By honeydue on Skatehive
One of the trickier parts of recounting your dreams is remembering that, at most points, they're not prophetic or somehow external. Dream a friend will scam you? Your lover will betray you, or that you'll win the lottery? They are mostly just...you. Of course, there is the occasional prophetic dream that feels to its core a revelation from the collective unconscious, and can be frightening and elating. I call them analyst dreams, as in the kinds of dreams that'd really justify going to an analyst. After all, who wants to go describe a dream about how they were shopping in Lidl? While charged with private meanings of its own, it's seldom the kind of case that makes it to analysts' and psychologists' books. No, you want to juicy ones stuffed with symbolism and things. But mostly, as I say, it's just you, so then you gotta sit down and ponder why and what it might be saying about your psyche. I dreamt meeting up with a friend, someone from my past. It had the unsettling effect of leaving