Dream Analysis: The Seven Demons
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2024
- In this new segment, join Lisa, Joseph, and Deb as they illuminate the mysterious corners of the unconscious by interpreting your dreams, illustrated.
They analyze the dream of a 58-year-old man who works as a tour operator who encounters the devil inside him:
“I’ve been invited to a party or reunion. I’m back in London, and I’m with my friend T. I’m happy to see him. There is the same feeling of wild elation in the air that I experienced when living in London in my 20s, a dangerous sensation of almost complete abandonment. We are drinking in a bar, and the next day, I wake up and find three tattoos of three phrases on the side of my calf on my right leg, but I can’t decipher what they say. Underneath is the tattoo parlor’s name. I am annoyed about the tattoos, but I think I’ll be able to get some compensation from the parlor because I must have been unconscious when I got them. I talked about this with T, who was with me. I can’t blame him because we were all drunk or high, and I think it’s not a big deal.
It’s the next day, I’m with T, and he is cooking up an experiment. It’s exciting, but there’s a sense of danger. We are in an old room with flaking plaster on the walls and old pine benches on either side of the room with high wooden stools under them. On each of the benches is three or four piles of darkish sand - seven in total. The piles of sand are not big, but they are incubating something like eggs. One starts to move. I’m nervous. T says don’t worry and starts scraping away the sand, hurrying the hatching process. Inside it is a red-skinned man; he comes out. Now he’s life-size, and I see he has pointed ears. He is a devil, and I’m terrified - though T is excited, and the fact that he isn’t scared seems to protect him and me from risk.
The devil is elated to be free. He exudes self-assurance and purpose and has an immense charisma. He goes around the other piles, helping the others out. The others are not as red as him; some are blotchy, and some have been asleep for eons. The one bench diagonally opposite, furthest from the main devil, is my father; he has slight red blotches like birthmarks and seems less dangerous and not as happy to be reawakening as the main devil, though they are of the same mold. It is like the awakening of vampires, and I am afraid.”
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I love Joseph’s voice . It almost immediately puts me into a meditative state. This channel has helped me with being mindful. Thank you all 3 of you ! ❤
Yes Joseph I thought Revelation and Apocalypse as well.Thank you for percolating that.🤔
Powerful interpretations from all 3 of you 🙏🏼✨
Loved this exchange in interpretations.
I also think Joseph bringing in Revelation and such was spot on given the strong biblical archetype at the center of this dream.
His mention of kundalini reminded me of a topic I’ve been looking into and perhaps you guys find it interesting- which is people practicing deep meditation and/or seeking of “kundalini awakening” having psychotic breaks.
So far I’ve heard from a neurologist (Willoughby Britton) and a psychiatrist (Caroline Van Damme) regarding this, its prevalence in meditation retreats, and the pressure from those “higher up” to not talk about it.
However I’d be so interested to hear a Jungian perspective on this, and speaking of the dream state, on the pattern amongst people that experience sleep paralysis of seeing certain entities in the room, mostly described as “dmonic”.
amazing to watch all of you with this dream interpretation!
This is a very interesting discussion. My first impression of the dream was that in his waking life, this 58 year old man may be experiencing a midlife crisis in which the potential for reawakened dangerous impulses of his youth is incubating under the surface layers (the sand mounds) of his current life and he is awed and yet frightened by his ‘devilish’ impulses. The fact that he sees his father as the final devil that emerges from the sand(s of time) makes me wonder if he is comparing his own current potential choices with that of his father’s life choices (in the dream the dreamer speaks of the ‘abandonment’ of his 20’s-did his dad leave his mother?) and is seeing that his ‘devilish’ father is offering a cautionary tale that the past choices HE made in his life were ones that he did not want to revisit and that left him scared and sad. It would be interesting to know what is going on in the dreamer’s current personal life that precipitated this vivid, symbolic dream imagery.
So touched by this episode
Great content lots to think about.
Thank you
I'm not a therapist, just an appreciator of Jungian philosophy and a writer. Here's what I see:
Deviled eggs. Are yummy. Take them to a gathering and they'll be gobbled up.
Dreamer begins with a reunion gathering. There is something delicious about reliving (celebrating, reuniting with) the wild days. He "wakes up," after those wild days and even though he feels he is marked by his unconscious way of living in those days, his first thought was that maybe he could get some kind of value from these markings -- money back from the tattooist -- Maybe these tattoos have value. (To which I would say, "hell, yes, if you can understand them, now that you've woken up. You're going to be proud of those tattoos when you're done").
The dreamer then takes a main character (T), a sort of twin brother from the wild days (the dreamer himself, just a step removed, not yet recognized as himself), and he finds that his brother is doing something alchemical (making gold from lead), hatching a mystery in a controlled setting (therapy?). What hatches first is an exuberant devil (celebratory of the wild days) who is anxious to help reveal/birth/hatch the contents of the other eggs (protective encapsulations keeping the creature inside a mystery).
The devils hatched are progressively less and less charismatic. Perhaps the "devilish" impulse was exciting (and very valuable to "set free" and to see and to claim) but the results/identities-taken during the wild life were less and less charismatic or useful -- although charisma was still lingering within the lesser devils in red splotches. Each devil is less and less "red" (ruddy with life and power) until one reaches the dreamer's father -- not much of a devil at all. I feel sorry for the father, whose life force was suppressed.
What a great dream.
More thinking on the meaning of sand is required. A lot of great poetry on sand to consider. Also, mundane meanings depending on the dreamer's interpretation of sand.
Wow amazingly done ! Joseph
Sounds like Peter “Pan” Complex….Pan…God Pan…Peter with Senex as his Shadows…Puer & Senex…