Originally Posted by Britt88
This dream is an old one so I can't recall the details in my life at that point, however it just really stuck with me. I'd like a bit of insight on what it might mean.
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I'm not going to attempt to interpret your dream, but an understanding of modern myths, by which I mean modern fiction such as films and books, may throw some light on the situation.
Take, for example, I Am Legend. Robert Neville lives in a post-apocalyptic New York. The only other inhabitants are monsters, mutated humans, who are creatures that only come out at night, and who are killed by daylight. These mutants are extremely aggressive. This vision is a metaphor, a visual representation of the state of mind of some modern people. We live in a world of competition, of secrecy, of games' playing...... in Lord of the Rings, the opening goes l;ike this: He gifted 3 rings to the elves.....7 to the dwarf lords......and he gifted 9 to the race of men who above all, desire power. That is humanity in a nutshell: above all they desire power, and in their attempts to get it, they indulge in all sorts of practices that in the end are to their own detriment, are self-destructive. E.g. the practice of secrecy results in fear of exposure, metaphorically fear of daylight, and further, leads eventually to paranoia and anger. In other words, it leads to becoming psychologically a "monster" such as the monsters in I Am Legend.
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