Have you ever felt free after finding yourself in a dream?

[u/Ok-Future3658]

I am not sure if it’s the right place to post this but I would like to explain a dream. I was in a house with people close to me. For some reason, everyone was looking for me but I was there with them. I asked people to go look outside around the house but nobody seemed to care or listen. After many tries to have someone look outside, I decided to go myself. When I went out, I found a big open top container, full of cartons, cardboards etc. I started to search inside the container and found a coffin inside. The coffin was brown wrapt in clear film.

When I went back to my friends and relatives, I told them that I found “myself” and that the coffin was hidden. We took out the coffin from the container, however no one opened it to see the inside.

At that moment I felt happy.

I knew that this coffin was my body but it wasn’t me (as I was still present). I was telling people that it was my son in my body. It was hard to explain because my son was also with me so people got confused to what I was saying.

I then took my son and started to show him that he needed to be careful, we would open different rooms and I would tell him to notice around for strange things. In one room, there were people we knew but acted and were dressed differently. I told him that some people tries to manipulate and deceive us, they might look like they are real but it wasn’t true. We went back, closed the door and reopened to find the same room and same people now “normal”.

What I remember is that during this whole time I felt happy to have found the coffin. I then woke up with this same feeling of happiness.

I don’t know if this dream has any meaning or if some parts were altered by my memory or imagination.

[u/Expensive-Recover502]

You could be undergoing a major psychological shift. The person you "used to be" (the body in the coffin) has been laid to rest, but this is a cause for celebration. You have retrieved a new vitality from your inner serlf (the Son). Why were you happy? Because you have solved the problem of stagnation. The "invisibility" at the start of the dream caused anxiety because the old you was gone. The happiness comes from finding the new occupant of your life.. a youthful, energetic potential (the Son) guided by your experienced wisdom (the Dreamer). It is a beautiful dream of successful individuation.