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Subject: Dad's Little Monuments

Rick B

15:02 14/04/2000 

My dad was annoyed with me for staying up so late at night. One day (yes, day) I was supposed to be asleep, and I left for a walk to annoy him.

I was in the neighborhood of the church that my family attended as a child. It was also the same neighborhood that my dad lived in as a teenager.

I was walking in a garden that was not well tended. The path had many corners, and there were little stone and concrete monuments or markers that I had to step over or around.

When I knew he was close enough to hear me, I woke myself saying, not angrily, but with authority, "Leave me alone."

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dianen

01:08 16/04/2000 

I was wondering if the garden walk felt like you were looking at your family's or your fathers past. Things you had been "asleep" to or unconcious of previously or were prevented from seeing? The garden might represent a life not well-tended, but alive all the same. The path through it has many changes in direction. The monuments remind me of milestones or milemarks in that life. The dream ends when you express your right to examine these things. Does any of this feel right? Diane

JuliA

11:07 21/04/2000 

Hi Rick

All those corners - do you need to cut corners OR are you cutting corners already!?

You were supposed to be asleep during the day?.... is part of you meant to take a rest at the moment from life? perhaps your dad in the dream represents a wiser aspect of yourself? (obviously I don't know your personal relationship with your dad and your own feelings/ symbolism about your dad will be more significant). Are you being too hard on yourself at the moment?

The neighbourhood sounded very safe and a time for reflection.... are you taking time out at the moment.... time for reflection. There was also alot in your dream about the past as Diane has already said!!!

Diana I loved the "garden might represent a life not well-tended, but alive all the same"!!!!

Happy Easter to you both!

JuliA

Rick B

13:54 21/04/2000 

Diane and Julia,

Spot on, both of you! Here is the interpretation that I sent to a teacher of mine:

Parts of me still are child and teenager. I “play at” those states of consciousness all the time displaying my powerlessness and out-of-control-ness. It’s my dad’s church-idea that I want to leave me alone. Now I have the power to let those go – I can observe the sick and crazy results of trying to “save souls” and to be secure all the time. I still have some need to annoy that church-idea. What I really need to do is to stand on those monuments to see where this goes from here, to glimpse a little farther – or in some other way to turn my annoyance to some benefit. I do fall asleep many times during the day, for which there must be some other benefit I do not see.

And, yes, my past is not fully tended. I tend not to look at the past to see how much better I deal with ordinary stuff today. Instead, I often dwell on how poorly I feel I deal with new stuff going on now.

I've also connected this with some other stuff I will continue in the Member's Forum.

Thanks to both of you.

Rick B

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