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Abby's avatar

I dream often of a friend I had a crush on in high school. I the dreams I'm always wishing he and I were in a loving relationship, but there is no love in that relationship, or even our friendship. When we are in the friend stage, he disregards me when I speak to him, and when we are "committed", he openly loathes me, and wants to be with another girl. Him and his disgust towards me is my recurring figure.

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Alyssa Polizzi's avatar

What are the main qualities of this individual in waking life? How would you describe them?

Sometimes when we dream of others, they act as symbolic containers of our own characteristics, potentialities, essence. It seems there is a desire for merging with these qualities (to be in a relationship), but the result is quite ambivalent based on the resulting dreams.

Since both him and the disgust recurs, I would focus on that. What may be keeping you from embracing, getting in touch with, or merging with the main qualities this person represents? Is there something shadowy here (disallowed, unacknowledged) that he may represent?

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