Judges 7:13 · World English Bible
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
A common soldier dreams of a plain barley loaf rolling into camp and flattening a great tent, and the dream unsettles everyone who hears it. This is how the deeper mind works.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
A common soldier dreams of a plain barley loaf rolling into camp and flattening a great tent, and the dream unsettles everyone who hears it. This is how the deeper mind works. It speaks in simple, strange pictures while we sleep, and it often grasps a situation before the waking person is ready to.
The small, humble loaf toppling the strong tent carries its own lesson. What a person looks down on in themselves, the overlooked and unimportant part, is frequently what overturns their proud and settled position. The men trusted the dream because it rose from a level of the mind that sees plainly, and they sensed it was showing them what was already true.
Psychoanalysis lens
What part of yourself have you written off that may be the exact part that changes everything?
Water is the softest thing there is, and nothing is better at wearing down what is hard. The weak overcomes the strong, and almost nobody can bring themselves to live by it.
Zhuangzi tells of a crooked, useless tree the carpenters all pass over. Precisely because it is worth nothing to them, it is never cut down, and it grows huge and shades everything.
The sages said a dream left uninterpreted is like a letter that arrives and is never opened. Something was sent to you, and it keeps its meaning whether or not you read it.
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