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Running After My Boyfriend In my dream I am running after my boyfriend up some spiral steps. He runs so fast that I can’t keep up with him. At one point I look up and see him almost disappearing. He is laughing and encouraging me to run faster. I just collapse and start crying because I have lost him and I am very frightened. Then all of a sudden I see him through a wall with a small gap. I ask him how he got to the other side and he tells me to go through the gap. I try to get through but my hips get stuck. Natasha
Dear Natasha,
Is your boyfriend also ambitious – and do you think he is more successful than you at this time? If that is the case, then your dream is warning you against cultivating a tendency to compete with him. It also suggests that you are secretly afraid of losing him if you cannot keep up. Yet his way is clearly not right for you. If you try to emulate him, rather than following your own path, you will actually end up holding yourself back.
If this interpretation rings no bells, we can safely assume that your dream boyfriend is symbolic. He represents your more assertive, focused, masculine side that drives you to realise your ambitions. The dream, though, implies that ‘he’ is an unsympathetic taskmaster, urging you onwards and upwards at a pace you find hard to maintain. This suggests a tendency to want to run before you can walk.
The gap in the wall symbolises the limitations in the structure of your life, such as being a student, that stop you from moving ahead unrealistically fast. The fact that your hips get stuck is a warning that in allowing your mind to race ahead, you are subjecting your body to high levels of stress from which it cannot benefit. Whichever meaning is the most appropriate, your dream is urging you to calm down and take life one step at a time.
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