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Sunday May 2nd ´99

Dream: Walking the goat

by Eva

I was walking with a goat (just like you walk with a dog) when my teeth fell out.
It was hard but I managed to save my teeth.
I tried very hard to find a dentist, but I also had the goat to look after.
I didn''t dare to ask for help, because people would see that I had no teeth.

Later I went flying, that way I would find a dentist sooner.
When I landed I met this girl, I saw here like my other half.
I compared our hands, I thought they where very alike.
A third girl didn,t agree with that, she was jelous, and it made me less enthousiastic.
Later I was in a group of people and I had my mouth full of pieces of paper.
It was very annoying I had to continue getting that paper out of my mouth,like it would't end and during that I couldn't speak.

Explanation:

Hi Eva,

a lot of images in one! Maybe these are 2 or three dreams fitted together, joined by one theme.

Firstly, you´re walking your goat. Now i assume that in real life, you don´t own a goat and if you did, you wouldn´t go walk it like you would a dog. There must be a reason why you used the image of a goat in your dream.

Why do people walk their dogs (or goats, for that matter)? To have them relieve themselves, to let them run around and have some fun and relieve themselves.
So, is there an aspect of you that needs to be relieved?

How do you feel about walking the goat in the dream?
Is it a task you don´t like, do you feel pressured to do so, or do you enjoy it? Some of the explanation of the dream depends on your feelings about it.
In any case, walking the animal is something that has to be done, or trouble will follow (you don´t want the goat to relieve itself in your living room I presume).
Maybe there is an aspect of your life that needs some relief.

Now, let´s try to se the goat as an aspect of your life, or yourself.
What is a goat?
The answer depends on you, of course. How do you feel about goats? Do you like them or loathe them? What are goats like? for instance: dependent, stubborn, hard-headed? Or something else? Goats are well-known for their capacity to eat anything: also paper, pieces of cloth, etc.
Think about goats for a moment and see if anything comes to mind, then try to see wether a part of you is like this- or maybe someone else in your life you feel some obligation to.
You can also try some word puns, like ´getting your goat´(is someone getting yours?) to see where they lead you.

Then, your theeth fall out and you need help from a dentist, but you don´t want people to see you´re having trouble with your theeth, so you have some difficulty in finding help.
This is a classic theme!

The important question when dealing with this classic dream theme is: how do you feel about your teeth falling out?
In your dream, you don´t want people to see, so I guess you are ashamed of this happening. When shame is the important emotion involved, the ´teeth falling out´ often has to do with having felt or being afraid of feeling vulnerable in waking life, feeling exposed. Having a weakness exposed in sight of everybody. Not being able to assert and express yourself too, perhaps.
You manage to save your ´dignity´ by keeping the teeth, but you have difficulty in finding help because
1) people might see, e.g.: you don´t want to be seen like that, vulnerable in public, and
2) you still have the goat to look after, e.g.: you still have the responsibility towards the part of you or person in your life that needs relieving (or do you need to be relieved of them?)

So, What is a dentist?
Someone who fixes theeth? The part of you that keeps your dignity intact? Helps you to be assertive?

You then decide to go flying in your dream to find a dentist sooner. When you fly, you have an important advantage over people who walk: you have an overview of the situation. You have a birds´eye view.

So, maybe to get you out of your uncomfortable situation, you need to ´zoom out´ and see the larger picture of your life. What is it all about? Where does this situation lead you to? What choices have you made that you´re in this situation now? Who is the goat, is it you, your inner child, a partner, a friend? Why do you feel so exposed? Why do you feel uncomfertable when vulnerable? Do you need to be more assertive? Etc.

Then you land, and meet a girl that seems like your other half. You compare hands.
Hands are the parts of your body you make contact with other people with, can express yourself with, that reveal a lot about your personality (palmistry) etc. They also make you able to ´handle´ things.
I guess in the beginning you feel enthusiastic about this: you meet a kindred spirit! But when an other girl is jealous, it´s less fun.

The ´other half´ girl might be a mirror image of you, a symbol of friendship and closeness, or a friend you feel close to. The jealousy tempers the enthusiasm.

Could it be that in waking life you have felt hindered in your capacity to make contact, have fun, relieve yourself, because of the fear of loosing control (teeth) of yourself or the situation (jealousy)?
Or is there someone jealous in your life that has this effect on you? Because the jealous person is a girl, I presume that there is something about you yourself that might have trouble in relaxing, trusting, being vulnerable (for example in friendships, relationships) at the time of the dream. But only you can give the right answer to this question, because it is your dream. So see if it ´clicks´.

Then, you´re in an awkward situation again: again with your mouth: you feel constricted in expressing youself in a group because pieces of paper keep falling out. Have you been keeping back too much, or have you, like a goat, eaten too much, swallowed too much of other peoplse´s stuff?

It might be that this dream situation describes as well a difficulty you might have felt recently in expressing youself without being hampered in a way or embaressed, by yourself or someone else. Also, you might have a need to be more assertive, stop swallowing and show your teeth!
Furthermore, there might be something that wants to come out...I wonder if anything was written on the paper...a message from your subconscious to yourself perhaps.

So, play around with the images if you like, and see how they fit in your current situation! My guess is that this dream has a lot to do with the need to relax, to trust, to let go, regain the ability to handle things, be assertive and communicate in your personal relationships.

Hope you can make some sense out of this, Eva!