This week I am looking at a humorous dream. The images are
absurd, and that is why the dreamer remembered parts of it so clearly.
A funny dream
I don’t remember the
whole dream, but what I do remember seems so weird, I just couldn’t stop
thinking about it. In my dream, I was sitting in my living room worried about
the drought that we seemed to be having. I remember thinking that it wasn’t
good for the crops, and it could even mean water rationing. I was saying to
myself, we need to make it rain, and I need to do a rain dance. So I got up,
went into my kitchen and started mixing up a huge bowl of pancake batter. Then
I brought the bowl and a ladle back into the living room and started hurling
pancake batter onto the ceiling with the ladle. And I guess that was the rain
dance. I woke up laughing because the whole dream was so ridiculous.
The obvious
symbols
There are some themes which seem apparent right away. That
is true especially in the first half of the dream. We have to be careful when
we make these kinds of initial assessments, because we could be wrong. But there
are images of drought and a lack of water. That leads to a possible failure of
crops and “water rationing.” As metaphors, those symbols are certainly frequent
in people’s dreams. We don’t yet know what these images are specifically commenting
on in the dreamer’s life, but we do have a sense of something important not
getting its thirst quenched, and that, in turn, leading to a possible lack of
available nourishment.
The perplexing symbols
But then things really get amusingly strange. Pancake batter
on the living room ceiling is a symbol that is specific to this particular
dreamer, and may even be unique to him. I know of only one way to find out what
these symbols might be referring to, and that is to ask the dreamer neutral
questions to help him unearth the metaphor that he associates with each one.
Tell me about…
* Living room: It’s the
common gathering place in our house. When we want to be together, that’s where
we go.
* Worried: Concerned;
something is weighing heavily on my mind.
* Drought: Lack of life-sustaining
water; an alarming threat to living.
* Crops: They are what
you eat to stay strong, healthy and alive.
* Water rationing: It’s
the control and restriction of water use; you only get the bare minimum of what
you need. You have to make do.
* Rain dance: A tribal ceremony
to bring needed water. Some people think it works, others not.
* Pancake batter: The
ingredients for a breakfast food. In my family, this was always associated with
Sunday morning, when the family was together.
* Throwing batter at the ceiling: (Laughing) I have no clue what that was
about. I guess I took it seriously as some sort of ritual to bring rain.
More to come…
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