Dream: I hear some rowdy teenage boys outside. There’s a crash. It’s dark outside and they look all shadowy. I fear they are going to do something bad. I am sitting on the floor in my bedroom and I reach over and quietly close the door so that I can’t hear them. I notice that the door doesn’t latch all the way.
Who are these boys? Why am I afraid of them? Why am I hiding out in my room quietly closing the door? We examine these questions in the dream session. I feel uncomfortable. There is something about this dream and this discussion that I would rather not get into. Rodger works with me to get to feelings that I am avoiding. He suggests that the teenage boys are “my boys”. They are my boys that the pathology doesn’t want me to know. But, as the dream shows, I haven’t closed the door all the way – I have left it unlatched. The door can still be opened to connect with them. My homework is to go outside and be with the boys.
Although initially uncomfortable, the homework becomes easy fairly quickly. In the dream, the boys were in my actual front yard. I was in my actual bedroom. Often in dreams it’s my house but it doesn’t look the same. So, in this case it was pretty easy to imagine myself back in this dream. I work past the feelings of fear, walk downstairs and open the door to be with the boys. The minute I step outside they all come crowding around me. The boys love me! I feel a powerful energy rising up inside of me.
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