Do you need a
washing machine to take you through the complete cycle from contamination to
purification? The homey images in this guest dream reveal a powerful transformation
in progress.
The Dream: I am in
my house, upstairs. There are guests in the house. I walk into the guest
bathroom and decide to flush the toilet. When I do, watery shit bubbles out of
the drain and rises to the top. It starts to overflow. I panic. The flowing
stops before flooding the bathroom, but I run out of there to find a plunger so
I can correct the problem. I look for the plunger downstairs in the laundry
room. A woman, my house guest, is sprawled sideways on top of the washing
machine. She is clothed--at least I see she is wearing slacks, shoes and socks.
The lid of the washer is up and her rear end is inside the barrel. She looks
like she is just hanging out there, relaxed, with her arm over the lid.
Carla’s
interpretation: In my version of the guest dreamer’s dream, my mind (upstairs
symbolizes the head) is engaged with some issues that feel alien to me (they
are guests in my house rather than residents). There’s a lot of difficulty
(shit) associated with these issues; repressing them has been draining me but
now they are coming up with such force that they’ve risen to the top of my
consciousness. In fact, they are so powerful they overflow and I panic. I run
to find the device (the plunger) that can correct the problem. My unconscious
is hinting here that the solution will be plunging into the difficulty rather
than trying to avoid it. And, in fact, once I get to the place where I expect
to find the plunger, I am in a place of purification, the laundry room. The lid
is off, and I see that the problem is being addressed at its source: the rear
end of my troublesome “guest.” We can guess that she is the one responsible for
the excess shit in the guest bathroom. Having expelled the mess that was inside
her, she is now relaxed while the washing machine completes the purge.
