Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events just before this disturbing dream), some ideas about the meaning of the dream can be tried out from reading your other posts.
For example, your dream about the scary robot which you hide from could relate to the very unfortunate molestation by a man during your childhood.
In a way, the robot, snapping turtles and alligators in the dream could possibly symbolize the “automatic” responses deep in your mind which sadly continue to operate long after the molestation stopped.
If so, this is probably something like PTSD where certain traumatic events take a very long time to be absorbed and to “turn off”.
In that dream, you prefer to hide in a room with a female friend while others try to get rid of the robot.
The other friends try to put some turtles in your room. As mentioned, turtles are usually partly symbolic of automatic responses of the nervous system.
You essentially don’t want to have them in the room, using the excuse that they need to be back in the water (although turtles alternate between land and water), and this could represent the idea that you understandably don’t like it when maybe certain memories and fears etc. sort of come out of nowhere.
But not “letting them in” can result in the turtles “getting angry” in a way (e.g. the snapping turtle bites your finger).
This situation can be worse than the upsetting pain of, for example, trying to work through some very unpleasant memories etc., but not doing so can tend to result in too many bouts of feeling down or in having some distressing physical symptoms etc. (i.e. how the “bite” can appear in a practical way).
So it looks like a part of your psyche (the other girl who throws the snapping turtle away which possibly falls beside a dead fox) represents a danger of “throwing away” some valuable clues that your own instincts can provide about how to relieve your painful situation.
The dream probably shows that you SHOULD be angry with this part of yourself but only in order to then move on to carefully exploring the dark river with its alligators and snapping turtles.
This likely would need some help from “others” inside and outside yourself (the various friends and the guy who are trying to help get rid of the robot).
By being brave and swimming across the water, you can then reach some “solid ground” again where some early “treasure” can be found, probably symbolizing a regained sense of wholeness and confidence overall.
To do this would apparently require going “very deep” (the ocean-like depths of the unconscious) and using your positive, reflective and thinking side (the guy) while probably working with a professional helper.
This kind of help would likely be needed to make sure the emotional “tigers” of your other dream don’t “tear you apart” while trying to soothe the terrible pain from your childhood.
So getting back to your dream about the yogurt, it might be hinting at the dangers involved in trying to do too much yourself in exploring this terrible trauma.
For example, you’re playing a game like Scattergories with a nice woman who is obese.
This game generally relates to letters, words and categories which suggests the idea of the intellect and thinking where feelings don’t come into things very much.
Yogurt is a milk-product as you said, but specifically, it’s made with a certain kind of bacteria which results in a sour taste.
Various flavors “cover up” this sour taste (e.g. you remember the woman as being nice).
Perhaps you could try seeing what spontaneous memories, thoughts and feelings appear when you focus on your guess in the dream of “strawberry” being her favorite flavor in order to see what part of your own psyche the woman might symbolize. By sifting through what emerges, hopefully a clue will appear about her meaning in the dream.
In any case, her favorite flavor of “small sucker” might sadly be a play on words related to somehow blaming yourself for “being dumb” and “giving in” to what the man may have told you etc.
So the idea could be that, unfortunately, an underlying “sour” feeling about yourself as a “failure” is too often being “covered over” by a nice bland feeling persona (e.g. “vanilla”).
In this way of looking at your dream, it may be that it’s kind of hitting your hand with a switch and saying “Stop covering up too much of what you really feel” because this could become like a psychological “cancer” that could sadly affect too much how you look to others if, for instance, sudden outbursts of rage appeared on the scene (melanoma is a skin cancer, so the effects are visible).
For instance, the dream where the melanoma on your face disappeared when your mother left the room could show that in her presence, you always hide your resentment and rage about her controlling ways and that this could “break out” at some point if not somehow “cured” although this is not easy to do in your current situation.
While covering up your “sour feelings” might work for a while (you like the vanilla taste on your lollipop), in the end things could go wrong if the other woman gets to keep her “tastes” (covering up what happened) and you become psychologically “obese” which could have consequences equivalent to the medical consequences which can happen to a person who becomes very overweight.
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dreams might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.
Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dreams.
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