To extend your metaphor, my best guess about bridges is that they're life decisions that lock you into a destination. Bridges only go one place, and you can't deviate from that until after you're off the bridge again, and even then it's sometimes harder to get other places afterward. So bridges for you might be degree, marriage, kids, job, etc., or the paths to find them/get to them.
You're not on crack. That's likely a major element, especially having grown up in the Bay Area with that sort of fear of accidentally taking a bridge when you don't want to that one often develops.
However, I don't think that's the whole picture, because it's not uncommon for me to have dreams about the bridge being underwater, either like the train tracks in Spirited Away, just under a reflective surface, or like really FAR under the water, and I may or may not drown if I I'm stuck there, or of the bridge breaking and dropping me down, and so on.
So I think what you're saying is a likely start, but there's more to it than that.
What's interesting is that I don't have nightmares where waves pull me off the bridge, even if the water is high enough that the bridge is submerged or dangerous. This reinforces your point, perhaps - it's always the bridge itself that's the problem relative to the water, and I feel stuck with wherever the bridge is going. I often seem to associate bridges and train tracks, which also reinforces the "you can only go forward in on this path" meaning.
But I still feel there's more to it - like the water represents something specific...
Oh, *laughs* in this case I considered the likely options either You-according-to-my-memory, or else Somebody-Else-using-the-image-of-you. It hadn't crossed my mind that it was actually You-in-spirit visiting my dreamspace. The reverse is possible, I suppose, since I'm known to be a wanderer in dreamspace.
Comments 6
If I'm on crack, ignore me. :)
Reply
However, I don't think that's the whole picture, because it's not uncommon for me to have dreams about the bridge being underwater, either like the train tracks in Spirited Away, just under a reflective surface, or like really FAR under the water, and I may or may not drown if I I'm stuck there, or of the bridge breaking and dropping me down, and so on.
So I think what you're saying is a likely start, but there's more to it than that.
--Ember--
Reply
But I still feel there's more to it - like the water represents something specific...
--Ember--
Reply
(The comment has been removed)
Please don't worry. :)
--Ember--
Reply
(The comment has been removed)
--Ember--
Reply
--Ember--
Reply
Leave a comment