hypothesis, the following observations were made: A jet
landing and being ready to take  off from  a  place where
there   is   neither   an   airport  nor  a  runway  is  a  neat
metaphor   for   not,   as   we    say,   "having   everything
together."  So, the rest of  the dream may  be working  at
just that, getting Colleen together. First, there is the full
uniform—an  identity symbol. Then there is being alone,
and  in  the  middle, with  a  grammar  school  friend (the
past?) behind  her, and a  married couple (the future?) in
front of  her.  At  this  point  in   the discussion  Colleen
compared  the dream's  view from outside the plane to a
cross,    which   led   someone   to   name   the  dream   a
"crossroads" dream. What, from  this  perspective, about
the schedule having  to  be  kept? It could mean  "I'm  not
going    to   be   rushed    into   anything—like    intimate
relations—until I  do get myself  together." And  then, "I
see  different  areas  by  being  in  different  parts  of the
plane, the back, the front, while  al l the time  I am in  my
seat." And then, "As  I  approach  our  house  I  see  some
changes."  Finally,  the  same  items   that  reflected   the
unconscious  wish could  be expressing  a  preconscious
or conscious emancipation  theme: "I'll  never be  able to
communicate  all  I've  been  through ..." "I do not go into
[my parents'] house."
      "Yes," said Colleen, "that's  all very  interesting, too...
And,  what  else?"
      "What  about  the dream  poet," asked someone, "what
is   she   doing?" . . . "She's   playing  with   names . . . and
pairing...  no,  coupling... sounds ... out  of  names.  Look,
she  has Charlton Heston.  Then  there's Jim Jackson—a
pair  of  J's." "Then  there  is Skyjacked and  Jim Jackson
a—pair of  jacks."  "What," someone  asks, "is  Russ'  last
name?" "Peterson," says Colleen.  So there's another pair:
Jackson—Peterson. But  that  isn't all; her father's  given
name, it  turns  out, is  Alvey Coleman, but since  he  has
always hated Alvey  for a name he has had himself called
Pete. So, Pete and  Peterson. This  reminds Colleen  that
Toni,  the   former   airline  stewardess,   had   asked   her
seminar not to  call her by her given  name (Mary) which
she hated, preferring to be called  Toni. So then we had a
pair of rejected names,  Alvey and Mary.  And  what does

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