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type the next day. I go to my mother and ask her why she didn’t
tell me my arm was like this. She says to me, "You were doing just fine
and didn’t seem to be bothered by it, so I didn’t see the point in
telling you." I feel anger and frustration.
She finally left those vain (vein) efforts and went on to a more satisfying and creative job. Another girl who was not identifying or feeling a sense of attunement with her work had this clever dream: At work with fellow workers (shows the area of concern, her job). Next we are at a fair (a place to exhibit products of work). Everyone’s listening to his own transistor radio. They won’t tell me what is going on because they’re afraid they might miss hearing something. I’m the only one with no radio. (She’s the only one not tuned in!) Everyone has a wallet and identification card. I’m the only one with no identification card. I need to get one. (She doesn’t identify with this group, but needs an identity.) All the wallets unfold in different ways. In the ways of the money world, everyone has a different way of unfoldment. She went on to find another job which she feels holds promise of greater unfoldment for her. However, not all job frustrations are cause to quit. Often dreams urge us to "hang in there," even though things are really getting "screwed up." Witness Sam’s dream: A small leather strap is being screwed into my right side. It is decided not to install one on my left side. I look back in a while and the screw has come out. I take the strap off. He was working on a project and one worker was screwing things up. This constricted—strapped—the action and the monetary returns. Remember—right side is the action side. If he did not get his feelings (left side) screwed up, the project would undo itself! Sam hung in there and kept cool emotionally. The situation worked itself out. Sometimes it is our own thinking that needs to be changed. That was the case with C.S. who was on the verge of quitting a good job in a medical lab. Her dream: It is the last hour of work (on the verge of quitting time). My long hair is hanging in my face, getting in the way and making it hard for me to work. (Her long, dark negative thoughts had been interfering with her work efficiency.) I go home and cut my hair short. (This is what her dreams suggest that she do—stop those long, dark thoughts from coming out of her head and getting in her way!) The next day at work everyone is surprised by my 159
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