Dear Mattthew,
I think that Device Failure could be related to the similar themes of Being Lost and Having Lost Something. The trap, I believe, is to get overinvolved in trying to regain one's way, or find the lost object, or in the case of having a broken device, trying to fix it or to be worried about it. You see, I think these dreams involve how we deal with our Mortality. We will all one day die, and when we die, if we have learned our lessons properly, we will be able to leave our broken bodies, and leave our lives that will be lost to us, and we will be able to move on and move forward.
Now, about the slowed down legs. I've mentioned this elsewhere, but since the subject has been brought up -- the legs are not really moving slow, but because of some stress in the dream, the dreamers sense of time has been slowed down. This is actually helpful, as it give you more effective time to consider each movement of the body. Martial Artists work for decades praying devoutly to whatever Buddhas they worships that they be given this gift of perceiving time as slowed down. You see, what is happening is that more conscious moments are being inserted into each unit of time, such that if there are 5 times more conscious moments per unit of time, then time will 'seem' to be 5 times slower, but actually one is 5 times more Conscious, having 5 times more opportunity to think about each unit of events.
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