Shake the Jake

The dream this morning takes place out west in the State of Washington. My wife and I are in a minivan and are chasing after a man who has blackmailed us into selling drugs. The man looks suspiciously like the actor, Jake Busey, and in the dream he is a former army buddy turned criminal.

Jake becomes a drug dealing criminal master mind after serving in the army. Somehow in this dream he has information that could make it look like I committed some crime while we both were serving in the army. He uses this leverage to get me to sell a shipment of his drugs. Well, I eventually get so enraged over being blackmailed that I take off in hot pursuit after Jake down the highway. I want to kill him.

Jake has a widespread criminal network in the region and he is making a run toward Canada to escape my wrath. We are racing through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and I pass a big billboard with a huge picture of Jake. It is a most wanted photo of Jake and it is a recent photo of him in his battle uniform with army rain gear. A Sheriff car suddenly appears. The Sheriff recognizes Jake from the billboard photo and runs Jake's car off the road with his squad car.

Next, I pull over, and watch the Sheriff roughly pull a dazed Jake, with both hands from a wrecked vehicle, and arrest him. Then I wake up.

How am I to interpret this dream? My unconscious mind is wanting me to face a frustrating goal that has been eluding me. It also suggests I could be showing belligerence toward others, especially anyone I perceive means harm to my wife and I.

The presence of the Sheriff suggests a longing for justice when it comes to my present  circumstances. There is a felt need to have some justice in my life. The Sheriff is a symbol of moral authority. It is fortunate he interceded in my pursuit of revenge. I could have been the one he arrested. Perhaps I am feeling remorseful for my out of control behaviour? Some serious turmoil is going on inside me lately. My intuition says I am in for a hell of a week starting today and my conscious self is not wanting to deal with any bit of it. Sigh and groan!