(Vienna - woman, age 27)
Dream:
"I am in a flat which at the same time looks like a drugstore. I see a stand with nail polishes from different brands. The stock doesn't seem to be full but I am surprised to see a silver colour which I couldn't find anywhere and here I see it. I turn around for a moment and when I look back again they are almost all gone. Just a few left. There is a cabinet in front of me and inside I find a huge Disney candle. Also there was a picture of “Snow White” on the box which was opened but the candle was never used. I'm thinking of lighting it but I decided to put it back.
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” - Henry David Thoreau
I go upstairs to a gallery room (my room in the dream), meanwhile I am listening to my affirmation/meditation and I have my headphones on. I meet a man upstairs and he says something to me but I can't hear him because of the headphones so I remove them. I don't know what he said and now he can hear my affirmation/meditation. I don't feel ashamed but for some reason I couldn't mute it so I left the room and went downstairs for a moment. When I came back I saw the same man searching for something in my drawer. I didn't feel angry or upset but I swore and told him to get out. I thought that if he has the right to search through my drawer I have the right to swear at him.
We went to his car and suddenly we both changed. He turned into a sun-touched blonde man with longer hair and was wearing black sunglasses. His voice also changed as he repeated all the words from the meditation and he sounded exactly like the man from the audio. And my hair turned blonde too. Strangely, I could see this scene from a third person view. I gave him a light kiss on the mouth and let him go.
Then I was driving a car alone. I came across the chasm at the end of the road. I saw a toothless and homeless man on the left side of the forest. He was sitting under a tree and waving at me. It was dark and I was exhausted. When I got out of the car I realised that I was topless and all I had was my duvet. It had a light pink colour. So I put it around myself and walked backwards leaving the man and the car behind. As I was walking I struggled to find the road back.
On my way back to the city, people were not paying much attention to the fact that I was carrying a huge duvet around myself. I got to the market and it was already morning. It was buzzing with a lot of people around. I saw my mother but we didn't talk, she just stopped by to see the sunrise. I continued walking until I arrived at the harbour. The moment was so idyllic and the sunrise was beautiful."
Dream interpretation:
A continuous struggle to find the right colour suggests a lack of something in the dreamer's life. With the colour of her desire, she is trying to fulfil some emptiness. In her previous dream, she was looking for sea green nail polish, while here, she is looking for silver one. The silver colour in alchemy is associated with the moon and refers to female energy. In her dream when she comes across a silver nail polish in the shop, she is surprised; it represents something rare in her reality. When she looks away for a moment, most of the silver bottles are gone and there are only a few left on the shelf; it relates to a fleeting experience in her life. The cupboards found in the dream relate to the dreamer’s mental state. Candles are a symbol of realisation, enlightenment; a candle brings light into the dark. Snow White is a fairy tale that tells about maturity and self-realisation. In the fairy tale, Snow White comes back to life after the kiss of the prince - this may be related to the dreamer’s inner integration with her masculine energy.
Since the dreamer's room in her dream is also a gallery, we can assume that this dream refers to her creativity; the way she expresses her emotions. The staircase forms a link between the dreamer's down-to-earth part of her ego (downstairs) and spontaneous creativity (upstairs). At the top of the stairs, she meets a man who has something to say to her, however she is unable to hear the message because she is drowned out by the affirmation sound from the headphones. This reveals an attempt to jam her true masculine energy into an affirmation content that she thinks serves better for her. She goes downstairs for a moment, and when she goes back upstairs, she finds the same man searching the drawer of her personal belongings, revealing an intrusive aspect to the masculine part of her psyche. In a way, she feels under surveillance of her masculinity. She doesn't respond with anger however the foreign interference makes her express her emotions.
At this point, the dreamer experiences a transformation of her male energy, the same man now literally becomes the voice of her affirmation, and the sunglasses protect her inner projection. Following the content of the affirmation, she takes over control and drives the car, discovering the freedom and the ability to love herself when she kisses the man and then lets him go. A lonely trip outside the city connects the dreamer with the areas of her deeper subconsciousness. The trees symbolise the roots in the higher self. At the end of the road, she finds a homeless man who symbolises a deeply hidden part of her psyche. Her fatigue reflects what she in fact feels in reality in reference to the energy manifested in the dream by the man at the end of the road. The chasm that she comes across at the end of the road symbolises the end of a certain period in her life. This is a symbol of mental death; The lack of the man's teeth is a symbol of getting rid of something rotten in order to give birth to something new.
Walking backwards figuratively portrays the stage of the adult personality shifting back into the infant stage. Naked and defenceless, she returns, covered only with a sheet in colour reminiscent of the colour of the mother's womb. The dreamer has difficulty finding her way back, which illustrates the process of an inner change. Eventually, as the sun rises, she manages to reach her destination and reunites with her mother at the town's market. Her mother is there to see the sunrise, which in a dream symbolises the new birth of the dreamer. A journey backwards towards the ocean illustrates the dreamer's intention to find her own consciousness and break away from family complexes.
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