(Adrian - man, age 28)
Dream:
"In my dream, I was in the role of an observer. At first I saw a family who were living on land that was going to be sold. Something was meant to be builded where their house was. When they were outside the spaceship flew past and took their father for a ride.
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.” - Jacques Lacan
I could then see how amazing everything looked from the inside as the spaceship was rising high into the sky and further up into space. Being in space, I could see some things that happened in the past, like the moments before Kennedy's assassination. But the whole assassination event didn't seem that important and I was note even close to that. It was more about being there, at this moment and time. I saw some woman that was walking through some country fields. Her skin was almost red which seemed a bit odd but I thought that she was just tanned. After a while I saw the same woman lying on the grass in the field in the grass and her skin was blue. Then I noticed a tractor riding around that field and spraying grass with red spray, and this woman was sprayed with red paint, and I realised it was just paint and that's how she got the colour of her skin."
Dream interpretation:
The land symbolises connection to family. The idea of its selling implies the subconscious wish to relinquish the family values. With the selling, naturally comes the earnings. But, what is it that holds such value for the dreamer that would make him give up the ideals he grew up on? What is his desire? In the dream, the father of the family is taken up into space. Fathers’ are generally seen as the head of the family; which may suggest that the dreamer in fact tends to have his "head in the clouds” in day-to-day life. But that's just the one way to look at the fathers ride into space in the dream he tells. According to Lacan, the father figure in one’s life is strongly associated with the laws and constraints that control desire, and set the rules for communication with the outside world. Adrian observes how the father breaks off the ground and is taken into space. The father (the symbolic) is devoured by the fullness of the psychic life into (the imaginary) space created by the subconscious mind. In the Lacanian frame the dream points to subconscious urge to unravel from imposed order in favour of the desire. There; in the space, the dreamer is able to see the past and observe the reality before JFK's assassination. There is no universal way of interpreting dreams and they are all very personal and unique. What then came to the dreamer's mind about JFK? More than anything it was clear that JFK was an authority figure for him. The journey into space represents a detachment from reality, a journey into the world of fantasy where his father's Imago merges within the world of his personal ideals represented by JFK. Then the woman appears in his dream and he gets struck by her skin. When asked if anything came to his mind when thinking about the unusual colour of the woman's skin Adrian remembered little plastic soldiers. His favourite toy from childhood, a toy that had exactly the same shades of red and blue as were the changing colours of the body of the woman in his dream. Perhaps the dreamer, now an adult man, projects his desire on the figure of a woman, instead of the toys that he used to play with in the past, and the dream reveals a desire to free himself from the paternal influence that seems to stand in the way of what Adrian subconsciously dreams about.
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