Wednesday, July 21, 2004

weird dream..

I dreamt that i was in a mall walking around trying to find my family. I walked around lost and then finally sit down on the ground and start using my computer. I then notice and start talking to some random guy that has an assortment of shotguns. He then pulls one out and shoots a crowd. I don't even seem to care. I sit there just watching the guy shoot his gun. As all the people are running away.. they all run out of the mall to get away from the crazy man with a gun, but eventually a group of kids start running at this guy and overwhelm him by taking him down. The guy starts struggling trying to hit the kids and prevent them from taking him down. I notice how he tries to shoot the kids and hurt them and then I feel bad and guilty. I then run up to the guy b/c I am behind him and start beating him down. And somehow I have a bat and kill this guy because I want to save the kids..

and then i wake up... at first it seems as though i am crazy... but from a pyschotherapy perspective it might mean... so the mall seems to represent something to do with my job. The mall could also symbolize society's views of trends and technology. The laptop I pull out symboloizes technology, information, and modern life. It means that I understand that new opportunities are being opened up to me. The strange man's gun, symbolizes aggression, anger, and potential danger. I may be dealing with issues of passiveness/aggressiveness and authority/dependence.  So in a way I think the mall and shooting the people in the mall in a way represents society and my problems with it. So knowingly seeing that man shoot people in the mall, means that I feel as though the problems of society are a potential danger and I see a need to change it or at least ignore it. 

And the children swarming the strange man symbolizes perhaps my inner child, it perhaps symbolizes that there are positive aspects of society that I need to help maintain. The children represent a purity of what society should be. So for me to kill the man with a bat to save the kids represents that I am striving to maintain hope in society, hope in the purity, hope for something better for this greater world and in saving these kids I am saving these ideals in my own mind.

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