Tinker Toy Car
The Dreamer is watching a film.
In the film, his friend Peter is inside of a prehistoric home, living with a few unknown others. Peter leaves his home and goes to explore a nearby encampment. The encampment is also prehistoric, but comparatively luxurious. Peter meets the resident of that home: he is an Indian man. Peter offers an object of value to him in exchange for an object of value to the Indian.
Then the Dreamer is on the internet. Someone else is on his internet, too. The Dreamer traces the unauthorized access. He sees the person lives in a brownstone at 105 Grand Avenue in Washington, DC. The Dreamer sees the home is in a neighborhood with Arabic writing on a few storefronts. The Dreamer spiritually journeys to the home of the unauthorized person. It is an unknown black man, living on a mattress with an unknown woman. The Dreamer suggests to the black man that he should leave his files alone. The black man says, “Fuck you”. Then the Dreamer is inside another side of the home, and he sees that the area where the black man was is now empty of everything. Then the Dreamer is in a community meeting with several unknown people and his Wife. There is a serious discussion. An unknown woman, pretty, is saying something. The white man in the corner makes an uncouth comment. The Dreamer’s Wife scoffs, like it is unacceptable.
Then the Dreamer is back inside the brownstone house. There is an Old Asian Man who is tinkering with something in the home. Then the old Asian man gets into a vehicle. Then the vehicle is seen to be very small, a tinker toy car. The Asian man is leaving in the toy car, propelled by wind turbines. The car does not go in a straight line, but bumps or almost bumps into objects on its way. The Dreamer sees a detail on the back of the car, some inspirational words or an inspirational slogan. There is a film score music in the background, the kind of music that there would be in a happy ending.
Context: Yesterday I was writing a paper about cybersecurity for work. I was also listening to a podcast about healthy and unhealthy expressions of the judging and perceptive functions. In the perceptive function podcast, the host was discussing that the ESP type likes to tinker and experiment in the real-world. The other day, I saw a video online about someone who was flying a machine propelled by pedaling and I thought that was really cool.
Motifs: The character of Peter has appeared before, with his brother Paul (“theater dream” and most recently “noogie dream”). In the theater dream, Paul handed the Dreamer a songbook: and the Dreamer added his song. In the noogie dream, the Dreamer is inside of some complex with Peter and Paul but escapes from that situation. In real life, Paul and Peter are twins, but Paul is more of a creative song writer and Peter is a tinkerer. The black man recurs as a shadow motif. The Indian man recurs from the “compost” dream, where he carries an oversized weapon. Arabic recurs as a theme from “graffiti” and the “straight path” dreams where an Arab man is doing something risky, but relatively harmless. The Old Asian Man recurs with solutions (as seen in the “cover for me”, “the trees up there”).
New Associations: I used to be a “hacker” and I associate the hacker archetype with a high curious, high experimentation, albeit toxic, period in my life. I was about 13 years old and I was gaining unauthorized access to high value personal accounts on America Online. I swore off that part of myself when I witnessed Federal agents in unmarked vehicles canvassing outside of my apartment complex. Lucky for me, the agents were not able to pinpoint which exact apartment was responsible.
Feelings: there is an undertone of extreme violence in the prehistoric scene, like Peter could murder the Indian or vice versa; aggression toward the hacker, cynicism in the community space, happiness in the end
Interpretation: This is a dream about healthy use of the extraverted sensing perception function. The Dreamer’s friend Peter is prefiguring that typology. Peter is in a “prehistoric era”, meaning the function is very underdeveloped. There is a certain violence in the Dreamer that keeps Peter in that unnatural state. The hacker represents a time for the Dreamer when he used that function, but that time has since been long gone and is now empty. The Dreamer has developed an aggressive, cynical, unfeeling, attitude toward that part of himself. The Dreammaker suggests that there is yet a healthy outlet for that function, in the engineering and tinkering of the Old Asian Man, the little, inspirational, toy car propelled by wind turbines.
Active Imagination: after the dream, the Fool went back to see Peter in the prehistoric house and there was a voice, it was like the Fool’s voice but deeper, tyrannical, and denied the Fool access to see Peter. The Fool wanted to lead him outside.
