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People in our dreams mostly represent our own beliefs and attitudes - aspects of ourselves - rather than representing themselves.
It's often the case that in dreaming about one of our children we are really looking at young and growing aspects of ourselves.
In waking life we generally nurture our children positively, making decisions for them and protecting them in ways which we may deny for ourselves.
Our children in our dreams can represent tender young aspects of ourselves which need our support, protection and nurturing. They can also symbolise what is new for us in the world (new work, new ideas), or our naivety, or potential .. a whole range of things.
Above all, it's important to remember that we tend to act on our children's needs more so than we tend to act on our own. Sometimes our dreams show us, through substituting our children for our adult selves, just how we are, or are not, looking after ourselves.
Your husband may represent many things. Sometimes our partner symbolises our relationship in a dream, but mostly the male partner symbolises the dreamer's "male side" while a female partner symbolises the dreamer's "female side".
The "male side" is our Yang, the qualities of the left brain (logic, assertiveness, intellect, action, doing), or the outer world (such as work) in general. The "female side" is our Yin, the qualities of the right brain (intuition, nurturing, creativity, feelings and emotions, receptivity, spirituality, being), or the inner world.
You have the government, the police and the military (all symbols of authority) taking actions which lead you to a concentration camp, brought on, in the dream, through your husband's (male side's) indecision. So, in summary, you have "outer world action and authority" carrying you towards destruction possibly through indecision.
On the other side you have female qualities: daughter, your self, Grandmother, hiding (? receiving? as in a womb perhaps?), secrets (secret hiding place, like the secret place of our "inner world").
What stops you from finding refuge and safety is indecision .. more precisely, changing of mind.
So, there seems to be a dilemma between what you want in your inner world and what the outer world seems to be demanding of you. You know there is refuge within, if only you could make that decision to get in touch with the secret places and spaces of your inner world represented by your grandmother's house perhaps.
Even at the end of the dream, past the time for decision, you choose to stay with your daughter - female side - to support her even though this will lead to destruction, as you see it.
So your choice does seem to be for more exploration of your inner world, seeing some destructive quality in authority.
Who or what is the authority in your life? The rules, the regulations? (Police, military.)
All people generally represent beliefs we hold. Where, in your life, is there a belief in authority and control and rules ... a belief which seems to be heading you towards ... what?
I asked you how you felt at this point in your dream and you have answered "betrayed". You also mention acknowledgment of denial, as well as a feeling of potential demise and yet comfort that you are with your daughter .. that somehow, at least one of your latest choices is comfortably right.
Where in your recent life have you felt betrayed? In what circumstance did you have faith .. so much faith that you denied that anything less than 'good' would eventuate? What has happened to you recently that goes against what you have been brought up to believe in as "good"?
(Often we see 'evil' in a dream as symbolising the opposite to what we have been brought up to believe in as "good".)
The most insightful approach to take in interpreting a dream is to look at all the feelings and attitudes, as well as all the people, as representing aspects of yourself - aspects, thoughts and beliefs which have existed up till now but which all can be changed through choice.
In our upbringing we are taught the difference between "good" and "bad". In later years, and especially after we become parents, we question much of this. I wonder how much you feel "betrayed" by what you were taught about "good" and "evil", particularly with respect to authority.
Your dream ends so positively, despite the possibility of doom, as you made a positive chioce to support your "female side".
My feeling is that this is possibly a time in your life to reconsider how you feel about authority figures and how you feel about what YOU want for yourself in the world. A helpful exercise can be, when the time comes to make decisions for yourself, to imagine making them for yourself as a baby or tiny child. This way, we tend to look towards making self-nurturing decisions rather than self-denying decisions.
Indecision was in your dream. So was denial and betrayal. Have a think about how these factors might be playing out in your unconscious, in your past, in your memories, in your conditioning (upbringing) ... and therefore in your life . Then have a think about dropping old beliefs which hurt or are potentially destructive to you and building new, self-nurturing beliefs in their place.
Jane Anderson |
