Old Friend from Childhood

Dear Marsha,

Here’s a dream for you.  I dreamed:

I was with a friend, she was an old friend from childhood. Leslie. I was on the toilet which also had a bed beside it.  She was on it.  I remember thinking she had an awful mess in her home because there was a half-eaten spare-rib and small corn on the cob on the floor next to the toilet.

I remember thinking my house was not nearly as messy as I thought.

She was talking on and on about her mental illness and suffering.

Then, we were walking to her car. She looked at her phone and said, “Friggin Raisin.”  Then I realized she was saying the name of her ex-husband, Reyes. We got in the car and I sat in the back seat. She began texting and driving, so I panicked and told her to please stop.  She refused. I got so afraid I told her to pull over so I could get out. She left me by this blue bridge I could walk over.  I lived just right over that bridge.

What is the meaning of this dream?

Olive

 

Dear Olive,

Let’s look at some of these symbols.

 

An old childhood friend = something/someone alongside you in your childhood

Leslie = from the low meadow / remembered (see The Name Book by Dorothy Astoria)

Toilet = a place to get rid of toxins and wastes in your life

Bed = a place of privacy (Micah 2:1); those in relationship with (of like mind with) (Is 57:7)

Meat = mature spiritual learning (Gen 9:3, Heb 5:12-14)

Spare-rib = sparse mature spiritual learning

Corn = amount of God’s seed

Floor = foundation

House = you, your personal life and relationships

Walking = going in the direction of

Car =ministry/work

Phone = spiritual line of communication (uses “air” waves – air=spiritual)

Raisin = dried-up “fruit” (results)

Ex-husband = one used to be in close/intimate covenant with

Reyes = counselor (see The Name Book by Dorothy Astoria)

Back seat = not in control

Texting and driving = carelessly in control

Bridge = a transition period

Blue = depression

Now, just for fun, let’s substitute the symbolic meanings into the dream. This is going to read very sloppy and be difficult.  If you don’t want to go through this process, skip on down to the “paraphrasing”.

I was with something/someone alongside me in my childhood. From the low meadow / remembered. I was on the place to get rid of toxins and wastes in my life which also had a place of privacy/those in relationship with (of like mind with) beside it.  Something/someone alongside me in my childhood was on it.  I remember thinking something/someone alongside me in my childhood had an awful mess in the home because there was sparse mature spiritual learning and small amount of God’s seed on the foundation next to a place to get rid of toxins and wastes in my life.

I remember thinking my personal life and relationships was not nearly as messy as I thought.

Something/someone alongside me in my childhood was talking on and on about something/someone alongside me in my childhood’s mental illness and suffering.

Then, something/someone alongside me in my childhood and I were going in the direction of something/someone alongside me in my childhood work. Something/someone alongside me in my childhood looked at something/someone alongside me in my childhood spiritual line of communication and said, dried-up results.  Then I realized something/someone alongside me in my childhood was saying the name of one used to be in close/intimate covenant with something/someone alongside me in my childhood. I sat not in control. Something/someone alongside me in my childhood began carelessly in control, so I panicked and told to please stop.  Something/someone alongside me in my childhood refused. I got so afraid I told her to pull over so I could get out. She left me by this depression transition period I could walk over.  I lived just right over that transition period.

 

To paraphrase this, this interpretation might be saying:

You are being “visited” by an “old friend from childhood (memories of suffering leading to depression). This happens while you are in a place of rest (bed) and a place of getting rid of toxic/wasteful things (toilet) from your past.  You realize this brings remembrances of mess and sparseness of the “meaty” teachings (spare-rib half-eaten) of Jesus and it brings small amounts of things to grow on (seed=corn).  You begin to believe your current situation is not as bad as you thought when you compare it to the past. You are in the back seat (not actively choosing this direction).  You dislike the way this is going, so you “get off the ride”. You are left in a depressing transition time but know that you just need to walk through it.

 

A more simple paraphrase might be:

You are remembering suffering from your childhood and how you didn’t get strong teachings of Jesus.  In looking back, you realize your current situation is not as bad as you thought.  It’s depressing to think back on these things and it puts you in a depression for a time until you can drop it again.