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A woman, I will call Jennifer, had a a cigarette in her hand. Susan took the
successful import/export business. She cigarette and swallowed it. Jennifer took
had several employees who were actively this to mean that her dream was showing
involved in sales for her company. She her that Susan was obnoxious. “She’s
had hired one girl in particular whom, even swallowing cigarettes,” she said
I will call Susan, who over time elicited to me — which would be a very literal
a sense of revulsion. She described this interpretation. The unconscious gave her
employee as a person who exaggerated this dream to show her this figure was
her importance and talked incessantly inside her, that she was blowing a lot of
about “who” she knew —the mayor of hot air and she needed to swallow it. In
the city, the richest people in the area, other words, she needed to own it.
etc. She bragged constantly about her
sales ability and generally repulsed It was a great example of a
Jennifer. It started to drive her nuts so compensatory dream and how the
much that, although this girl was doing unconscious is offering up a solution
her job and doing it well, Jennifer wanted for the split-off part of her psyche and
to fire her. She couldn’t stand Susan made a statement to correct the denial
anymore and told me about it. of her conscious mind. From studying
Sandford’s book and several more on
I came to visit her and stayed with her dreams, I knew that dream figures often
and her family for a few months as I was represent your shadow, especially when
writing my workbook. During the time I they are a person you can’t stand. It
was there visiting, I noticed Jennifer doing became a touchy subject with Jennifer,
the exact things she was accusing Susan of so I didn’t tell her what I thought the
doing. Her teenage daughter, Amy, and I dream really meant. I let it alone and
talked about it, as it became very obvious allowed her to process the information
to both of us, and together we told her. At in her own way. Life itself helped her
first, she hotly denied it, but because she get clear. One night we were all at
was an introspective woman, she said she dinner with a new prospective client.
would think about it. It was Jennifer’s daughter, Amy,
myself, her husband and this couple
Things got worse before they got better. that she was entertaining. Jennifer
Jennifer resented me for pointing it out, started doing exactly what she had
but because I was a guest in her home, accused her employee Susan of doing,
she couldn’t exactly get rid of me. Then and her daughter and I looked at each
one night during all this, Jennifer had other and smiled. She saw us, and she
a dream. She dreamed that Susan, her got it. In that instant, she saw it herself
employee, was walking toward her with and she stopped.
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