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Dream Interpretation / open wounds and hunchbacks
« on: May 03, 2012, 03:36:49 PM »
I dream I'm searching for home. I get on a subway, get out. I see alot of buildings, can't see my apartment building. Not sure I'm walking in the right direction. I ask someone, who points me one way. I go, end up on a very deserted street, a poverty stricken area. It's raining and rain is making cars splash dirty water. I jump up out of the way of the dirty water and then climb up to the other side of the street. I'm in a very poor neighborhood. Like a slum.
I follow what looks like a poor, misshapen man--a hunchback who is lame, and end up in this maze where it's a leper colony. Someone knows the way through and I'm following. it gets narrow and I can't pass this man who has open sores all over him without touching him and fearing I'll be contaminated. He has stumps for legs. There's a baby there too, and I'm afraid if I touch these sore-ridden people I'll get leprosy. So I actually threaten one to keep it back, a very quick moving tiny one who lies down in a small pallet meant for him--I feel guilty threatening somone so small and helpless but I go by.
I end up in a different area, following a woman. I know she's the healer/tender of the place. I keep following but she's always turning a corner, out of my sight and I have to guess. Finally I duck into a room. It's dark, quiet, with all the furniture in order. I speak out one exit and it's dark outside, with beautiful white sand and sandy water. But I'm looking for her. I turn into the room which is a whole apartment. I peer around a wall and there she is: an old woman, with white hair. I realize it's M. (a very elderly woman in my real life who mothers me). She says: "Hi! you made it! I ask her if I can shower.
This is not an easy dream for me to write here. Even while I was in the dream, I felt alot of embarrassment and aversion toward these wounded, misshapen folks, which may represent the wounds I bear, and how they are not closed after a very long time. I would like some advice for how to enter the dream and bring healing.
I follow what looks like a poor, misshapen man--a hunchback who is lame, and end up in this maze where it's a leper colony. Someone knows the way through and I'm following. it gets narrow and I can't pass this man who has open sores all over him without touching him and fearing I'll be contaminated. He has stumps for legs. There's a baby there too, and I'm afraid if I touch these sore-ridden people I'll get leprosy. So I actually threaten one to keep it back, a very quick moving tiny one who lies down in a small pallet meant for him--I feel guilty threatening somone so small and helpless but I go by.
I end up in a different area, following a woman. I know she's the healer/tender of the place. I keep following but she's always turning a corner, out of my sight and I have to guess. Finally I duck into a room. It's dark, quiet, with all the furniture in order. I speak out one exit and it's dark outside, with beautiful white sand and sandy water. But I'm looking for her. I turn into the room which is a whole apartment. I peer around a wall and there she is: an old woman, with white hair. I realize it's M. (a very elderly woman in my real life who mothers me). She says: "Hi! you made it! I ask her if I can shower.
This is not an easy dream for me to write here. Even while I was in the dream, I felt alot of embarrassment and aversion toward these wounded, misshapen folks, which may represent the wounds I bear, and how they are not closed after a very long time. I would like some advice for how to enter the dream and bring healing.