I wanted to throw this dream out to anybody who is interested and has thoughts on these types of things. My writing partner had it last week. I don't often show up in her dreams, though when I do she says I'm usually myself and play a fairly positive role. She tends to dream in very bold metaphors, and usually I can get a sense of what the dream's about. The other night, though, she had this dream and it turns out it's a recurring one.
It's very simple: We are both children in the dream, and I have stopped speaking to her.
That's it. One thing she knows is that it is a "fear dream." So it's about some kind of fear.
I figured I'd just throw it out to see how that simple thing struck people--it feels almost like a fanfic challenge, doesn't it? The only details I'd guess I'd add about our real lives is that in reality we obviously talk a lot. Oh, and also she is about 20 years older than I am, so being children is something we never did together.
It's very simple: We are both children in the dream, and I have stopped speaking to her.
That's it. One thing she knows is that it is a "fear dream." So it's about some kind of fear.
I figured I'd just throw it out to see how that simple thing struck people--it feels almost like a fanfic challenge, doesn't it? The only details I'd guess I'd add about our real lives is that in reality we obviously talk a lot. Oh, and also she is about 20 years older than I am, so being children is something we never did together.
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That was, at the time, the worst thing I could imagine...that my world would be disrupted so completely.
Maybe your friend is worried about losing your friendship in some way...not that you would have a big fight or something, but, maybe, given the age difference, that you will drift away and she will no longer have the same closeness.
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It does definitely seem like that sort of dream. Since we write together it's an important relationship, maybe it has a significance beyond her other friends that way. Like we'll often joke it's a little like a marriage, without the sex, because it's a partnership.
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That you and your friend are too distant in ages to have been in that situation together, maybe it means that she secretly fears if she is to expose some part of herself that is a pure and unchanged, or how she feels deep down and honestly to you completely, that you would reject it or be uncomfortable or upset in some way.
Or maybe since childhood is a time of change, she feels that some changes in both of your lives might disrupt your friendship, and as symbolised by being young, she feels powerless to do anything about it.
Eh, there's my worthless observation. ;) Have fun with it, Magpie dahling.
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When I first read that, the way I envisioned the scene was kind of the angry little girl stomping and saying "I'm not talking to you-- you're not my friend anymore!" But there's a very different spin if the one little girl is sitting in the corner playing alone and just won't talk to the other.
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It's interesting that this is a recurring dream, and that you write for children, so you are in that world anyway even as adults. There's definitely a meaning there simply dying to be read.
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There are so few details, I can't make much more of it. ^^;;
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There's something about losing a friend as a kid that's just so much more primal than losing a friend as an adult, and it seems like that's definitely more what the dream is about.
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It does seem like a standardized fear or anxiety and not something specifically to do with me--at least I hope it is!
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Offhand I'd say it's about being afraid that she eventually won't be able to write.
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Could it be that both children in the dream are your friend? So that she is both the "she" in the dream and the "you" in the dream - who is not you literally but a metaphor for some aspect of herself (such as her ability to remember what it is like to be a child, or her sense of curiosity or freedom or playfulness, or her inventiveness, or some other thing) that she is afraid she will lose touch with? or that she is afraid has already stopped speaking to her? Or, because you did say she tends to have very bold dream language, possibly it is a dream about becoming older? and she has cast you in the role of her younger self simply because you are younger?
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(Sorry, not very insightful, I'm afraid. :) )