Stay the Course
The Dreamer is driving outside, during the day, on a foreign European country road with some passengers to get supplies.
The Dreamer is winding up a hill, driving too fast for his passengers. He loses his bearings on where he is going. Now he’s lost. He stops at a farmhouse to ask for directions. He knocks on the door. A well-dressed Old Man answers. Before the Dreamer can ask for directions, the Old Man says that he has something for the Dreamer. The Old Man goes into a closet and pulls out a gun. He says it was used by one of the Lost Founding Fathers. The gun is a strange old pistol with three different colored books attached to the handle: gold, blue, and red. The Dreamer feels a great sense of responsibility. Then the Old Man provides directions: just go straight down the road to find your way. The path is right in front of the Dreamer. Then the Dreamer goes outside and sees a Young Man of Arabic descent speed down the road on an ATV. The Young Man does some tricks, but he knows what he’s doing and it’s just for his own entertainment, and he keeps going.
Context: I’m interested in politics, reading some political texts, and fantasizing about the future of politics in America.
Associations: I prefer dangerous, controversial, books over guns or ATVs.
Feelings: thrill, distraction, responsibility
Interpretation: This is a dream about attitude toward risk. The motif of juxtaposition between guns and books returns. The Dreamer is given a gun that is attached to three books: gold, blue, and red. Gold has represented a creative spiritual path in the Two Wise Men dream. Blue and red were present in the Night at Fischman’s dream, as a political reference. The Dreamer makes a political reference in this dream RE: “Lost Founding Fathers”. The Dreammaker may be suggesting (again) that the Dreamer is best off taking an intellectual risk. It appears that risk is an integration of spiritual (gold) and political (red and blue) interests. The dream also suggests that the Dreamer may already know the path and just has to go down it.
