Interview Dream Symbols:
Date of experience: Dec 03 2009
Experience Type(s): Dream
My friend, Krys, gets me a job interview with a marketing firm where she works downtown. She mentions that the male owner is really great, and that the female manager is a bit challenging.
I get on my bike and pedal to meet another girlfriend on her bike. She takes me through a long tunnel, and we pop out in the midst of a shopping and dining area, full of people. I am surprised the tunnel ends here. I feel I know this place, but did not know I could access it through this tunnel.
As we pedal into the street, a cat appears and my female friend wants the cat to keep up with us as we pedal.
We are now in a park-like area, with people hanging out and waiting for a politician to make his speech. The politician is late. Right after we arrive, so does he. He appears on his bike. He is wearing a diaper. Instead, of delivering the speech, he announces that he can’t do it now. He needs more time. Then he places his hands in prayer, in front of his heart. I feel that he is an honest politician, and I feel grateful.
Then, I realize I’m late to my job interview. It was supposed to be at 10am. I take a train with my bike, and it drops me off at a location downtown that is in front of some stairs and an elevated pedestrian walkway. I think it’s about noon. At the bottom of the stairs, there’s another guy there with his bike, and I sense he is intending to carry it up the flight of stairs. So, I pick my bike up and begin to carry it up the stairs. I am pleasantly surprised that my bike feels so light.
After I scale the stairs, I am on the walkway for just a little while, then I need to take another short flight of stairs down that are to the left of me. Their direction is back the way I came. This brings me to the front door of the marketing firm.
Leaving my bike outside, I open the door and step into a reception room that is dark. The only lights are shining on the reception desk, that looks more like a bar, about 3 or 4 feet tall. The lights are illuminating 6-7 males and females sitting in a row behind it. My friend, Krys, is the last person on the right. She greets me and calls me “Denise.” I almost correct her, but I don’t. However, I feel that it comes across like she doesn’t know me as well as she does, and I’m a bit disappointed. I feel there is value in me being perceived as someone Krys knows well. She indicates I should take a seat, so I sit in a chair in the dark.
The tall, male owner comes in and greets me with a hug. I then stand, and wander into another room. This one is much larger – banquet-sized and well lit. It seems there has been a holiday luncheon in the room for one of their clients. The marketing firm only has a few employees, but there are a number of contract workers here. They are cleaning up after the luncheon, clearing away the dishes.
Some of the contract workers and employees then invite me to go water-skiing with them. I find myself in the water without a ski, just barefoot. I have the brief thought, “how am I going to get up on the water.” At first I’m dragging my right foot, then I’m up and skiing with both feet, barefoot, and I’m creating huge rooster tails of spray. We travel by a boat to my right that is stationary, and I spray it and the people in it.
Then, I have this thought: “What am I doing? I don’t have time to work another job. I need my time for Imaginariums.”
Interpretation: Interview Dream
My dream-maker knew I was in conflict the day before over needing to make a decision whether to resign from contract work obligations in favor spending more time and energy on what I perceive to be my right livelihood.
I feel this is a dream about my right livelihood. Krys is a former employee of mine, and I believe represents an aspect of my self that is intuitive, checking out an opportunity that seems to be focusing on promoting (marketing) an aspect of myself that is connected to being in hustle and bustle (downtown). My intuitive aspect is illuminating a male aspect of my self that has strong leadership qualities and a female aspect of my self that I’m feeling is probably a bit micro-managing. How do I orient around work and being a leader?
The bike reinforces the male/female aspects by representing a need for balance in the here and now. In this reality, balance for myself includes preference to be closer to the environment by traveling slower pace than a car -- a slower pace than the average bear. I’m connecting with another female aspect of my self, journeying through aspects of my unconscious and coming into the awareness of opportunities to obtain more nurturance and resources. My self has been here before, but maybe via another pathway.
This female aspect (my friend) is encouraging another more independent, creative and empowering female aspect (cat) to join us. But it’s not typically in a cat’s nature to follow or be in line.
Lots of aspects of my self are in a natural setting, reflecting spirit, renewal, and meditation (park). The politician is a male aspect of self that is service-oriented and dependent upon others for approval. This dependency is reinforced even more by the diaper. The aspect expresses a need for more preparation (wanting more time) to communicate more effectively. And, this aspect is seeking guidance from Spirit (prayerful hands over heart). The politician is also representing my waking life where I need more time to focus on my guided work; and is reinforcing where I am dependent upon others/being depended upon by others. I'm being asked to make a decision from my heart, to choose guided work and let go of a co-dependent opportunity.
The self is anxious about neglecting a perceived responsibility (tardy) regarding getting approval or being judged by others (interview). This meme is so strong that I'm shown the collective drive of conformity (train). By not missing an interview, I am shown how I can move forward in life by going along with what everyone else is does (taking a train). In the hustle and bustle of life (downtown), my self prepares to move forward (up a flight of stairs). A male aspect (like an angel!) demonstrates knowledge that the lightness that can be obtained by holding balance in the here and now as I move into higher realms on my journey.
The path my self takes then turns back toward the unconscious (reinforced to the left and downstairs). This feels like turning back to my old life, old patterns that are unconscious in me.
Leaving my balance for the here and now, I am received into the unconscious (dark reception room). Six or seven masculine and feminine aspects of my self are brought into my consciousness (illuminated). From a conscious position (on the right), the intuitive female aspect (Krys) mis-identifies my self. I’m offered an opportunity to contemplate (sitting) a shadow, no doubt associated with the meme being presented.
A dominant (tall) masculine aspect with power and resources (business owner) reinforces the familiarity (hugs me) we have in the way I think about and do business in my life. Moving from the unconscious shadow contemplation, and into the illuminated space, I’m obtaining clarity and consciousness about a large aspect of how my psyche operates and orients around work. I observe a structure or belief system where dependent components (employees) of my self are obligated (contracted) to serve and clean up while other people (in this regard, not aspects of my self) have the privilege of consuming information, energy and resources. This is the meme, the history, the old paradigm of working in global world.
My dependent components invite my self to join them in busting out and becoming independent: to be more like cats. Bare-foot water-skiing: My feet represent the sensate, where I am standing in the here and now, which is doing dream work. I'm being shown I can use them to travel, with great fun, over the unconscious. It makes sense that the left foot (being more at home in the unconscious) would be better at skiing over water initially. Once my conscious, more linear right foot comes into alignment and balance, I am able to fully realize a new potential and capacity - as I elevate the unconscious (spraying water) in a playful and freeing way with others. This dream is about the dream-work I am doing. This act is an expression of my authentic self and gifts which feel freeing, natural and enjoyable. Which is often the opposite of what it feels like to be in servitude and in co-dependency in business, what is traditionally experienced globally and historically.
Meet Denise-She's gonna rock!
I assume deb does marketing/clothes stuff, like I have worked in retail stores and so that is often the setting, it’s our language. It is easier to negotiate with your masculine then your feminine, you like letting him run things. Your emotions are messy to deal with.
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO GET TO THE SAME SPOT. Often, and especially if it's hidden you won't realize that. It could be through a journey into the darkness. (Is biking normal for you or not? What significance might it have? ) An alternate route may be the best thing, you arrive fully prepared.
A cat is NOT an animal that is expected to keep up. Perhaps you don’t feel like you should be expected to keep up, run quickly, but a part of you wants you to. This could be a key element in stepping up to the challenge/gift that this dream is about.
Your leader self, although good-in-heart, has yet to arrive in your life yet and is immature, just a baby. It will be WELL worth the wait though, I wouldn’t push him.
You have not gotten around to this new opportunity that you signed up for, and you are wasting time a bit with the stairs, it’s so light and easy to do. I bet if you REALLY wanted to get there on time, there would be an elevator. You are messing around, avoiding.
In order to get this opportunity you are going to have to go into a shadowy area of yourself, a part of yourself you don’t even know very well, and may have judgments about, so you keep her locked away. There is a part of you that wants her to show up, she’s needed, a part of a team.
It seems that once you sit in her seat, and take on this aspect, that a powerful intellectual side of you is integrated. The scene becomes more illuminated and spacious. It’s a celebration, a “birth”day party for one of your aspects. You then are able to enlist more help from your many aspects then you are able to do now.
Multiple aspects have fun together, and you find yourself able to do amazing spiritual(water) things that you had no idea was possible. You are free and playful and acknowledge other aspects.
"Then, I have this thought: “What am I doing? I don’t have time to work another job. I need my time for Imaginariums.”"
FEAR!