Our feelings hold true as our mind's way to capture emotionally significant life events, for it were otherwise we simply would not be able to survive. Born into this world with a pure, pristine, blank slate we are innocent only once as life writes upon that slate our emotional life, coloring all aspects with sights, sounds and external sensory perceptions from the outside world, now recording this inside our world as emotional memory. It is a very private, personal diary. It is a narrative of our emotional life as we have lived it.

The responses given are symbolic data with a general meaning common to others and specific meaning depending upon the forces at work within that person's mind, or psychodynamics.

The 15 basic questions and an understanding of the responses has provided a peek into the subconscious over the years to those who have described their journey on an imaginary road. Our defense mechanisms only allow us to make conscious the subconscious when we are able to have a conscious, logical look at it. Until then, some mental images will literally remain in the dark until we are prepared and able to take a clear look at them.

Psychodynamic data on limited 15 responses of Anthony's imaginary journey:

Honesty in communication and relationships hold a high value with a spirit of innocent idealism that things should be good and right. Growth in all aspects is important also, striving to achieve the best one can be for oneself and all that one does. Yet all is not within our total control, not how we feel at times, nor how others feel or interact with us.

Trust is there in intimate relationships and enjoyment as well of these interactions with others. Vulnerability in getting close to people is an aspect of life with rich rewards as we interact with others who also value health and growth as one does.

We provide for our family and self in a home life we choose to create with a wish that others contribute equally as we do. Yet feelings stirred in others is an independent variable with hope that we are treated by others as we treat them.

In committed relationships we realize that things may change in a moment for what we hold to be strong at one moment can become fragile in the next. Such is life, capable of change, and there is a wish that growth continue to occur and strengthen those relationships with the true ideal of what life is all about, whatever that may be for us.

Persons in our life affect us and vice versa. There may be present difficulties in those relationships, for life is not perfect. Things said and done cannot be reversed, but their emotional impact on us and others can. We can learn and continue to grow in relationships important to us for the good of all concerned. That requires open and honest communication and a working together of any friction occurring at the moment. It can work if we do all we can to make it so and those significant people in our lives interact for positive growth and betterment.

Roerich