Conclusions
We have considered dreams of a transactional nature that take us back to our former home and/or provide us with the opportunity to interact once more with our deceased parents, siblings, or friends. We then return to the present, having touched once again on our past history. These dreams can move from being transactional to being transformational when we recognize, to quote Thomas Wolfe, that “we can’t go home again” or, to quote a famous French proverb,” the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Did Odysseus happen to dream of playing with a Möbius Strip when he returned home to Ithaca, or did Penelope hand him one of these strips in a dream he had after “leaving the road”? I know that I have had Möbius Strip-type dreams after I retired from my very active life of international travel and cross-cultural interactions.
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