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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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