I think the music box is important, too. I am not sure how important the post-apocalypse stuff is since you say it's a common theme, but here's what I got from this:
Something from your childhood is 'broken' in some way, but you can fix it if you are willing to try. The painting and stuff makes me think you've already begun making the current situation better, and the magic and DnD make me think that you feel like you can't fix it without help-- but you are!
Yeah, my childhood was kind of broken. Partly my dad and other relatives' issues, but also the public school and its attendant mental health systems really failed me in a big way( well, I've heard more sordid tales than mine but there's no denying things could have been vastly different for me if people who were supposed to help had shown any kind of common sense or compassion), which is an aspect I forgot about or suppressed for awhile and have been thinking on a lot lately---feeling like the bad guys won and not liking it much. Not really sure where I'm going or can go with this urge to do something about it but it's there. Ordinarily I'd say postapocalyptic is just my normal background, but since dream settings typically represent the dreamer I think this may be running up against the actual reasons WHY it is so. Could also be why Gary Numan seems to be coming to the forefront as a particularly good role model for me now. In some ways I think he may have had it easier but a lot of very similar things in his life.
That's pretty cool, and it seems to me like you're growing in a big way if you're starting to get to the root of why you're seeing post-apocalyptic settings in your dreams. Very cool, actually. :)
I really like the way you describe the surreal aspects of a dream-- we never quite know HOW we know something in a dream, we just know it and accept that it's truth, and it's hard to find a way to word that but you did a great job!
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I think the music box is important, too. I am not sure how important the post-apocalypse stuff is since you say it's a common theme, but here's what I got from this:
Something from your childhood is 'broken' in some way, but you can fix it if you are willing to try. The painting and stuff makes me think you've already begun making the current situation better, and the magic and DnD make me think that you feel like you can't fix it without help-- but you are!
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