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I am walking down a road and I see my father, who has hurt me deeply when I was a child.  At first, he looks like a monster and everything is dark; then it gets brighter and he slowly evolves from a man who looks like a monster into an older gentleman in a wheelchair.  He reaches out to me and I run into his arms. Then other things get "different".  I find I am no longer racially prejudice and I honestly no longer hate anyone, no matter how much wrong they have done me. 

I have this dream time and time again and am going through significant changes on the inside.  Am I crazy??

CJ

Dear CJ,

Sounds like your getting healthier by the minute to me! If you in fact were a child of "abuse" your father being portrayed in your dream as a monster is not very hard to figure out. You were a small child with very real monsters in your life who hurt you either physically or emotionally. To survive and protect yourself from the monster, you became suspicious, angry, embittered and stayed on the "offense" as a form of protection. Often bigotry and prejudice hides our own feelings of inferiority by passing it off on another person or group of people.

So now you encounter a monster but he's not a monster at all. He's an old man in a wheelchair. The monster turned out to be someone who was "handicapped" in your dream and perhaps his handicap in real life was his inability to be a loving supportive and protecting parent. You run to hug him both as a way of demonstrating your new found trust as well as forgiving him for his abuses of the past. Symbolically  though, you are also forgiving yourself for all your anger and prejudice. You are emerging as a person who is gaining the capacity to love and also feel worthy of someone else's love. Has a new relationship emerged in your life? Dreams like yours often happen after some kind of significant breakthrough in your life. Perhaps it was falling in love yourself or becoming closer with your own child and family members. Whatever the situation CJ, this is a wonderful dream and I hope you continue to grow as a result of it! Let me know what you think!

happy(forCJ)shrink

This person was a 30-40 year old woman who was in therapy to get up the courage to get out of a bad marriage. She was in treatment for about 6 months when she shared this dream with me. Prior to this time, she never brought up or discussed any feelings about me, her therapist. She was very open about her past and the circumstances around her failing marriage. She was the child of an alcoholic father and a codependent mother. 

"I am in a supermarket walking down the aisle when I see you with a shopping cart. In the cart is a large sack of rice. perhaps a 30 or 40 lb. bag. I notice that the sack has a hole in it and grains of rice are falling out of the sack. You don't seem to notice or care about the hole. This sight appears very odd to me and I am feeling embarrassed that I am seeing this happen. I think about calling out you name and telling you that the sack of rice has a hole in it, but I try to avoid meeting you instead. I walk to another aisle and wait hoping you will leave the store before I do. Then I walk to the checkout counter and I see you again. I look at your face and you are looking back at me with a warm and friendly smile. I realize for the first time that I find you very attractive. As I approach you I notice that your shirt is open and you have two very large breasts. I think to myself that this is very unusual for a man to have breasts but it actually seems to make you even more attractive to me. As I approach the checkout counter, you embrace me and I begin to suck your breasts. I am not a lesbian but I find this very stimulating and exciting. People are observing us, but I don't feel shame or self conscious. This is unusual for me because I am usually a very private person about showing any kind of affection. You then take me to your office and you make love to me. I feel very satisfied and fulfilled for perhaps the first time in my life. You then open a closet in your office and you have many sacks of rice stacked one on top of the other. You give me a sac of rice and I leave feeling very grateful. On the way home I am aware the my sack has a hole as well and rice is spilling out. Oddly, I continue to walk away not worrying about how much rice is falling out of the bag. I wake up.

Jolaure writes:

The woman is uncomfortable with her body. She projects this onto you, by giving you breasts in the dream.  She trusts you deeply, this is evident by her willingness to be intimate with you although she is your patient.

The hole in the rice bag, is one of life's little annoyance's.  However the level of
annoyance will vary according to the state of mind the person is in at the time.  You are happy, disregarding the hole completely, where as she finds it troublesome.

However, upon realization, that you are happy and honest with your life, considering you have breasts and are just as eager to be with her, as she is with you, she becomes comfortable with her life, you and the rice. Suddenly the bag with the
hole no longer seem important.

jojo Dreams101

Well I think I can figure out this dream just as well as you witch  doctors can, so.......

You obviously are seen by the woman as a parental or even motherly figure due to your nurturing, guiding influence in her life, as her therapist....thus the breasts, the ultimate symbol of mothers comfort. Now even with the breasts, she still has fantasies about having sex with you because you are now also the ...not quite the "daddy" but the the one male in her life who is the comfortable, safe, understanding
refuge in what might have been a chaotic , maybe even abusive lifestyle. You are the one man who seems to understand her real feelings and will be nonjudgmental when she really expresses her true sexual needs.

The rice is a little more subtle, but I think the bag of rice is a metaphor for the life you are helping her to reclaim. Life isn't perfect and sometimes it's a little bit messy. But as we go through life we leave a trail of our thoughts, feelings and actions just like the bag of rice is leaving a trail. Also sometimes what we are feeling inside
is a bit overwhelming and has to spill out. She sees that you understand this and and you are not overly concerned about leaving your "trail" in life. It's how we leave our mark in this world.

This concludes my analysis of the dream. Please bear in mind that I have been drinking more than usual these days and I may not agree with this crap when I see it in the light of day.

UseyurFinger

Here is MY interpretation of that woman's dream:
JEEZ, WHAT A WACKO!!

PS:  Nice boobs Hap

So what are your thoughts on the dream or the interpretations?