Hello,
It feels like you're drawing parallels between your boyfriend and the music teacher; like the music teacher represents/is your boyfriend in your dream.
From what you said in your other post, it seems that you've had to content with your friend's prejudices over dating a black man. Could it be that having to defend him right out of the gate meant that you didn't have a chance to really assess him (especially if it's a new relationship) and how you felt about him in a realistic manner with pros and cons? So maybe your conscious mind now feels it can't address any cons you may have or anything you don't like about the relationship because you are in defensive mode and it feels like it would mean all the detractors are right? So in the dream, you make the music teacher to be your boyfriend where you can act out how you really feel about him - a strong attraction, but it also seems he's pushing you to go further sexually than you might be comfortable with. And yet, your dream has still allowed you to keep defending your boyfriend by making him a seperate figure, one you are protecting while at the same time defending yourself against him more safely as the music teacher. The bit about trying to hide the relationship does seem to indicate perhaps the one incident with prejudice has made you a little wary about others knowing lest you have to go through the same strife again.
As a last point, it does seem in the dream that you are conscious, not of his race, but of dating an older man. Could it be that's an underlying issue that you were never able to address to your own satisfaction? Having been put on the defensive against the prejudice, something that wasn't an issue for you, seems it may have made it very hard for you to seperate in your conscious mind the age issue which might bother you a little?
Hope that helps.
|
|
Bookmarks