Vince-mania

The Dreamer is outside with his dogs Charlie and Rico in a busy town.

The dogs get loose from the Dreamer’s grip. The Dreamer is chasing them. He chases them into a theater. The Dreamer yells after the dogs. There are many other people in the theater, but no one tries to help. The Dreamer almost bumps into Chuck Norris in pursuit of the dogs. Then the theater is almost empty: the show is over. Then the Dreamer gives up. Then the Dreamer sees his Father. The Dreamer tells his Father about the dogs, but the Father just shrugs his shoulders. Then the Dreamer is outside in the snow. There is a body of water nearby. The Dreamer’s dogs run up to him. The Dreamer puts his dogs in a headlock: wrestling for fun.

Then the Dreamer is in his old apartment where he lived during high school and college. He is looking for someone who stole a gem from him. His past employee Daryl and his past employee Rebecca are at a table with some other people, playing a game. The Dreamer suspects Daryl has stolen the gem. Then the Dreamer begins picking items out of a garbage bag. The items include creative writing samples and a board game called “Vince-mania”, based on Vince MacMahon, CEO of the WWE. Then the Dreamer begins going through the creative writing samples.

Then the Dreamer is back in a theater. His friends Paul (who is also his employee) and Peter (who was his employee) are there. Paul and Peter leave the theater. Paul leaves behind a notebook. The Dreamer picks it up. Inside there are songs. The Dreamer begins to add a song to the songbook.

Context: This dream continues “dog chasing” motif found in No Charlie, No — about what is luxury. It also continues the “value motif” found in Empty Locker, where there is a missing gemstone. It also continues the “muscular” motif, with reference to Vince MacMahon.

Associations: I associate Chuck Norris with someone muscular, who I would not want to bump into: he would kick my butt. I associate my Father with consuming movies (we would go to the movies every Friday and we would rent a lot of movies together). I associate my past employee Daryl with a creative person in a non-creative job. Same with Paul.

Feelings: fear, fun

Interpretation: This is a dream about wrestling with an attitude toward creativity. The Dreamer is afraid of chasing his instincts into a creative place, like the theater. The Dreamer has lost some value, and he suspects he has lost it to his business. The Dreammaker is suggesting that the Dreamer has undervalued creative writing and overvalued being a CEO (he has become too muscular in this respect), perhaps he should value creative writing more.