Last night I dreamed that I had sex with Steve Martin.
Later, I dreamed that I was a teenager in Salem about ten years after the witch trials, and my mother -- a prostitute -- had been hanged and then burned when I was a small child. I carried her cremains with me in an envelope. I had become pregnant by a black man in a neighboring town, and when the child was born and the doctor saw that she was black, he declared her stillborn and killed her. Before long, I had another envelope of ashes to carry with me. This part was extremely dark and disturbing, but then Pedro showed up and I told him all about it and he comforted me.
After that, just before I woke up, I dreamed that I was a spy on a mission to infiltrate a KGB base, and just as I was about to execute the complex series of acrobatic feats required to gain entry, my point of view switched to third person.
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According to Dreammoods.com, the first part of the dream signifies that I need to incorporate some aspects of my dream sex partner into my own character. The fact that I dreamed of having sex with an actor indicates that I am on a quest for pleasure, and may suggest that I desire to incorporate some of his personality traits. Probably, I'm not funny enough.
The second part is far more complex. While a newborn infant often indicates pleasant surprises, the immediate and violent death of that infant at the hands of a doctor would seem to indicate that illness and strife will abort such pleasantness and signifies my need for spiritual healing. Furthermore, while giving birth symbolizes taking on a new project, a stillborn child indicates the fear that the project will fall apart before it can be completed. The loss of my dream-mother (who was not, in fact, my real-life mother) indicates an absence of shelter, comfort, and guidance in my life; the fact that she was a witch either strengthens this point by representing goodness, power, and enchantment or counteracts it by representing dangerous and destructive feminine forces. Since my dream-mother was also a prostitute, the latter seems more likely. Witnessing the murder of my infant indicates a deep-seated anger towards somebody for causing the destruction of my creative energies. Furthermore, since a physician comitted the murder, it seems likely that I blame discouraging illness and familial strife for that destruction.
The last part, I chalk up to too much Freedom Force.
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I pretty much think all this dream interpretation stuff is hooey. That said, though, I find it interesting to poke around when I have particularly vivid and unusal dreams to see what it all "means." My dreams tend to be highly complex and involve dream-memories that fall outside the borders of the dreams themselves (for instance, I didn't dream that my mother was being hanged, but the memory of her death was intact at the start of the dream.) I've also had disturbing dreams and nightmares from the time I was a small child, which I just assume is part of being the kind of person Pedro tactfully describes as "wound rather tightly." Most of my nightmares are recurrent dreams, so when I come across a new one (like the above) it's interesting to me.
Pedro, on the other hand, rarely remembers his dreams, and when he does, they're relatively common and mundane. I've found this to be the case with most people I've talked to. My mom has wild and bizzare dreams like mine, but very few nightmares. I understand that there's nothing more boring than someone trying to explain what s/he dreamed last night, but I thought that no message board is really complete without some kind of dream thread. So, here it is. Feel free to comment on my dream and proposed interpretation, or share your own dream and let us pick it apar...I mean, tactfully and kindly offer our well-informed opinions.
Have at it, kids.
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