Dream of a forty-seven year old man:
I had this recurrent nightmare three times…
I am dreaming Darth Vader is on the back porch of the house.
It is night. He is dressed in his typical manner in black with the helmet.
I awake and feel extreme threat. The hair on the back of my neck is up. I am frightened. I go over and over it in my mind. What is the threat? Does it have to do my wife? My marriage? Is it from my house? The nightmare was never about me.
Six months after the first nightmare I was diagnosed with rectal carcinoid cancer.
(I had a surgical cure. They found the cancer (which was not otherwise amenable to treatment) over half way through the rectum.)
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From a book by Patricia Garfield:
Darth Vader, the figure from George Lucas Star Wars saga, has become a stable figure in scary dreams. With his dark armor, dark visor, and black cape, he epitomizes the dangerous bogeyman for many people…. The similarity between the word death and the name Darth is registered by the movie watcher, perhaps only subliminally.
The Universal Dream Key, Page 13
It is not a particularly obscure symbolic leap to see the connection between the back porch and the rectum, or the link death and Darth Vader. Freud left us with the impression that dreams are symbolically obscure; that is not necessarily the case at all.
This has several elements characteristics of diagnostic dreams:
— It is dark, foreboding.
— It is reported as a nightmare.
— It is a repetitive nightmare.
— There is a part of the house (the body) involved.
Repetitive dreams are particularly important; the Unconscious is trying to get the message through, but the information is being ignored and needs to be repeated, often in scary terms.
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