(Dannika - woman, age 25)
Dream:
"I hear some noise coming from the basement. I am going downstairs and I am scared. There is a huge black bull walking freely around the room and there is something like an animal pen. It looks like the bull has escaped through a slightly ajar gate.
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." - Carl Jung
Despite that i I am terrified, I feel like I need to put him back inside the pen. I am trying to herd him back there and eventually I managed to close the gate behind him. I notice that something is wrong with his hoof and that he has a small circle underneath (like from an office chair) and he limps when he walks. I feel sorry for him because he looks unhappy being closed and the wheel makes him look disabled."
Dream Interpretation:
The basement seen in a dream uncovers what one wants to hide from the world. What we find in the basement in our dreams, may as well reflect what we are hiding behind the mask of our Persona. The rackets coming to the dreamer’s attention, and eventually the bull’s escape, unveil the source of her own strength which is being suppressed. Resembling that in the dream, she faces what lies dormant within her and though she is petrified, a sense of obedience prompts her to get the animal back to the pen. This illustrates the mechanism of suppressing something within her that she believes is inappropriate. As a result, this hides it underneath the image of her Persona while emotions are steaming inside. She manages to herd the bull back to its pen and notices a wheel attached to the animal's leg. That arouses a feeling of pity towards the animal, the feeling that in fact Dannika subconsciously experiences towards her own self. The wheel attached to the animal’s leg is a manifestation of her intellect interfering with the essence of her nature. The useless wheel is there to steer a wild animal and as result implies a sense of disability in its natural instincts. What is it that has been embodied as the huge bull in her dream, and why does she keep it deeply hidden?
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