A: Patricia, I appreciate you asking my interpretation about your dream, but in all honesty, that is something I just don't do. Your unconscious mind is fully active in processing information that you were presented with throughout the day. And it does this while you sleep. Your mind needs this time to chunk the information in a way that best assists you. You have to realize that there is so much information that you are receiving from all five of your senses, all the things that you didn't pay conscious attention to, your unconscious has gotten it all. And during sleep is where it makes sense of it all.
Now it doesn't necessarily have to be from that particular day, your dream may consist of information taken in from previous days along with thoughts that have been stirring inside your mind already. They may have been triggered by a phone call or someone that looks like a particular person in your dreams.
So there can be many interpretations from Freudian to Jungian, but at the end of the day, it would still be someone else telling you about your own mind. Think about it, who knows your mind better than you? If I were to give you my interpretation, then I would just be projecting my own hallucination on to what it could possibly mean for you. It's kind of like reading a horoscope, depending on where you are in your life; it will have a different meaning. Fortune cookies work the same way. That's why they are always written in a general fashion rather than specifically stating your destiny. That would be putting a limit on all that you could possibly do and become.
Why would you want me to limit all that your unconscious has to share with you, with my own interpretation? That would be doing a disservice to you.
What specific interpretation do you want someone else to agree with? If that is the case, then you already know what you want to hear, and you are only filtering for that answer. Have you considered sharing the dream with the people that are in it? What would happen then? Perhaps you already know the answer, but aren't ready to face it. Perhaps it follows the pattern of a particular movie you just saw.
Perhaps tonight you will have more parts of this dream that you remember and it will all lead to a great novel that you will write. Perhaps you will have forgotten the whole thing by morning and just go about your day in curious wonderment as to what new, fun, and exciting things will happen in your life today, can't you?
So I will leave you with that and trust that your unconscious will steer you in the right direction and guide you to and through new territories of living and being.
Good Luck!
-Oz
