Re: another second-hand store
More now...I like to take my time and ponder.
I had another dream that I was shopping in a second-hand store. Wish I could figure this symbol out, as it has repeated many times in the last year or so.
Sometimes these stores are referred to as “opportunity shops†or “op shops.†It seems to me it may suggest that you’re looking through things discarded to see if there is anything of value there for you.
I had the baby on my hip and my mother was with me. I was looking for things for our new place, but every time I found something that I could use my mother would criticize me for wanting to spend my money, to the point that I would feel guilty. Even if the prices were really good.
Money in dreams can be money but I’d be inclined to see it in terms of function, that is, it purchases the things you want and need. So, in this sense, it can symbolize your power, efforts and energies. So, some part of you is inhibiting you from/cautioning you about full expression of these things.
Despite my mother's objections, there were a couple of things I would have bought. Things i really could use, but upon looking them over, they both had something weird about them that rendered them useless to me. One was an stove/oven. Good price, but the oven didn't have a real heating element in it, it was just a coil of light. Another thing that looked good was a microwave, but the door wouldn't open.
This is your fear about things that look good falling short in terms of real value. Consider the expression, "I don't buy it." You say these are things you really could use. I think we tend to be most anxious and most cautious on those things that we most desire or need, in case they turn out to be disappointments. The second hand context also suggests a fear of repeating patterns: getting more of the old and familiar rather than something new.
Look at the two objects you wish for but that are defective in some regard. One provides only light but it’s warmth/heat you require. The other could heat up (from the inside out) but it won’t open up and so you cannot access the heat. Both provide for cooking, that is, sustenance.
Most things I looked at were appliances, but I also remember a table of hand-bags
Bags become the receptacles of our wealth. Your interest may reflect your present considerations of ways to make an income. “Baggageâ€, of course, is also the metaphor we use for the emotional burdens we carry around. A table of handbags may be a representation of closely examining such issues, however, these aren’t your bags, they are the former bags of other people.
Then there’s Austin Power’s, “It’s not my bag, baby,†use of the word bag. This may suggest looking at life in general and deciding on what is your “bagâ€.
…and a big pile of board games. The games were like a mountain in the middle of the store. I looked at them, but didn't find anything I was interested in.
Perhaps there’s a rebus at work. You are bored with games.
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
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