Karalora wrote:
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Whatever it is that is chasing us is dangerous enough to take the leap, and everyone's doing it.
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almost forgot to mention that the entire dream was very bright and vivid, no darkness or fear or dull edges around things.
(emphasis mine)
These two items, taken together, suggest to me that the initial scenario of the dream is not really important; it's just there to set up the situation. Like using a historical war as the backdrop for a story that's really about two people falling in love.
That seems to describe it perfectly, I wasn't really personally involved in the backdrop, wasn't really feeling the fear of whatever the tribe was running from, I simply knew I had to make the leap as everyone else did. It definitely seemed like more of a backdrop to a short story.
Karalora wrote:
The leap from a cliff into the sea could represent a descent from the conscious mind into the subconscious. What's really interesting is that before you assay to make the leap, you are one person, a child older than your daughter, but significantly younger than yourself, and the act of leaping/throwing produces two people: your daughter and yourself.
The fact that your daughter has no face seems to be particularly significant. Just off the cuff, I can come up with two possible interpretations:
1. Your faceless daughter represents your Inner Child/anima. In trying to throw yourself off the cliff, you wound up throwing only her...but you were then able to jump, and afterward, she spoke to you. You do not have direct access to your own subconscious mind, but by taking hold of your own youthful or feminine nature, you will be able to reach it. This may be because our culture codes intuition as female and discourages men from being intuitive themselves.
2. You see a lot of yourself in your daughter--so much so, in fact, that if you "take yourself out of her," she will have no identity left that you can recognize. At least subconsciously, you do not acknowledge that she is her own person, separate from you.
Does either of these interpretations seem to fit?
Thanks for taking a crack at my dream
I don't have a definite yes or no answer, but I'll respond to how the interpretations seem to me. #2 doesn't seem to work well for me, because I definitely see a lot more of my mother and wife in her than I see myself in her, but that's consciously and maybe subconsciously it's different. #1 seems closer to me, as I was thinking sort of along those lines, but oddly enough I was feeling that the leap was reversed from the usual leap from conscious to subconscious. I'm kind of working this out as I think of what your first interpretation is along with my feeling of it being reversed. There's a lot of mental illness in my family, particularly with my mother, and saying that my daughter reminds me a lot of her is saying ... well that's kind of difficult to say because I think a mind like that is different depending on whether it has been brought up in a loving home as opposed to an abusive one.
So, reversing it and including the idea of mental illness, I'm seeing her sort of losing her identity as I am throwing her into the life and society that everyone else is living. I have made every effort I can see as reasonable, to remove my children from the situation which I grew up in, and am trying to give them happy lives where they know they can do anything they want to in life. But growing up with so much of it myself, I still carry irrational fears which keep me from taking that leap myself. Everyone's identity that I grew up with was strongly connected to these issues of mental illness and abuse, so throwing my children from this history into the world that everyone else lives in may make me think of her losing her identity.
Hmm.. after what you said, maybe the dream is me seeing myself take more of that leap myself after my children have successfully done it.
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