Kaze,
Remember, these symbolic reference to people are most likely aspects of yourself. The friend that went nuts is you. But there is that other you who did not go 'nuts'. My sense is the dream is addressing the two aspects of who you are. On one hand there is gloom and doom but on the other the 'sunny' side. There is a strong side but also that weak side. These are the two conflicting aspects.

Are you that type person. One day all sad and depressed and other days a smiling, positive person? 'It won't stop raining' suggests to me there are forces that do cause depressed feelings. I get the impression it can be resolved not by self examination alone but also a need for a stabilizing medication. That thought for some reason came to me.

Jerry

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No, I'm actually not like that at all. I do tend to tell everyone ' I'm good/fine' when I am not maybe that could be part of the discrepancy.

I've actually seen a few psychologists when I was a little and one more recently. I got a hold of his report and aside from a 'trust' and 'adjustment' issues there is nothing seriously wrong with me and no need for medication.

Is there any other explanation that comes to mind? Or should I just list this as an unsolved mystery?

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Kaze,
Saying you fine when you are not really are conflicting aspects. That would explain the opposites I mentioned in my interpretation. And the 'adjustments' and trust, what are those about. Perhaps you need a deeper examination of self. Seeing a psychologist suggests you had reason to believe there were strong issues that needed help to begin with.

Jerry [meditation]

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The never ending rain reminds me of the wasteland of the grail legends, where there is this desolate soul landscape. In the legend only a young fool can return the wasteland to its healthy natural state, Parsifal (meaning young fool). The Brahman may be a powerful natural aspect of yourself outside of your current ego identity, the aspect that disregards the emotional desolation, lives outside of that dominion. This instinct attempts to affect and depotentialize the wasteland, by endowing you with the ability to walk above the water. Aside from incorporating into your identity some of the natural positive aspects of your being, the only other way to deal with the wasteland is to be unconscious of it, i.e. "go back to sleep". But we know that even when we sleep we begin to live and dream.
Your friend is also a representative of that natural healthy part of yourself, yet unlike the God, his power is merely human and so he's susseptible to being crushed by the tyranny of the emotional wasteland. It appears to me that this positive aspect of yourself is eventually driven crazy because of the sheer persistance and magnitude of the frozen barren water moodscape. It suggests that an emotion has become a dominant aspect of your waking consciousness and plays a role in many aspects of its functioning. When a mood or an emotion dictates an entire landscape and opresses compensating emotions, that landscape is unnaturally exaggerated. It is the function of that aspect of yourself, your friend, to be a vessel for those positive aspects of yourself to show through, to be projected, eventually to be incorporated into the natural array of emotions and abilities of your own ego consciousness.
Hopefully these ideas have some accuracy with how you feel about your dreams and life. Jerry has always said that dreams have a natural theraputic intention and seek to inform us of unnatural prejudices our consciousness may have adopted, in order to restore us to a natural healthy emotional balance.

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