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August, 2021
14Scene One - I am at work, and it seems I am one of the teachers at an elementary school. I get called to the office and am asked about an incident involving one of the others on the staff or a teacher there, a woman like the character Chloe Decker in the Netflix series, "Lucifer." I am confused. I did not know of any such incident.
Scene Two - I am home from work, and my wife, Fran, is obviously in a lot of pain. She tells me the same woman (the one like Chloe Decker) had attacked her in our house a few hours ago, hitting her in the abdominal area with a long, hard object. Fran says at first she thought she'd just let it go, but later has realized something should be done, that the woman must not be allowed to get away with it, that if it had been a knife it would have killed her and, even though it was blunt, it had injured her. She still has extreme pain.
I realize she is right, that it must be reported, and wonder if the police and school will take the report seriously, since there is no obvious (at least external) injury, nor any motive we understand for the attack.
[My animas in this dream, Fran and Chloe, would seem to differ most with respect to the F vs. T spectrum in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Fran is more the rational thinker, Chloe more the emotional character, though both women show significant capacities in each mode. Perhaps the dream is suggesting that my ego and the anima who is a bit more on the masculine side, represented by Fran, are under attack from my more feminine side anima, depicted as the character Chloe. What does it mean for a part of me that is more responsive to and expressive of emotions to be injuring the more rational, analytical, detached from feelings parts of me? From the ego's point of view, I am vulnerable, having been assaulted in this way. Yet perhaps from the point of view of the Chloe energy part of me, there (as an anima) to show, by example or counter-example, right feeling, emotions are real and ought to be experienced, so it may be in one's best interest to have some of that detachment from them removed.
The Chloe anima evidently injured the Fran anima with a tool of some sort that was blunt. To be blunt is not to beat around the bush, but to say just what is meant, avoiding diplomatic niceties. Maybe, again, the Chloe anima is showing by example that I'd be better off telling things like they are, worrying less about how I might come across in stating my truth.
The Fran anima has been hit in her gut region, the usual seat of our intuition ("I know it in my gut."). Maybe I can use more of being in tune with the intuitive, with one's gut instincts.
By contrast, the ego and Fran seem to agree the matter should be reported to the police or school authorities, in each case bumping the matter up to enforcers of the status quo. However, the ego is often wrong. It looks like the Chloe energy is trying to be a change agent, opening our "house" or larger self to having more feeling and intuition, probably a good thing.]
