I am an artistic or spiritual function, a concert in a ballroom or a meditation talk in a very large old darkened room which has witnessed many events.  Many people have passed through this room and experienced much.  The event begins.  An attractive young woman, a sprite-like ethereal soul, and I are the audience.   We are friends and lovers.  A bearded sage-like man with a spiritual presence appears on the stage and begins to speak.  I recognize him as myself.  As the performance begins my companion and I embrace and sensually move with the music.  Another young woman, also a friend, joins in.  I hold her from behind and we sway gently to the music. Our bodies and souls melt into loving nothingness.  There is no hint of sexuality.  We sit.  The first woman feels left out, perhaps jealous, and goes into another large room behind.  I follow and speak with her to reassure her that my relationship with the second woman is spiritually correct.  She relaxes and smiles and everything goes back to normal.  She is very pure, a childhood sweetheart.  Her perfectly-formed youthful body is an extension of her soul.

Through love symbolism this dream indicates a state of psychic integration. The ‘artistic or spiritual function’ means the dream is about to communicate about my spiritual work…which it views as an artistic endeavor.  The very old darkened room is the Unconscious, the psychic location where the integration has taken place.  The ‘many people’ are my many experiences in life.  The fact that the room has ‘witnessed many events’ means that the Unconscious has stored the essence of these experiences and is about to talk about the most essential of them, love.  The ‘event’ that has begun is the theme of this dream, the wedding of the Self, represented by the bearded sage, and the Anima, represented by the young women.  The ‘music’ is the spiritual teachings that have been guiding my life and the knowledge that has come from my dreamwork.  The embracing and swaying in harmony indicate an acceptance of these teachings; they are ‘music to my soul.’  Our embrace also means that spiritual wisdom integrates the conscious and the unconscious minds.  ‘Getting behind’ the Anima means that the Self supports the integration taking place.  ‘Sitting’ means that the two aspects of the Self, the conscious and the unconscious, are comfortable with each other; there is no inner conflict or stress.  When negative emotion arises in the Unconscious I use dreamwork to go into the Unconscious and heal it.  This shows that the integration is solid, that it is not threatened by potentially uncomfortable emotions.