OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION
Hi Shalie,
This is a short dream packed full with a repeating theme. You were steering with the window button: a window is a portal for seeing through. You could not see anything: another reference to seeing. The policeman told you to watch where you were going: he told you to watch, to look in order to see.
Think about the difference between seeing, watching and looking. To see something you first have to look at it, or watch it. There’s no seeing without looking. But, you can look at something or watch it without really registering it (without seeing it). For example, two people can watch the same crime yet each may see and report what happened differently. We look or watch with our eyes, pointing them in the right direction and paying varying degrees of attention, but what we see depends on how our brains interpret the visual messages it receives. It compares these incoming visual messages to past experiences and expectations and makes its interpretation based on these. Then you see.
So, on the one hand your dream is pointing out that the reason you may be finding it difficult to see your way through a situation at the moment is because you are not watching or looking at it appropriately. To see (understand) where you are going in life requires knowing how to look.
So, how should you look?
There is a pair of opposites in your dream: you are busy steering the car using the power button on the one hand (busy using your power and trying to get to where you want to go), while the policeman advises you to watch where you are going instead. You are busy being active (steering with power) while he suggests being passive (watching). A big difference!
Are you so busy forcing your direction, pushing your view (a window is a view on the world), using your power, perhaps even pushing some buttons that you have forgotten to look ahead at your path or to see what it REALLY there? Are you so focussed you’re missing out on seeing (by watching) alternative paths or visions?
Your dream shows you driving from the back seat, the proverbial backseat driver perhaps. The backseat most likely represents your unconscious mind though it may also represent a kind of living in the past “behind the times”. Either way you’re not in the driving seat of your life. You are being driven by – not by your conscious mind but by – your unconscious beliefs and views around power and achievement.
Fortunately the policeman represents your own beliefs too. I wonder why your concept of the need to watch (which you have been ignoring until this dream) was presented by an authority figure and not by a wise sage or any other person. If you had been driving your car successfully from the back seat the dream would have suggested this was the way to go, that you had an innate sense of your path and that you were making all the right moves. But you could not see in the dream and this was a problem (you reiterated this by calling your dream Reckless Driving), so the policeman’s suggestion is a positive, balancing one that is worth following.
Why have you not followed this advice before? Have you tended to avoid the advice of authority figures (or however you view the police)? Do you prefer to do things your own way (you were the only one in the car) in contrast to society’s traditions (the policeman)?
The other big dream clue is the colour of the car: navy blue. I see a pun, as the sailors in the navy go to sea (go to see). Sailors also take turns at being on watch though! What does navy blue mean to you? Have you worn a navy blue uniform? What personality does this colour portray for you? Contemplate this colour to discover what it symbolises for you personally in your dream and then ask yourself why your dream showed you not being able to see when involved with this colour/ personality.
You will find it helpful to read ‘Who’s driving this car?’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 69-75 and ‘I can’t see clearly’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 257-62.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Affirmation:
Here’s an affirmation using your dream symbols:
“I watch and I see as I drive my car with ease.”
How to use your affirmation/ and how often:
Say your affirmation out loud and with feeling 30 times a day for the first week. From the second week say your affirmation out loud and with feeling once in the morning and once before you go to sleep for three more weeks.
How does this work?
This works by communicating directly with your unconscious mind using its own language, to transform the belief your dream is revealing.
More details on Affirmation as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy”, by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 331-333.
Jane Teresa Anderson
You can consult with Jane Teresa or her Dream Team and receive your interpretation by email within five working days.
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