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Dreaming of Doll
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A doll receives whatever its holder puts into it. Nothing about the object supplies any character; the face is fixed, the response is absent, and everything it appears to be was assigned by somebody. This makes it the clearest available image of a projection. Something in your circumstances is being given qualities it does not possess. A well loved one has absorbed years of assignment. A discarded one describes something that stopped receiving whatever was being put into it. The face is fixed and the response is absent. Something is being given qualities it does not possess. A discarded one stopped receiving what was being put into it.
A doll permits rehearsal because it cannot object. Every relationship anybody conducts with such an object is conducted without correction, which is exactly what makes it useful for practice and exactly what makes it useless for learning. Whatever gets rehearsed this way is rehearsed against no resistance. Somebody who has been treating a person this way is conducting a relationship with something they have constructed, and the discovery that the actual person has their own view is generally experienced as a betrayal. Practice without correction is practice against nothing. Whatever is rehearsed this way meets no resistance. Discovering that an actual person has their own view is generally experienced as a betrayal. Nothing about that discovery is unreasonable on either side.
A Face That Was Always the Same
A doll has a fixed expression, and the fixedness is what permits everything. The face does not change, so it can mean whatever the situation requires: pleased, sorrowful, accusing, indifferent, all from an identical arrangement of features. This is the mechanism of projection in its plainest form. A person doing the same thing with somebody's actual face is reading their own material into an expression that has not altered, and the reading feels exactly like perception. Nothing about the experience distinguishes one from the other. Pleased, sorrowful, accusing, and indifferent all arrive from an identical arrangement of features. Reading your own material into an unchanged expression feels exactly like perceiving. Nothing about the experience distinguishes the two.
The Object That Is Loved for Nothing It Did
A doll receives an attachment entirely out of proportion to anything it supplies. It performs nothing, returns nothing, and cannot acknowledge anything, and it is frequently the most loved object in a household. This attachment is real rather than mistaken. Something similar operates in a considerable number of human relationships, where the affection is genuine and its object has never done anything to produce it. Recognising this is not a criticism of the affection. It is a description of where the affection actually came from. The attachment is real rather than mistaken. Recognising where it came from is not a criticism of it.
Dreaming of a Broken Doll
Dreaming of a damaged figure names an image of yourself or another that has been shattered. What was presentable is now visibly ruined. If it was your own, ask what carefully maintained version of yourself has fallen apart. If you tried to fix it, examine your compulsion to restore an appearance rather than to become real. If you could not repair it, notice that some images cannot be reassembled and should not be. If you felt relief, the dream may be telling you that the breaking was a liberation. What breaks the doll may release the person. The dream asks what image of you has shattered, and whether you are mourning it or free of it.
Dreaming of a Doll That Moves
Dreaming of the lifeless figure coming to life is one of the most disturbing images the psyche produces. What should be inert has begun to act. If you were horrified, ask what part of your life you have declared safely inanimate that has begun to move. If it looked at you, examine what something you had dismissed is now demanding from you. If it spoke, notice that this voice belongs to something you have refused to grant a life. If you fled from it, the dream may be describing your terror at what you have kept lifeless finally waking. What we deny life to does not remain dead. The dream asks what has begun to move that you had decided was harmless.
Dreaming of a Doll That Looks Like You
Dreaming of an image of yourself that is not you confronts you with your own persona. There is a version of you that exists in the world and is not alive. If it disturbed you, ask what representation of yourself has taken on a life independent of your own. If people preferred it, examine how much easier the image is to accept than the person. If it did things you had not done, notice how far your reputation may have drifted from your reality. If you destroyed it, the dream may be describing an act of self reclamation. Nobody is their own image. The dream asks what version of you is circulating without you.
Dreaming of Being Given a Doll
Dreaming of receiving this figure raises the question of what has been handed to you. Someone has given you something that resembles life. If it was a gift, ask what has been offered to you that has the appearance of care but no substance. If you were expected to love it, examine what obligation you have been given without being consulted. If you did not want it, notice that some gifts are burdens. If you cared for it anyway, the dream may be describing a devotion you have given to something that cannot receive it. Not every gift is generous. The dream asks what you have been given, and whether it is actually alive.