I am watching a video but instead of seeing it on TV I enter the scene. The first thing I do is go inside the box. There is a man inside; he is alive and let himself be boxed in out of free will. Then I see a crowd of angry people; they want to harm the man in the box.

They are prevented from harming him by five white horses, of which the second from left is a unicorn. I know that each one represent a talent; some of them have already been developed, others are yet to be developed. One of them is clairvoyance.

I return to the living room when the movie finishes and feel annoyed that the tape was not rewound.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Not to get all Jungian, but...

• The man in the box sounds like a repressed animus--her ambitious side, maybe? All those talents suggest it.
• The angry mob may be why he chose to box up. Regina doesn't say if she faced harassment shunning or mockery for showing talent or ambition, but...
• The talent-horses who defend him seem very encouraging. I wonder if the lone unicorn is the lone talent remembered, clairvoyance? But it could well mean something else--the horn traditionally meant healing after all.
• Annoyed that the tape wasn't rewound: that the dream wasn't fully resolved, that the talents weren't all recalled on waking? Me, I'd sure be kicking myself that I didn't recall what those OTHER four talents were.
• I once dreamed Five Hounds stalked me, embodying five problems I faced. But when I woke I did recall (just barely, after an hour of patient dredging) what each of the five was, and how to fight them. That info was vital--I hadn't recognized one of the five as a problem before! Dreams can be this explicit; I think dream-evaporation on waking often isn't "solemn nonsense syndrome" (you realize, awake, that the dream-insight was silly); nor is it often (as Freud would have it) a resistance or disguise problem; that unicorn wasn't going around with a Groucho mask on! Our failures in this area often are just a recall problem. Practice and repetition remedy that. Ask for a rerun-dream next night! In dreamwork, persistence pays.

--Chris Wayan

SOURCE: the International Association for the Study of Dreams (asdream.org) Psiber Art Gallery archive for 2002-2005.

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