Grover the Kidnapper

 

 

The dream for today has a sort of comical bent to it. I dreamt that my lady, Hakima, and I had eloped to Ireland to try to get married. A friend has come with me as my best man. The three of us are in a five story brick apartment building somewhere in some major Irish city. We are seated in a living room and we are making wedding plans. When some absurdly funny thing happens. Grover, a cute furry character, and his gang of monster Muppets from the children's TV show, Sesame Street, bursts through the door and to kidnap my fiancée!

 

My best man and I chase after him, up the stairs, as he and his gang head to roof. We reach a steel fire escape ladder at the top floor that leads to an escape hatch and out onto the roof. Once out onto the roof I see Grover and his gang of three monsters have perched them selves at each of the four corners of the flat roof space. My lady breaks free from clutches of Grover and runs to my arms. Grover and his Hench-Muppets stare blankly back at us. I think the plan was to fly away or repel off the roof with their prize. This is the point of the story at which I wake up.  

 

The Grover on Sesame Street is such a sweet colourful character that I have to laugh at the absurdity of seeming him portrayed and acting like an evil kidnapper. I chuckle at the thought! It seems like such a silly dream. Perhaps Grover is jealous and wants Hakima for himself? Maybe this dream has something to say about stolen childhood dreams? Ironically, what little Spanish I know I learned from watching  Sesame Street as a kid and my girl, Hakima, lived for a time in Ireland, she tells me, and once had a boyfriend there. So the obvious unconscious elements and themes are all there to sift through. At least in this dream I rescue my girl. That is a hopeful sign!

 

My last trip to Spain to get us married, while not meeting our objective, did get us closer to the goal. My unconscious mind must be actively looking for solutions to our problem, as much as, my conscious mind has been working on it.

 

I keep getting this feeling the universe is going to reward my faithfulness in this endeavour and will present a solution on our behalf out of sympathy. Something's got to give! I can be very stubborn in my perseverance.

 

I think, perhaps, Grover has come to compel my inner child to keep the pursuit up and not surrender. The happy ending in is sight. Let's hope so!