RE: My Dream Blog: Revelation In a Story
Dream analysis is somewhat personal, so the dream has more to do with your current life circumstances. I will view it as if it were an allegorical story.
Each game stage may be generation changes in a society. In the beginning of creation, the social construct favored exploration, cooperation, and leisure. People began separating themselves along tribal and blood lines, eventually. Those who were able to organize their tribal construct more efficiently began preying on others, who were not so efficient or were not interested in tribal allegiance. The initial advantage of the first violent tribal is lost, however, as each subsequent generation/game stages, others begin to organize and fight back. With the introduction of tribalism, the rules of the world changed from enjoyment to survival, thus the voice advising you to survive.
The women who are teaching the children are the social reaction to the reality of the circumstance. The tribalism is propagated to a new generation of humans who has not even experienced the shock of violence.
Of course, if you ask a Freudian psychoanalyst, he will say that this is all sex.
Thanks for the fees back I really like your take on it. I have not thought about it in that perspective. I would say the reason that society lost the leisure states they used to enjoy was because that's all they had so they were not necessarily choosing it. And as alternatives came up they simply chose the new thing without realizing the future consequences. But I believe we live in a day and age where we can now intentionally choose our own paths
I think many creation/origin myths do examine or postulate the entrance of misery and conflict in this world. The "Fall" story in the three major monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) relate to man choosing to essentially reject the garden given. I think the Sumerians had a myth about the gods giving a choice of living in cities/civilization with the caveat that man also must accept war and inequality along with art, music, and luxuries. Even the Nietzchean sci-fi movie "Matrix" had man reject the paradise of the first AI simulation. Maybe misery is inherent in man's existence.