Superman1, I get what you are suggesting, but I think in this case personal associations make a difference:
(1) we have two cats in waking life and they are very social cats. If it makes a difference, I am a cat person, but my husband grew up with bunnies, so that would be his pet of choice, though he is fine with us having cats, which is the pets we actually have now. So in a way cats are my choice, rabbits are my hubby's choice, and that is what they could represent. So maybe not liking my available choices, I go outside myself to seek a choice that is more like what my husband would make?
(2) I am Episcopalian, and the priest in the dream was Episcopalian, and Episcopalian priests can get married and be with their wives. However, I did grow up Roman Catholic, so there was a time in my life when priest cannot marry was norm. My husband is very active in the Episcopal church and considered becoming a priest, which would not have prevented him from marrying though. What if this dream is more of a "what if" scenario, what if different choices had been made, what if my husband had chosen to become an Episcopal priest, and what if I too were someone other than who I am, and what if we were less constrained in some ways?
(3) No, European is definitely not more free and open. If anything more the opposite more formal and constrained and conservative, less casual, but more familiar (what I grew up with). I became more open minded and free when I accepted that I had become more Americanized when I was a young woman. One of the major transitions in my life. European birthday cakes though are without a doubt much tastier than the way too sweet frosting loaded thing that is a typical American birthday cake.
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Tonight all I remember is this:
A book of dark magic (which I out of some reason had) had been borrowed/taken I suspected by kids. There was danger in them playing with it. I found out it was my older son who took it.
Here comes the tricky part, I am not sure whether I woke up or was close to waking up. My eyes were closed. I did a reality check on an imaginary clock, and the time changed from 03 minutes to 05 minutes. But I was awake with closed eyes either at the time when the reality check ended, or possibly even before that, and just playing with images behind closed eyes.
It did not feel like a lucid. It was more like I just woke up from dream and my eyes are still closed so let's practice a reality check, or maybe the last piece of the dream was about me doing a reality check right before I woke up. But it did not have the excitement of a lucid, the realization that this is a dream. So I think I more realized that I was waking up or just had.
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