"But my feeling is that you keep avoiding meeting the reality of yourself by diving into more symbols."Maybe this is what i am doing...you could be very well right with this thought, because the first time i read your answer it made me angry. I've read it several times, again today. I had to laugh this time, because today was the first time i read the sentence following the above words, where you give the possibilty to enter the body of the boy. So i will do this later today.
I tried this a few weeks ago after another dream; in fact 2 dreams that (i think) were connected.
In the first one i walked on a path in a park. I was walking into the park, when suddenly i couldn't walk any further. Before my feet there was an open plastic box in the path. There was a large snake in it and a few small ones. The large snake crawls out of the box onto the path i'm standing on. "Of course." i think (i've had so many dreams of snakes already) The snake passes me, moving in the other direction. I am not afraid of it. It only makes me think that i've to do something. I turn around and look into the direction the snake is moving (in that direction i would go to the house i grew up in). But here also my the path is blocked. A large (sort of) cage is standing on the path. Right in front of my eyes i see a little soft rabbit in the cage. The cage is made of barbed wire. I see that the pins of the wire have even been made shorter and thus sharper by human hands. During the time the cage is standing there branches with lots of green leaves have grown around the barbed wire. I have to free the little rabbit…
During another night i dreamed i was in the livingroom of my (deceased grandparents house). My parents were also there. They just caught a large snake. My father had its tail and my mother held its head above her own head. Its head is really big. They carry it into the backroom. I follow them, afraid...i need to see what they will do with the snake. Where will they put it? In the backroom or outside? Why? Because my little rabbit is walking in the backroom...and i'm afraid it will be caught and eaten by the snake. They put the snake outside, just behind the door which i find stupid....i know the snake will be back in the house real soon...
Days after these dreams i was thinking what the snake could be about. Of course fear, kundalini, healing. Thinking about that second dream it made me feel restless...what if the snake was about some kind of secret? Then i had to think about what you wrote about...trying to get into the body/object. So i got into my mothers body while she was carrying the snake. Wow...that was (in an instant) a very heavy experience and something i wouldn't have discovered in my (old/normal) way of trying to interpret my dreams. As soon as i 'was' my mother, carrying the snake and looking at me, her little daughter, i felt so much restlessness, fear worries....she was trying very hard to make me feel and be safe....it made me cry. I almost felt shocked about the intensity of her feelings...
I think that second dream is about how my parents raised me. The one where i see the caged rabbit and the barbed wire surrounded by green branches...I think this one is how i take care of myself now...my parents way has 'grown' into something that feels like being natural (normal), though it is not...i keeping myself cages and small...while i should be 'out there'...
Haha, while typing the last words a dream from a few nights ago comes to my mind.
In this dream i am walking in the street where i grew up. I look at the bushes, which still have no leaves (like in real life now). Something caught my eye. A snake had the end of a wooden branch in its mouth. But somehow didn't know if it was right what i saw. Was it really a snake or was it also a branch? I ended with the concusion that it was a snake looking like a branch. Then i saw a seal (animal) between the bushes. It was black brown. It tried to move to the water. It worried me. What was that seal doing here? This is not its territory. I helped it out of the bushes and put it on a parking place. I was going to call animal reascue, so they could pick up the seal and take care of it...
I don't recall, but i know after this dream i read/saw something that gave me a clear picture of that wooden snake...maybe it was in one of you blogs...i must search for it again...
I must say, i am very impressed about your whole 'dream' work. It's really interesting and beautiful. It inspires me to dive into my own history of dreams again. It's such a wonderful thing...