Genesis 37:9 · World English Bible
He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
A young man dreams that the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bow down to him, and he tells his brothers, who hate him for it. A dream like this does not come from vanity.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
A young man dreams that the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bow down to him, and he tells his brothers, who hate him for it. A dream like this does not come from vanity. It rises from a deeper layer of the mind that sometimes shows a person the shape of who they are becoming, long before their waking life catches up.
Such dreams feel too large to be personal, and they frighten those who hear them. But the dream is not a boast. It is the deeper mind pointing ahead, showing the dreamer a task and a growth that still lie far in front of him.
Psychoanalysis lens
Is there something I sense I am becoming that I keep quiet about, and why?
A seed holds a whole tree inside it, invisible to anyone who cracks it open. What you are is already present long before it shows.
The reed is cut from the riverbed and spends its life sounding the note of a home it has not yet returned to. The longing itself is the map.
A tree wide enough to hide behind began as a sprout nobody stepped around. Large things announce themselves small.
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