured
currency that is all about change. Loose change. Small change. Pocket change.
It’s silver. It implies “turning on a dime” which means being flexible and
ready to go in a new direction. But if I lose it, it’s gone and I don’t get it
back. It also implies only a partial percentage of the whole—10%.
I find this currency
of change at the entrance to the main structure of my environment. I suspect some
aspect of myself that was bringing me something I had requested or purchased
let this currency slip and inadvertently lost it. Then I find it again in the
structure in myself where I keep gardening and maintenance tools. I find it
resting on the protection I give myself from flying debris and also from
getting caught in the moving parts of my vehicle—the one I use for grooming and
maintaining the grounds of my environment. Finally, I find this currency of
change in the structure that I use to maintain what I wear and how I appear to
the world. What I wear has been cleaned and renewed, and now the cleaning
process is being evaporated away, so that what I wear can be useful again. This
currency of change is perched precariously, and it’s amazing, first, that it
got there somehow, and second, that it stayed there. But it made certain that I
would see it.
Comments
Suddenly, a lighthearted dream has important—even profound—observations
to impart. Tomorrow, we’ll ask the dreamer for her thoughts.
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