While I do not believe my “Reunion Dream” has much significance, there are a few aspects that I can relate to the different functions of a dream. This dream satisfied some of my wishes – I haven’t seen some of my old friends for a while, and this dream was a mental chance to see them again. Being an adrenaline junkie, and one whom is extremely interested in the paranormal, the paranormal aspect of the dream also alleviated some of my “wishes” by entertaining and enticing me. The dream never filed away any memories, but I do feel being a year-around swimmer and polo player had its effects as well, water was everywhere in the dream, places it shouldn’t have been, and in this dream I actually swam in the water towards the end. This didn’t file away anything new, but it recounted what I spend a lot of my life doing. The dream also could be analyzed as reflecting my cognitive development. Seeing my old friends and the emotions that came along with that signify my age, and my questioning of my beliefs and religion when I was forced into the “demonic, haunted” stairway may signify a stage of mental development that I am in. Due to the unordinary and random aspects of my dream, I do believe that this dream was my minds way to make sense of the “static”, and I will say that it did so in an extraordinary way!
The dream may be classified as a “comfort dream” or as a “satisfaction dream” using Freud’s psychoanalysis. The manifest content of the dream isn’t very obvious, the dream didn’t occur after a day that was anything out of the ordinary. Maybe being on break and not seeing some of the people that I see every day brought the repressed memories of my older friends from MCHS. The water in the dream, as it is in most of my dreams, comes from my excessive swimming, but that is typical and doesn’t have much symbolism. The latent content of the dream is harder for me to identify in this particular dream. What could be part of it, at least the “demon” that possessed the stairs, could be from some subconscious guilt about my lack of a true religion, or my recent research on Scientology, a complete fake and bogus religion. After that incident, my questioning myself and my faith is symbolic, as that is something I don’t do much. I am not a religious person and I do not want to become one, but maybe my subconscious things something else or knows something that I do not. As time goes on and on, I forget more and more of this dream, and today I realized that I do not remember who specifically of my friends was even there, let alone anyone else. In fact, the scenes I remember most are the stairway scene and the end where I swam across water that flooded the road. My friends were on the other side of the road, and I was separated from them, much like I am now because I am at a different school. Being water, however, the barrier between myself and them was very weak, as it is now. I still do see them, and with occasion! The water may symbolize a barrier, and the fact that it is water symbolizes its weakness. Thus, the issue of my not seeing them often is symbolized via Condensation, the issue is represented by one image. One last thing that I rememeber is the unique and unusual layout of the amphitheater, it seemed to have a whole section missing, and now when I think about it the layout is geometrically impossible. The “missing section” may represent dream censorship, the missing area might represent something my subconscious is trying to hide from me.
