Thread: Short explination

I'm no expert in psychoanalysis, but i think that doesn't mean anything, just random things that your mind makes up.

Originally Posted by DreamShurk

Just wondering what a thing meant in my dream, i was at a home with some people , sitting around in a couch around a table , i had a knife , might be a new knife i got in a gift or something , anyways , i gave this knife to another person at the table to show it to him , and he took the knife and emediatly threw it right at the huge big window behind the couch , but the whole window dident break , i was like noooo dont throw it , and boom there is was , the knife was stuck in the window half way through without breaking it .... i had to take pictures of it with my cellphone from both sides it was so amazing , then he just pulled the knife out again and there was a huge gap in the window where the knife had penitrated the glass leaving a gap where the blade had gone through .....


just wondering if this means something,

thanks.

The fact that in the dream you went and took pictures of both sides of this knife stuck in the window suggests that there is a high degree of self-awareness involved in this dream is about. What it symbolizes probably has everything to do with something that happened the day before the dream. What happened would be the subjective aspect of your dream which is critical to understanding its meaning and value to you personally.

To look at the objective qualities of the dream let's breakdown some of the noteworthy aspects...first the person with whom you shared the knife knew something you didn't...he probably knew it wouldn't shatter the window as you (or I) would have expected. Second the window didn't shatter. Third, in the dream, as I am to understand, you didn't just note this but you actually used your cellphone camera to take pictures of both sides of this window. Fourth the window glass yielded a large "hole" or gap in the shape of the blade. There are other details in the dream that are probably instructive but let's focus on these items for now. Some of the objective qualities of the dream may help you to recognize what it was that you experienced that this dream relates to or was triggered by.

The window represents visibility and a boundary. The knife, your vision and your ability to "take a picture" occurs in the context of two spaces separated by that window. This likely is a metaphor for conscious awareness of your psychology and may have to do with the relationship between your introversion and extroversion as the window typically separates the inside from the outside. There is something pertaining to the boundary between the outer world and your inner one that you understood to be fragile but found was more resilient than you expected.

The knife was expected to shatter that separation. The throwing of the knife is like launching a projectile weapon meant to be destructive. This could be a thought or feeling that threatened that boundary between your inner and outer world. But when the knife struck the window it was found that the boundary remained intact.

Another voice in your psyche separate from your "ego" knows this. In fact, this other voice is probably a shadow figure, a voice in you that is more or less in line with your ego but has a different perspective or would make a different choice than you would. As such the shadow is always at least mildly problematic from the ego's point of view. But when the ego relates to the shadow (you share the knife) then the ego is granted new knowledge. In your case you took in that new knowledge, documented it even, gave it all due credit rather than rejected it. So this seems like a success in terms of your ego-shadow relationship. It seems like it must reflect some real conscious learning that you experience during the day before the dream.

In addition to the inner/outer or possible introverted/extroverted distinction the window as transparent (visible) boundary represents there is the additional boundary, perhaps, between what you consciously accept (ego) and what you consciously reject (shadow). By sharing the knife and implicitly trusting (although this was simultaneously both challenged by your shadow and also proven revelatory) you have allowed yourself to see "the other side".

I hope that these interpretations help you to recognize what had happened for you that inspired this dream and help to explain why you had this dream. The ideas I used come from Carl Jung and others who have taken up his understanding of human psychology.