Alex read through several of my nightmare descriptions a while ago. He made the observation that, in all of them, I was trying to rescue something or someone.

He thinks that characters in dreams always somehow represent the dreamer, so his theory is that I had been trying to save some part of myself. I don't know if I buy that or not.

It was interesting to me, though, that he looked at the set of dreams as a whole. Rather than trying to analize any single dream, he looked for similarities across the lot of them. I would never have thought to do that.