Dear Dr Toby,
I had a really weird dream the other week. My close friend Matt was in it and my brother-in-law Tom as well.
We were all going to see a new Star Wars that George Lucas had done, we’d got to the cinema, and as we were queuing Matt decided he didn’t want to go in, he said he knew it was going to be rubbish and stated that the prequels were shit, so ergo, this would be shit.
We tried to change his mind but he was adamant and refused to go in. Tom and Me decided to go in anyway and we left Matt outside having a drink.
When we went in the scene from Star Was that it was set on a train, and both Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were played by Indians, and Tom told me that due to the economic crises Lucas had been forced to do this on the cheap, and went to Bollywood and also didn’t use any effects. So Darth Vader was just in normal clothes breathing heavily between sentences and Luke Skywalker was wearing a blond wig.
We were enjoying it right up until the finale which involved Luke and Vader in a dance off cheered on by two teams of break dancing Ewoks.
Then I woke up.
What does it mean, it’s been haunting me ever since?
Stuart
Dear Stuart,
Ah this old chestnut, you’d be surprised how common this dream is, especially amongst men who were aged between 5 and 10 when the original ‘Star Wars’ movie came out in 1977.
If we look at this dream and break it down into it’s individual components we can see that ‘Matt’ and ‘Tom’ represent the two sides to your personality. Matt is the adult, grown up you, the one that has taken on board responsibility and released infantile obsessions, where as Tom represents the immature, child-like impish side of your psyché, the one that will ultimately lead you to disappointment, making you chose to try to re-live your childhood rather than become an adult and have meaningful relationships with women instead of trying to complete your collection of ‘Star Wars Top Trumps’.
Matt has learnt from the disappointment of the first three Star Wars prequels and realised that George Lucas is nothing more than a talentless snake oil salesman who managed to strike it lucky with Star Wars and by handing over the directorial reigns for ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ and ‘Return of the Jedi’ was at least able to postpone turning his own creation into a pile of overblown horse manure until much later when he thought Jar Jar Binks was a good idea.
In the dream though you have forsaken Matt and suffered the disappointment of trying to recapture your inner child with Tom, this should serve as an example to you in your waking life, you are an adult and should eschew infantile interests, read a newspaper, a broadsheet if possible, watch ‘Newsnight’ and go to dinner parties, in short, grow the heck up.
Hope this helps,
Dr Toby
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