Author: bonniemitsch

Dan is kidnapped. I am in an apartment with his wife (not Edi). We hear him yelling for help. It’s like he is caught in the wall between the apartments. I go next door. The apartment door is open. The people who live there are mostly moved out. There are just some of their belongings in the apartment. I yell and yell for Dan.

Later, my dad, siblings and I find out he was taken to India and forced to work at some physical labor. We go there. My Dad is driving. We get out of the car when we find him and give him a hug. I sit in the drivers seat after Dad gets out for a while and then get out and hug Dan. He is about 30 years old. He doesn’t look like waking life Dan. I tell him how we tried to find him. It is a relief.

I worked this dream with Kathleen and Shaney. Here is what I wrote: If this were my dream, I am Dan’s wife, and Dan. At first I am Edi and hear Dan (me call for help). I am scared for Dan but I am too “shocked and scared” and do not take any action. Bonnie takes action and looks for Dan. Now I am Dan. I am stuck in a wall, a structure that divides two spaces; spaces are apartments-“a part”- two different ways of looking at something? I yell for help. I need help. Bonnie can’t find me. I am then taken to India, a spiritual place, and made to do forced labor. I am forced to look at my spiritual side, beliefs, etc, not just my emotional/ psychological side. This is when my family of origin, people who know me the best and love me unconditionally come to rescue me.

Maybe this family of origin are parts of me that are coming together. One is the male authority (Dad) and one, Bonnie, is the female part of me. My female is receptive and my male is active and they are helping the dream ego take action. (as Bonnie, to not think so much about me as about Kevin and what he is going through. To be present. I can’t solve his challenges, but just be there as my extended family is in the dream)

Kathleen became the couple who owned the apartment next door. What stood out was if they had helped Kevin, he would never have had the chance to go to India. Shaney said my inner conflict is not being allowed to be there for Kevin.

I am outside of a large, communal, dirty shower area. I see what I think is a worm/insect that is transparent with a medium brown inner structure. It sees me and goes into its hole. It then comes back out. It is larger. It stands up and is about 4 feet high. It looks directly at me. It then turns into a human shape and wants to do these services with humans. It has something to do with blood. Some authority allows them to do this. I am suspicious of them (now there is more than one alien). I talk with a female. (I am not sure if it is an alien or a real human).

Nancy and I are at a large, outside arena, like for a rodeo. There are a few people around. Nancy goes to the middle of the arena and takes some photos of the people. I go next and copy the same poses she did. Later, I talk to some other people and one of them asks why I did the same poses as Nancy’s. I say there wasn’t anything in the middle of the arena to use to make a photo interesting. In my mind’s eye I see a photo I took of a young one to two year old boy. He squats down and picks up something in his hand and is looking at it. It is a nice photo.