Annoying Brother
Aug 4 2009
When I was a kid, my big brother would often pick on me. When I got angry, I'd close my bedroom's door, and he'd have fun annoying me by trying to get in or, in fact, getting in. Apparently this dream borrowed some stuff from those days.
I had the same age I have today, and lived in the house I live today. My brother was being annoying, and I was trying to get him to stay outside my room, just like when I was a kid. He spent a long time just bothering me and I trying to stop him. It wasn't a proper rage or anger, but something child-like, despite my age. At some point J., from work, showed up. She helped me, but looked a little worried about us acting like that.
explora wrote 2 years 41 weeks ago
I don't have a brother myself - just two sisters. All the same this is a concept I was talking about the other day.
I notice when I'm with my family sometimes, when stressed or caught up in an argument with them, that an old, somewhat uncontrollable childhood rage occasionally spills out. Times with family sometimes bring out particular and possibly predictable behaviour patterns.
This of course is not to say that I don't also share some great, and very happy moments with my family. Nevertheless, it makes me wonder about how each of us tends to deal with those feelings, and how best to manage them. They almost seem entrained.
If Annoying Brother were my dream
I would pay special attention to the role of the observer, J.
Nick