Broken glass

[exedore]

In this dream, I only remember that I dropped a glass that was sitting on the right edge of my desk and it shattered. And it happened 3 times.

 

[Lex]

Something you once viewed as reasonable even though fragile has shattered or at least your conception of it has.
Having it occur 3 times has different meanings too, the same thing occurring in repeated dreams can mean different things.
It can speak to your growth, your disillusionment, your actual body.
It feels like your dreams are trying to make you aware your worn thin and you need to acknowledge that.

 

[Will]

Does everything necessarily need to 'symbolize' something? In waking life things can either be seen as symbols or just as what they are. A glass falls, it breaks. In the dreams state that can happen too. 3 times in a row to the same glass? Was it the same glass?

 

[PaulKH]

Does everything necessarily need to 'symbolize' something? In waking life things can either be seen as symbols or just as what they are. A glass falls, it breaks. In the dreams state that can happen too. 3 times in a row to the same glass? Was it the same glass?

In a sense, meaning is always there waiting to be found (layers beyond knowing) and yet it is also added--the wise will always work to make use of each. Notice that in reality an impression-forming mistake like knocking the glass off, changing its form from useful to dangerous in that instant, cannot be emphasized over time, yet in a dream...it has total control over things like time to the extent that it can *rewind*! Whether for emphasis or a deeper meaning, who can say with any authority?

I had an exceptionally impressive near-repetition that I recorded in my novel where I was a part of a group of kidnapped kids who planned and risked everything to escape--I was a *part* of that harrowing sequence! Yet as that happened successfully and would normally be happy-ever-after, the dream...rewound! And this time, I saw everything play out from an omniscient view who could not help them; I watched them dither and make pour choices that would eventually get them caught rather than succeeding in the escape. It took me a long time of considering (and writing it out) to recover from being disturbed.