Dream Description Dreamer: 38-year-old female
Dreaming of going out to play with friends. We walked on the overpass, and there was a beautiful rainbow in the sky above the city, with the sky being pink as well, and the rainbow slowly descending with the sunset.
I was very excited and quickly picked up my camera to take pictures, only to find a light blue monster under the rainbow. It was fighting with humans and got injured; it covered its face, as if it had been bullied, and rushed into the amusement park.
My friend and I also sneaked into the amusement park and found that it looked more like a school, in a Harry Potter style, with many students and armored guards. They were responsible for guarding the place and surrounded the monster that had run in. I thought the monster looked quite pitiful.
Later, we walked into the student council's classroom, which was called "FKT," named after their previous president who had died in battle a long time ago, and everyone here respected him.
The dream ended.
Dreamer's Associations
Friend: A friend in reality is more stable and intelligent.
Monster: From a distance, it looked tall and round, like pudding, round and watery. At first, I was scared, but later I felt there was no danger.
Analysis:
The pink sky and beautiful rainbow: In the dream, they symbolize beautiful and happy things, possibly reflecting the dreamer's longing for beauty and happiness. Walking on the overpass in the dream often signifies a "passing through," meaning there is a road ahead and a road behind, indicating some choice of moving forward.
The monster symbolizes the dreamer's sub-personality: This part of the sub-personality feels harmless to me; the destruction it causes seems more like an unintentional result of its size. Instead, I think it is playful. I can't imagine a jelly-like monster being scary; I think it is just excited to see beautiful scenery, like a child playing in the "amusement park" of the human world.
The monster thought it had rushed into an amusement park, but it turned out to be a school, which represents the process of a child's growth. Once in school, one cannot play aggressively like a child anymore and must be restrained, so it was surrounded by guards, representing authority and rules.
The magic academy is the sublimation of emotions: The child's aggression and curiosity are controlled, just like the people in the magic academy learn to control magic. It must learn to manage its emotions and behavior, transforming its originally destructive power into magic that helps itself.
What we can see here is the dreamer trying to suppress and control her emotional thoughts and needs.
However, the process of suppression is not smooth; it occasionally surfaces. The name of the student council made the dreamer immediately think of an English profanity, but at least the aggressive behavior has transformed into verbal aggression, which is an improvement, showing some restraint.
As for the president who named it, he is naturally a warrior who loves battle and adventure. In fact, I believe this president is the monster, a monster that has matured after training. The president has died, indicating that this part is continuously weakening. It seems this dream reveals the changes happening within the dreamer, her experiences of suppression and release, and the direction in which she is growing.