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Dreams about the Narcissist
seeker:
Hiya everyone,
Flower, I think keys are straightforward symbols of gaining access to what was previously locked away, or conversely locking away something for various reasons (fear, safety, etc.). Keys can mean answers that open doors.
I recently had a bizarre and fascinating dream about a hidden unseen force moving my hand firmly to a doorknob. I was holding a key and the door led to a library. A friendly priest told me someone was waiting for me. There was a man (do any of you know the actor Rip Torn? that's what he looked like) dressed nicely and he looks up from a book he is holding and smiles at me. He wants to ask me some questions, like he is looking for information. I am filled with dread and the knowledge that he is the devil! Awyeeaw!
I think I was meeting up with my shadow and can't face it.
Yes, Phoenix, pretty cool this symbols in real life thing. There's a book (yeah, yeah, there I go again) called Practical Intuition that encourages this kind of thinking. I think it's pretty neat although I won't discuss it at the next ######## party I go to. :) Hey, wait a minute, I don't go to ######## parties. 8)
Anyway, I am very much working on the ol' inner life thing and am becoming very non-denominational, non-theological in my thinking. I prayed for guidance, etc. to see if this was "on the right track" or whatever. I went to church and promptly stepped in some green gum! Not just a little, a lot! and it was green. So I took this to mean that I should stick with it, :D . (I always take green to mean growth or "go ahead" unless it obviously means envy in context. ) Of course, it could also mean I was stuck. Hmmm.
What do you guys say? Seeker
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: flower ---I've found myself many times while coming home getting my keys ready to open the door of the house/apartment/duplex/mobile home etc. (whatever place I was residing at) and when I go to put the key into the door, it is the key to my car!
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Well, the interesting thing that happened the other day is that when I went to open the car door, I picked out the house key to open up the car. This is a first. I told my daughter I must like it at home now. Things are resolved in my mind about my relationship with my baity switchy parents.
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Interesting. Cars in dreams are often about being in control (or not) of one's destiny. The moving car symbolizes driving our own life along. Keys and keyholes can be about male/female relations, female energy in general, keys to new possibilities (etc.). Lots of food for pondering here. :)
bunny
Discounted Girl:
I think dreams are powerful. I always remember these from when I was little -- I just copied this from a post I made about 10 months ago.
Ah, yes the dreams. I had lots of dreams about people chasing and persecuting me -- the man in the black coat and black hat who would almost get me and I would fly up into a tree and he would wait on the corner under a streetlight. I still have that dream. From about age 7-9 I had the same dream over & over about my mother watching me, looking down from a 2nd story window while I was in the front yard raking leaves with my dad. We never had a 2nd story house, so I don't know what that was all about, but in the dream I would look up and she was glaring at me with pure hatred in her eyes. I told my dad about the dreams, and you know what he told me? "You have those dreams because of your hostile relationship with your mother -- you should try harder to get along with her." Can you believe that? Yep, he sure said it. Why didn't he tell her to stop it?
Moonflower:
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Discounted Girl:
The other parent appears to be a pansy of sorts I guess, or a partial N themself. I can remember when I guess I was about 10. She spent the entire evening shouting at him and threatening this and that, which we had heard hundreds of times. But that night she said to him "I would not sleep too deep tonight if I were you." Well, I lay in my bed terrified that she was going to kill my Dad so I got up in the middle of the night and quietly I removed all the knives from the kitchen drawers and hid them under my bed. I even debated with myself about the butter knives, should I hide them also? I also got in my little jewelry box and took out this big star pin I had cause it had sharp points on it. I tell you NOBODY, ESPECIALLY A LITTLE KID should EVER EVER EVER EVER have to go through that. :(
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