Abstract

Boredom

The flat low state of unstimulated attention — a signal that what is in front of you is not meeting the mind.

Boredom in a dream is the dream's image of the flat low state of attention that arises when what is in front of you is not meeting the mind. Boredom is not a failure of character; it is information. The dream brings boredom when something in your life — a job, a relationship, an entertainment — is producing the specific dullness that indicates the mind is not being engaged. Boredom recognised and read as a signal is the dream affirming the honest reading. Boredom medicated by constant low-grade distraction is the dream noting that the signal has been drowned rather than acted on, and the underlying mismatch is going to continue.

Related symbols

A dream within a dream

Awareness doubling on itself — the dream pointing at its own structure.

Ambition

A held intention to reach a higher level — a forward orientation that directs the use of one's energy.

Anger

A hot energetic response to a boundary violated — a signal that something not okay has happened.

Anticipation

The forward lean toward a coming event — present time coloured by what is expected next.

Autumn

Harvest and letting go — the phase that is fruitful and falling at once.

Awe

The response to something larger than the self — humility produced by accurate perception of scale.

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