“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He saw his mother, but the image was a projected one. It was a feared image of himself, wrapped too tightly in the bedding, which represented the restraints of old beliefs. He felt he could not see properly, meaning he could not see his way out of the situation. Yet when he asked his mother, “Can you see?” it was obvious that she could.

He tried to loosen the hampering bedding, and could not, but a doctor —a young man—came to his aid, loosened the bedding. The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

The tabloid turns into a parade float, the contrast showing that the resolution can end in a parade, with rejoicing. The earlier portions of the dream did, however, represent fears that Ruburt was, say, dying of suffocation—not physical suffocation, but from being bound too tightly.

(10:55.) Ruburt is too persistent to die young. The cats did not represent your physical cats (Mitzi and Billy Two), but old comfortable beliefs about the nature of the spontaneous self connected with ideas he picked up from his mother, in which cats represented the worst aspects of human behavior and impulses: they fawned upon you, yet were evil, and could turn against you in a moment.