Riches to Rags
The Dreamer is inside his childhood friend Rory’s home.
It is dark. The Dreamer is sneaking around. Then the Dreamer realizes he left the car window down, and it is about to rain. The car outside is a black luxury vehicle. The Dreamer fishes around looking for the keys. He is trying not to wake the owner of the home, who is his friend’s Mother. Then he is in his friend Rory’s bedroom. The Dreamer reaches for a wallet, and finds the the ID inside of the wallet belongs to the Dreamer. This room is his room.
Then the Dreamer is parking a nice car outside of a luxury establishment. It is night. The Dreamer has an unknown friend in the passenger seat. The valet takes the car. The Dreamer and his friend walk inside. There is a line, but the Dreamer knows somebody, a past client named Dominic Flavoni, is able to get them past the line. The Dreamer goes to Dominic’s table. There is a dessert buffet. There are other people at the dessert buffet, young girls. The Dreamer makes small talk with them. Then there is a bright stage. Then there is an announcement. Then the Dreamer sees a piece of paper that says his client, Dominic Flavoni, has been disqualified from the competition.
Context: In past dreams, the figure of Rory has signified a Bully, the power of aggression in the psyche.
Associations: When I was a boy, I thought Rory’s house was amazing. It was a single family home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs, a large kitchen and living area on the main floor with a powder room, and a finished basement. Coming from a two bedroom one bath condo, it was like a mansion to me. My friend Rory had his own room, which to me was another luxury. They always had nice cars. But today their fortunes have changed: Rory is unemployed and his Mother lives in a motel with his brother. When I was a young businessman, I thought my client Dominic Flavoni was a big shot. He was doing a number of jobs for the Bank of America, when they were building a lot of new retail stores. His company had big parties, and he was the man of the hour, but since then he has gone bust.
Feelings: fear, elation, disappointment
Interpretation: This is a dream about an attitude toward wealth. It continues the “luxury motif” established in “No Charlie, No”. In the first part of the dream, the Dreamer is sneaking around his childhood friend’s home, looking for the keys to roll up the window to protect the car from the coming rain, but then he realizes it is his home now. This is suggesting that the Dreamer’s attitude toward luxury may have an origin at this point in childhood. Then the Dreamer is at a high profile event, with someone from early in his business career, but suddenly his ticket to the event goes bust. The Dreammaker is inviting the Dreamer to see the temporariness of material wealth, and suggesting that the Dreamer “seal up his operation” against investing too much in financial status: it’s a small thing to do now that can save energy in the long-run.
