What about this person activates feeling in you? Is it an attitude or value you have disallowed? • Are you jealous of this person in waking life? Of what are you jealous? This could indicate an unlived potential that you haven’t owned in yourself yet. • What underdeveloped aspect of yourself does this person represent in the dream? • What themes in

rather to a misplaced obedience to a life-denying pursuit of achievement.

friend shows up in a dream, ask yourself what you admire, envy, or find irritating about that person. Have you disallowed that quality in your life? Can you have a more conscious relationship with this trait? Examine the attitude of the dream ego—it is often off-base or needs to be reconsidered.

Student status promises the opportunity to develop at the cost of submitting to external values and authority.

Some dreams direct us to the hidden source of a current difficulty. They may reference elements from earlier life to show how past attitudes may be maladaptive in the present.

Is your dream organized like a diptych or a triptych? • Does your dream have two or three scenes that are seemingly disjointed? Consider whether they are commenting on the same theme from different perspectives.

A dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer, the author, the public, and the critic. —C. G. Jung

Jung distinguished a symbol from a sign. Signs represent something specific: stylized images of a man and a woman indicate public restrooms; a red light signals stop.

“If the word is a sign,” wrote Jung, “it means nothing. But if the word is a symbol, it means everything.”