Last night in dreams I was working on restoring a 70 year old car. It must have been symbolic from my teenage years.
In the dream this car was found and it was cosmetically almost perfect, yet I was doing a total ground up restoration so everything was taken apart. All of the exterior trim was removed, all the interior, motor, transmission, drive line, rear axel, brakes, wheel, etc. Everything down to just a huge stack of parts.
The body was then dipped in a solvent to loosen and remove all of the old layers of paint stripping it down to just the base essence of the metal, which was then carefully looked over for any rust or imperfections to be fixed, which there were none.
The body was then sprayed with a primer sealant and was being sanded to a smooth perfection in anticipation of being painted.
As a metaphor, we’re being stripped down to the core and everything of our old self is being removed and we’re emerging as our new selves.
