Chapter 7 7. Dream Analysis

After that, according to the agreed date, once a week, Cong Changmin performed dream analysis and treatment on Otome for more than four months.From the beginning of the early winter of the year to the early spring of the next year in March, there has never been a single interruption. Every time after coming to the psychological clinic, Otome's face gradually became more lively. Although the corners of the eyes and lips were still covered with shadows, the pair of eyes that were always in a dream were full of sadness and sadness. Her youth and charm are identifiable at a glance, and have not completely disappeared.

Here, in order for readers to understand this case more deeply, it is necessary to briefly describe the main content of Otome's series of dreams and Dr. Cong Changmin's analysis process as follows. The dream described in the second psychological counseling interview is "the girl standing on the desolate seaside". "As if guided by the white fox, I came to the beach. The waves were not too loud, and there was no sound of waves. I saw a young girl standing alone on the beach. There was no one around, only a few dead trees The sea is very quiet, as if sleeping. In this scene, the only thing that moves quickly is the clouds in the sky. The young girl seems desperate and sad. And I can't stand the clouds moving so fast in the sky, so I want to put It stopped. I went to the beach, and the water slowly covered my knees, and I was not afraid at all. But the water gradually rose and covered my head, and I was worried that I would just drown. At this moment A big shark was swimming towards me, and I was so frightened that I almost went crazy, swam desperately in the water, ran away, and then woke up."

"The scenery by the sea may be a reflection of your current living conditions." Cong Changmin analyzed in this way. "Why?" Otome asked curiously, "And what about that young girl?" "The young girl is yourself. One can see her own image in a dream, just like a person has a dual personality when appearing in public. A person can examine her in a dream as if the soul is out of his body. own life process." Dr. Cong Changmin further explained meaningfully: "The so-called desolation, loneliness and other scenery indicate the loneliness in your current life, or a hopeless and sad emotion deep in your heart. You do nothing about that, just stare blankly. The young girl standing there is angry because she is doing nothing and watching life go by like a cloud. This is her world and her years! But then you think, what can stop it, change Yes, there is no one else but yourself. Yet you have a great threat and fear like a shark attack, so you feel a hopeless and sad mood in the dream. That's exactly what I'm trying to deal with."

Tian Otome was secretly amazed by his analysis, and it was only after this dream analysis that the consulting relationship between the two was further consolidated. Dream in the third interview analysis - "strange condom" "I work in a club or dance hall. It is the turn of the monthly salary or bonus. An old woman in her fifties or sixties looks like the foreman or manager of this place. Came here and distributed a condom to each of the waitresses, and the size and number were extra large, saying it was a Christmas gift and used when going to the toilet. I think we are not here to work with flesh and blood, nor are we men, to go to the toilet I don’t use this thing at all, isn’t this a waste? The strange thing is that the old lady took one herself and said she would wear it and use it. I was even more surprised. I think she didn’t need to use this thing anymore. All the staff crammed into one toilet...and all the condoms were filled with piss and polluted. In my dream I felt so sorry that my salary was wasted like this."

Cong Changmin marked the two words "sex dream" in his dream record book, and then asked Otome: "Did anything happen in the days before you had this dream?" Otome said, "No. A few days ago, I only went out to watch a movie once." "What movie is it?" Cong Changmin asked. "It's called Raise the Red Lantern." "Apart from strangeness and disappointment, what other feelings or thoughts did you have in the dream?" "In the dream, I felt as if I was dead. I felt cold all over, and I wanted to go somewhere to warm up."

"What's your impression of the old woman in the dream?" "Very bad, not a gentle and kind man." "Do you hate her in your heart?" Cong Changmin asked keenly without letting up. "Maybe a little bit." Otome replied thoughtfully, "It's such a strange dream, what does it mean? Can you tell me clearly?" Cong Changmin pondered for a while, looking sincerely into Otome's eyes and said: "If you can forgive my faux pas and bluntness, what I want to tell you frankly is that you have suffered serious sexual trauma in your previous life experience, You have resisted, defensive, and hated emotions, so you focus on this extra-large, deformed condom in your dream. This dream can only be explained by knowing the important events in your life experience It should be more detailed. But as psychologists, we will not force the parties to reveal the personal privacy that they hide and do not want to reveal."

When Tian Otome heard this analysis, she remained silent for a long time without saying a word. The dream in the fifth interview analysis——"The court trial of the homicide case" "I'm sitting in a courtroom. There's a homicide trial in the courtroom. The defendant is a vagabond. His behavior is rough and his voice is low and growling. It's only a matter of time before the guilty verdict is pronounced. During this time Here, there was a man going in and out of the courtroom, but no one stopped him. The man was the real murderer in this murder case. The tramp was wronged and framed for a crime. But the man looked sad and Sincerely, no one can see his true face. But I saw him quickly. I didn't expect him to come up to me, strangled my neck and said that he would use magic to turn me into a bug. I was terrified Terrible, but when I knew the truth, I had to tell the judge in the court, but I couldn't breathe, as if I was about to suffocate, and then I woke up."

Cong Changmin marked his dream record book with the symbol "Uneasy Dreams." "Dreaming about the court usually means that there is some kind of important secret in the heart, and the confusion or anxiety caused by whether to make it public." Cong Changmin analyzed Tian Otome in this way. "So, what about the homeless man?" she asked curiously. "Someone you sympathize with. Perhaps you have known each other. Perhaps he is a dream-shape transformation of one of your relatives. He has been framed for murder." "But, why can I see at a glance that he is innocent in the dream, and the man who comes in and out is the real murderer?" Otome asked again.

"That shows that this secret must be closely related to you or your life experience." "But that dream really terrified me!" "Because the exposure of the secret means that there will be some major consequences, or you feel a crisis of inner collapse. So it has always been hidden in your heart, and now it is manifested through this dream." Cong Changmin The Doctor pointed it out unmistakably. Dreams in the Sixth Interview Analysis - "Nightmare in the Elevator" "I walked into the elevator of a high-rise building. I have a vague impression of who else was riding with me. I only remember a little girl in white standing beside me. We walked into the elevator together. But when the elevator When the door slowly closed, I suddenly found that the little girl was gone. I was shocked, we had been together before. At this time, I heard a faint sound, interspersed with mournful sobs, from It came from somewhere. After careful inspection, I found a strand of white clothes caught between the two doors of the elevator. I thought: this kind of unfortunate thing will not happen, the little girl must have not taken the elevator! But, from the white clothes Blood dripped, and what I was afraid of finally happened. The little girl must have been caught between the two doors on the inside and outside of the elevator. I hurriedly pressed the alarm button in the elevator, but the image of being crushed and crushed kept appearing in my mind. The image of a broken child. The elevator repairman arrived, and when he opened the elevator door to look, it was a crushed white fox. He couldn’t help being surprised and woke up.”

Cong Changmin said: "This dream, I have to think carefully before I can make an analysis. I would like to ask some details about this dream and some of your associations." Otome said, "I can tell you everything I can think of." Cong Changmin then said to her: "You heard the crying of the little girl in the elevator, and saw the little girl's clothes caught in the crack of the elevator door, but you have to deny it and tell yourself that this will not happen. This kind of thing, the little girl must still be outside the elevator! Why do you still avoid the danger that you have already faced? Aren’t you going to further harm the little girl?”

At this moment, Otome retorted, "It's not like that. I think I can't believe that this kind of thing happened. Besides, it's just a dream, and it doesn't really happen." Cong Changmin calmly said to her: "You said this is not a dream, it is not a real thing, but if it really happened in reality, what kind of behavior and attitude would you take? Moreover, we can also say The creation of this dream comes from the material in your real life, and your dream is just a reproduction of the crisis in your life. Because of your avoidance and denial, you pushed the little girl to a dead end." At this time, Tian Yi girl stood up angrily and said, "You don't mean that I'm cruel, so I don't want to save me?" "This little girl is actually yourself, and the white fox is just her incarnation or soul." Cong Changmin continued to analyze without changing his face, and said: "The focus of the problem is that when you are facing the crisis of being crushed, you also yearn for help and rescue in your heart, and opening the 'elevator door' symbolizes that the little girl was rescued." the only way. Don't you want to seek this passage?" Tian Otome sat down again, looking a little disheartened, and said, "I really don't mean to push the little girl to a dead end." She suddenly felt a little sad and sad.After that, the day's dream analysis was interrupted. The Dream in the Eighth Interview Analysis - "Two Pigeons Covered in Mud" "The dream scenes were fragmentary. In the first scene, two pigeons appeared, but they disappeared suddenly. Maybe they lost their way. A few days later, the two pigeons came out of the window one by one. The pigeons came back, their bodies were covered with mud, and their feathers were dirty. They looked hungry and sleepy. I was surprised that they could fly back. The moment the pigeons flew back, one looked blurry, And the other one is very distinct, like a person returning home happily, approaching me. The pigeon’s human-like behavior makes me feel very strange.” "The appearance of the second scene is still in my mind until now. I remember that I was with a man who was not my relatives or anyone I knew. I had agreed to date with him. Yes, it didn’t work out.” "The third scene is that I am traveling alone, traveling very fast and far on the road, but completely alone and without a certain destination." Dr. Cong Changmin asked her, "Please tell me, how did you feel in the dream?" Otome replied: "In the first scene, I felt very warm in my heart. I was amazed that the pigeon could fly home. However, I know that the pigeon has this ability among birds. The second and third This scene made me feel a little lonely.” "It's not so much loneliness, it's more accurate to say it's an emotion of dissatisfaction?!" Cong Changmin clearly pointed it out for her. "But, what is the meaning of the whole dream, I don't know." "Do you have any associations with pigeons?" "When a pigeon flew in from the window, it cooed towards me, with a warm look. In my dream, I felt very relieved that it flew back." "It's close to you, you feel very tender, what do you think about it?" Cong Changmin asked again. "I'm really happy that the pigeons are flying home, very happy." "Now, I want to ask: In your daily life, have any life events similar to this dream happened?" "I met with my brother the day before yesterday. My brother encouraged me to go to night school and said that the two of us would take time to go back to my hometown to visit, but I am currently suffering from being unable to separate myself. We are like two lost pigeons, I don't know how to fly in the future? " Cong Changmin nodded and said, "The second and third scenes in your dream imply that you are dissatisfied with the current situation, but you want to avoid it deliberately." "Maybe I pretended to be ignorant on purpose, because I didn't want to make myself more troubled. Why do I have such an evasive mood?" Therefore, Dr. Cong Changmin made the following thorough analysis. "Of all the scenes in this dream, what attracted me the most was your affection for the dove. The dove hopes that you will give it a kind of human warmth. Although it is covered in mud and hungry, it still comes to find you. Close to you. It doesn't want you to give it food, or material and financial help, but longs for you to give it a kind of warmth in the world. But you deliberately avoided it and went to Dating another man as a solution to the problem. However, you still have a strong dissatisfaction in your heart, so you run away from the relationship with this man and walk alone on the journey of life alone, walking far and fast , but there is no destination, just want to escape." Otome lowered her head and said, "I have nothing to answer you." "You mean that you can't answer such a kind of human tenderness?" "No. I had a feeling of tenderness. In the dream I was just relieved and amazed that the pigeon flew home again. I was so happy that it came back." "In your dream, did you promise anything to the pigeon?" Cong Changmin asked again. "Comfort it, pet it. The pigeon looked at me longingly. So I actually petted it. This is something I have never done before. In other words, this is a kind of warmth that I have never expressed in real life. I have this feeling coming up in me now, I just buried it deep in my heart before. But I have done a lot of things wrong, and I can't regret it. The only thing I want now is that you My psychological counseling and analysis can continue, don't let it be interrupted." After Tian Otuo finished speaking, her eyes were a little moist. Cong Changmin listened attentively and did not analyze further. (unfinished)