Although it would usually be best to have additional general background information about you as well as recent events just before the dream in order to provide an accurate interpretation, it’s probably safe to say that not long before the dream, there was a kind of strong influx of energy and agreeable feelings that in some way were reasonably equivalent and analogous to the winning of an outer trip to England.
In this approach to your dream, it’s probably trying to show you some unconscious parts of yourself and how they may tend to influence you without your being very aware of them, e.g. in making you feel good at times when the actual situation may not be all that beneficial.
For example, you may often rely on “mind”, thinking and the intellect to make certain decisions because the dream chose the image of a trip by plane, i.e. in the area of “airy thoughts” and the “sun” of the intellect.
However, you may apparently be largely unaware of this “academic” approach to decision making as symbolized by not knowing and never finding out the name of the young man who is your self-appointed “guide” to this area of your unconscious mind.
From the dream’s point of view, it appears that this part of yourself is far from an earthy, robust and healthy aspect of your overall personality (he is slim, pale and his eyesight/comprehension “needs help” in the form of thick glasses).
In addition, he is shown as being “controlling” in mostly negative ways, e.g. takes you to your ex’s house which is the last place you’d want to be, makes you visible at an awkward moment, grabs your wrist and takes you to a pub where once again there’s an embarrassing meeting.
The grimy, dirty and overcrowded train could be meant by the dream to damp down your over-dependence on certain collective beliefs, opinions and perhaps even the overall zeitgeist of today’s largely global society.
That’s because a train usually represents on analogy the idea of “collective energy”, i.e. interest and activity etc., since an individual can’t control where a train goes but can only get on or off, and the train company is owned by faceless corporations or governments.
Unlike driving oneself or even walking to a destination, one can’t get precisely “where one should be going” in an overall “direction” sense regarding one’s life.
Of course, on analogy, we often need “trains” of common ideas and values in order to fulfil appropriately our social needs and obligations, but as mentioned, in your dream, the train is made to look very unattractive, a common method in dreams to help the dreamer to understand, for example, that they may be overvaluing and overusing a certain method to move forward in their life.
Perhaps some of these collective ideas, opinions and beliefs tend also to be very “unrealistic” in your personal circumstances and potentials as a person (e.g. Basil can make you “invisible”, i.e. not “real” and “three dimensional”).
Maybe there is a need to examine the break-up with your ex more fully even though this will be painful. That’s because apparently there could be some “threatening” aspects about it which a certain state of mind, as symbolized by Basil, keeps you from looking at carefully enough (he interrupts at certain crucial points), perhaps allowing for a continuation of certain unhelpful behavior and tendencies of how you tend to think about things.
However, the image of Basil also demonstrates the fact that symbols always have two sides, a negative and a positive one, because to some degree, he does in effect force you to confront these issues albeit imperfectly (he arranges various meetings with your ex but these are embarrassing etc.).
This could mean that, while certain commonly accepted opinions and approaches etc. lead you to look back at the situation regarding the issues surrounding the break-up to some extent, a more personalized and directed approach using critical thinking and other more personal means is needed in order to resolve certain roadblocks and to move forward more effectively.
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this approach to your dream may not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.
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