Azziza 1999-01-28

I am in a warm room with white brick walls. I am lying in a double bed with black sheets on them. I am naked and feeling very comfortable and happy. Across from the bed, I see a wardrobe with mirrors on the doors. Next to the bed there is a big window with sunlight streaming in and I can see clouds and blue sky.

It's a thick forest with tangles of vine and sharp briars and thorns. It is dark and dank and would be almost impossible to enter.

A tangle of vines and thorns is an ugly image and leads us to believe that the adult influences were highly negative in nature.

It is a barely visible trail, almost over grown by the vines and briars. To walk on it, one would be pricked by all the thorns.

There is a wild river in which the water tumbles and rolls into a whitewater-rafter's paradise. The water is clear and fresh and as it crashes by it splashes my face and I taste its sweetness.

It is a beautiful, gem-encrusted goblet made of shining gold and silver.

The key is an old-fashioned skeleton key that probably fits into a trunk of some kind. Perhaps a maiden's hope chest which she has filled with linens in anticipation of her wedding day.

At the risk of reading too much from the symbolism, one could try to equate the hope chest with romance.