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My wife and I drove to the Oregon coast, and while going
through a construction zone, our windshield was hit by something—probably a
rock—that caused a baseball-sized, smashed area right in front of the driver.
We were plenty shaken by the event, and knew that it was an important waking
dream. After we calmed down, we each began working separately on the symbols,
curious to know how different our interpretations would be.
We looked for metaphoric associations, something in our
lives that each symbol made us think of. Usually, we would start with the
neutral prompt, “Tell me about it.”
Tell me about…
* Driving: Going from one place to another place.
* Construction zone: A place where work is being done and
something is either being newly built or repaired.
* Traffic: Lots of vehicles going lots of places.
* Heavy and slow: There is congestion because there is so much
usage.
* Smoothly: There are no significant obstructions.
* Suddenly: It was unexpected.
* Ear-splitting noise: It was a shockingly loud auditory event. It
was momentarily all-consuming in its presence.
* Near me: Right in my space.
* I have hit something: I have made a mistake and it is my fault.
* A car or road
barrier: Something that is innocent
that I have done damage to or maligned.
* Windshield: It allows me to see out in front of me while
I am traveling, but the whole time I am being protected.
* Large smashed area: There has been a significant impact, and the
windshield took the brunt of it.
* Right in front of me: Had it not been for the protection of the
glass, it would have injured me.
* Clearly large and
flying fast: Dangerous.
* Construction truck: A tool used to haul materials at the
construction site.
* Rocks: They are minerals, and as such, living
entities, but they are ossified and crystallized. Their lives transpire at
imperceptibly slow rates.
* Opposite direction: Going counter to the way I was going.
* Shock: I am temporarily rendered immobile and in a
daze.
* Hands shaking: I have lost some control over my faculties.
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Initial thoughts
It has been my experience in interpreting dreams that the
hardest part for the dreamer is moving beyond the “victim” mentality. Even with
an incident as minor as having a rock break a windshield, there is a distinct
feeling of being violated: What have I done to deserve this? Why me?
Yet, if you work with dreams enough, you begin to understand
that ALL
dream images—all symbols—represent an aspect of the dreamer. Even the bad guys
in dreams are facets of the dreamer. And this is true whether the dream occurs
during sleep and the dreamer is frightened by a “make-believe” dream monster,
or the dream happens during waking life, and the dreamer is shocked by a “real”
rock flying straight at his car.
Although I have worked on dreams for decades, it still takes
me a while to calm down after an incident like this—an important waking dream—and acknowledge
that the flying rock in my dream is me! When I do, I understand that the first
question I need to ask is, “Why am I crashing into myself?”
More on Friday.
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