Symbols and Dreams Interpreting Dreams Essay

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Finally, it was my turn and -- but then I woke up.

When I told this dream to a friend, he said, "Sounds like you have a bad conscience!" This was an interesting interpretation of my dream, I thought. He said that he had been dreaming the night before of snow mobiling all over the mountains and he said it had been such fun that he had not wished to wake up. I thought that he must possess a very good conscience if he could dream about such nice things.

I got to thinking about what my friend said to me, and I decided that perhaps he was not so far off the mark. Perhaps my conscience was not very clear. After all, some things had been troubling me, and I knew I had not been behaving as well as I should have. Therefore, perhaps it was not such a surprise to find that should be dreaming of terrorists attacking me. Perhaps it was my conscience trying to tell me something -- trying to deal with some of the guilty feelings I try to ignore.

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We hear of terrorism a lot nowadays, so I suppose that is where the dream influence came from: but the symbolism of terrorism is something that I never really thought of before. Maybe it is a symbol of a guilty conscience. Maybe the terrorism that we accept as happening all around us in society is part of a social guilt-complex that we have constructed because of our country's bad habits. There could be a correlation between the two. And I would not be surprised if it just so happened to be the case: after all, when I finally confronted myself about my bad behavior I do remember having more pleasant dreams. Now, if only we could get the rest of the country to do the same, maybe we would not have to put up with TSA anymore!.....

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