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1
You're bored and unfulfilled by both your work and personal life. Your inner animal is coralled and underfed. Open the gate, run free little pony!
2
There's something in your life that you have been neglecting -- you are worried that it may be too late to make things good. The little horse reassures you that there may be time to fix things. What do horses mean to you, do they intimidate you or do you like them?
3
Are you sure that wasn't an episode of The Sopranos?
4
Interpret A - play a patience filled mildly tense game of black-out bingo with a big crowd.

Interpret B - And of course Henry the horse is dancing the waltz.

Interpret C - file under 'fellow slogger pisses himself over my trolling so I'll just finish the whole fricken alphabet, loser'
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@ 2. Now we're getting into it!

I like horses but are not unaware of their power. I've ridden some and been on petting terms with some, but I also know a person who had a finger bitten off by her own horse and once interviewed a mother in the graveyard (on Vashon Island, for this story about cemeteries) where her daughter was buried after being thrown by her own horse and fatally breaking her neck.

So: I like, but I'm also wary.
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I, too, recently had a dream that shocked me. I figured out exactly what it meant. Start with the fact it was YOUR subconscious. You felt these things were important but were unfinished business in your conscious mind, so you put them aside. I discovered I hadn't grieved the loss of somebody and spent the next several days doing just that.
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The horse represents your personal goals and life ambitions. You're worried that by spending time in the big room with politicians (your current job?), you are neglecting those goals/ambitions and you don't even realize it. They have languished and are perhaps out of reach now. But a new ambition/dream is developing -- you're not sure if pursuing this new dream is a good idea, though.
8
they're not misfiring. they're just firing.
9
There is nothing wrong. You are growing into the realization that none of us is 100% free. Constraint and frustration are inescapable aspects of the human condition. You may feel like life's constraints are diminishing you, draining you of your power, but really they are not. The young horse is who you are now, if you choose.
10
Sorry to be a naysayer (whammy!), but it's none of the above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i539ynXm…

Didn't one of y'all SLOG about the latest sleep research on mammals a year or two ago?
11
The dark brown horse signifies that you will purchase a new pair of shoes sometime in the next ten years. The bingo hall means that you will be getting hungry soon, within the next six hours or so. The horse's teeth represent a fear of being bitten by Luis Suarez.
12
The old horse is your wife. The condition of that horse says a lot about your relationship. The way you describe it sounds incredibly like love but weary. If you aren't married (any LTR will do) it's your job.

The young horse is a new opportunity. If you're not already having an affair or considering a new job, you know there is a hot new prospect waiting for you.

The intro scene was just an intro. Like what movies do with unrelated scenes just to introduce characters.
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I've done this sort of thing before and got no response, so I'll waste everyone's time, including mine, and say 'let's vote on the best interpretation out of these 12 comments." And to nullify that, whatever interpretation Brendan is thinking at this very moment gets my vote.
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"all working very hard together to solve a problem—and that problem was the New Yorker cartoon caption contest"

Whatever happens on the civic/municipal stage gets reinterpreted as wry, pithy or snarky. Roger Ebert spent so much effort trying to win the New Yorker cartoon caption contest.

"but it was clearly a little crazed, thin, and mangy from being trapped too long in this tiny enclosure." Do you freelance on the side? Ever look at what your local, regional, national, international peers are doing and think "oh man, I could totally do that"?
15
I'm sorry if Brendan doesn't pay attention to unregistered comments, but this might be relevant to his dream. A braver reader might submit this to him, or hell, I'll e-mail BK myself:

From Roger Ebert:
"Mark Twain advised: “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.” I have done more writing for free for the New Yorker in the last five years than for anybody in the previous 40 years.

It’s not that I think my cartoon captions are better than anyone else’s, although some weeks, understandably, I do. It’s that just once I want to see one of my damn captions in the magazine that publishes the best cartoons in the world. Is that too much to ask?"
16
I can't believe we're 15 comments into a discussion of a dream about various sized horses and no one has steered the thread to the gutter. I'm sorely disappointed in each and every one of you.
17
Really? This dream is SO OBVIOUS. You want a new job.

Your subconscious wants out of the echo chamber of Liberal Media Issues (Kshama Sawant and the lecture hall full of drones trying to solve the New Yorker caption contest -- hilarious!). It feels "corralled" and it wants "new pastures."

That mangy, trapped horse looking at you reproachfully to say “Hey fucker, how come you let me languish in this shithole for so long?" That is your soul. That horse is your real ambition, everything you truly want out of life.

The baby horse represents your chance to start anew. Get in touch with your actual desires (hint: you want to be living a life that's way more grounded and 'real' than what you're doing now), grab those reins, and go for a ride.
18
Take it to a Jungian analyst.
19
And never trust someone who refers to the Unconscious as "subconscious" - they don't know what they are talking about.
20
Pretty much covered in the above comments, but have to add that the bingo hall symbolizes you aging/ contemplating change in your current career/ maybe a sadness for not reaching a goal yet, that you feel you should have. Just a guess bc of the New Yorker cartoon.
A good therapist would ask: What do YOU think it means?
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Oh...and the woman on the podium suggests that you put a woman/personal relationship before your career and now resent it a bit.
22
Kshama Sawant = A Man Asks What
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@19 You're almost correct.

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