Dreams

[The Kakama]

Today I had a strange dream.I dreamt that I was in my mid-30s.In the dream,I was in a car and some eurasian-looking person was driving me to a certain destination.It looked like it was 9am .The person had a conversation with me,asking why I decided to become a teacher(?) and why I never married.Then he asked me why I didn't know how to drive.I can't remember my answers to his questions ,but I do recall telling him to pick me from my destination at 5pm.Occasionally I would look out of the window and see a normal-looking countryside,or we would drive through a small town.EventuallyI arrived at my destination,and then I couldn't remember what hapened next.

[Redafro]

Interesting. Do you have plans to become a teacher? How do you mean Eurasian? That is a pretty darn big collection of people.

I just had an interesting dream in which I remembered another dream, one I had at least 5 years ago, maybe 10, as if it was an actual event. The older dream was supposedly of New York City in which there was a massive triple (or more) decker high way system running through the city. It ran up a hill at which point it went through the center of a shopping mall, and at the bottom of the hill, it was going through a seemingly lower income area. The high way system was intricate and interesting though, more like an amusement ride then a traffic system, and I can remember just riding around it, taking different on and off ramps, just for the fun of it.

So the dream I had last night was me visiting someone in a hospital (don't remember who, and it didn't even seem that much like a sick person's room, it just looked like it) and the whole time thinking that maybe my wife would like to go to New York for a vacation and ride on the cool high way system.

Ha! I'll have to dig some symbolism up on that puppy... and found that among other non-applicable interpretations, highways can symbolize your sense of purpose. Which is perfect for me, as I obsess about my over ambitious philosophical/ethical ambitions constantly! I think in my case, New York City represents my ambition, though I haven't seen an interpretation that says that. And yes, my wife is not quite on board with my ambitions, though she is not in principle opposed. She is just practical and will believe my ideas are marketable when they become so.

[The Kakama]

In Malaysia,we usually refer to eurasians as people who have one parent from the region(chinese,malay,indian etc.) and another parent is from europe,so they look like caucasians,but aren't really.

And no I DO NOT want to be a teacher.It is the last job on my mind.

Btw,how do you manage to find meaning to your dreams?

[Rooster5man]

Probably years of experience

It's interesting though - New York City is somewhat symbolized as "The City of Dreams" (mostly for immigrants during the late 19th/early 20th century), so saying "I want to take my wife there" (and shedding some light on the practical aspect your wife has) makes perfect sense. In simple terms, you want to show your wife how far your dreams (*rimshot*) can take you.

As for being in a hospital room all the while, could that represent the "healing" that takes place when you feel your wife isn't "on board with your ambitions"?

[Vurn]

Some time ago my friend told me he had a dream where he received a lot of shoes so he gave some to his friend. Yeah.
My mum once had a dream where she was being asphyxiated/suffocated and when she woke up she noticed she had a strong cold which didn't let her breathe.

[Redafro]

@Kakama: I do use some of the many online dream symbol dictionaries, but many of the symbols are hog wash, especially any that tell you what to do or expect in the future. I look for a symbol interpretation that makes sense to me. Mind you, yes, it is based off of experience and research. Again, try the Jungian podcast on dream and fairy tale interpretations. A lot of it is symbolism of associations. My theory of dreams is simply that our minds have been making associations and connections between feelings, ideas, and objects sense we were born, and dreams are a window into our mind doing this as a process of calibration and reformatting which can often reveal things to us that we are ignoring or unaware of. I don't necessarily mean we have a second mind that is saying "oh, I gotta tell him x, y, and z!" but that these things naturally come up as a method of processing things we haven't processed consciously. Anyway, to learn to interpret and find meaning in dreams is to become more consciously aware of how your OWN mind processes symbols and associations. We can learn a lot from others symbols because we all have similar experiences as human beings. But ultimately, some symbols will be totally personal.

@Rooster: I wasn't even thinking about the hospital like that! Interesting! That moment in the hospital in the dream actually reminds me a great deal of me and my wife's time in the hospital after our daughter was born, so perhaps the symbolism relates to new beginnings even.

@Vurn: Ha! So long as he wasn't thinking the dream was somehow telling him to do that, I don't see a problem with that. If the dream helped him realize that he needed to give some shoes away (though I admit I don't know why that would be a sudden realization...) then it would be a reasonable interpretation.

[bender]

I sometimes remember my other dreams in my dreams then forget it when I wake up. Next timeI am dreaming I remember that again. Anyone else experiencing this?

[Vortex]

It happened to me a few times. But it's not very usual on me.

[Rooster5man]

Being able to remember inside a dream - I don't believe I have...

@Rooster: I wasn't even thinking about the hospital like that! Interesting! That moment in the hospital in the dream actually reminds me a great deal of me and my wife's time in the hospital after our daughter was born, so perhaps the symbolism relates to new beginnings even.

Oh, that's right! That's another possibility, and it would absolutely be much happier if it were that

[Redafro]

Just wrote this dream down before coming here, and yes, here is an example of just what you guys are talking about: remembering in a dream:
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1. i am on a cliff side over looking a river where an old Asian woman lives. There is a sense of post-apocalypse or at least post-society in the atmosphere, as if few people are left and she has figured out how to survive by herself. She has apparently welded a two frame works together to lean out over the river for some unknown reason, though I think it had something to do with fishing and probably as a safety precaution from the wild dogs which will appear later in the dream. I remember seeing her walking out through or onto one of the structures, which are made of thick rebar and tread-plate painted a rusty primer red, but it might have also been me thinking of her. I did get the sense that she was with me several times though, and perhaps someone else, younger who met mere there later. At any rate, the dogs come eventually and I begin to frantically find safe places to be from then. They are mainly medium to large dogs, and have a crazed, monstrous aspect. I remember one big one leaping up stairs at me, mouth open and twisted at an angle, his cheeks sunken in. Yeah, they may have all been skinny too. I climbed out on top of one of the structures to get away wondering how the old lady managed it the whole time. It is a roofed and fenced structure at ground level, but the roof has no fence which was the only safe place from the dogs, and there was a gap of a foot or two at the end I had to (for some reason) get over. I actually acted like an old lady as I crossed this gap.

2. I'm at a lake boat dock area where an Asian looking building floats on the water connected to the shore by floating piers. For some reason, I believe it to be the building of a gang of thugs or evil people, so I start strafing around the outside shooting a strange gun at the building which launches ping pong sized things I think are bombs or something like that.

Most of the rest of this part of the dream is spent in the water. At one point I'm circling the Asian building in the water using some kind of propeller device, and grabbing things as I fly by to make sharp turns... or that last bit about sharp turns might have happened in a previous dream I can't otherwise remember... something about raised metal highways and people chasing me... more rust colored scaffolding.

I leave the Asian building for a large covered boat dock housing very large boats. The water has been a dark murky green, but at this point I go underwater and can see as if I'm not underwater. I have a moment where I think, "I need to worry about drowning!" then realize I can breath and smile and just think, "oh yeah, I can breath just fine under water." This is almost a lucid moment but isn't. It is more like I remember breathing underwater before (in a dream, though I don't remember that detail) and so simply accept I can do it again. Under the boat dock is something like 10 or 12 feet of water with a whitish sandy floor. There are large inflatable rafts floating in the water under the dock, only a few at first, but the more I swim around here trying to hide or cause trouble (mainly the former I think... as I believe my enemies can't breath under water like I can) the more inflatables are floating around almost getting me caught. It is almost as if my enemies are dropping more of them on me to try to trap me.

3. I don't remember the transition well, but next I'm in a large utilitarian (large cement block walls, white paint, grey metal door frames: cheap industrial style without embellishment) celebrating my birthday. I almost think the area under the boat dock simply reformed into this location, but I'm not sure. I'm heading towards a long set of folding tables where paper place settings are set up and a few people are already waiting. I remember a vague sense of presence and perhaps food, but don't actually remember opening or eating, just the impression that that is the kind of thing we would be doing. Dream short hand for birthday party I guess. The main event of the birthday party was me telling everyone about a dream I had about an asian woman living on a cliff side where she made metal frameworks to keep herself safe from wild dogs. Dream achievement unlocked: I've never dreamt something then later that same night, told people about that dream in another dream. Interestingly I remember vividly remembering a part of the cliff dream which I don't otherwise remember: walking along a cliff ledge made of very Japanese looking stone: the smoothish smoke grey stuff with round dark holes and blackish spots and lots of asian evergreen scrub growing.
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I may work on an interpretation later... but this one just felt more like an adventure more than anything else. XD