Posted by Tamar on May 13, 2005, at 5:47:11
In reply to my dream for analysis (copying Dinah!), posted by JenStar on May 12, 2005, at 23:47:13
> hi all,
> I was inspired to share my dream after reading Dinah's post. Anyone have ideas?
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> I am on a trip to China for a school program of some kind, maybe an MBA (although I'm not in school in real life.) I am on the plane somehow without a suitcase, dressed inappropriatly for travel. I don't think I have my passport. Somehow they let me in, and we all get taken to local homes to stay with people. For some reason, the house in which I am staying has regular sized room, but the passageways to get from room to room are tunnels and you have to crawl through them. They are tight and rocky, like the kinds of weird openings in caves. I am overweight and larger than the family in whose house I am staying. I am completely panicked. I know I won't fit through the passageways and I'm getting claustrophobic. I have to try, so I squeeze into the first passage way and try to go in, but my butt gets stuck and I almost freak out. The family is annoyed; we can't communicate due to language barriers. I finally extricate myself from the tunnel and run from the house. Now I'm on a tall building, looking at the city, feeling scared and panicky and lost.
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> So...any ideas??
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> thanks!
> JenStarWell, traditionally planes and tall buildings are phallic symbols, and with that in mind the symbolism of the tunnels seems quite obvious! You were overweight and too big in the dream; do you feel that in real life you don’t quite fit, especially sexually? The setting in China and the language barrier might suggest that sex is somehow foreign territory for you.
I’m tempted to suggest that the dream has a theme of bisexuality in it. If you’re in the US, China represents the opposite side of the world and an opposing political pole. You feel uncomfortable with the phallic stuff (you’re not appropriately dressed for the plane and you have no luggage or passport; you’re scared on the tall building) but also you get stuck in the tunnel (symbol of female genitalia).
Or maybe it's not about sexuality but about gender - about how you perceive relationships with men and women in general.
On the other hand, it could indicate a fear of pregnancy...
Tamar
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