Quick dream

[sistermagpie]

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.

Comments

[flaxenescapee.livejournal.com]

Well, when you make friends with someone as a child, it tends to be out of a more pure emotional attachment as opposed to any sort of socially circumstantial reasons, at least I would think.
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.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Ah! Good point. There does seem to somehow be something significant about us being children. Especially since, despite our being different ages, we don't have that kind of dynamic. Like, we don't interact like a mother/child in any way. Our age differences really only comes up in terms of cultural references, things that I did as a kid vs. what she did as a kid, that sort of thing. But that idea of the "pure" part of herself--I see what you mean.