Shhh

The Dreamer is watching a film, filmed outdoors.

Two boys that resemble the Dreamer’s rebellious friends Rory and Ed meet for the first time. They are about seven years old. One takes the limelight of the camera from the other. Then the Dreamer is in the bathtub at his Grandparent’s house, being bathed by his Grandmother. Then the Dreamer is showering at his Grandparent’s house. The bathtub is in the living room. The Dreamer’s grandmother is in the periphery of the scene: it is like she is laying down to sleep outside of the bathroom.

Then the Dreamer sees a scene from above: like a GPS with moving vehicles. The Dreamer says that they are running late: his Wife suggests an alternate route. The Dreamer says that this route is longer, we should have taken the other route.

Then the Dreamer is in his childhood bedroom where there was a gap between his bed and his sister’s bed. The Dreamer puts his legs between the beds, so that he is sleeping on both of them. Then Rory’s Mother Colleen is sleeping in the sister’s bed.

Then the Dreamer is in the passenger seat of Rory’s car, alone, outside of Rory’s house. Then the Dreamer notices that someone, an unknown young girl, inside of Rory’s garage wants to get out of the garage, but the Dreamer’s car blocks.

Then the Dreamer is inside of Annalisa’s house. He remarks that Annalisa looks tired from the children, but she denies. The Dreamer fixes something in the house. Then Aurelien, Jack, and the three boys come home. Then two of the boys, who are about seven years old, start to put on a skit, with one on the other’s lap. The Dreamer notices that one of the boys has black hair on his legs. Then one of the boys is making the other boy into a puppet show. Then the Dreamer asks what happened to the test tubes: he sees the test tubes. Then one of the boys has a meltdown, about “seeing the puppy”. The Dreamer leans down to reassure the little boy that “someday he will see the puppy”.

Then the Dreamer is in a medical office with his Wife and an unknown man, like Piers the Real Estate Agent. Then Ryan Ross is there, as a doctor. Then Ryan Ross gives the Dreamer a bill estimate for $75,000. Then Ryan starts to give the Dreamer a second bill. The Dreamer leans over to his Wife and says, “aren’t we just here to get the prognosis?”. The Wife agrees, and says that to Ryan. Then Ryan fishes in her drawer for a specific document. Piers says that the document is the kind that has two sides. Ryan shushes Piers. The Dreamer says to his Wife, “is she shushing us?”. Then the Dreamer says to Ryan, “excuse me, but it’s rude to shush your clients”. Ryan denies shushing, meanwhile continuing to shush. Piers burbs aloud. Ryan shushes.

Context: Rory and Ed have appeared together in a previous dream about aggression. Rory’s Mother Colleen and Rory’s house have figured in a previous dream, where the Dreamer is sneaking around that house, only to find his ID in Rory’s wallet. The character of Aurelien, and the theme of fixing, has figured in another dream where the Dreamer fixes a fish tank.

Associations: In this dream, the Dreamer associates Rory as having stolen the limelight. I associate the scene with the grandparents as a “coming to age” for me, when I “graduated” from bathtub to the shower. I am often annoyed, impatient, to take routes that take longer. I associate Annalisa with a Mother. I associate the boys as troublemakers. I associate Piers with business. I associate Ryan Ross as a hustling business person (who is in some ways a con, or a rip-off), and a Mother. I associate shushing with a way to ignore, or try to calm, a baby: it can be rude or reassuring, it can also point to a secret.

Feelings: outrage, pride, fear, pride, outrage

Interpretation: This is a dream about “mischief”, a recurring aspect of the Mother complex. Here we have three examples of tired mothers, in the grandmother who is asleep, the friend’s mother who is asleep, and the friend who is tired. The symbolic energy that has been put into the mother complex is a source of fatigue. This dream is also a further regression than usual for the Dreamer: the typical regression is to high school, but in this case the Dreamer regresses to associations around the age of seven years old. The two boys at the start of the dream sequence are rebellious and mischievous, “one steals the limelight”, and the two boys later are also mischievous, “one makes the other into a puppet”. The Dreamer too is mischievous in how he lays on the bed. Later, the unknown male figure Piers is mischievous in his own way, burping aloud. The Dreammaker is suggesting that the Dreamer’s mischievous personality is an regressive immature, attention-getting, con-job that is causing a significant amount of fatigue, and costing the Dreamer a significant amount of libido.