Lost Senior Partner

Dream: It’s early on a Saturday morning and I’m standing outside my car along a park in a city.  A woman recognizes me and comes over.  What are you doing here at this hour?  I explain that one of my firms partners tends to tie one on each Friday night and they send me over to help him navigate the last few blocks to his home.  While I’m talking she lays across my hood in an awkward way, trying to get the attention of someone across the a park.  Looking in that direction I see that construction workers are already on the job fixing fire damage in the top floor of a building on the other side of the park.  I then get in the car and drive around the block looking for the senior partner I supposed to help.  I get out of the car again and need to violently chop at a substance around my feet with a shovel.

Amplification:

There’s a great deal going on in this dream: the expectation of the wayward senior partner, the woman at the park, the construction workers and the muck at the end.  Much of it seems to relate to the experience emerging from this illness.  Both the reconstruction and the chopping of the insulation type material at the end clearly relate to the experience of and recovery from the infection.  The scenario where I’m up early and sent to be on the lookout for the returning senior partner is an odd one.  It’s as if the firm recognizes the risk involved but chooses to let what will be, be.  It almost as if the strategy is so they will be able to say down the road, it was such a problem we went so far as to…I sense the woman is somehow signaling to the senior partner who does not want me to see his return, so I decide to take a drive around the block to get out of the way.