Medical Professional May Feel Helpless
Dear Cynthia: I work in medicine. That is about the only link I can think of to this dream. Perhaps it means I’m feeling anxious about not being able to save one of my patients.
I dreamed I was a passenger in a car on the freeway. I looked to the side and saw a man dangling his naked child out the window of an apartment. He then dropped her. I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t see her hit the ground. I went inside the apartment building, found some people and went on a search. We eventually found the little body, and I immediately started screaming and crying, along with the girl’s brother. The mother was there, too, and she said, “Look, the boy cries and the mother is dry.”
Police started showing up, and it occurred to me that there might be a trial. I started to worry about having to testify. The man who’d killed the girl scared me. I found a member of the girl’s family and asked her: If I testified, would I have to worry about my safety for the rest of my life? She slowly nodded her head yes. I sat down on a chair and began to cry. Then I woke up.
LAURA
Los Angeles
Dear Reader: You are not entirely in control as a passenger, and freeways indicate that there are choices to make in your life. Apartment buildings can symbolize temporary conditions. The naked child may be a new creative project or an innocent and vulnerable patient you are involved with. Someone else is terminating the project or is responsible for the death of the patient and you are very unhappy about this. “The boy cries and the mother is dry” may mean that other people involved in this project mourn its ending but the person who began the project isn’t as emotionally involved.
If this does relate to a patient, it could be that the attending physician doesn’t seem, at least outwardly, to care as much as you do. The police are authority figures who may be involved, and the man who is responsible for the end of the project is scary to you. A trial means a challenge in your life. The trial could be on a spiritual level: Did everyone involved in this situation do everything he or she could? You apparently were more of an observer. But you closed your eyes at the final moment. You long for accountability by those in charge yet are wary of being involved if it would be to your detriment.
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