| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing |
| Moderator: | JARETH::PAINTER |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 27 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2143 |
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This may be an insignificant dream, but I have had it the
last couple of nights. Alittle background, I recently started a
new relationship with a person that I have known for quite
some time. In the dream I am writing his last name, after I have
written it, I look at an old letter of his and realize (in the
dream) that I had spelled his last name wrong. I looked in the
phone book and again found that I had mispelled the name.
I am left with a feeling that I had been wrong about the spelling
for all of these years. It's not a very difficult name!
Alittle curious, any ideas?
Thanks, KS
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| 1272.1 | and another thing,,, | THOTH::SCHRAGER | Wed Jun 06 1990 10:56 | 2 | |
Excuse me, I misspelled "mispelled"!
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| 1272.2 | BTOVT::BEST_G | On my ship the Rocinante... | Thu Jun 07 1990 00:02 | 14 | |
If you meant what you said in your note....
You started a "new" relationship with someone you've know for a long
time?
You finding out you spelled their name wrong is like discovering that
you just barely recognized something new in that person.
In India there is a tradition (I think) of changing one's name and even
clothing as you enter new stages of life - it's as if you've become a
different person altogether....
guy
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| 1272.3 | MFGMEM::ROSE | Thu Jun 07 1990 05:18 | 17 | ||
re: 0
Perhaps the dream is saying that you've been wrong about him for
quite a spell. Is there something about him that's different now
from the way you've conceived him to be - something that you've
perhaps known all along, but haven't really understood or admitted
to yourself (even in a dream) until now? In looking at the letter
and in getting his number, you may be comparing the old and the new
versions of his character or personality. He doesn't seem to be the
same person now that he was then. What's different? Has he changed,
or has your perception of him changed?
Another possibility is that in writing "his" name, you are actually
writing the name you would have if you were married to him. And
your mind is showing you that it's not a good match.
Virginia
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| 1272.4 | Happy hunting. | MFGMEM::ROSE | Fri Jun 08 1990 02:41 | 27 | |
re: .3 (continued)
You said that in the dream you spelled his name wrong. When you
spell - or say - anything wrong, it may or may not be of special
significance. Check it out. The spelling that is wrong gramatic-
ally may actually be right psychologically. A word can be mispelled
in numerous ways, but only one erroneous version of the word is pro-
duced. Ask yourself what motivates that particular choice. For ex-
ample, if someone was making excessive demands on my time - demands
which I enjoyed meeting - and I wrote his name as "Robber" instead
of "Robert," a truer picture of my feelings might have emerged.
I think it was in the stage production of "The Belle of Amherst" -
a one-woman play based of the life of Emily Dickinson - that a great
line occurred. Emily is at a social event, talking to a young man who
is training to be a minister. This man is a real dud, and Emily is
very bored. Trying to be polite she says something like, "How are
things at the *cemetery* - oh, I mean the *seminary*?"
Psychological truth or insight either hits you or it doesn't. Once
it occurs to you, your life is never quite the same again, because
your consciousness has changed - dramatically.
Virginia
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| 1272.5 | THOTH::SCHRAGER | Mon Jul 23 1990 15:22 | 9 | ||
Hi Virignia,
I wish I had gotten back to this note sooner.
Thank you very much for your input. Unfortunetly I cannot remember
what the different name was. The dream hasn't reoccured and the
relationship is still going pretty good. I hope its not doomed!
Karen
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