dream: 10/28/05

I'm in a small house after a family gathering, but I'm not sure if it is my family. I'm in the kitchen with a pile of dishes in the sink--pots, plates, utinciles, etc. I start washing--and washing--and washing...
Just when I think I'm finished, I realize I forgot to rinse the plates and have to go back and rinse and wipe them dry.

All the while, I sense a presence there. A male figure about three feet tall who is getting quite an amusement out of my predicement. I don't look at him, but he's sort of there in my prepheral vision. It's like being teased by a gnome. end

The washing makes me think of feeling guilty about something (like Lady Macbeth), or feeling that you should change or fix something.

The man seems to me to be a part of yourself, observing.

You could be right. I will have to ponder what it is I need to fix or stop feeling guilty about, but the interpretation feels correct.

As for that mysterious presence, it could be my one of my "shadows." Or perhaps it could represent my paranoid feeling of having my performance scrutinized. I have the feeling in waking reality sometimes.