Mira

The Dreamer is inside of a storage unit. The storage unit contains childhood and adolescent objects. The Dreamer is reviewing and organizing the unit, finding things to keep and things to give away. The Dreamer sees a photo of him and his sister, Brittany. In the photo, they are both bruised: the Dreamer is maybe 10 and the sister is 4. The Dreamer picks up the photo and it is alive, animated. Then unknown people arrive. The Dreamer gives them a bunch of pillows from the storage unit.

Then the Dreamer is outside riding a bicycle on the MUM college campus through a beautiful canopy of trees.

Then the Dreamer is outside a grocery store waiting for Brittany. He gets her a half loaf of bread.

Then the Dreamer is outside at a round table, talking with young college students. The Dreamer becomes infatuated with one of the students, a young woman named Mira. Then the Dreamer sees abandoned buildings with large drums inside. The Dreamer hypothesizes to the group that the campus has a chemical storage problem.

Then the Dreamer is facing Mira. Mira is picking at the Dreamer’s face with her long, painted, fingernails. She says that the Dreamer has a mosquito bite that has become infected.

Then the Dreamer is inside of a classroom. An unknown man, the Teacher, is challenging the Dreamer’s hypothesis about the chemical storage problem. The Dreamer defends his hypothesis, and makes a statement that ends with “that’s why we have to create a post-pollution ideology.”

Then the Dreamer is at the cafeteria. The Teacher is popular, his image is on a big screen. The Teacher takes an interest in the Dreamer’s friend Ruki and asks her if she would like a hug. The Teacher and Ruki awkwardly hug. Then Ruki shares a photo of her husband, Peter.

Then the Dreamer is inside his dorm room waiting for Mira to arrive. The Dreamer’s mother arrives in a small car. Mira and Brittany get out of the backseat of the car. The Dreamer looks at Mira’s butt in her jeans. Then the Dreamer is looking around for clothes to wear. Then Brittany comes inside the Dreamer’s dorm room to collect her groceries.

Then the Dreamer is on a train with Mira. An alarm goes off on the train and the Dreamer is shown on a surveillance screen. The police tell him that he failed to authenticate his badge.

Then the Dreamer is inside of a college building. An unknown woman hands him rose spray perfume. Then the Dreamer enters an elevator to go to the florist’s shop. There, an unknown woman tells him that the roses are $1,000 per dozen because she has a problem growing them.

Then the Dreamer is outside with Mira. Mira is talking with the Teacher. Then the Teacher is working on a wooden mailbox. The mailbox has a wooden tribal mask on the end where the mailbox is pulled down to put the mail inside. The mask is crooked. The Teacher confronts the Dreamer about the crooked construction of the mask. When the Teacher confronts the Dreamer, he is revealed to be a high school friend named Jim McCarval. The Dreamer defends himself to Jim telling him that “your wooden mask project isn’t my problem.”

Context:

Associations: pillows, comfort; MUM, freedom; Brittany, quiet; Mira, quiet; chemical storage, toxic; picking at my face and long fingernails, mother; Ruki, sweet, quiet; groceries, resources; roses, romantic; wooden mailbox, crafty; Jim McCarval, macho-aggressive.

Feelings: discomfort (of moving on), excitement (of moving on), sorrow (about me and my sister), infatuation (throughout the dream series), discomfort (at the picking at my face), amusement (at the failure to authenticate), outrage (at the price of roses), embarrassment (at the shoddy construction), anger (at Jim McCarval)

Interpretation: This is a dream about a toxic attitude; the objectification of women. The Dreammaker suggests that this “bruising” attitude began when the Dreamer was about 10 years old, toward his sister Brittany. It may be the projection of a defensive reaction to feeling “picked on” by women, mainly the Dreamer’s mother (who literally picks on his face). The attitude was strongly constellated in college when the Dreamer began to “pick up” or “pick on” young women. The characteristics of that attitude are: malnourished (one cannot live off of bread alone), toxic (chemical storage and pollution), cheap shots (looking at Mira’s butt), resourcing others (like groceries), cheap (as opposed to $1,000 roses), inauthentic, awkward (as in the narcissistic hug), crooked (as in the mailbox construction), and wooden (as in excessive inflexibility). The name Mira means ocean in Sanskrit, peace in Slavic, wonderful in Latin, and look here in Spanish. The Dreammaker is telling the Dreamer to “look here”, here’s a toxic childhood trait that is causing repeated bruising: If you stop doing this then there will be healing and more room for organization.