In part of my dream last night, Heidi Klum released a new line of decaffeinated snakes.
I posted this blip on my facebook wall and my friend Mister M. Meade who has been studying dreamlife for 20 years analyzed it for me. He was spot-on about alot of how I've been feeling overall since becoming a mother mammal. Here is his interpretation of my dream:
"I know from your posts that you just had a baby, and being a new parent is always a big life change. Now, if we go with the concept that all parts of a dream are aspects of the dreamer (and of course I'm basing this strictly on the info provided) I would say that Heidi Klum, a mom of several kids, nonetheless looks quite fit & stunning. Were you concerned during the pregnancy (& of course now, having this new little person to care for) that you would lose control of the life you had up until now (a very common concern for both parents, actually)? More directly, would you lose some (if not all) of your feminine vitality, your "sex appeal"? Even if you were not consciously thinking about it, it most likely was in your subconscious. Or perhaps you felt (consciously or not) that your ARTISTIC, creative vitality would wither away. In any case I firmly believe that this was a very POSITIVE DREAM. It seems to be saying that you, in a way, alleviated your fears about "withering away" in terms of your looks & basic appeal to the world. Heidi Klum, possibly, symbolizes this new self, which is just as vital & creative & dynamic as your "original self". Also--very importantly--a compromise was reached, and accepted: your "new line of DECAFFEINATED snakes" shows that you are becoming comfortable with who you are as a woman, and with this your "sexually desirable" status as a mom. True, there is a slight sense of loss over the younger, vivacious woman you identified yourself as; however, it is minimal, akin to simply switching to decaffeinated coffee instead of "regular"; in other words, like Heidi Klum, you are perfectly capable of "releasing a new line" of product (i.e., your creativity, your sense of worth, your sexuality); it may be slightly different due to your new concerns (it's no longer just you; you now are responsible, like all parents, for the care of someone who needs to be in the spot originally reserved for yourself), but you seem to have adjusted well, thus the dream image is of Heidi Klum and not Roseanne Barr. [I kind of danced around the image of the snake, because--although one thinks of the phallic nature of snakes as being synonymous with sexuality--it also has over meanings which fit in your dream: instinctual drive, the subconscious, the process of resolving an issue (the way a snake sheds it's skin), untapped resources used to resolve a concern (thus, making the snakes DE-caffeinated: less threatening), and--most telling--snakes can represent a time of transformation (shedding of the skin again)]....
