About a month ago, a dear friend of mine sent me an email . . . “omg I had a dream about you! I didn't want to tell you this dream, it wasn't very pleasant, but since you're into dreams these days, I thought I should share it with you. My husband did tell me that dreams usually say more about the person dreaming then about the characters in the dream.” This is a reference to Carl Jung’s theory on dreams.
We met a week later to discuss the dream.
“So I and some other people were at a high school parking lot, and someone told me you were in trouble, and trapped in a car. We found you in parked car in the high school parking lot. When we opened the door, you were completely frozen and even your nose fell off. It is usually the first to go when one is frozen to death. We were all shaking and crying. It was horrible.”
It seemed to me, in this dream, that I represented the importance of social status, seeing that I was found dead in a high school parking lot. High school can represent acceptance by our peers. I know my friend had a big event coming up that week, and I’m sure the excitement and fear of the event was tied to this dream. But on the other side, I hoped the dream was not foretelling a bad omen for her or me.
Maybe there is more to this dream. I do think it was brave of my friend to open the car door and look face to face with the noseless corpse. In the dream world, could I as a corpse have something to offer my friend?
Maybe there is more to this dream. I do think it was brave of my friend to open the car door and look face to face with the noseless corpse. In the dream world, could I as a corpse have something to offer my friend?
Here is a link to an article on leaning from our nightmares: “Don’t Fear Vulnerability” by Rodger Kamenetz. This article in the New York Times is part of a series called “Should We Manipulate Our Dreams.”
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