 Dream of US keyworker delivery driver Mason told online for one of our Covid Lockdown dream events. In waking life Mason was relocating across the US. Dream: 'I am trying to drive up the incline from a suburban house garage but the gears keep crashing and so I can't move into the road to join the traffic there. I release the clutch but find the car is not in gear and it moves backwards and stops. I get out to check that it did not hit the white garage door and am surprised to see that it has damaged the door badly. I get back in the car and see a man and a woman in an old white car looking at me almost with disgust. I feel embarrassed as I was not being able to drive the car, even though I should be able to do so and as it is my job to drive. The car was a brown Mazda Miata, which is not a car I drive in waking life and is a color I would not choose.'
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4/11/2021 06:48:29 pm
This was the only 'session' that I watched or read about, except for those described in IASD's DreamTime (I'm a member of IASD). I find your collaboration, Mark and Julia, to be inspired and remarkable, and look forward to taking in all the dreams and art eventually, and hope these end up in a book. That said, I've been meaning to write about this session for months, and am finally getting to it. I live in the US, am a white 68 year old, and - as have many other white people - have been making an effort to look at what it means to be white in a white dominant culture, to learn about "the sting of systemic racism" become more conscious of my white privilege and its impact on others, etc. In each dream groups I facilitate now, I pose questions such as, "How might race, racial bias or racial history, be speaking through this dream?" If the question goes unasked, we might miss what our dream could be shedding light on in that regard. I've found - and those who work with me - that a 'racial layer' is often begging for attention, if we but pose the question. When I heard this dream last year, it struck me that the brown car the white dreamer drives, the badly damaged white garage door, and white couple in white car were elements that could readily be explored in that vein - not to the exclusion of the other layer(s) of meaning - but in addition, especially in these times of racial tension, buried things coming to light, and individual and collective awakening. The way the dreamer spoke of the color (if I recall correctly) as an ugly shade of brown called to mind for me the ugliness that's often been projected on Blacks (people with brown skin) by whites, for instance. And so much more could be explored along these lines - with lack of unawareness of the causing of damage to garage doors, the attitude of white couple, the dreamer's embarrassment, etc. Leave a Reply. |
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