my dreams, and sometimes ben's

are a source of continual amusement and pondering for me...

i am always intrigued to find some way of making meaning from the dreams we have - being a student of counselling and having studied frued and jung, i feel as though an opportunity for self development or awareness presents itself in almost every dream we have, and as such, i find myself compelled to 'analyse' my dreams...

some are easy - the manifestation of what is going on in your life right now shows itself in a different (and yet easily identifiable) way in a dream...

some are not so easy - the abstract ones, the ones where nothing seems to make sense and doesn't seem at all relevant to what is going on in your life right now...

well this morning's dream was a little bit of the latter...a mish mash of good friends (some current and some from my past) came together in a bizarre and very disjointed dream...in one scene i am talking to uncle campbell about the need to hurry up to catch the plane we are catching, but we are in what looks like a side room of an rsl and i find myself swearing at him (this is not something i would do)...next scene i find myself shopping for earrings with laurel and a group of her friends in a massive department store, then i find myself with helen (a friend i had at telstra who i haven't seen in over 10 years) and we are getting a lift from 2 other women as something bad has happened to helen - turns out it was her in one scene (the one where we are reporting the incident at a desk) but then in the next scene she appeared with straight blonde hair (in the first scene she had, as she does in real life, black curly hair)...

soooo what to make of that one? there is a theory that all people in dreams are actually representations of some part of our self, so whilst they may look like someone else, they are actually parts of our psyche...interesting! there is yet another school of thought that all dreams are essentially wish fulfillment - this one i find harder to grasp as my dreams are often disturbing and as such, not something i would 'wish' for...

soooo methinks that whilst i am supposed to be having a day of 'study leave' to finish a critique due on thursday (yep, thursday this week) that i might find myself surfing the dream interpretation website and madly going thru my freud/jung books to work out what my dream meant....

procrastination is alive and well!