First I'm in my home office. My son, Adam, at the age of about 2-3, crawls around and throws everything on the floor, creating a huge mess. I can't get any work done. Then, I'm in the kitchen cooking supper at the stove. I look in the pot and don't know where most of the food went. I look up and see it hanging to the ceiling. I see cubed potatoes. It's some sort of stew. I know that some strong force must have done this-- like an exploding pressure cooker. But I didn't see or hear it happen. This dream takes place in my house as it is now but my son is younger than he was when we moved to this house.

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Harriet,
Perhaps if we look at the 'pot' as your life we may begin to understand the intent of your dream. The food may be your 'mental' energy {or even physical} and the ceiling would be the thinking aspect {brain}. You are looking for balance in your life {cubed potatoes} within the 'stew' {all the emotions} but there are such pressures it threatens to explode. You may feel, or have felt, your life has been much like a pressure cooker.

AS for your son being at an earlier age. Could that have a time when such pressures began? I see this dream as reflecting on your life, your past with an attempt to find balance in your current life.

Jerry

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Wow, It's interesting that you had the thought of not knowing how the food got there.
I have had several dreams the past two months in which my daughter, now 15, is about 3 or so in many of my dreams. Jerry mentioned reflecting back on your life, maybe I'm doing some of that too.

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Thanks for your interpretations of my dream. I also wonder if it is trying to tell me that I'm neglecting the more mundane cooking. Then I can't get the nourishment from it because it's up on the ceiling, and it's not going to do me any good up there. But "up on the ceiling" is where I tend to live (in my head?).

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Harriet,
"This dream takes place in my house as it is now but my son is younger than he was when we moved to this house". Your house as it is now. The house is you, as you are now. "My son was younger than when he was when he moved to his house. His house could represent the relationship with your son, as it was before he moved. Are there unresolved issues pertaining to some experience involving your son?

Jerry

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I'm not sure about any unresolved issues with my son. I'll have to consider this some more. The big issue in the dream seemed to be that his play was getting in the way of my work. Harriett

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Harriet,
If there are not any conflicts with your son, look at that time frame and determine if there were any emotional conflicts of any type.

Jerry

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