I have a dream interpretation theory. The first principle is that every character in the dream is an aspect of the dreamer. The second is that if you can tease out the emotions of the scene and the dreamers feelings about the characters in the dream, you may be able get a better sense of what is going on.
It’s funny that you ask, because not two hours ago someone told me they had had a dream about me. A very flattering dream.
It was all I could do to try not to take the dream personally. Like I said, it was a very flattering dream. But it wasn’t really about me. It was about an aspect of her that her brain used me to symbolize. I asked her what role I played in her life, and she said she saw me as a teacher. So in this case, her inner teacher was being very kind to her, an idea that has a great deal of significance to her, since it is only recently that she started thinking she was worth being kind to.
She’s come a long way, and I am quite happy for her. It would have been nice if the dream could be interpreted more literally, although there’s nothing I could do about that, anyway.