Posted by Toph on December 19, 2004, at 11:01:27
In reply to Exotic Dreams - analysis anyone?, posted by vwoolf on December 19, 2004, at 8:01:22
v, I wrote something but it disappeared somehow so I'll try again. I am no scholar on these things but I have a few impressions. I was first curious about what someone living in Africa would find to be exotic. Africa is exotic to me.
Anyway, I sense that institutions with their rigidity, harsh control, and cold detatchment is the central theme of your dream. It is of course normal conduct for someone to be forsed to "whore" themself in order to gain a favored status in such places. Even licking toilets might spare someone one less rap on the knuckles. Additionally, children (and institutional siblings) often need to fight like puppies for the teat. If in your past you had to compromise yourself to survive you might be ashamed and conflicted about it as an adult.
You then said something about tunnels of mud and the obstacle course of becomming a woman. And then something about the Bible and an autobiographical book which asounds like the moral struggle you have with your conscious.
The colorful animals give me the sense of freedom and wildness that any institutionalized person in a boarding school/asylum/prison must idealize when fantasizing or peering out from greyness within. Leaving the predictablity and structure of these controlling institutions is difficult, speaking as one who spent months on a ward back when there was such a thing as health insurance. Finally, I'm not sure who the man is but for many institutionalized girls, I suspect fantasies of being normal and free involve love and romance with the noble rescuer. All I know is, if this guy wants the eggs for which he is searching he better be wary of one certain newly liberated beast of the savanna.
-Toph
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