So I seem to be having recurring hair-washing dreams myself. Ha, doctor, heal thyself.
This time, the dream of 1/19 was set in the middle of a vast creamy yellow kitchen, with five old-time stoves of different sizes and shapes off in a room to the left. I needed to wash my hair in a shower in the kitchen and I needed soap. I had to use my parents' Dial soap.
This has something to do with the deconstruction of my family household - maybe.
We'll see if the recurrence ends after I've travelled home and done what needs doing.
To be honest, it's tiring to have a dream's symbolic action appear over and over, with seemingly no inroad into its meaning. This is why sharing dreams with someone can be helpful. It's funny, though, sometimes I'd rather work on the more pressing, entertaining, or meaty dreams than this long-term hair washing scene.
That little statement of "not wanting to deal with it" may have more meaning right now than the repeating hair-washing scene itself. Maybe it's time to bring it forward into the light now.
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It makes me think of that old song, "I'll wash that man right outta my hair"! Washing your hands of something--but there's something even more intimate about washing your hair of something.
If I'd had that dream, I would ask myself--
-What family stuff do I need to get out of my system or let go of?
-What ammo did my family give me that actually helps me do this? (the soap)
-Dial soap--you can turn the dial to get a new station on the radio...
-five stoves--what have I "cooked up" in the past in my family dynamics? What's still cooking? What equipment am I using to deal with all the "ingredients" of family?
Just some thoughts--hope they're helpful.
I think of that song, too, and you referred to it in the link back to other hair-washing dreams.
I see several things in here that point to a very interesting story: the creamy yellow color, the five antique stoves (5, not just 1 or 2), the hint about the past in those antique stoves, the kitchen rather than the bathroom holds the shower, and the use of soap for the body rather than shampoo. I assume the soap was a bar rather than liquid as well.
Oh, too, I've had some 'hair' dreams in the past and they evoked the story of Samson and Delilah. She 'stole' his strength when she cut his hair so I usually look at that aspect, or the 'masculine' aspects of the psyche.
Just some thoughts. ...
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