Naughty
Wheelchair
Tonight I had the strangest dream. Sigmund Freud was coming to New York to visit me. He was not only Sigmund Freud, he was also a distant cousin of mine and I’d promised to pick him up at the airport.
I was informed that Mr. Freud was constrained to a wheelchair and that he was probably wearing diapers for adults. He was flying straight from Ukraine to New York. I’m not sure what he was doing in Ukraine and I had no clue what he wanted to do in New York or whether he was going to stay in my apartment.
Nobody could tell me if he was flying to JFK or to Newark, so I was going back and forth between JFK and Newark in order to fulfill my duties.
Finally Mr. Freud arrived. (I’m not sure at which airport.) He was seated in a wheelchair and he was drooling.
When Mr. Freud saw me he made a few polite but slightly condescending remarks and he patted my shoulder.
Then he started a conversation with a beautiful woman who was standing behind me. I thought, this man is seated in a wheelchair, he is probably wearing diapers for adults, he is drooling but he is naughty as hell. My time with Mr. Freud in New York is going to be difficult.
If I was Freud, I..
"slightly condescending remarks" ; "patted my shoulder";"Beautiful woman behind me" - it's interesting how would Mr. "Oedipus complex" would explain your dream :)
Freud
Arnon dreaming of a naughty distant cousin Freud in a wheelchair reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop (ISBN 0-465-03078-5) (2007).It suggests fractals and - of course - 'Die Traumdeutung' by Freud himself.
I envy those who dream about people like Freud; I hardly ever dream.
But the wheelchair seems to me the most interesting aspect of this dream: think Dali [Google 'Dali wheelchair' e.g.]; Freud in a wheelchair : that could be the title of a nice psychological study.
Or a good title for a book on .... almost anything: writers, artists, elderly people, mankind. Arnon Grunberg's next novel.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/iteration
Dream
There is this Ukrainian website that helps you explain your dreams: http://sonnik.guru.ua/So here is the explanation of your dream according to this site:
Airport – meeting a relative at an airport means you will hear some unexpected news.
A young beautiful woman – joy and pleasure.
A person in a wheelchair – possibly famine and disasters will follow where you will help people in need.
According to the same website Freud himself interprets seeing a disabled person in your dream as a sign that you feel some sort of inferiority in real life which prevents you from having normal relationships with people of opposite sex. You are haunted by an idée fixe that your current partner is not as sincere towards you as they would like you to believe.
Good luck with that! :D
dreams
There was an article in Knack a few weeks ago in which a sleepspecialist says that dreams have no meaning at all.I think this is a relief.
(If life has no meaning, then certainly a dreams has none too.)
arnon
did you feel good about the whole situation?...then certainly a dream has none too
I fully agree with this, Bernard fBernard / Jan
Equating the meaning of a dream with the meaning of life is a bit careless, don't you think? The terms imply different connotations. I think a dream can perfectly well have a meaning for a person leading a life without meaning.I think Bernard meant: if life is meaningless, then dreams can't have a meaning either. But then still people can give meaning to their dreams or lives. One might do these things (thinking life is meaningless, and giving meaning to it) at the same time. Or is that impossible? So I also agree with you. Apparently I agree with everyone today. It makes me think of a dream I had this morning. A girl explained why I tried to be funny all the time and I was shocked by hear words, albeit her explanation was no news to me at all. It made me feel ashamed while I was thinking about this dream in the afternoon.
typo
... that the dream has no meaning.meaning
Though life might have no meaning, a blood-test might: it might show you have a certain disease and are probably going to die very soon. A dream might just have the same meaning as a blood-test.Dreaming
Heeft u misschien iemand ontmoet waar u mee opgescheept zit maar waar u stiekem toch tegen op kijkt?Groetjes!
Andrea
Yes, it was not a nightmare at all.Yes, a person (B) can give meaning to his dream whilst he (thinks he) is leading a life without meaning. As, I think, a third person (C) can give meaning to the life of person (B)in either a positive or negative way.
