Inkwell – The dream stars with you being scared enough to hide behind the bathroom cabinet. I base what I am about to say upon exploring and seeing thousands of dreams. And a bathroom can denote both a cleansing healing process, and also a place where you can hide from other people’s view.
You view change to include the whole scene – a sign that your awareness was expanding to take in more. Then the alien appeared. An alien often represents what is ‘alien’ to you, in other words, parts of your nature you have not previously become conscious of and so have no previous reference points to.
In looking at the dream alien we have to remember that having a personality with self-awareness is a very new thing and has only existed for a short time. Before that we were like animals that lived only in the Life Will – what we usually call instincts. So the development of self-awareness was an immense step, and left us very vulnerable, and still does. As we begin to become conscious of the Hugeness that we are, we often react to it in our dreams or in waking with fear or panic. So we dream of being attacked by aliens or frightening creatures.
But your fear passed, showing I believe, that you have worked awhile on understanding dreams and yourself, and that made you less afraid. The alien raises it tail to kill you but then takes another course of action because you were not terrified of yourself as many are. Your alien then morphs into a woman.
Whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
It is also important to realise that every image, every scary or terrifying thing, is taken place inside you, in your mind, as you sleep. This means that every awful animal, every scary thing or person, is created out of your own fears and must not be seen as outside you as happens in waking awareness. The problem is that we are often scared of or frightened of actually experiencing our emotions and so they confront us in our dreams. Avoiding them or controlling them is like running away from oneself – there is no escape.
Back to the woman. As our awareness expands, as yours did in the dream, it cannot help at some point meeting its other self, the inner woman. To save time introducing her to you, please see
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-anima-jungs-view-of-the-female-in-the-male/ Example: I knew an alien whom I loved. The love was so intense that we gave ourselves to each other, to the point where I absorbed her personality with all its memories, and she absorbed mine. This felt like a very important thing to do.
Do not fear being completely taken in by the woman, because in reality she is your wider self. Remember the story of Dante, when he was led by Beatrice as they explored Paradise.
Tony