Sep 27, 2018
The experience of betrayal is painful, confusing, and damaging to one’s basic sense of self and reality. The betrayer is often seized by feelings that demand gratification and involve self-deceit, abandonment of responsibility and empathy for the other. Are there ever times when betrayal is necessary for growth, either as the betrayed or the betrayer? Can betrayal be used as a call to deepened feeling, increased consciousness and more creative self-expression?
The Dream:
I was in a house that belonged to my parents, but it wasn't a
house my parents have ever actually lived in. My boyfriend and I
were fooling around in the bathtub. I was enjoying myself but he
warned me that we were making a mess. I turned around and saw that
we had somehow flooded the bathroom with several inches of water. I
started to panic about how angry my parents were going to be.
There was a radio on the floor that was an actual radio that my dad
owned when I was a child. I was afraid to step out of the tub and
into the water because I thought I'd be electrocuted. I was able to
lean out and unplug the radio, and music that I hadn't realized was
playing stopped. I jumped out of the tub to grab a bucket to try to
deal with the water, but by then most of it had drained away. I was
trying to scoop up what was left and dump it down the drain. My
boyfriend wasn't helping and I was getting mad at him. He seemed to
think it wasn't any big deal because the water was almost gone. I
told him that the water had obviously drained into other parts of
the house, causing damage, and that my parents were still going to
be angry.