posted September 30, 2012 08:20 PM            

She's still affected by that part of growing up when you dress to stand out, and you get into heavy sh*t to shock and impress others. But I'm feeling she is older that what the norm is for this phase.

I have a friend like that and she is only a year younger than me so yeah she's 45, and she still tries to get the applause from counter culture others and get attention in this way - but she's beyond trying to keep the belonging up with these wild others - she is so psychologically stuffed up from all the drugs and alcohol and her now violent personality, that she just lives a kind of dysfunctional existence.

posted October 02, 2012 04:31 AM            

I pretty much agree with Nine's quick guess and Chryseis's similar thoughts. To elaborate, it could be suggested that those departing on the train are aspects of herself, symbolizing various parts of her outer persona (costumes) as well as those people/friends who are associated with the old her. The train symbolizes the rigid, unchanging path that was her old life pattern. It could be that your friend has reached a phase in her life where there is change (fire/burning/melting/disintegrating) ... the old is being replaced by the new. While necessary and usually a good thing, these sorts of changes can certainly be emotionally painful (torn flesh/screaming).

If her other dreams are similar in nature, I would guess that they are an indication of anxiety and stress in her life at the moment due to changes she is working through.

What does she think? Does this make sense? If not, we'll try a different approach.