The dream consisted of a single image, of four snow white puppies, nursing on their snow white mother. When I say "snow," I mean pure snow, bright white, untouched, gleaming in the sun. The pups looked just like little lambs, but whiter, and they just nursed and kneaded.
I don't recall many dreams so focused and concise. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. The dogs just kept nursing.
I should add that my mother recently bred her dog, which is brown and had four puppies: one brown, one "apricot" (that's how my mom describes it), and two black. I think I was aware in the dream that these were the same puppies, somehow bled of all pigment. I wasn't present, but I was observing and reflecting, but I only had two thoughts: 1. They look like lambs and 2. How did they get so white?
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I wonder, you say you were observing, reflecting--were you aware of that in the dream? If so, perhaps that was the emotional state of the dream? Perhaps the lamb pups were some kind of impetus to make you reflect. But reflect on what, I couldn't guess. So far, I think the idea of an emotional state being the root of every dream, seems to resonate with me the most.
Posted by Scott Cheshire | October 13, 2006 9:49 AM
Posted on October 13, 2006 09:49
The funny thing is that the reflection wasn't emotional. I was just thinking, "huh, those dogs are as white as snow. Weird." Now, that said, these are puppies my mother is raising, so I'm sure Freud would have an interpretation, particularly about the nursing! But Hartmann? What might he think? My guess is that I've been wanting to get to California to visit my family but haven't found the time. Maybe that's the emotional concern the dream has created a pictorial metaphor for! Now that it seems so obvious...
Posted by Lydgate | October 13, 2006 4:31 PM
Posted on October 13, 2006 16:31