OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION
Hi Aimee,
In dreams things are not always what they seem. Sex toys, for example, are not really sex toys. They are symbols in the same way as everything else in a dream. The trick to interpretation, of course, is in working out what the symbols mean and that is NOT a job for a dream dictionary.
Symbols are quite personal, meaning different things in different dreams, but you can often get a sense of their meaning by looking at the overall story of the dream, how the symbols interact and how the dreamer feels in the dream.
The first thing I notice in your friend’s dream is a contradiction. On the one had she feels she has been given something normal that she had been expecting, but on the other she feels she has to hide this perfectly normal thing. Why?
The dream may be simple: is your friend in the process of discovering her sexuality, discovering its gifts as expected at her age, discovering a new normality yet struggling with giving up childhood, trying to hide her growing adult sexuality?
Is she toying with the idea of sex, (dreams often use word play)? Or does she feel like a child who has been given a new toy (her sexuality), not yet sure how it works?
Or is this dream unrelated to sexuality? It all depends on how your friend feels about sex toys. If she feels they are taboo, for example, then her dream is perhaps about facing a (different, non-sexual) taboo, one she is currently trying to hide from.
With such a short dream, your friend needs to do a dream alchemy practice to find out more about what these sex toys symbolise for her personally. Once she knows what they symbolise, she can ask herself why she is keen to hide this. I’ve suggested a dialogue, as you’ll see:
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Dialogue:
Your friend’s dialogue is between herself and the gift bag of sex toys. She should start with herself saying, “A gift! What’s the celebration?” and see what the gift bag automatically answers. Keep it going for 20 minutes.
How to do this:
Give yourself no longer than 20 minutes. When you do this exercise do NOT think! Don’t plan ahead. Just let whatever happens happen. Let the two entities speak to each other on paper using whatever words come up. It’s a bit like writing a film script or play – but without the brain being involved.
How does this work?
By not thinking, by keeping the words flowing, you are letting your right brain and unconscious mind do most of the work. They created the original dream so they know what these symbols mean for you. They will reveal. You will be surprised.
More details on Dialogue as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy”, by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 321-4 and 333.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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