Dream of an older man:
I am body surfing down a violent river.
It is filled with dangerous looking rocks and I am struggling not to hit them as I come upon them.
At one turn in the river I am unable to pass between the rocks and I actually have to hang on for dear life to a branch that is jutting out from the largest one.
I pull myself up onto this rock and wait for help to come, which it eventually does.
This is the dream of a sixty-eight year old Harvard trained physician. He comments:
Two weeks after this dream I developed urethral colic and was diagnosed as having a kidney stone. For three weeks this painfully blocked my ureter and was spontaneously passed.
The representation here of the bodily situation by the dream is straightforward, and needs no further comment. It is interesting that that beginning of the dream specifically points to “body-surfing” — a good clue that what follows does, indeed, pertain to the body. —
sparker
Painting is “Descent” by Anne Diggory.
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www.diggory.com
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