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Bugaboo

Dreamed 1930s by Anonymous #65 (a middle-aged woman)

INTRODUCTION

Here's a short dream-interpretation by Edgar Cayce in trance. It's clear (if caustic) proof that shamans sometimes see dreams as literal or psychic; but Cayce (in trance at least) is clear that many dream-threats symbolize stuff in ourselves that we'd rather disown. The following interpretation could just as well be Freud's! Though I suspect he'd want to explore the roots of the anger in the family, and might not openly scold the dreamer to grow up and quit indulging in tantrums.

But then, Freud worked slowly--and charged a lot. Cayce worked fast--and for free.

--Chris Wayan

BUGABOO

A middle-aged woman brought a typically nightmarish dream to Cayce. She was considerably agitated, for the dream had been violent, and perhaps prophetic:

"My husband, his mother, and I were living together in a house in New Jersey. I heard much shooting and excitement. All of the windows of our house were open and it was raining and storming outside. We rushed to close and lock them. Some terrible wild man seemed to be running through the town shooting and causing great trouble, and the police were chasing him."
Cayce was able to reassure the woman. She had no storm to worry about, no fireworks, no explosive shooting. All the excitement, all the pent-up storm was in her. She had a rotten disposition, and unless she learned to curb it, was headed for trouble. Or as Cayce put it:

"The large man, the bugaboo, that comes to the entity in these emblematical [symbolic] conditions here presented, and as seen in others, is in self and self's temper. See?"

She saw.

SOURCE: Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, by Jess Stearn, 1967, p. 210-11.


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