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In my real life I don't feel that conflit between doing what gives me money and what gives me pleasure. I finished medical school and now I have to follow a speciality. I was in one residence, but I had some troubles with my chiefs and I think is better to change of speciality. At this point of my life, I don't know which is the job that gives me more pleasure. I only know I have to be with my feet on the ground and chose a job that gives me a way of living. The decision of changing speciality depends on the decision of a special organism. I also don't which speciality I like most. I have some difficulties with medicine. Is like I don't like nothing in medicine. But I can't change because I don't have any formation in other area.
In resume, I am long time in my field and I think I don't have the capacity to change yet. Maybe later. I don't know which are the alternatives I would chose. I like more creative fields as you said. I am not having success in medicine. I can't adapt to it, but there isn't nothing more. I don't have any other formation,

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Luis,
If you substitute what gives you the most pleasure {a choice of specialties} , then what I provided fits. Unlike most who have to choose between fields of employment you will likely prosper financially no matter what decision you make. With what little I know about your personal life I can not provide exact details to what the emotional conflict is {emotional conflicts are what all dreams are trying to help the dreamer resolve}.I can only see around the perimeters of what it might be. There is a limit top what can be determined from any dream

You state you would like to move to more creative fields. That fits with what I suggested. That is where I associated the feminine aspect because creativity is 1}a feminine aspect of the psyche 2}the creative aspect is the greatest strength we can have in life {pine forest}. It could be addressing waking life associations to females, as a secondary application. But only if there is a conflict to do with relationships in your waking life. I sensed it as primarily addressing creative/metaphysical aspects.

As for doing what you do for money instead of because it is what you like doing most. In your field no matter what specialty you choose you will make good money. I will say, if in life you choose to make money instead of serving your patients, you can count on Karma evening things out. Nature has its way of rewarding good deeds, or coming back to bite you for doing bad deeds. It is called cause and affect. Hopefully your oath to serve is not for the money but for the service you provide in healing people. Jung discovered a 'spiritual aspect within the psyche. Jung's work on himself and his patients convinced him that life has a spiritual purpose beyond material goals. Our main task, he believed, is to discover and fulfill our deep innate potential. Based on his study of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Taoism, and other traditions, Jung believed that this journey of transformation, which he called individuation, is at the mystical heart of all religions. It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine. Unlike Sigmund Freud, Jung thought spiritual experience was essential to our well-being.

I emphasize this point since it does seem to be important to your decision making.

What about my suggestions about Portas? And your father? When a 'famous' person is a part of a dream it is usually because there is something about that person the dreamer identifies with. As for your father, is there a conflict with him about which path you choose? The part about the old boiler and the joke {a little may have gotten lost in translation} seems to be directly associated to some aspect of the relationship with your father {in some dreams a father can symbolize a higher aspect of the dreamer, or even a spiritual aspect as in God the Father}.

Overall I believe I got most of what the dream was trying to express. There was a bit lost due to cultural translation {ie, grace to the father is not a phrase used in American culture, unless it is spiritual}. But the aspirations as I pointed out in mt response seems to be correct. But my goal is not to be right in my interpretation to satisfy my ego but to help you understand what emotional conflicts the dream is trying to communicate. If you take the time to do an internet search on dream interpretation, then take more time to post the dream, then you most likely feel it important.

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Thank very much,

I really want to do my individuation, I want to realize the self. I want to learn more about dream interpretation, because I want to learn to interpret my dreams alone. For instances, in which places can I find information like the pine forest is associated with creative strenght? I would like to find books so I can learn more.

In relation, to my father he is not forcing me. I father is somewhat passive. He's personality is passive and tender as a woman. My mother has a stronger personality, and I can say she is the man in my parents house.

But I have a friend, that is kind of a therapist and I see him as a father. He is doing some force that I stay in the same speciality. But in the dream I was not thinking on me.I was thinking on my real father.

I have a creative mind. I always been into arts. literature, design, and I can say I have a more feminine psyche, a more romantic vision, than a stright masculine perspective of life.

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Luis,
Individuation is something that requires a lot of discipline as well as a deep desire to be a spiritual person as well as to grow personally. It takes a lot of time to inspect, evaluate, and make adjustments to original attitudes we grow up with. Especially if those attitudes were negative to begin with. You have to have a desire to discover who your truly are and worked toward being that person. From all I have learned, and applied, from my own journey the attitude has to be about discovering the creative and spiritual identity. It involves a death and resurrection {if not a total annihilation} of the ego so that it no longer is the guiding force in your life. Material worth is not what makes us truly happy but the 'bliss' in life. That thing you love doing most. Most often it has to do with the muse, creativity, and always comes from the spiritual soul. But it can be something else you love doing. If being a doctor from a stand point to heal people and not to make money, the that could be your calling. You don't have to be poor to be spiritual but it can't be for money to be your bliss.

As for interpreting dreams. Read Jung. And learn to develop your intuitive senses. If you have a good feminine psyche then you have an advantage with the intuitive mind. I am working on a simple guide to interpreting dreams that should help you. I will provide insights to how I look at dreams and interpret them. Dreams are not the great mystery there were since Jung discovered their symbolic and metaphorical language. And that the archetypes do play a key role not only in dreams but our individual lives. Dreams are about the emotions and the unconscious energies that drive us to be something other than who we really are. Early life experiences and influences shape who we become but the unconscious archetypes do also. To learn to understand these energies will go a long way in understanding dreams. I hope to have this guide finished within the next week.

As for your creative mind. If there is one thing we all strive to be is our true selves. And to be that person always involves the 'bliss' factor. doing that thing your soul wishes for and not is required by society. When you are in that element you are being your true self. The greatest goal in life is to be able to be that true person all the time. That is a total transformation. That is true individuation. You can't put it on the back burner forever or you will never achieve the goal. Responsibilities are a fact of life and you can't ignore those. But if you work toward being that true self, removing one social obstacle at a time, the eventually you will realize your bliss. Determine what you bliss is and work toward that. Set a time frame and stay with it. I spent the past twenty years working toward my goal and now that I am retired I am doing what I love doing most. Working with dreams and being creative in designing my websites {I added several pages to my The Power of Dreams website just in the past two weeks}.

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