Oligarch

The Dreamer is outside walking by his maternal grandparents old home. He looks through the big picture window and he sees that the house is empty inside: it is for sale. There is an unknown black male inside. Then the Dreamer is inside of the house, listening to a conversation between the unknown black male and the estate agent. The agent is trying to convince the man to make an offer on the house, but he doesn’t want to buy it. There is a sense that something is wrong with the house. The black man suspects that the agent is desperate to get rid of this house.

Then the Dreamer is inside of a luxury hotel room. A group of people are seated in a circle. The group wants to order room service. An unknown Arab man is given the phone. The person on the other end of the line is asking the man who gives the orders to verify his identity. The Arab man is growing impatient with the identity verification process. There is a sense of confusion, frustration, and suspicion.

Associations: my maternal grandparents home was desolate in some ways, sparse of furniture, the opposite of luxury. I spent a lot of time there as a young boy, while my parents were working, playing softball, recovering, or doing whatever it is that they did apart from us on the weekends

Feelings: confusion (why did my parents want to dump me at my grandparents house?), rejection, suspicion, frustration

Interpretation: This is a dream processing the Dreamer’s childhood emotional trauma related to being left at his maternal grandparents house for extended periods of time; the dream suggests that the Dreamer felt desperate to understand, confused, frustrated, and suspicious; that now the Dreamer goes to luxury hotels and sits in a nice robe and ordering people around like an oligarch as a sort of compensation for this rejection trauma, and the Dreammaker is questioning whether this is authentic behavior or an outdated overcompensation for that earlier wound.