Maggots
Dreamed c.1973 by Ann, a psychology professor, as told to Ann Faraday
I had a wonderful dream that illustrates how dream power can appear to be coming with frightful imagery when actually she comes with beauty and friendliness. I had just spent a lovely weekend with the current man in my life and so I asked dream power what I felt about him in my heart--that is, what do I feel about my own judgment in a love relationship at this time in my life? I dreamed I was vomiting large maggots and that my eye was being eaten by smaller maggots. My mother was standing by me during all of this, as I faced a mirror and vomited into the bathroom sink. My father was in a phone booth, wondering what on earth was wrong with me and phoning a doctor rather casually.Well, the dream was terrifying, repulsive--but when I acted it out in a small group of friends and students, I soon learned that dreampower's imagery remained friendly. I talked to the large maggots first, and the dialogue went like this: Ann: Who are you and what are you doing inside me?The motorcycle dream... refers back to one of our dream groups Ann attended the previous year, in which she confronted her father in dialogue and came to understand something of his lifelong rejection of her. As Ann says, many large maggots were vomited up at the time, but this latest dream came to tell her that the matter is not completely closed, that she has not totally released her father and forgiven him, that some hurt and anger still remain, but also that she is slowly getting rid of it. Ann then talked to the small maggots: |
Ann: Who are you and why are you eating my eye?The message to Ann was clear. The childhood hurt was a deep inner wound which, at age thirty, is still festering, despite some very constructive dreamwork. The hurt over the divorce, on the other hand, is only two years old and has less seriously attacked the "I," the ego, or outer self-image. But even this needs time to heal. The dream warns Ann not to rush into another marriage just in order to save her self-image and prove that she is not a failure, but to take things easy and let the hurt clear up in its own good time. Ann concluded her description of the dream and its dialogue by commenting "Dear dream power, thou art so careful and loving and protective of me." |
SOURCE: The Dream Game, Ann Faraday, Harper & Row, 1976 ed.; pp 253-5. Passage untitled; 'Maggots' added to aid searches.
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