Unrequited Love
The Dreamer is outside an unknown collegiate neighborhood, with many mid-rise condominiums, at night.
Then he is inside one of the buildings. There is a social circle of multiple unknown persons. Inside the circle there is an Unknown Woman with whom the Dreamer is infatuated. The Dreamer does not belong to the circle. The Unknown Woman tolerates the Dreamer’s attention, but does not exactly reciprocate. Then the Dreamer is walking through the halls of a dormitory, looking for the Unknown Woman. Then the Dreamer is walking on the ground level of an academic building looking for the Unknown Woman. Then the Dreamer is walking outside in the neighborhood, looking for the Unknown Woman. Then the Dreamer is driving his old car, a Mustang, in the neighborhood, with the Unknown Woman and an unknown person in the backseat. The group is lost. The Unknown Woman advises the Dreamer to turn onto a street. The Dreamer turns onto the street. Then the group sees that the street is on the coast of a large body of water. There is a storm. There are waves, crashing high. The Dreamer advances on the road, complaining to the Unknown Woman that he would not have turned onto this road in this car because it does not have good traction in the wet weather. The Dreamer pushes forward on the road, the waves from the body of water crash over the harbor and threaten to engulf the vehicle.
Context: The infatuation, fixation, unrequited appreciation in this dream is reminiscent of the Social Circles and Put Your Money Where dreams. In Social Circles, the Dreamer is infatuated with a Known Woman, prefigured by Anne, who belongs to a certain circle. In Put Your Money Where, the Dreamer is fixated on an Unknown Woman who belongs to a certain circle.
Associations: I had a Mustang throughout college. I liked it. I traded it in because my wife, then girlfriend, was driving it and it was not safe or easy to handle in the wet or the snow.
Feelings: frustration, ambivalence, fear
Interpretation: This is a dream about an attitude toward others. The Dreamer is fixated on this Unknown Woman. There does not seem to be a reason for the fixation: they are not in love with each other. The location of this dream suggests that the attitude is from the Dreamer’s college days, this placement is reinforced by the appearance of the Mustang car. Mustangs are horses in the wild. Is it that this fixation too, runs wild? That it follows the Unknown Woman into dangerous fantasy terrain? The Dreammaker suggests that this attitude represents a risk to the Psyche.
