The Dream: I’m on a beautiful beach in Maui.
The waves are delightful and the water temperature perfect. The scene
switches and I’m in law enforcement, riding in a van looking for perps. I drive
an old battered van, its front window shattered by a bullet, yet I’m full of
confidence.
I want to go back to the beach. To get there I have to go
through a door, as if the beach is in a room. It’s my last day on Maui,
and I want to enjoy it. As I experience the lovely sea I think that now Clark
will understand why I like the beaches on the East Coast—the water there is
similar, warm and pleasant.
Interpretation: The conflict here seems pretty clear: my
sensual pleasure-oriented part versus the rule-following enforcer. The
relatively bad shape of the enforcer’s van, and the fact that the window (my point of view) has been shattered, hints that this part of me is losing
ground, that in some way how I see things has changed. And sure enough, I go back to the beach.
To get to the beach I go through a door, symbolizing a
transformation and emphasizing that something has changed. I choose
enjoyment and the renewal or rebirth that the sea represents. The reference to
the East speaks metaphorically of an illumination—the sun rises in the east,
the Wise Men came from the East, and so on.
The dream is telling me that not only have I changed, but that I will
soon realize it.
