Forgot to say, my father isn’t living with us right now because he is away working is all, my parents aren’t divorced or anything.

Anonymous,
Sorry not getting back to you sooner. I am the caretaker of 16 rescued cats and have had many issues this week that demanded my time. I'll provide a response to your recent posts later today.

Jerry

Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 70 Altoona, Fl

Anonymous,
Let’s examine my analysis and a few of your statements in your responses.

My analysis:
Are you having issues with your mother {or both parents} and restrictions she has placed on you? This seems to be the primary message of the dream, the cells representing being confined and not being able to do as you wish {in some aspects in your life}. The dream also seems to point to defiance on your part despite the restrictions placed on you.

Your response about feelings restricted/trapped.
“it may be that I feel restricted because of being a child and not being able to leave home or school because I am a child. Or it could be that I feel trapped in my life. These are feelings I have.”

And your statement related to your mother.
“I guess I do dislike being around my mother all the time”

We are in unusual times and along with the normal teenager’s feelings of not being able to do the things they wish they could due to parent restrictions such feelings on your part are normal. Our dreams are reflective of emotional energies that cause conflict in our waking life. The reason for this is to help resolve the conflicts. It is nature’s tool. Just as nature provides us an immune system to help heal and protect the body it also provides the dreams to help heal and protect our psych{ology}. Along with the usual restrictions parents place on children the added pressures of the covid virus related to additional confinement and restrictions create strong emotional energies. You are at an age where parental rules feel additionally restrictive because you are developing your own sense of independence.

Something I did not mention in my opening statement in my analysis is the language of dreams is symbolic and metaphorical {there are literal applications as well, literal experiences in waking life including in a dream}. To explain what I mean by metaphorical I’ll use your dream statement, “underground-like under the house’. The house is you {metaphor means the same as, you are the house}. Underground symbolizes your unconscious energies {emotional energies}. Your dreams are helping you in resolving your emotional issues even though you may not be aware of it while you sleep.

Why do dreams use such language? The development of the brain parallels the development of early mankind when the first languages were in symbols {example: the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics}.

Going back to your dream and the parts where your mother is a part and the dream language, “At one point my mother and I were up on a ledge.” A translation would be;
‘To dream that you are standing on a ledge indicates that you are feeling tense, anxious and/or excited.’
Add your mother being on the ledge points to the literal relationship with your mother. You feel she is pushing you, making you feel tense and anxious. The ‘ledge’ is “the one located in my house {your unconscious}. The dream language, “Also annoyance at my mother during the ledge part because of her complaining.” These are your emotional energies related to your relationship with your mother.

The reason I added the possibilities of ‘deeper’ issues is because of the dream language, “my having to defend against her and dread at the prospect of being physically hurt but again, these feelings were dulled.” What does the physical hurt relate to? Who cause the physical hurt and what was the reason?

Another comment in the dream related to physical hurt, “There were multiple people in different cells and each of them (including me) were going to be physically hurt in some way.” Metaphorically the multiple people would represent the various aspects of yourself that feel restricted {{different cells}. Literally it could point to being restricted by multiple people as in your mother and father {restrictions they place on you} and possibly other people in your life like a teacher. At your age such restrictions can be magnified.

What needs explanation is the physical hurt aspects in the dream.
Can you provide more about any actual physical hurt in your waking life? Or is the language purely metaphorical language pointing to the innate feelings of someone your age {innate a synonym word for physical}?

As for the being in a cell with a friend, a 17 year old girl. Unless there was an actual experience the girl is you, metaphor. Her being 17 may point to your future where you will be at an older age with expectations of greater freedoms but hindered by fears of the restrictions you now live with {I would need more personal info to determine exactly what this means}. The dirt floor would represent your foundations where restrictions are the norm {foundations for your personality and personal attitudes you grow up in}.

And finally your response statement, “Being physically hurt or avoiding being physically hurt tends to be a recurring theme in my dreams so maybe that is just unrelated.” If there is not literal physical hurt in your life then the fear of restrictive life may be what prompts such dreams. Growing up with restrictive rules may be an issue and because dreams tend to magnify such fears the physical hurt language may be representative of your fears of a restrictive life. Again I would need more personal info to provide a better explanation.

Hope this helps. I use Jungian psychology as a basis for my analysis/interpretations of dreams and of course when you engage in psychology you are entering a world that goes beyond consciousness. What is unconscious {underground} is always a mystery but when examined with a Jungian approach it is less so.

Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 70 Altoona, Fl

Thanks for getting back to me again, I think I understand more now.

The person that was going to cause the physical hurt when I was underground in a cell was my parents, both of them. I was feeling dread at this prospect during this part. However, in the ledge part it was my mother. I was having to defend against her in that part because she could’ve pushed me off the ledge and hurt me and I was afraid she would. I’m not sure there was a reason she would do this but in regards to them both planning to hurt me when I was underground in a cell was that I had misbehaved or been ‘bad’ in some way I believe.

There isn’t any physical hurt going on in my waking life, however, there was often the fear of it when I was a younger child (ages 4-12). I didn’t have any reason to fear this nor did anyone or my parents ever hurt me but it was a childhood fear of mine for many years. My dreams recently have been replicating these experiences of being afraid and avoiding being harmed I think. For example, in an older dream I felt I was in danger of being harmed or killed by someone (I’m not sure who) and I was trying to be with my parents to gain safety and in another dream I was abandoned by my family and then promptly attacked with a knife by a ghost. The first example was something that happened often in my childhood (ages 4-12). The second example is something that I would’ve been terrified of happening at those ages, losing my family and therefore, losing any safety and being harmed or killed. I was afraid of being harmed or killed but I felt that I would be safe from this if I was with my parents. This dream also has the element of being afraid and trying to avoid being physically harmed.

However, I acknowledge these dreams could have a different meaning and that they may point to me feeling too restricted. I do feel that way in waking life. Also, I do fear that I will not escape living with my parents and will never gain independence as well, because I am not sure how capable I am to live in the adult world, so that may be the 17 year old girl part as well.

I’m just not sure about the physical hurt part still because I relate it to those childhood experiences but possibly it is not related and is just pointing to my feelings of restriction.

Anonymous,
The whole part of the being hurt is pointing to mental/psychological hurt and not physical. That is what I was wanting to understand, was there actual physical hurt/harm by someone. As I noted dreams have a language that is primarily symbolic but with some literal depictions. If there was physical harm in your life that would/could be a part of the dream. If not then it would be symbolic of mental pain. The restrictions placed on you by your parents, and primarily your mother, would be the mental pain you suffered in real life. The cell represents restrictions and being on the ledge with your mother the tensions that exist between the two of you. Push you off could represent her actions pushing you to the point of anger. It is symbolic of the relationship and the barriers {wall} the restrictions caused. And it is as much as an unconscious thing which seems to be brought about by your father's instructions {father who was on the ground}. The ground represents your foundation and support system {father primary source}, experiences and influences in very early life that formed your personality and personal attitudes. The dream is about your feelings related to parents and the restrictions placed on you. At age 16 it is understandable emotions for someone that age.

Jerry

Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 70 Altoona, Fl

Ok, that makes sense, thanks for the reply.