2nd Dream:

 

             another dream he had last night was working (which in real waking life, he is retired early,and self-imposed isolation from workaday world)

................and in the dream, he was with another guy in a job place where the other man was telling him, about a lawsuit he had won.  The "loser" of the lawsuit was very upset he had lost, and Ralph heard about this from the winner of the lawsuit.

 

..............Ralph had a very large "Brass" ladder, which he was attempting to bring up a flight of stairs, but realized it was far too long & large to do so, so he sat this brass ladder on the steps instead. 

             When he came back into the room, the ladder was gone, (stolen).......and it was known that the jealous man (the loser from the lawsuit), was "looking to get even somehow", or revenge, and this is why he stole this valuable ladder.  The police were called, the ladder retrieved, and the police told Ralph WHY this happened.

 

 

 

..INTERPRETATION:..................................................................................................

 

I think I helped him with this interpretation, to the extent he thought it through and agreed.

 

The "Brass Ladder", is not something that truly exists in life, as it would be terribly heavy and burdensome  for one, and secondly, it would be far too expensive and of much value, to be taking of a job. (so this is the symbolsm when you think of a brass ladder), the (wrong type of equipment for those reasons)

 

The other men (the winner & the loser in the lawsuit), is a reminder to Ralph, that these types of goings on in the outer world, the worka day world, including the revenge & the jealousies that people are always getting into, is not a good place to be, (hence, he is semi-retired), very young now, at only 58 we stopped working for others.

 

This dream is saying that it's a good thing, to not expose yourself to the outer world for these reasons mentioned in the dream.

 

One may also see "The Police", telling him of the WHY, as the higher self, telling you the why of your life's situation, and if it is better or worse for you, and in this case it was being explained to him,WHY we need to stay out of the everyday interactions with others because of bickering, backbiting, everyday jealousies, and revenge that people exhibit.

 

(it's also interesting that many of these outer manifestations in the dream above, were discussed by us just yesterday, prior to the dream, as I had much of the same things happen to me (backbiting, jealousy, and revenge), these traits were exhibited by others towards me, just by my "interacting" with the outside world.

 

I suppose then, the (Police), or (higher self), is telling him, he is better off without all that going on or exposing himself in such a way as I did.

as the end results will be these traits, as the material world, is indeed full of just these same things.,when you "expose" yourself to them.

 

 

Note: Whenever you dream of police, or authority type of figure, it is usually a symbol then, of a "higher authority".