I realized it was an inferior function dream for a few reasons:
(1)My house was on fire (house= the four functions, fire=consciousness contending with unconscious)
(2) Fours, with the 4th having lower status: my three cats plus a fourth cat belonging to someone else
(3) An antagonistic, primitive expression of another function.
In the dream, a bunch of people were at my house. One of my students started choking a beautiful, elegant bird. I was upset and called him over. I was angry, but very calm and diplomatic, offering to babysit the bird when he was stressed so he wouldn't choke it.
He turned into John Locke from Lost ( his last season's persona). He became angry, told me it was his bird, and if he wanted to choke it when the bird was being annoying, that was his business. He accused me of trying to take his bird from him.
I stayed calm, but explained why I was just there to help. The other students helped explain what I meant, and one student let me watch his cat.
Throughout all of this, I realized I was embodying Von Franz's description of introverted feeling.
Then, the fire alarm went off. There was smoke, everyone was running out, but I had to rescue the cats. I grabbed Vinnie first, ran downstairs and had my husband hold him while I got the other cats. People were telling me it wasn't safe. I didn't know how I'd get all four cats out but then I realized the fourth cat wasn't mine, so I was going to grab Faust, then Wednesday. I decided I should grab both at once, but then Wednesday ran to the top floor. I was frantically calling for Faust, who was nowhere to be found. I was terrified. Then, I woke up.
I think the later manifestation of John Locke represented introverted feeling taken over by inferior Extraverted Thinking. Birds represent thoughts. My three cats clearly represent the upper three functions. The fire in the house did as well.
Still, even knowing that, I was rattled all day. The pet sitter was kind enough to send me pictures of the cats.
This is Faust:
Vinnie didn't much appreciate having his picture taken:
Wednesday was being a bit skittish:
...only two more days until I can see the kitties myself.
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