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Dreaming of Foreign Country
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Dreaming of a foreign country is about a condition of your life that has become entirely unlike the one you knew. In the psyche, to be abroad is not to travel; it is to have entered a state in which none of your usual methods apply, in which the rules are different, and in which you are a beginner again. Something in you has left the familiar. If it was exhilarating, ask what expansion has become possible now that you are no longer inside the arrangement you were raised in. If you were lost, examine what situation you have entered without any of the equipment you needed. If everyone else understood something you did not, notice how completely a person can be displaced without moving. Nothing widens a person like being somewhere they do not belong. This dream asks where you have arrived, and what you are supposed to become there.
There is a departure implied in this arrival, and it is the more important half. To be in a strange condition is to have left a familiar one, and the psyche is always interested in what you left. If you did not want to go back, ask what you have escaped that you had believed was permanent. If you missed it, examine what you gave up in order to be here. If you could not return, notice what a person becomes when the place they came from has closed behind them. If nobody at home would recognize you, the dream may be describing a change that has already gone further than you know. Everything you have entered, you have entered by leaving something. The dream asks what you left, and whether you meant to.
There is a quality in the place itself, and the psyche is never careless about which one it chose. Whatever you associate with this country is what is developing in you. If it was warm and unguarded, ask what capacity for openness is unfolding in your life. If it was severe, examine what discipline you are being asked to acquire. If it was at war, notice what conflict has entered a life you had thought was settled. If it was one you had always wanted to see, the dream may be describing a longing that is finally being met. The country is not a place; it is a set of qualities. The dream asks what this place means to you, and what it is developing in you.
There is a helplessness in this condition that is the whole of its instruction. You cannot speak, you cannot read, and you do not know the customs. If you could not make yourself understood, ask what situation you are in where your usual means of communicating have failed entirely. If you had to depend on strangers, examine what humility has been forced on you. If you were treated well anyway, notice what a person learns about the world when they have nothing with which to protect themselves. If you were exhausted by it, the dream may be describing a strain that most people never even have to imagine. To be a beginner again in adulthood is a genuine humiliation and a genuine education. The dream asks what you cannot do here, and what it is teaching you.
Dreaming of Being Lost in a Foreign Country
Dreaming of being unable to find your way in an unfamiliar condition names a disorientation with no available remedy. You do not know where you are, and you cannot ask. If nobody understood you, ask what situation you are in where you cannot even describe your problem. If the signs meant nothing, examine what you are surrounded by that you have no means of interpreting. If you kept walking, notice what a person does when there is nothing else to do. If you were frightened, the dream may be describing a genuine crisis in a life you have entered too quickly. To be lost where you cannot ask for directions is the definition of helplessness. The dream asks where you are, and how you got here.
Dreaming of Living in a Foreign Country
Dreaming of having settled in the unfamiliar names a condition that has stopped being temporary. This is where you live now. If it had become ordinary, ask what strange life you have adapted to so completely that it no longer registers as strange. If you had learned the language, examine what fluency you have acquired in a way of being you were not born into. If you were still an outsider, notice how long a person can live somewhere and remain foreign to it. If you had stopped wanting to leave, the dream may be describing an acceptance that took years. What was foreign becomes home only by exhaustion. The dream asks where you have settled, and whether you belong there yet.
Dreaming of a Foreign Country You Cannot Leave
Dreaming of being unable to depart from the unfamiliar names a condition that has become a confinement. You cannot get out. If your papers were wrong, ask what has made a return to your former life impossible. If nobody would let you go, examine who or what has an interest in your remaining displaced. If there was no way back, notice how completely a change can close the door on what preceded it. If you stopped trying, the dream may be describing an acceptance that is either wisdom or defeat. What you cannot leave, you will have to learn to live in. The dream asks what has trapped you here, and whether the exit ever existed.
Dreaming of Coming Home From a Foreign Country
Dreaming of the return names a passage completed and a person changed. You have come back. If nothing had altered, ask what it is to return to a life that has not moved while you have. If nobody understood where you had been, examine the isolation of an experience that cannot be transmitted. If you did not fit any more, notice that this is the actual cost of every genuine expansion. If you were glad to be back, the dream may be describing a home you had to leave in order to appreciate. Nobody comes home from anywhere; they arrive somewhere that used to be home. The dream asks what you have brought back, and whether anyone here can receive it.