Brian's Journal - A Dream Return

Where to Sleep (02/18/2023)
The dream:
The sequence of scenes in this dream is not completely clear, but that probably does not have much significance.
I am squatting beside one of the driveways on the grounds of some place like a summer camp, attempting to wipe my butt after pooping. I have about a half-dozen Kleenex to do the job but they are not working very well and I and concerned about getting poop on my fingers. I am also concerned about being noticed so as soon as I finish I put the used Kleenex in a small rectangular plastic container which I then put in the back of the Subaru. The wheelchair is not in the car so there is plenty of room in the back.
It is evening and I will be spending the night at the camp so I go into the cabin where I believe I will be staying. It sleeps three and there appears to be a bed available but when I leave the cabin I learn that three other men have have a prior claim on that cabin. Entering another larger cabin I make a place for myself on the floor by moving a set of window blinds over to another spot on the floor, which is already a mess, almost completely covered with blankets and sheets and other items strewn about.
To secure my place in the cabin for the night I need to register at the camp office. As I am walking over there, I realize that I put the plastic container with the dirty Kleenex into the wrong car. I had put it into a red Subaru but we no longer have a red Subaru; our new Subaru is green. Before I can do anything about that, a young man in front of me tells me that although dogs are not allowed at the camp, it will be okay if I keep my dog with me, although it will need to go out into the woods for a while at some point during the night. That does not seem too bad to me; I had been worried that I myself might have to spend the night in the woods.
Possible meaning:
As I was recounting this dream to Darchelle I recognized multiple symbols shared with another dream a few years ago which featured a dog at a summer camp. In that dream I needed to pee but was unable to find a suitable place to do so, and I needed to eat but the meat that I wanted was all gone. That dream symbolized my adoption of a belief in God in which I relinquished my authority to determine or change what I believed about myself as well as God. This dream retains the symbols of a summer camp and a dog, representing Christianity and/or the church and my belief in God respectively, but in this dream I am searching for a place to sleep rather than to pee, suggesting that the theme is preparing for my death.
I have already pooped on the grounds of the summer camp. Defecating is a rare symbol in my dreams and is probably represents a more aggressive form of self-expression than does urinating, which is a fairly common symbol. In this dream I believe it represents my repudiation of Christianity, an act which the dream suggests is not without consequences. I need to deal with the used Kleenex. In waking life I do not feel much concern the consequences of rejecting Christianity as I anticipate my death. The dream perhaps suggests that my lack of concern is a mistake - I put the dirty Kleenex into the wrong car.
The dog is with me, something I had not realized until the young man mentions it. It is allowed at the camp, although not without some conditions. The dog may represent my current beliefs regarding God, which the church, and people in the church, can accept as long as I am not too outspoken about them. Regarding another symbol, the blinds which I move out of the way to make room for a place to sleep resemble the blinds in the home I shared with Susan during our marriage. Moving them likely represents my leaving Susan after I learned that I was going to die. The rest of the stuff on the floor may represent the relationships and possessions both physical and virtual which I have accumulated over the course of my life. I fear I will be leaving a mess behind for others to clean up after I die.