Dear Mary:

August last year you wrote: “As a child I was emotionally punished for being anything less than perfect in all areas of life. I was also punished for things that I hadn’t done or were not responsible for such as my mother’s mental illness”

January of this year, you wrote: “The angry person may not hold a physical threat, but nevertheless he/she has the potential to belittle me, scold me or talk behind my back, resulting in me feeling powerless and inadequate”.

My interpretation of your dream:

“She’s standing somewhere and I approach to talk to her, telling her I don’t want to leave college not being on speaking terms with her”- she, this student, may represent your mother, angry with you, and you are reaching out to her: mom, don’t be angry with me! Please don’t be angry with me! I don’t, I won’t leave home when you are angry with me!

“She gives me this contemptuous, disdainful look.. and says it is common knowledge what a lying hypocrite I am”- your mother response to your pleas is not to smile at you kindly, take you into her arms gently, say to you: it is okay. I love you. You are a good girl!

Instead, she looks at you angrily, tells you or someone else, in your presence, or behind your back, that you are a bad girl.

Is my interpretation true to any extent?

anita