The plane crash
dream in review
I’ve been dissecting a dream about a plane crash, during
which the dreamer found the remains of a rather doll-like human baby in the wreckage.
(Scroll down to my post, dated 2-15-16.) In my last post (2-17) I related how
the dreamer and I isolated the symbols. I then asked him to “Tell me about”
each of them. This is a neutral request that is usually successful in getting
the dreamer to think about each symbol as if it were a metaphor. What follows are
his responses.
Tell me about…
Lunch date with my wife: A social time with food and a connection to
my partner. Enjoyable. Catching up with each other.
Plane: A vehicle for going long
distances. You fly high and go very fast to get to your destination.
Crash: Something went wrong and the
plane didn’t fly correctly. It was destroyed.
Sorting through the wreckage: I am
trying to see if there are any clues to what went wrong.
Baby: Somebody’s infant—the
furtherance of their life to the next generation. Their creation.
Showing my wife: I want to share with
my partner. It’s a way for me to process the tragedy.
Reassembling the
dream
Now it is time to use this new information to reassemble the
dream. Instead of repeating the words that were the dreamer’s original symbols—like
“plane”—I will substitute his descriptions of the plane: “a vehicle for going
long distances” etc. And at the same time, I will add little phrases that will
remind him that every symbol in the dream is an aspect of himself. These are
phrases like, “There is a part of me that…” and “inside myself.” What follows is
the result.
There is a part of me
that is engaged in a social time with myself—with the part of me that is my
partner. It’s enjoyable. There’s food, and I’m catching up with myself. I see a
vehicle inside myself that is designed for going long distances. I use it to
fly high and to go very fast to my destination. But something goes wrong with
this part of me and it doesn’t fly correctly. It is destroyed. I am looking
throughout myself to see if there are any clues as to what went wrong. I see
the remains of an infant part of myself—something in me that I would have used
to further myself to the next generation. It’s my creation, now dead. I want to
share this with the partner in me. It’s a way for me to process the tragedy.
The dream
reexamined
Suddenly a bizarre and scary series of images comes into
focus as a direct and poignant message, one that is addressing an issue specific to the dreamer. This
dream is not about a plane crash or a dead baby—not literally.
In my final post on this dream, I’ll explore the issues in
this dreamer’s life that precipitated this dream. Stay tuned!
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