Re: I asked for direction ...
Just to add some further material for your consideration:
I was in an empty street devoid of vehicles or even people. On the sides of the road were smaller (maybe halves of) skyscrapers, as if from a city long ago. They were scattered on the sides of the road, particularly the right, randomly and not on the road. They were crumbling, dirty, ruined. In the background behind I saw taller skyscrapers as if there were a city closely, but no noise, and they too looked outdated and possibly ruined.
This may suggest experiments with self-expression tried and abandoned. If you only see a half skyscraper, we’re talking “façade,†the expression we use for exterior appearance. Since the skyscrapers are tall but only facades, you may have put significant energy into trying to be something else but it didn’t go beyond appearance and it was never truly utilized. These edifices may also represent your rejection of past forms left to you as a kind of social inheritance, because they’re not right for you.
I had a dream brother I called Ross who led me to my supposed house. I still felt as though I was aware, for I kept wondering where I was and knew things weren't normally like this. In what I thought would be my room when I went upstairs was my dream sister, I didn't know her name, talking on the phone in her bed.
Ross and your sister are self-aspects, trying to lead you to where you are “truly at home.†The name “Ross†means cliff. The brother represents you as an expressive, creative, protective being; the sister, your receptive and nurturing aspect (it is much the same for father and mother, respectively).
Going upstairs may be a sign of elevating consciousness or it can be a symbol of your habitual ways of thinking. The dream sister aspect can successfully communicate (talk on the phone) and I’d take her as a sign of your inner potential for successful social expression. You at least understand what is required intellectually.
She did not seem surprised to see me, like we were in fact related and she knew me.
No, she wouldn’t be. She is you.
Downstairs were my dream parents, also not like my true parents and not knowing their names either. I get a phone call and pick up my cell phone - it is a friend who begins to say how we were supposed to go somewhere but ... and then it disconnects. My phone will not work here.
This part of the dream may represent your trouble communicating with your parents or elders or feeling comfortable with the values and/or examples they’ve given you. You can’t express yourself/communicate their way. “Downstairs†may represent a non-intellectual, heart-based form of expression. So, while you get what they want of you intellectually, you don’t feel it.
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
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