ATTACK OF THE WASTE-HOLDER
My husband Larry and I am in the back bedroom/den of my mother’s house, my childhood home. We are on our hands and knees and there is an empty bucket---Larry has a piece of cardboard I think and there are live objects on the floor, small clear blobs like jellyfish that he is scooping up to throw away--they are not jelly fish in the dream but we are avoiding touching them, it seems as if it will be very painful or dangerous. My mother is nearby watching. Then there is a huge blob of this stuff looming in front of us, bigger than us, and we both quickly pick it up and throw it into the bathtub. Before this I think I was poking some of the objects with the corner of a piece of cardboard and lifting them into the bucket that way. I think this is how we move the large blob. Once it is in the bathtub I turn on the water full force, hot water, there is steam. I don’t want to hurt the blob just want to kill it. Larry, my mother and me stand at the bathroom door watching---the water seems to be decreasing the size---there is a big indentation where the water is hitting it. I am worried that we might be hurting the blob and I say “are you sure this isn’t hurting it.” I am concerned it will feel like it is being burned from the hot water. I want to get rid of it but not in a way that will cause it to suffer, I want to do it quickly so it will be over before it realizes it. (like swatting a fly or stamping on a spider----rather than half killing and watching it trying to move. Larry doesn’t think it has feelings and is not concerned and reassures me it isn’t suffering. Then it rises from the bathtub and the shape of it is like a thick square with rounded corners---it comes straight forward and we are imbedded in it (like flies in amber--or like objects in a large clear paperweight) At first I feel as if I can’t breathe---I am able to move my right hand and arm and I reach up and pull part of the stuff away from my nose and mouth and I tell Larry and my mother to keep pulling parts of it away or we will suffocate if we do nothing. I also know what the name of this blob is now and I tell them it is a waste-holder.

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Pat,
When I read the first few sentences of the dream my first thoughts are 'what is in the back of your mind, and likely in your deeper unconscious, that has to do with your mother, and perhaps your early life as child? It affects both you and your husband. Something is empty, perhaps in a relationship between you and one or more of these people {your mother, your father and/or your husband}. The jellyfish may be a clue. It can symbolize painful memories {looking at Hyperdictionary-a definition that makes a lot of sense since jellyfish are painful to touch}. It could also represent a lack of self esteem, inadequacy. Look at these relationships and determine what is in common with those and the dream.

Your mother is watching. Something about that relationship remains a part of your deep unconscious. Unconscious influences affect adult life and behavior. Those influences most often come from early life experiences {childhood home}.

What is bigger than the two of you and your husband? Is there something recently that has occurred that fits here. Or perhaps an ongoing experience involving the two of you. The bathtub is for cleansing oneself of something. What could be the large blob that is looming in front of you and needs to be removed? Cardboard is very strong and trying to remove the 'blob' by that method may represent be a futile attempt.

The blob could represent more than one thing. Something that needs to be removed, killed, but without harming it.

The relationship with your mother, and then your husband seems to have ties. My sense is there are aspects of childhood experiences involving your mother that relate to your relationship with your husband in the present. The steam would be a 'hot' emotional issue and by looking within your unconscious {as dreams do} and seeing and understanding the aspects about yourself and your life, it will help you understand some of your emotions.

What is it that makes you suffer when you look back at your childhood, and then look at yourself today. Consciously they look to be two different things but there are unconscious aspects that bind them together. It could be early life experiences and their influence on your psyche have associations to your present day self. You want this thing to die quickly. That could be in response to a situation between your husband and you as well as a personality trait you possess.

Larry has a different take on the situation. This may represent a real life experience. The two of you are caught in something that is pressuring you. Again the mother-husband relationships are involved.

The name is waste-holder. What is the waste in your life that is holding you?

The thing about dreams is they do not come right out and say this or that. They use symbolic language to describe the emotional life of the dreamer, those emotional aspects that are in conflict. A good interpretation at best can provide clues but it is left to the dreamer to put the pieces together {like a puzzle}.

I hope this interpretation helps you understand the emotional aspects that are now playing in your life. I know there are 'underground tunnels' you have yet to discover and this dream may be a big step in revealing what some of those are. Look to aspects of your personality that stems from early life as well as the relationship with Larry. The early life stuff would involve your mother. Are you a lot like her. Or are there experiences from childhood involving her that could at play in your relationship with Larry. It could be both.

Note: Anyone who says they can tell exactly what a dream means can be classified in the same category as a roadside 'psychic' or fortuneteller. They are charlatans. I don't practice such quackery but I do hope to help the dreamer understand their dreams, and by doing that themselves.
Jerry