Tom Cruise:
Youthful animus in its ideal form, Tom
Cruise represents both the desire for risk (indicated here as a "pleasure
cruise" on a ship) and the wish for hometown simplicity. This paradox
governs Cruise's public image as an "overachiever," where the promise of
stability meets the threat of danger posed by his hobbies, skydiving and
car racing. The twinning of the safe boy-next-door ("Tom") and the
sexualized adventurer ("Cruise") in this dream figure points to
unresolved relationship issues at work in the dreamer's psyche.