Blissfully cool temps gave way overnight to hard
rain, colder temps and now heavy fog tonight, but not as cold.
Sometimes in dreams there is this person, or
maybe an animal, that is being chased, or even attacked, or crouches
somewhere in fear. Or maybe, in less tense circumstances, it's a little
girl maybe wanting ice cream or a boy looking in a window. I learned
several years ago (in counseling) that this dream character is called
the 'dream ingenue' -- an archetypal figure that represents innocence
(maybe lost innocence) or something similar in dreams. There was a
period (a good ten years ago) where all my dream ingenues were
dark-haired girls or young women. I always knew when she appeared who
she was, or rather, what she represented to me. In the movie Moulin
Rouge!, Nicole Kidman's character is the fallen "ingenue" of the
writer's absinthe-influenced dream. He loses her in his dreamscape, and
awakes a different man (grows a beard, gets a job with a newspaper). His
waking romanticism was shallow (a struggling novelist in Paris), but
his dream romance was real and tactile to him. When he lost "her" in the
dream world, he awoke a sadder but wiser, and less innocent, man. I
don't know if contact with the dream ingenue automatically means you're
about to lose your innocence (I doubt it always means that, but it might), but I do think what the ingenue
represents is worth considering when you (if you) reflect on your
dreams. (As for animals, some I've met as "nature" ingenues were a
small, maybe adolescent fox; a deer; and a dolphin.) Next time, another
character you might meet in your dreams.
orig: 12/03/06 (estimate)
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