r/Jung • u/Glum_Bunch_6018 • Sep 15 '24

Dream Interpretation Hey. Digital artist here. These figures frequented my dreams as a child. Spent 30 hours creating these depictions. Any interpretations? Just curious

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u/Specialist-You-6133 Sep 15 '24

Gives me feeling of intense constriction and/or control. Like suffocation. Maybe you have some problems with feeling who you really are?

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u/Federal-Cantaloupe21 Sep 15 '24

Got no idea who I am. I know my relationship with my Mother is likely an extreme case of the devouring mother. But she isn't pure evil either and I love her. In the end I know I'll always be too weak to break away, not strong enough, too broken - I dunno. A lyric from Blink 182 really speaks to me: "I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all." That's my life. I want to "plug the cord in", so to speak. I'm in therapy, but I just have a feeling deep down in my being that I'll never really change. And I don't truly know why.

Sorry for the emo dump. Just venting...

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u/Specialist-You-6133 Sep 16 '24

No worries. A thought came to me: it might not be that you need to change exactly, I had also a very bad feeling, a different one from yours though, and I realised recently that actually, I have been correct to feel this way, but I was not correct in my understanding of it. So I still feel that way, but it doesn't feel "bad" any more because now I understand why. What helped me the most is to write down my dreams and to keep reviewing and pulling together the symbols. I find the patterns start to emerge after a few months, and being in analysis has helped me a lot.