Freudian Dreams: Samsa-Esque Transformation Into A Jellyfish

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Recently, the son of my colleague visited my office, hoping that I would help him understand a vivid and elaborate dream he recently had. He proudly claimed that he read my book, The Interpretation of Dreams, in its entirety, and hoped that my expertise in dream analysis would help him discover more about his subconscious. The dream is as follows: - “I was alone in a pure white room with a small, old-fashioned television set on the floor. The TV was on and played an amalgamation of many unrecognizable television shows before flickering away into static. I stared at the screen and could not move my body. Sitting
Jellyfishes are small creatures, and small vermin often connected to children in the dreamscape. If he was younger, my patient would be freed from his tedious lifestyle. This leads me to hypothesize that this dream may signify how he subconsciously wants to be a child again. At the same time, the jellyfish is also a vulnerable animal, which leads me to believe that the patient’s lingering worries about being defenseless after escaping his life cycle condenses into a jellyfish. In this cnidarian form, he discovered that he had infinite freedom and mobility and lived in a surrealistic world, but this freedom is threatened by the yellow figure and his butterfly net. The orange hoop of the butterfly net represents the vagina during childbirth, and the patient, already in a small, vulnerable, baby-like form, fears re-entering the womb and being unbirthed. If he were to get caught by the yellow figure, it would mean being forced back into his old life. The chase scene between him and the yellow figure offers the patient one last moment of energy and drive. Surely, running away to escape death would be more exciting than the average student life. The last line, “Are you feeling it now, Mr. _____?” must have originated from another episode of Spongebob Squarepants, where the protagonist attempts to help his boss, Mr. Krabs, out of a mid-life crisis. The sponge character appears to be an anomaly in the dreamscape who starts off small before growing to gargantuan size. The sponge character represents a sort of deity within the dream that offers him a taste of wish fulfillment, pulling him into a new world, transforming him into a free creature, and personally giving him one last thrill before the dream forces him to wake up. While the contents of this dream are obvious to me, the interpreter, the patient seemed oblivious to these feelings when I explained my hypothesis to him.