(Guido - man, age 23)
"I travel through the desert with a strong feeling that someone is chasing me. I head towards the ruins of some ancient and deserted city that I can see far on the horizon. On my way, I notice my girlfriend, her sister and her husband standing behind the car in the distance.
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” - Sigmund Freud
They stand in front of the open trunk and the three of them are fooling around and entertaining some children who lie in the trunk just like in a baby crib. I watch them from a distance and I don't want to come closer. After a moment, only my girlfriend is there and now, she starts dancing. Her dance looks very beautiful and spiritual. But at the same time, in a way, mechanical, as if she is trying to remember the set of practiced movements. I go up to her and tell her that I really like her dance and if I knew she could dance like that, I would love her right away. People that are chasing me appear on the horizon. I give my girlfriend a kiss and I head towards the ruins. After I arrive, I climb the high wall that reminds me of a castle and try to get inside the building from there. Finally, when I manage to get on the other side of, I come across two men who argue with each other, which irritates me considering the situation in which I find myself, ie. I have a feeling that I am in a haunted place and at any moment something terrible will happen. After a while I am alone and I am trying to get to the castle courtyard. I walk along the wall, looking for an entrance stairs I could go down, I pass a shop that looks completely normal, there is a man inside. After reaching a dead end, I head back to the store. It's bizarre but I notice that the interior is now completely different. The entire shop is now completely abandoned, the shop assistant is gone and the interior looks like ruins. I'm going inside. At the back of the store there are stairs that lead down. As I begin to descend, I suddenly feel a tremendous fear sweep over my body and wake up screaming.
Dream interpretation:
The feeling of being chased reflects these emotions which the dreamer tries to avoid in reality. The fact that he is in the desert can emphasise a form of alienation. Watching his girlfriend playing at the distance manifests his own distancing from his Anima and his own creativity and in a sense his feelings. Perhaps it also illustrates the difficulties in establishing intimacy in his relationship. Her solo dance; sensual and mechanical at the same time reveals the process of discovering his inner femininity and self-acceptance when he kisses her. The dreamer, in his escape, heads towards haunted ruins which symbolise something related to his past. Because the ruins are haunted, we can assume that this place may indicate some traumatic experiences. The high wall is a reflection of something repressed, hidden deep in his psyche. An argument between two men brings back childhood memories of witnessing some argument or perhaps his inner conflict, and awakens a feeling of unease that accompanies him in the ruins. By trying to get inside the castle, the dreamer in the metaphor buries himself in his past memories. A shop that is abandoned in the blink of an eye, symbolises something that was taken from him in his childhood. As he tries to get to the bottom of these emotions, his unawareness prevents him from seeing something repressed and traumatic, and wakes him up screaming in terror.
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