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7. I read your OP last night, Tobin, and have been thinking about it.

My husband is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst (not Jungian) but pays a lot of attention to dreams in his own life and when patients bring dreams
of their own to their therapy sessions. He's been in practice for over 40 years. For the 31 years that we've been married, I've learned a lot about dream interpretation from him because of his experience.

Sometimes dreams can predict a literal event (like the fear of driving through a tunnel that fills with smoke at night) or sometimes they
can be a metaphor for a life journey. Think about a tunnel: its function, purpose, and what happens when you go through it. It is a transition
space that gets you from one place to another--in the dark (which can be scary)--and protects you at the same time from being crushed by
the weight of whatever threat is outside of it (rocks, dirt, water...) You are in a different place when you come out of it.

You are at the age/stage of your life where you are in transition. You still work as a trucker, but prepared yourself with education to do something else.
You've been married to a woman that you love--whom you've written about as being very different from you personally (extrovert vs introvert)--and also
indicated that she doesn't quite know what to make of all this dream analysis. You have had to turn around and go back to working as a trucker, even
though you were a long way through that education tunnel and felt ready to come out the other side. It may also be with your interest in Jung, that the process of analyzing yourself is raising some barriers in your marriage--encountering some smoke?--that may not have initially been there.

You are a very creative person, and you've shared your stories with us. This morning, when I decided I would respond to your post, I also googled "tunnel as a Jungian symbol in dream analysis" and this very interesting article came up. It's a long one, but you might enjoy reading it. There's some really interesting stuff in it that you may find applies to your own life. http://www.mythicjourneys.org/newsletter_jul05_transitions_bolen.html

I'm sorry that you have been feeling broken. I hope that you will be feeling better, soon.