2025.8.9 Dream of Meeting My Section Chief and an Acquaintance at a Department Store ② Analysis Edition | Dream Diary | Dream Analysis | Jungian Psychology | Depth Psychology | Boss | Trauma | Relationships with Men | Romantic Relationships | Sexual Harassment | Collective Consciousness | Healing

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*Detailed records of the dream are in the previous post mentioned above.

The sensation of being touched that lingers even after waking up

I woke up with a start, feeling a creepy, unpleasant sensation running down my spine.
It was a dream that left me feeling extremely disgusted.
Why did I have such a dream?
It was to the point of self-loathing.
The sensation of being touched on my right forearm in the dream seems to have lingered even after I woke up.

It felt like something slimy stroking the surface, a textbook case of sexual harassment, and it was disgusting.
I instinctively hugged my own body.

Gross! Gross!

Then, I suddenly remembered that a man who called himself a hairdresser in the dream had confessed his feelings to me a few years ago, and I had turned him down.
He was originally an acquaintance, and he had a strangely close sense of distance, and I remembered that he had actually touched my right forearm just like in the dream!!
Up until this point, those memories had been pushed deep into my mind and forgotten.

I remembered them while I was memorizing the dream to record it.

Boundary Defense Test

What is characteristic about this dream is that while the entire dream unfolds in a two-stage structure, the images of men from the past are also depicted in two stages.

• The section chief at the beginning → An acquaintance (who also confessed to me and was rejected)

• Someone safe and comforting → A reenactment of an unpleasant experience

In my actual experience, the action of refusing with words is reproduced in the dream as a more direct defensive action of pushing him away.

This can be said to be proof that my boundary defense skills have been strengthened in my unconscious
.

Moreover, it can be considered a choice of action due to the clarity of hypnagogia.
In a semi-awake state, it is easier to notice that they resemble that person in reality, and one can choose actions based on that.
The act of pushing him away in this dream is a re-experience that has truly corrected and strengthened reality.

Reenactment and healing of trauma in dreams

Dreams awaken even things that I thought I had already forgotten in my surface consciousness.
I realized after re-analyzing it a few days later that this was the role of this dream.

When I first had the dream, the vivid sensation remained in my body, and I couldn't even think about reviewing the record of the dream because it was so unpleasant.

Immediately after having the dream, it was such an unpleasant dream that I didn't want to remember it anymore.

This is because the dream played the role of a trauma reenactment, and by seeing it in hypnagogia (hypnagogic imagery), it guided my own choices.
In the dream, an action of refusing more strongly and clearly than I did in reality was depicted.
This can be considered evidence that I am trying to overcome past experiences in my heart.

The fact that this restorative action was depicted in the dreamis a big deal to me.
And the fact that I was able to re-analyze it calmly and objectively a few days later also has a very significant meaning.

This point is why I recommend not just ending with a dream diary,
but also performing dream analysis,
and it is also the motivation for starting this note.

Summary and Next Preview

Thank you for reading until the end.
Immediately after waking up,

I felt so sick I wanted to throw up,
but I was able to calm down and re-analyze it,
and I'm glad I was able to post it
on note.
I would be happy if this content is helpful to someone.

Next time, I hope to post
the dream diary + dream analysis
of another hypnagogic dream I had on the same day.

You can see that the content of the dream has progressed further.
If I can't summarize it, I might post a different story💦
Please come back and visit again♡

Bonus at the end♡ Detailed analysis

Here, I will leave a record of the details of the symbolic analysis
that I could not convey in the main text.
If you are interested, please take a look.
If you think it's too geeky and you're fine without it lol,
you can skip this part.

🌟 Overall theme of the dream

This dream combines
the following four motifs.

1. Reversal of position with a past authority figure or parental figure (section manager)

2. Psychological movement (elevator) and change of direction

3. A situation where self-regulation is temporarily not working well (scissors that won't cut)

4. Human relationships where boundaries must be maintained

What is particularly impressive isthe part in the dream where
I understand the symbols myself and take action.
This can be said to be proof that
the self-defense skills in dreams
that I have acquired through my recent self-work and
dream analysis are functioning.

Even in a dream that makes me feel bad,
the fact that I was able to maintain boundaries at the end
is a positive element.

In this dream, the part where the elevator
goes up when I intended to go down
can also be interpreted as a sign of a realistic change in direction.

🌟 Hypnagogic elements

1. Realistic temporal background

   • The situation of thinking I have to take a bath,
     but setting a timer and sleeping for a short time is exactly the condition where it is easy to enter a shallow sleep and hypnagogia is likely to occur.
     

2. Mixture of clarity and dreams

   • In the scene with the male acquaintance,
     understanding in the dream that this person is a symbol of the unpleasant parts of men
     = self-analytical clarity is interspersed.
     

3. Speed and smoothness of scene transitions

   • Stairs → First aid room →
     Elevator → Tatami room,
     the causality of movement is loose,
     switching seamlessly.

   • In hypnagogia,
     even abrupt scene changes do not feel unnatural.

4. Vividness of sensations and sense of reality

   • The section manager's Kansai dialect and smile,
     the acquaintance's smirk, etc.,
     the character depictions are vivid.

   • The classmate girl's name and
     the sensation of cutting hair, etc.,
     fine details are realistic.

5. Strong emotional waves in a short time

   • Disgust, surprise, relief, and defense;
     rapidly switching emotions is also
     a characteristic of hypnagogia.

🌟 However, elements that can also be called a normal dream

• The narrative structure is relatively solid,
  and it is not completely fragmented.

• There are multiple characters,
  and their relationships are depicted to some extent
  (hypnagogia is often fragmented).

• In that case, it might be a dream positioned between
  hypnagogia and a normal dream.

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