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In dreams you meet many people and see many things, but they are all part of you. Dreams are in fact stories of your real life that are metaphorically told from the viewpoint of your inner-self. In my dreams, for instance, New York City was depicted as Pompeii in ruins, a TV as a pilotless bomber, smartphones as sex toys for orphans, and I (female) as a male actor with huge testicles who is playing woman's role in a dress. Without seeing our reality through the eyes of our dream, we will never know what reality we are living in.
A dream of me and my mom.
Digital collage. 2015
A Trauma can travel through generation to generation and it controls one's life forever subconsciously. The one can get a chance to get out from the cycle only when the one becoming conscious of the one's trauma. This dream is about my case of the cycle of trauma which I inherited from my mother. The dream made me recall a memory that I have been forgetting for a long time, and it gave me the answer why I have difficulty in eating since I was thirteen. At first, I couldn't resist holding a grudge against my mother. However, an other dream told me that I am actually the fifth generation of the cycle. I am the one who finally broke the chain myself.