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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?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.
So...any ideas??
thanks!
JenStar
Posted by Shortelise on May 13, 2005, at 1:04:55
In reply to my dream for analysis (copying Dinah!), posted by JenStar on May 12, 2005, at 23:47:13
Can't analyse at the moment but I have to say that I have had series of dreams of geting stuck in tight places.
Getting stuck. Hm.
Shorte
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?
>
> 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.
>
> So...any ideas??
>
> 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
Posted by Dinah on May 14, 2005, at 14:14:40
In reply to my dream for analysis (copying Dinah!), posted by JenStar on May 12, 2005, at 23:47:13
Hmmm...
As you know, I'm lousy at this.
Is there anything coming up that you are afraid has the potential to trap you? Or get you in a jam you can't get out of?
Or... It seems like in many of the places in the dream you feel like you stand out? You don't fit in?
Posted by JenStar on May 14, 2005, at 20:12:33
In reply to Re: my dream for analysis (copying Dinah!) » JenStar, posted by Dinah on May 14, 2005, at 14:14:40
Actually I think you hit it right on! I DO feel like I'm in a jam right now, or that I'm stuck. I switched careers a while back, and I'm struggling a bit, feeling like I'm just treading water, thinking I might have made the wrong choice.
Many of my friends are from the old job, and I feel like I do stick out. Also, many of my friends are having babies and I want one too, but we're not having luck just yet. So I guess I'm worried about these things!
JenStar
Posted by JenStar on May 14, 2005, at 20:14:36
In reply to Re: my dream for analysis (copying Dinah!) » JenStar, posted by Tamar on May 13, 2005, at 5:47:11
hmmmm..interesting stuff! I wonder if the fear of pregnancy is "it" for me? I want very much to have a baby, but we're having trouble conceiving. Also, I'm terrified that if I do get pregnant, my anxiety will make me a basket case throughout the pregnancy. I am a raging hypochodriac. I can't imagine how it would be in a pregnancy. I'm stressed just THINKING about it. But I know the clock is ticking, ticking, ticking...time is going...I need to get busy...and it all just builds and make me even more stressed. Aaarrrggghhh!
Thanks for taking the time to analyze. I appreciate your thoughts!
JenStar
Posted by JenStar on May 14, 2005, at 20:17:07
In reply to Re: my dream for analysis (copying Dinah!) » JenStar, posted by Shortelise on May 13, 2005, at 1:04:55
I do feel stuck lately (I wrote more in the other posts), about my job and about not having a baby. I guess it may be coming out in my dreams. lately I've been having troubled, disturbing dreams. I started taking Lexapro but I don't think it's the cause - I sometimes have spurts of weird, vivid and disturbing dreams. My hubby, on the other hand, has cool, fun & interesting dreams. I'm jealous. I wish I could control my dreams and make them fun!
JenStar
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