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Sunday, November 28, 2010
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dear dreamgirl.i keep dreaming that im in a houses that dont have toilets,,and i need to go baddly,,im looking every where but cant find one,,then i run in to people from my past,when i decide to squit in a saucepan my ex girlfriend just turns up..please help..other i dont think i can go to sleep again its 2 weeks since i have been to bed....love very very tried,
Ahh, Beam-baby, what a wonderful dream! Not at all an uncommon theme; many of us have similar dreams from time to time. It's broadly about privacy and revealing yourself to others; revealing your most private self.
Your dream specifically, Houses - different houses? Or pretty much the same house each time? (Different houses = different states of mind, different circumstances) No facilities; no allowance for privacy - not even in the kitchen with a saucepan - certainly there was no privacy from your ex girlfriend! I think you are concerned about past issues of being involved with someone who, maybe, checked up on you too much ... didn't give you any sense of privacy... And now you might be in a situation where you are concerned that you will lose your privacy again -- or else you are doing battle with yourself over how much to reveal of yourself, considering your past experiences. ("I need to go badly" implies you desperately want to enter into a more intimate condition) Get some sleep!
Hallo! I had a strange dream. My dream was set in my Grandmothers house, (her house is frequently a setting for different dreams for me). I am fair skinned and blonde, but in this dream i was of spanish descent and appearance and i lived in the house with several other people of spanish descent, my family for the dream. There were a host of women of varying ages who all looked very similar, they were my sisters and there was an old woman. She was either the grandmother or mother of all of us. This was mostly set in the kitchen of the house which did not exactly resemble the kitchen in real life. Anyway, then there was a very tall dark haired stranger who we were trying to help in some way, i think he was lost or something. The old woman only spoke in spanish and she was preparing him some food and I was speaking in mixed Spanish and English between my spanish family and the man who spoke english. At some stage the man got frustrated or mad and stood up and he was super tall, very thin and very intimidating, but then he sat down again so he wouldn't scare us. What a strange dream for me, what do you think it means? I have never dreamt of being spanish before? But i often have dreams that are set at my Grandmothers house or property. Let me know what you think!
Hello Lady Primrose! You reiterate that it’s a “strange dream” for you, which has to make it seem an important one. So, let’s try to work this out.
Your Grandmother’s house is a very important setting for you, which we can see as it is “frequently a setting for different dreams” for you. Something you found at your Grandmother’s is still with you; probably nurturing, as the kitchen features, and the “old woman … preparing food”. Maybe the nurturing you still carry with you is not exactly like your Grandmother served, (as the kitchen “did not exactly resemble the kitchen in real life”), but is still relevant and significant. You must have had some wonderful times at your Grandmother’s!
You are yourself in the dream, though you look different (dark / fair), and the people around you are “family” but not, I take it, your real life family in any recognisable way. You are surrounded, in this dream, by sisters and an old woman (mother or grandmother) all very similar to you, and all “Spanish”. “Sisters” could be many facets of yourself, or they could be close friends who are like sisters to you (not necessarily all female, but they would have traditionally ‘feminine’ traits; caring, understanding, nurturing, etc). I’m not sure if you have many facets to yourself or if you are surrounded by others who are like sisters. You’ll have to decide which seems right.
Spanish. English. It seems languages are significant to you – maybe you speak more than one language? Do you speak both Spanish and English? “Of Spanish descent”. Are you of Spanish decent? Despite being fair and blonde? Is there a dark-haired, olive-skinned ‘you’ under the surface? Do you have dark-haired, olive-skinned family or friends? You might be drawing them closer in this dream, not distinguishing obvious differences, but seeing similarities instead; seeing yourself and them as being alike.
It’s significant that you are collectively trying to help the stranger amongst you. Significant, too, is that the old woman is preparing food for the stranger, nurturing him, despite not speaking the same language. Giving without receiving; there is a lot of caring and nurturing in this dream!
The stranger – unknown, unpredictable, that otherness that seems to be missing amongst the cosy family similarity – can seem alarmingly tall (towering; too big, intimidating with his sheer scale), and thin (lacking substance, not dependable as not solid), dark and foreign (speaking English, which you also speak in the dream, foreign = unknown / not trusted). Dark, here, might be as we use the word in literary terms, meaning sinister or scary. Interestingly the scary, unknown, intimidating man sits down so as not to frighten you. It’s interesting, too, that all this strange ‘otherness’ is wrapped up in a male appearance, when all of the familiar are female.
I think you are delivering a message to yourself, with this dream. That message is to nurture the strange and unpredictable, the ‘dark’ and maybe scarier side of (probably) yourself, and (maybe also) in those close to you.
Is there anything scary or intimidating about your Grandmother? (There usually is! Grandmothers are natural authority figures). Could you be denying your own inner scary-person, and multiplying your caring-nurturing side?
I tend to feel every character in this cast (apart, possibly, for the Grandmother) represents some aspect of yourself, your projection into the world.
What does Spanish mean to you?
“Spanish” is an interesting word. It could be a mutation of “span-like” – far reaching, covering much ground. The themes of this dream may be ‘spanning’ many areas of your life and interactions.
Phew! I hope that was of some interest to you! A fascinating dream to look at. Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you for the interpretation! It's definitely made me think about the dream in a new more meaningful way and a lot of what you have said really makes sense of the dream for me. Thanks!
Hello - I had a very strange dream when I was a child that I cannot forget. I dreampt I was running thur a burnt forest with a burning octupus following me. This dream was in full colour. As a child is scared me but now as an adult I just find it interesting. What do you think
Hi Ollie! Children see things differently than adults. As a child many things might have seemed frightening that don't scare you as an adult. Full colour is great: vivid! I'd like to know how you felt when you were running - were you running freely or was it difficult? Were you ever scared by an octopus, or other seafood? An octopus has 8 'arms' - to hug you with! That might be something like 'smother-love', all a bit overwhelming - esspecially a burning octopus! Love so intense it could burn you! How did you feel about the forest? Was it on fire or was it burnt-out and black? A forest tends to imply confusion and obstacles, a burning one even more so! But a burnt out forest might be an immense sadness or loss. Of course an immense loss for a child might be a lost teddy bear; try to think like a child when looking for clues to this dream. Did any of that mean anything to you? I'd love to hear how you feel about it now. Thanks, Ollie!
HI Dreamgirl, Running I think was difficult. The forest was burnt out and very grey, with some puffs of smuldering smoke. I think it means to me sadness and loss. Not of something as insignificant as a teddy bear - something else. Thank you for your interpretation....
Hi Ollie, difficulty running is two-fold; in a very intense dream we sometimes try to take our heavy sleeping body with us, and trying to move those sleeping limbs intrudes on our dreams and make our body feal heavy or slow, like running in waist-deep honey! But also, it can mean difficulty escaping; running as hard as you can, but not making much progress. A smoking forest? So the destruction or loss was very recent when you had this dream. Do you remember exactly how old you were? Where you were living? I think you might already have worked out what this dream was about. I'm glad you have grown to see it as interesting rather than scary, over time. Good luck, Ollie!
Hi, I don't know what you can do to make sense of this; any suggestions are welcome: I dreamt something really annoying, but I don't remember what. I woke up feeling angry and irritated! But I couldn't recall any details at all. What does that mean?
It's hard to say, without any imagery to work with. Were you eating or drinking shortly before going to bed? Or is there someone or something in the waking world that you are irritated with? These things could all produce non-descript 'irritating' dreams. Does anyone else have any suggestions?
Hi Dreamgirl, I dreamt I drove a big van with very poor brakes which in the dream was my new vehicle. I almost ran into things because of the brakes barely working, but narrowly avoided several prangs. I was taking the van for a run, and stopped off at a bar that I sometimes went to for the entertainment (this is not a real place, and I've never dreamt of it before either). I went in to see what I was missing and there were lots of drinking/drunk boys on the staircase. Some people gave me drinks (I think it was Guinness) and after several of these I thought I would be over the limit and not be able to drive home. I was annoyed about that. This is not at all the way I behave in waking life, where I am frequently the designated driver because I don't care to drink. Any suggestions for what this dream means are welcome!
I get the feeling that you are trying out in dream-form a new or different way of moving through life and presenting yourself (the bold, new vehicle; representing personal means of moving forward and public facade), rather than risking it in waking life. Maybe it would be more fun to not always be designated driver. Let someone else take the responsibility sometimes, have some drinks with the boys who are going up or down, ease up on the brakes a bit, make the most of the entertainment, rather than making the least of it. Allow yourself to live it up sometimes!
Hi Dreamgirl, I wondered if you could see some meaning in this dream I had a couple weeks ago. It started OK but then turned nasty for me. I'm sorry but it is quite long. I was visiting my ex partner at an old house where he lived in the dream. We were talking and on friendly terms (as we are currently)and as we walked out onto a sort of decking area outside the house he was showing me some different red wines that he had been making. He had glasses of them sitting on the wooden deck floor and I picked them up and looked at and smelled them. (I work in the wine industry in real life while he does not). I said encouraging things to him although I privately thought that he would have a difficult time marketing them as it's not his field and I thought they may have a fault, though they may also just have been sitting out there in the glasses for too long. Then I left and was walking along a sort of wide dry creek bed with high cliff like embankments either side. These were brown dirt and cracked and crumbly looking. I was wearing a dress and had bare feet. As I walked along I was trying to step on the soft sandy patches as there had been water flowing recently over the dry bed and the grass which had been growing there and a little debris had been swept into sort of drifts. Along the edges of the cliff tops which were a couple meters high, there were some old car bodies and I saw and recognised my ex's old yellow ute that he had been very fond of. I realised that this was some sort of dumping or wrecking area and although I was feeling quite comfortable and happy I was a little worried about standing on something sharp hidden in the grass and sand. Then I saw a big white section of a wrecked truck with a tray like a grape truck settled partly into the earth on my left at the bottom of the creek where I was walking. It was right up against the cliff so I could walk past it easily, but just as I started to pass it part of the cliff on the right crumbled and a huge white grape tray from a truck fell and slid directly towards me. I had to run/dive for cover under the other truck on my left as the tray slid up against it and the cliff face. When it had stopped I was OK but stuck under the tray between the other truck and the cliff face. The tray had rammed into the soft earth and I was on my back on top of and partly into a soft mound of red earth. I could see there was no way of getting out ahead in the way I had been walking, or above or either side of me as the truck, tray and cliff had sealed me in. I wasn't panicked but knew I was in trouble and I turned over to try to crawl out of the small space at the back of the tray, between the cliff face and the tray, where I could see the light. As I moved towards the opening which was a few feet in front of me, the soft sand under me gave way to the weight of the tray of the truck and it slid and collapsed down on top of me. I knew I was going to have a hard time getting out of this as the very heavy truck tray was pressing all the air out of my lungs and I couldn't breathe in, but I thought that I would try to scrape the soil away from in front of me with my hands while I could, and try to get out. Then I thought if I open my eyes and wake up I'll be able to breathe and so I did, and found it was early morning and I was home in bed and I could breathe! I kind of feel it is about my current working life.
Wow; what a lot of trouble you got into in that dream!
With all the winery related imagery, I'd say it's work related, for you! Also 'past' related, as you ex makes an appearance to set the time-frame. He was not much good with fine wines? Wouldn't know if they had been out on the deck for too long? Interesting that you thought of him attempting to enter a field that really was not in his expertise, but yours! Did he, at some time? And could this be a foreshadowing, a warning of what's to come in the rest of the dream? ("Stick to your own interests as you will find those of others are not fertile grounds for you...")
In the dream you leap from one grape truck disaster to another - one winery-related industry or workplace (disaster) to another... which might reflect what you feel about your past, working in that industry.
A dry creek bed: Creeks should have a flow - of water (maybe ideas, or sustenance for growth, which might also mean creativity, and again, ideas) (water often means emotions, so we will look at that too...) Maybe you were out of ideas in the winery industry, and leaping from one problem to another and feeling breathless and trapped and all but despairing ... except that you didn't despair!!! Very Important!!!! You kept thinking of ways out, no matter how bad things got.
Even while things were going steadily (in the dry creek bed) you were wary of problems that might lurk unseen, that you might 'stumble upon'. So, I think the winery industry was not an enjoyable or stress-free environment for you - nor did it feed your creativity. (Obviously for some people it does; I'm not making generalisations about the wine industry)
A dumping ground or wrecking area: The past can easily become a dumping ground: Many of us dump all of our problems on our past; "if only my mother had done this right and my father had not done that wrong, and if my schools had been this way not that way, and if The Past Had Been Different, things would be better now!!!" (It's easy to blame the past, but impossible to fix it, so best to take what we have Right Now, and use it to build what we really want in the future).
Perhaps it is time to dump the past in the past, as it didn't (doesn't) feed your creativity or growth. And remember to recognise your own strength for not despairing, and for always believing there may yet be hope, may be a way out -- which, significantly, you took upon yourself; "I can crawl out of here", not "someone will come and rescue me".
We can look at the dry creek bed as being an emotionless stretch: but I think it is more related to ideas and creative flow, rather than emotional, although emotions are very closely related to creative flow anyway. Maybe the past didn't provide the emotional sustenance you deserve or need, and that contributed to you remaining on the same path (a creek has a defined path through the territory), and that creekbed/path belonged to working in the winery industry and was littered with debris from your past relationship.
Barefoot and in a dress?? Hmm. Feminine. Not quite the cliched "barefoot and pregnant", but maybe not so far off... Submissive ... ill-equipped for making an escape from a harsh environment!
What do you think? If you think I've missed some salient point, please tell me!
Hi again Vickie, You wrote, "I could see there was no way of getting out ahead in the way I had been walking" so then you turned over -- to escape back the way you had come, back into the dry creek bed? Does this reflect something in your waking life; back into the known path, back into what you've done before, because for now there is "no way out ahead"? Turning back to something you have done before and found unfulfilling is a reasonable short-term escape plan. When you are free of the difficulties heaped upon you, you will find a safer and managable way out of the dry creek bed, the path that doesn't feed your creative nature. Your determination is notable in this dream, and I suspect is reflected in your waking life. Keep aiming for what you really want, despite obvious obstacles! This dream shows you how strong you are in a tight situation! Best of luck with everything!
Thanks Dreamgirl, that sounds about right with what's happening with me in real life at the moment. I have been working out of my area of training for the past year to enable more time to study, and have not found it satisfying. I am currently begining work back in an area I worked in a few years ago. Hopefully when I am qualified I will be able to "walk past the grape truck".
dear dreamgirl.i keep dreaming that im in a houses that dont have toilets,,and i need to go baddly,,im looking every where but cant find one,,then i run in to people from my past,when i decide to squit in a saucepan my ex girlfriend just turns up..please help..other i dont think i can go to sleep again its 2 weeks since i have been to bed....love very very tried,
ReplyDeleteAhh, Beam-baby, what a wonderful dream!
ReplyDeleteNot at all an uncommon theme; many of us have similar dreams from time to time. It's broadly about privacy and revealing yourself to others; revealing your most private self.
Your dream specifically, Houses - different houses? Or pretty much the same house each time? (Different houses = different states of mind, different circumstances)
No facilities; no allowance for privacy - not even in the kitchen with a saucepan - certainly there was no privacy from your ex girlfriend!
I think you are concerned about past issues of being involved with someone who, maybe, checked up on you too much ... didn't give you any sense of privacy...
And now you might be in a situation where you are concerned that you will lose your privacy again -- or else you are doing battle with yourself over how much to reveal of yourself, considering your past experiences. ("I need to go badly" implies you desperately want to enter into a more intimate condition)
Get some sleep!
Hallo!
ReplyDeleteI had a strange dream. My dream was set in my Grandmothers house, (her house is frequently a setting for different dreams for me). I am fair skinned and blonde, but in this dream i was of spanish descent and appearance and i lived in the house with several other people of spanish descent, my family for the dream. There were a host of women of varying ages who all looked very similar, they were my sisters and there was an old woman. She was either the grandmother or mother of all of us. This was mostly set in the kitchen of the house which did not exactly resemble the kitchen in real life. Anyway, then there was a very tall dark haired stranger who we were trying to help in some way, i think he was lost or something. The old woman only spoke in spanish and she was preparing him some food and I was speaking in mixed Spanish and English between my spanish family and the man who spoke english. At some stage the man got frustrated or mad and stood up and he was super tall, very thin and very intimidating, but then he sat down again so he wouldn't scare us.
What a strange dream for me, what do you think it means? I have never dreamt of being spanish before? But i often have dreams that are set at my Grandmothers house or property.
Let me know what you think!
Hello Lady Primrose!
ReplyDeleteYou reiterate that it’s a “strange dream” for you, which has to make it seem an important one. So, let’s try to work this out.
Your Grandmother’s house is a very important setting for you, which we can see as it is “frequently a setting for different dreams” for you. Something you found at your Grandmother’s is still with you; probably nurturing, as the kitchen features, and the “old woman … preparing food”. Maybe the nurturing you still carry with you is not exactly like your Grandmother served, (as the kitchen “did not exactly resemble the kitchen in real life”), but is still relevant and significant. You must have had some wonderful times at your Grandmother’s!
You are yourself in the dream, though you look different (dark / fair), and the people around you are “family” but not, I take it, your real life family in any recognisable way. You are surrounded, in this dream, by sisters and an old woman (mother or grandmother) all very similar to you, and all “Spanish”. “Sisters” could be many facets of yourself, or they could be close friends who are like sisters to you (not necessarily all female, but they would have traditionally ‘feminine’ traits; caring, understanding, nurturing, etc). I’m not sure if you have many facets to yourself or if you are surrounded by others who are like sisters. You’ll have to decide which seems right.
Spanish. English. It seems languages are significant to you – maybe you speak more than one language? Do you speak both Spanish and English? “Of Spanish descent”. Are you of Spanish decent? Despite being fair and blonde? Is there a dark-haired, olive-skinned ‘you’ under the surface? Do you have dark-haired, olive-skinned family or friends? You might be drawing them closer in this dream, not distinguishing obvious differences, but seeing similarities instead; seeing yourself and them as being alike.
It’s significant that you are collectively trying to help the stranger amongst you. Significant, too, is that the old woman is preparing food for the stranger, nurturing him, despite not speaking the same language. Giving without receiving; there is a lot of caring and nurturing in this dream!
The stranger – unknown, unpredictable, that otherness that seems to be missing amongst the cosy family similarity – can seem alarmingly tall (towering; too big, intimidating with his sheer scale), and thin (lacking substance, not dependable as not solid), dark and foreign (speaking English, which you also speak in the dream, foreign = unknown / not trusted). Dark, here, might be as we use the word in literary terms, meaning sinister or scary. Interestingly the scary, unknown, intimidating man sits down so as not to frighten you. It’s interesting, too, that all this strange ‘otherness’ is wrapped up in a male appearance, when all of the familiar are female.
I think you are delivering a message to yourself, with this dream. That message is to nurture the strange and unpredictable, the ‘dark’ and maybe scarier side of (probably) yourself, and (maybe also) in those close to you.
Is there anything scary or intimidating about your Grandmother? (There usually is! Grandmothers are natural authority figures). Could you be denying your own inner scary-person, and multiplying your caring-nurturing side?
I tend to feel every character in this cast (apart, possibly, for the Grandmother) represents some aspect of yourself, your projection into the world.
What does Spanish mean to you?
“Spanish” is an interesting word. It could be a mutation of “span-like” – far reaching, covering much ground. The themes of this dream may be ‘spanning’ many areas of your life and interactions.
Phew! I hope that was of some interest to you! A fascinating dream to look at. Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you for the interpretation! It's definitely made me think about the dream in a new more meaningful way and a lot of what you have said really makes sense of the dream for me.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Hello - I had a very strange dream when I was a child that I cannot forget. I dreampt I was running thur a burnt forest with a burning octupus following me. This dream was in full colour. As a child is scared me but now as an adult I just find it interesting. What do you think
ReplyDeleteHi Ollie! Children see things differently than adults. As a child many things might have seemed frightening that don't scare you as an adult. Full colour is great: vivid!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know how you felt when you were running - were you running freely or was it difficult?
Were you ever scared by an octopus, or other seafood?
An octopus has 8 'arms' - to hug you with! That might be something like 'smother-love', all a bit overwhelming - esspecially a burning octopus! Love so intense it could burn you!
How did you feel about the forest? Was it on fire or was it burnt-out and black?
A forest tends to imply confusion and obstacles, a burning one even more so! But a burnt out forest might be an immense sadness or loss. Of course an immense loss for a child might be a lost teddy bear; try to think like a child when looking for clues to this dream.
Did any of that mean anything to you? I'd love to hear how you feel about it now. Thanks, Ollie!
HI Dreamgirl, Running I think was difficult. The forest was burnt out and very grey, with some puffs of smuldering smoke. I think it means to me sadness and loss. Not of something as insignificant as a teddy bear - something else. Thank you for your interpretation....
ReplyDeleteHi Ollie, difficulty running is two-fold; in a very intense dream we sometimes try to take our heavy sleeping body with us, and trying to move those sleeping limbs intrudes on our dreams and make our body feal heavy or slow, like running in waist-deep honey! But also, it can mean difficulty escaping; running as hard as you can, but not making much progress. A smoking forest? So the destruction or loss was very recent when you had this dream. Do you remember exactly how old you were? Where you were living? I think you might already have worked out what this dream was about. I'm glad you have grown to see it as interesting rather than scary, over time. Good luck, Ollie!
ReplyDeleteHi, I don't know what you can do to make sense of this; any suggestions are welcome: I dreamt something really annoying, but I don't remember what. I woke up feeling angry and irritated! But I couldn't recall any details at all. What does that mean?
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to say, without any imagery to work with. Were you eating or drinking shortly before going to bed? Or is there someone or something in the waking world that you are irritated with? These things could all produce non-descript 'irritating' dreams.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else have any suggestions?
Hi Dreamgirl, I dreamt I drove a big van with very poor brakes which in the dream was my new vehicle. I almost ran into things because of the brakes barely working, but narrowly avoided several prangs. I was taking the van for a run, and stopped off at a bar that I sometimes went to for the entertainment (this is not a real place, and I've never dreamt of it before either). I went in to see what I was missing and there were lots of drinking/drunk boys on the staircase. Some people gave me drinks (I think it was Guinness) and after several of these I thought I would be over the limit and not be able to drive home. I was annoyed about that.
ReplyDeleteThis is not at all the way I behave in waking life, where I am frequently the designated driver because I don't care to drink.
Any suggestions for what this dream means are welcome!
I get the feeling that you are trying out in dream-form a new or different way of moving through life and presenting yourself (the bold, new vehicle; representing personal means of moving forward and public facade), rather than risking it in waking life.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it would be more fun to not always be designated driver. Let someone else take the responsibility sometimes, have some drinks with the boys who are going up or down, ease up on the brakes a bit, make the most of the entertainment, rather than making the least of it. Allow yourself to live it up sometimes!
Hi Dreamgirl, I wondered if you could see some meaning in this dream I had a couple weeks ago. It started OK but then turned nasty for me. I'm sorry but it is quite long.
ReplyDeleteI was visiting my ex partner at an old house where he lived in the dream. We were talking and on friendly terms (as we are currently)and as we walked out onto a sort of decking area outside the house he was showing me some different red wines that he had been making. He had glasses of them sitting on the wooden deck floor and I picked them up and looked at and smelled them. (I work in the wine industry in real life while he does not). I said encouraging things to him although I privately thought that he would have a difficult time marketing them as it's not his field and I thought they may have a fault, though they may also just have been sitting out there in the glasses for too long. Then I left and was walking along a sort of wide dry creek bed with high cliff like embankments either side. These were brown dirt and cracked and crumbly looking. I was wearing a dress and had bare feet. As I walked along I was trying to step on the soft sandy patches as there had been water flowing recently over the dry bed and the grass which had been growing there and a little debris had been swept into sort of drifts.
Along the edges of the cliff tops which were a couple meters high, there were some old car bodies and I saw and recognised my ex's old yellow ute that he had been very fond of. I realised that this was some sort of dumping or wrecking area and although I was feeling quite comfortable and happy I was a little worried about standing on something sharp hidden in the grass and sand.
Then I saw a big white section of a wrecked truck with a tray like a grape truck settled partly into the earth on my left at the bottom of the creek where I was walking. It was right up against the cliff so I could walk past it easily, but just as I started to pass it part of the cliff on the right crumbled and a huge white grape tray from a truck fell and slid directly towards me. I had to run/dive for cover under the other truck on my left as the tray slid up against it and the cliff face.
When it had stopped I was OK but stuck under the tray between the other truck and the cliff face. The tray had rammed into the soft earth and I was on my back on top of and partly into a soft mound of red earth. I could see there was no way of getting out ahead in the way I had been walking, or above or either side of me as the truck, tray and cliff had sealed me in. I wasn't panicked but knew I was in trouble and I turned over to try to crawl out of the small space at the back of the tray, between the cliff face and the tray, where I could see the light. As I moved towards the opening which was a few feet in front of me, the soft sand under me gave way to the weight of the tray of the truck and it slid and collapsed down on top of me. I knew I was going to have a hard time getting out of this as the very heavy truck tray was pressing all the air out of my lungs and I couldn't breathe in, but I thought that I would try to scrape the soil away from in front of me with my hands while I could, and try to get out. Then I thought if I open my eyes and wake up I'll be able to breathe and so I did, and found it was early morning and I was home in bed and I could breathe!
I kind of feel it is about my current working life.
Wow; what a lot of trouble you got into in that dream!
ReplyDeleteWith all the winery related imagery, I'd say it's work related, for you! Also 'past' related, as you ex makes an appearance to set the time-frame. He was not much good with fine wines? Wouldn't know if they had been out on the deck for too long? Interesting that you thought of him attempting to enter a field that really was not in his expertise, but yours! Did he, at some time? And could this be a foreshadowing, a warning of what's to come in the rest of the dream? ("Stick to your own interests as you will find those of others are not fertile grounds for you...")
In the dream you leap from one grape truck disaster to another - one winery-related industry or workplace (disaster) to another... which might reflect what you feel about your past, working in that industry.
A dry creek bed: Creeks should have a flow - of water (maybe ideas, or sustenance for growth, which might also mean creativity, and again, ideas) (water often means emotions, so we will look at that too...)
Maybe you were out of ideas in the winery industry, and leaping from one problem to another and feeling breathless and trapped and all but despairing ... except that you didn't despair!!! Very Important!!!! You kept thinking of ways out, no matter how bad things got.
Even while things were going steadily (in the dry creek bed) you were wary of problems that might lurk unseen, that you might 'stumble upon'. So, I think the winery industry was not an enjoyable or stress-free environment for you - nor did it feed your creativity. (Obviously for some people it does; I'm not making generalisations about the wine industry)
A dumping ground or wrecking area: The past can easily become a dumping ground: Many of us dump all of our problems on our past; "if only my mother had done this right and my father had not done that wrong, and if my schools had been this way not that way, and if The Past Had Been Different, things would be better now!!!" (It's easy to blame the past, but impossible to fix it, so best to take what we have Right Now, and use it to build what we really want in the future).
Perhaps it is time to dump the past in the past, as it didn't (doesn't) feed your creativity or growth. And remember to recognise your own strength for not despairing, and for always believing there may yet be hope, may be a way out -- which, significantly, you took upon yourself; "I can crawl out of here", not "someone will come and rescue me".
We can look at the dry creek bed as being an emotionless stretch: but I think it is more related to ideas and creative flow, rather than emotional, although emotions are very closely related to creative flow anyway. Maybe the past didn't provide the emotional sustenance you deserve or need, and that contributed to you remaining on the same path (a creek has a defined path through the territory), and that creekbed/path belonged to working in the winery industry and was littered with debris from your past relationship.
Barefoot and in a dress?? Hmm. Feminine. Not quite the cliched "barefoot and pregnant", but maybe not so far off... Submissive ... ill-equipped for making an escape from a harsh environment!
What do you think?
If you think I've missed some salient point, please tell me!
Hi again Vickie,
ReplyDeleteYou wrote, "I could see there was no way of getting out ahead in the way I had been walking" so then you turned over -- to escape back the way you had come, back into the dry creek bed? Does this reflect something in your waking life; back into the known path, back into what you've done before, because for now there is "no way out ahead"?
Turning back to something you have done before and found unfulfilling is a reasonable short-term escape plan. When you are free of the difficulties heaped upon you, you will find a safer and managable way out of the dry creek bed, the path that doesn't feed your creative nature.
Your determination is notable in this dream, and I suspect is reflected in your waking life. Keep aiming for what you really want, despite obvious obstacles! This dream shows you how strong you are in a tight situation!
Best of luck with everything!
Thanks Dreamgirl, that sounds about right with what's happening with me in real life at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI have been working out of my area of training for the past year to enable more time to study, and have not found it satisfying.
I am currently begining work back in an area I worked in a few years ago. Hopefully when I am qualified I will be able to "walk past the grape truck".