I dream of a burned out chest of drawers. It is functional but compromised.
This dream occurred three months after a heart attack; about a day after this dream, it suddenly struck me that this was about my heart — a chamber with four drawers, in the chest. I certainly felt burned and charred inside, and tests would show that my heart had been badly compromised and scarred. It was a depressing and discouraging dream. I can still vividly see that chest of drawers in my mind.
The dream occurred four years ago. Much to my surprise, and contrary to the image in the dream, I have made a strong recovery and am leading a normal life, in spite of an ejection fraction (the capacity of the heart to pump blood) reduced by 50%.
One of the people who heard this dream suggested that it could be about many different things; four, for instance, is a symbol associated with wholeness. Right. And four is also the number of chambers in the heart.
There is also an “aha” feeling when one hits the right meaning of the dream, a kind of emotional resonance that says, “Yes, that’s it.” The “four as wholeness” had no “aha.”
The dream is not prognostic however, nor is it the “truth”. In this sense, while the dream may have represented the damage to the heart, it over-emphasized the darkness and damage; it was a dream also reflective of the anxiety. While it may have shown the subjective feeling about the heart attack, it did not necessarily indicate the objective reality.
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