Wood & Stone

[Acolyte]

The dream:

I am in a double-decker bus, where I live, it is kitted out like a house. Outside there is a partition wall between two areas of the street, there is a gap above it. Outside now I am explaining to a woman, at length, that I intend to fill in this gap with pieces of wood and cardboard, so that there is seperation. On the road somebody, maybe an army, perhaps a leader, is about to pass, this is called 'Spondon', it represents stone. Another party, 'Ham', comes the other way, it represents wood. I say that I don't want to pay greater respect to either party but to balance them. I tell the woman that I want to reduce the use of wood and stone, more and more, so that men and women will become desymbolised, that is to say, they will not be represented by symbols any longer. It takes me a long time to make this idea clear to her as my explanation is laboured and repetitive.


I have found that there is an area of Derby called Spondon, meaning dune of stone or gravel, but 'Ham' and 'Wood' remain mysterious to me.

 

[Lyn Holley]

I am responding in an instinctual way. This seems to be about the genders. You are separating them. You also don't want them to be symbolized, but rather harder and more concrete. Is there something in the unconscious that is struggling in this area? It could even be about finding a partner that fits.