today in my dreams class we practice our interpretive skills on a dream i had last night. here's the just of the dream:
i am driving along a coast to find a dock to chill out at. (i want to be alone).
the dock i find is a private one, and in order for me to leave i had to provide personal info about myself.
as i'm waiting for the approval to leave, a guy at the espresso stand (to my left) and i start talking.
he insists that i meet his wife because of our common interests in music (she is a voice teacher).
so there i am, waiting in his house for his wife to get out of a lesson.
i meet his kids, and start playing video games with them.
i meet his wife (whom i can barely make out the face).
its then time to go, so i leave.
what is interesting about this dream is that ALL of the characters are completely imaginative. i have never seen any of these people before in my life.
so in class, we talked about how this is mostly a metaphor for the college experience - i left home, looking for myself. what i have found is a family-like environment that i am comfortable with. we also discussed the issue of my imagination. apparently your psyche has different characters who, in a dream, will "introduce" you to unknown or unthought-of layers.
this blew my mind.
i'm here because i am looking to set sail on a new journey. at first i thought i would be doing this alone, but in fact i am within a family. i am comfortable here. i love it here. and wherever the wind takes me, i will have these people here to look to: i am not alone :)
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