Blue_Opossum

Morning of December 14, 2005. Wednesday.

Dream #: 14,240-02. Reading time (optimized): 1 min 30 sec.



My dream’s setting is an imaginary variation of our Duffy Street apartment in Millbank. My waking-life identity is mostly intact.

After I open a fictitious door in our kitchen (a door that would, if it existed, lead to our bedroom), I fall into the repetitive activity of opening one door after another. In some instances, I walk through a tiny room with another door on the opposite side. Often, each doorway is so close to the previous there is no additional room, only another door.

Eventually, I find myself back in our kitchen. There is a coffin standing on its bottom end near where our bathroom entrance would be in waking life. However, it has the essence of a door into another room, and I feel I should open it.

I open the “door” (coffin lid), but instead of another room, it is a display of stars and nebulae as if I am looking into outer space. There is a feeling of bliss while I am waking.

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Decoding:

There are two reasons why I would open a door in a dream; one, to exit the dream state and wake myself; two, to vivify or reinduce the dream state.

The first door, had it existed in waking life, would have led to our bedroom. The coffin “door,” had it existed, would have led to our bathroom. These factors show I was instinctually contemplating whether to remain asleep or wake to use the bathroom.

Both the coffin and the view of outer space in this instance are a result of the same degree of sleep atonia, which was also why it took longer to wake myself by repeatedly opening doors.

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Influence:

“The Manitou” from 1978 is a subliminal influence. The door to Karen’s hospital room led into outer space, where her bed was floating. Her battle with Misquamacus included her directing a beam of light at him.

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Influence’s decoding: Although my dream’s final “door” (correlation with our bathroom in waking life) led to outer space, I was still asleep in bed.

Subliminal influence (not rendered): In the movie, Karen emanated and directed lightning from around her body (while in her bed in outer space). Lightning in a dream typically represents the instinctual anticipation of the cortical energy required for achieving consciousness.

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