The Shame
Dream
I am sleeping, naked on a bed. The bed is located in a very formal, classical garden. The bed is surrounded by a frame of a cottage. There are no walls, ceiling, doors or roof. The frame is painted white. There is a door frame, where a door will go. There are also frames for windows, as well. I am fast asleep, and I am having an erotic dream. Tony Abbott, the former Australian P.M., is standing in the doorway looking at me. He is there, in the dream, as a school mate of mine. He wasn't. It is obvious that I am sexually aroused. The dream ends and I wake up and see him looking at me. He says he is going to expose my shame to everyone.
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Dream notes and associations
The cottage frame reminded me of an Agatha Christie play that Penny and I saw, last Sunday. The play was set in either of 2 cottages and there was a frame of a cottage on the stage and the internal settings of the living rooms where set out around this. I think the frame was white. Not sure what Tony Abbott is doing in my dream. I am certainly no fan of his. The fact that he represents a school mate of mine could refer to my school days. I can't think of any similar situation with a school friend anything like the above dream. I was raped as a teenager, so I did have some things to feel shameful about. Tony Abbott recently gave a eulogy for the late Cardinal George Pell at his funeral.
Last night I watched the 4 Corners report on inappropriate sexual behavior in the medical profession, and the problems of reporting such behavior to the relevant authorities. I wondered if this was going to show up in my dreams.
My feelings throughout the dream and on awakening
formal, classical, erotic, shame, exposed.
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