Universal Landscape: Control exerted over incoming data; escapism.
Dreaming Lens: Were you wearing earphones? Was someone else? If it was you, what were you listening to? Were they operating properly? If someone else was wearing them, did you feel impacted by this fact? Were others wearing earphones collectively?
Personal Focus: The five physical senses are the mechanisms by which we perceive our immediate environment. Our sense organs receive a continual flow of information and we use that information to guide us step by step, from choice to choice every moment of our lives. Symbolically, our collective senses can be seen as the tracks over which the vehicle that is our body moves through time and space. While we experience the senses separately, they operate as a system, with each of them representing a particular component of the sensorial experience.
Our ears are the sense organ over which we are able to exert the least amount of control. In our daily lives, we can avert or close our eyes, avoid taking air into our nostrils, choose not to put something into our mouths, and avoid touching objects—all this to minimize incoming data. However, sound enters the ears from all angles, even though they are constructed for directional optimization. The ears are open and vulnerable to all outside stimuli unless impacted by an external object. While people often use various items to minimize incoming sound, the purpose of the earphone is to replace the naturally occurring inflow of data with something of the individual’s choosing, usually music. This is where the element of escapism becomes an important consideration of the meaning attached to this symbol.
Music is a powerful phenomenon, capable of creating a myriad of alterations in mood and emotionality. By substituting what your ears would naturally be experiencing in any given moment with such a transformational stimulus, the presence of earphones will connect both with controlling and escaping from your environment. The emotional content surrounding this symbol will be crucial to your interpretation. Look to the Dreaming Lens to inform you as to your level of enjoyment in escapism, as well as the possibility of fear inspired by a sense of isolation or separation from the experience of others.
[1]Our ears are the sense organs over which we are able to exert the least amount of control. Sound enters the ears from all angles, even though they are constructed for directional optimization.
The ears are open and vulnerable to all outside stimuli unless impacted by an external object. While people often use various items to minimize incoming sound, the purpose of the earphone is to replace the naturally occurring inflow of sound with something of the individual’s choosing, usually music. This is where the element of escapism becomes an important consideration of the meaning attached to this symbol.
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