The dream took place where I lived in the 4th grade. In this house lived 4 black and silver German Sheppard dogs, two white middle aged males and their African-American daughter Clay who happened to be my youngest female cousin (age 13). Clay was quiet and submissive when needed but she was also able to think on her feet and talk her way out of trouble. In the dream I was first just an observer then a participant. I was around 15 years old.
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In the dream there were 3 young children who said they’d been abandoned by their parents in their home. A 9 year old boy was parent to two younger well behaved siblings. The house was very clean, well organized and very well decorated in earth tones. I asked how long the parents had been gone and he said years but that he took up the slack after they left. In the house they had several fish tanks with beautiful fish. They had a huge, crystal clear, well established tank in the wall in the living room which sat beside an iguana enclosure. Above that enclosure was a flightless bird on its perch. There were small rock gardens and waterfalls in the living room as well as big, beautiful plants. Wide open spaces were filled with light which brought life to the entire house. I was impressed that a 9 year old was able to maintain it all and told him as much.
In dream therapy you re-write your dream/nightmare so that it has an ending you can live with. The dream I had the other night about my sister had an ending I can’t live with so I’m going to do a creative writing kind of dream re-write. The original dream is here.
It had only been one hour since the University announced immediate evacuation to safeguard students from the fast approaching blizzard, yet the place was deserted. Students and Faculty abandoned the school with speed and fury leaving silence eerily dangling in darkened hallways….Scratch that! Let’s go lighter and skip past the packed cab leaving us behind. We’ll go right to the part where my sister and I are alone in the school.
We were at the university very late waiting for a cab to go home. The university was closing, evacuating and this was the last cab out. A neighbor jumped in the cab with several other people and I convinced the driver to let me go as well since I live next door to one of his passengers. He said okay. I jumped in thinking my sister may have caught another cab or something. I hoped we’d be able to pull away without seeing her pop up in the door. I wanted to believe she’d gotten a ride home. When I saw her in the door I told the guy to stop the cab and let me out because I couldn’t just leave her there. I got out and went inside and told my sister there wasn’t enough room for us both. She was pissed that others got what she called ‘her cab’. She insisted that cab was called for her and he maliciously left her behind to take other passengers home. In order to prove that he was trying to avoid her and leave her she went outside, got on top of a sky scraper and surveyed the area below to find this driver. When she saw a cab circling the university she accused him of trying to confuse her or escape without getting caught by her.
I didn’t realize I’d been here a month and a half. I thought I’d only been here about two weeks. Where has the time gone? What did I do or in some cases who did I do? In the time missed I failed to pay my light bill. I have to do that today.
I don’t feel right. Dr. D and I talked about not recognizing my surroundings. I did that atFife’s house too. I sorta recognized my things but it just didn’t click. I still felt like I didn’t know the place or that I didn’t know where I was. I hate that.
In the dream my sister was having some mental health issues. She wasn’t herself, she was absent yet functioning in a manner in which others might not immediately realize she wasn’t well. The dream took place either on a bus or airplane. I couldn’t tell which one. The only people there were me, my sister, my mother and a young girl. The Caucasian girl was about 30 years old, heavy set and had short brunette curly hair. In the dream my sister and I were our current ages (40 and 44), my mother was about 35 years old which is the age she always is in my dreams.
What stands out about this dream is how generic it is. Usually my dreams are long and drawn out, detailed. This particular dream was short and to the point.
In the dream my friend Sweet came over to see me and hang out for a little bit. The apartment was my current home but was set up in my grandparent’s basement. When the friend arrived I walked her through my grandparent’s house, down the stairs, through a second area in the basement then past my sister who was just outside my apartment playing pool alone. Once inside, Sweet said to me, “Does it matter that your sister knows?” I spoke quickly and cautioned her. “You can’t trust her. Do not trust her.”
Notes: Does it matter that my sister knows what? I have no idea. The apartment in my dream was my current apartment only it sat in the very back Continue reading ‘Dream. Family Traits. Abstract.’
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