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I had just seen the movie, “The Gingerbread Man.” The girl in my dream looked like actress Embeth Davidtz (above)

HenryMakow.com – April 9, 2026

My biggest regret in life is loving women. 

Romantic love is a delusion mostly based on our powerful sexual and emotional instincts. 

Most people, men or women, are not that lovable. 

Carl Jung said that if you take away God, people worship false Gods (i.e. sex and romance.) 

(((Hollywood Movies))) program us to seek romantic love above all else.  Romantic love is an ersatz religion to teach us to seek ourselves in another person instead of in Self-development.   

They taught us that sex is a “mystical experience,” the best life offers. “Sexual intercourse is a sacrament.  

Orgasm is union with the universe.”  

The quest for our “soul mate” or “other half” leads to arrested development in men (and women?) 

The tendency to idealize other people is a mistaken quest for the God within. This mistake (“transference”) leads to disaster.

The spark of Divinity in our soul is the principle of our self-development. God is our soul mate.

“Dumping My Dream Girl”

Updated from Feb 8, 2011 & June 27, 2019

by Henry Makow PhD 

I am proud of a dream I recently had.

Embeth Davidtz

I was young again and single. My beautiful girlfriend and I were shopping. I suggested we go back to my apartment. I was feeling loving and wanted to hang out and cuddle. Just be happy together. Sex wasn’t an issue.

Shortly after arriving, she says she has to leave.

Thwarted in love. Again.

In the dream, I press her for an explanation. She doesn’t have one.

She doesn’t want to be with me. I grant her wish.

I tell her I’m not interested in games. We’re finished.

The End.  Don’t come back.

I wake up pleased by my subconscious bravado.

Continues …