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Dream : Driving on a mountain road with a car full and suddenly, quite unexpectedly the road goes right over a cliff. Then at the bottom, everybody is dusting themselves off and checking for injuries. I look back up the cliff and say to myself, “there had to be another way to do that.”
Amplification:
Going over the edge had all the fear of meeting death, which is interesting to see. A sense of dread and the silent scream not now. The scene cuts, like a blackout, and the how we survived question not resolved.
Jung said the second half of life is about learning how to die, and each of these dream encounters with the potential reality of death has a clear lesson to that end. While death is not the result of the experience, the emotional encounter was as if. Then the question can be posed, how might I have met that circumstance better?
Dreams of lowering ones level are often linked to arrogance. What’s interesting here though is that a wrong attitude did not take me off the road, the road itself went over the cliff. It’s a subtle detail, but it needs to be wrestled with. Usually, if a wrong attitude is in play, the result would be leaving the road.
I’m not alone in the car, and can’t help but think that there might be a collective message in this dream, especially since the previous dream expressed a beautiful connection to the unconscious. What is this is the road we are driving along together? Perhaps we are headed to a real steep, as in vertical steep, drop off…
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