The Titanic
Dreamed by Nina, 1979 or before, as told by Gayle Delaney
Nina, a member of one of our dream seminars, incubated a dream, asking, "Where is my relationship with Scott going?" She had lived with Scott for almost a year and loved him, but the relationship was a turbulent one full of tears and fights and good times. The dream response came in the following form:
I was somewhere, not sure where. Scott came up to me and said, "Nina, would you like to go on a voyage with me?"It was clear that Nina the dream producer was telling Nina the dreamer that her relation-"ship" was not going anywhere now, and when it did go somewhere, it would go down! Nina recognized this but couldn't accept it. Still, she knew it was true."What is the name of the ship?" I asked.
"It's the Titanic," said he.
"Oh, my!" said I, "that ship is going to sink!"
"No it's not," said Scott.
"Oh, yes it is, I know it. Don't you realize that?" I said.
He persisted. "Well, at least come to the bon voyage party with me." I agreed.
We arrived on the ship, and I found the whole scene just appalling. Everyone was wasting their time and energy. They were drinking too much and eating too much, wasting their bodies. They were gambling, wasting their money. It was very depressing. I decided to leave.
The next thing I knew, I was walking down a road. Coming up the road on a tricycle was an infant. The infant was really a skeleton pedaling the bike. It had a heart which I could see. The heart had a skull and crossbones on it. It was awful.
Soon after this dream, she suddenly left for the East Coast to work in her parents' business and see if she could forget Scott. She had not made a definite break with him; she just delayed the decision of whether or not to marry him.
She spent a year trying to forget instead of trying to understand. Then one day I [dialed Nina's number by mistake.] I had assumed that she was still in the East. What a sulprise to hear her gentle voice at the end of the line! She had been living with Scott again for a couple of months.
I said, "But Nina, what about your Titanic dream? How is it going?"
She said that things hadn't changed; that they were still at the bon voyage party. "It's funny that you should call this afternoon," she said. "Do you remember the second part of that dream?" I had forgotten, so she reminded me of the infant with the skull and crossbones on his heart. Then she said, "I've just returned from the doctor's, and I'm pregnant. I have made an appointment to have an abortion on Tuesday. I am really upset because I very much want to have a child. But I know that Scott could never be a good father for my child, and I don't want to have one on my own. Oh, God, I guess it took this to make me face up to the fact that I could never marry Scott."
If Nina had taken the time to study herself a year earlier, she would not have had to act out the tragedy that her dream had pictured as a possible outcome. She dreamt dreams that were trying to help her see why she had such a hard time letting go of a relationship that wasn't right. But she wouldn't look. She ran home. Then she found herself in the same old boat again.
SOURCE: Living Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney (1996 ed. p.23-24, or '81 ed. p.18)
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