Explain my dream

[Angra]

This could be fun. Or it could blow, all depending on the dream and the explanation given.


So it goes like this.

Somebody post his/her/its recent weird, funny, scary, facinating etc. dream, and then other posters tries to analyze it. The explanation given can either be deadly serious or creative... or just plain goofy. It's totally up to the posters.



So here's mine.


I had a dream last night and as usual it was making no sense at all and was jumping back and forward in time and places and i'm sure the persons in it kept changing faces. they always do in my dreams.

It was about something as irrelevant as appartments. apparently my mom and stepdad had just moved to a new appartment in a nice neighbourhood further away from me than they were before. So i had to take the train to get to them.
(Well, this is all pretty boring. But wait, it gets even more boring)
At the station there was a big supermarket and for some reason i had to buy something for dinner on my way to visit my mom. So i got something, got to the counter, put my groceries on the table, then discover that my credit card wasn't where it used to be. So i quickly told the next customer to take my turn as i looked for my credit card. Of course i found it the second the other customer begun to put his groceries on the table, but i patiently (and a little bit annoyed) waited for him to finnish.
And HERE comes the tricky part, ladies and gentlemen. So far the entire dream has jumped back and forth in time and places, but as i stand next to this customer the time suddenly goes normal. Like REALLY normal and slow (Like it normally does when u stand in line in a grocery shop). And i just watch this dude putting one grocery after another up on the desk for about 5 minutes... Then it gets my turn and THEN the time starts to jump again.

What the hell was so important about this counter episode that i had to dream this through??

Enlighten me.

[crabapple]

The dream is about some loss of closeness between you and your family--your mom and stepdad moving to the other neighborhood, farther away from you, is some sort of a lifestyle change--or a feeling on your part that they are closing you out somehow. It's an abandonment dream--it doesn't mean you're being abandoned, it means that you were thinking about it or feeling that way.

Your problem at the grocery store is your fear of being able to function less satisfactorily if you try to exist in their situation ("neighborhood").

So my question to you would be, have you felt displeased in some way after seeing something that your mom and stepdad did, some manner in which they behaved? This dream might be your mind examining your feelings about this episode.

[Disease]

Pscho-Analysis of Angra, this should be fun...

I think you are bored and frustrated with your life, and it is passing you buy and you are not taking enough oppurtunitys. Wait , that sounds like my life... Why haven't I had that dream?

And the reason I think that is.....

The time, going slow while you are doing nothing, then when you are doing something the time dissapears, meaning the time when you are doing things is not long enough.

The Parental thing is just a distraction.

[newb]

Originally Posted by crabapple

The dream is about some loss of closeness between you and your family--your mom and stepdad moving to the other neighborhood, farther away from you, is some sort of a lifestyle change--or a feeling on your part that they are closing you out somehow. It's an abandonment dream--it doesn't mean you're being abandoned, it means that you were thinking about it or feeling that way.

Your problem at the grocery store is your fear of being able to function less satisfactorily if you try to exist in their situation ("neighborhood").

So my question to you would be, have you felt displeased in some way after seeing something that your mom and stepdad did, some manner in which they behaved? This dream might be your mind examining your feelings about this episode.

very good Crabby


sounds like "separation anxiety" to me as well.




either that or its time shop somewhere else

[Angra]

Originally Posted by crabapple

The dream is about some loss of closeness between you and your family--your mom and stepdad moving to the other neighborhood, farther away from you, is some sort of a lifestyle change--or a feeling on your part that they are closing you out somehow. It's an abandonment dream--it doesn't mean you're being abandoned, it means that you were thinking about it or feeling that way.

Your problem at the grocery store is your fear of being able to function less satisfactorily if you try to exist in their situation ("neighborhood").

So my question to you would be, have you felt displeased in some way after seeing something that your mom and stepdad did, some manner in which they behaved? This dream might be your mind examining your feelings about this episode.

Naaa, i may not visit them as much as i probably should, but i have a good relationship with them both. And they do live close to me. Besides, they weren't much in the dream. It was more about the appartment and the neighborhood and me thinking "wauw, what a great place to live", even though i live in quite a fine neighbourhood myself.


"Your problem at the grocery store is your fear of being able to function less satisfactorily if you try to exist in their situation ("neighborhood")."

Care to explain that part?



I must say that was a pretty deep analyze you made there, Crab. Impressive. You almost sound like a shrink.

And here i thought you were just nut. :o

[Angra]

Originally Posted by Disease

Pscho-Analysis of Angra, this should be fun...

I think you are bored and frustrated with your life, and it is passing you buy and you are not taking enough oppurtunitys. Wait , that sounds like my life... Why haven't I had that dream?

And the reason I think that is.....

The time, going slow while you are doing nothing, then when you are doing something the time dissapears, meaning the time when you are doing things is not long enough.

The Parental thing is just a distraction.

Very good, Dis.

That could very well be it, for all i know. Makes sense.

[ferretchucker]

This is a dream I had about 3 times a year from when I was 4 - 8. I was sitting in my living room, watching television, when a small leprechaun (from a popular television show) snatched the remote off me and changed the channel. I said, "That's not very nice." and suddenly, a tall, thin, cartoony woman with long dark hair and a long black dress (Like mortitia addams) comes in, slaps me then grabs my wrist.
She starts leading me away and I scream through the door to my dads study but he just says "I'm busy, stop messing about!" Next thing I know, I'm infront of a green curtain which I pull open and there's an attic through there, but not mine. In the middle, all sitting around a table are my mum, my sister, my half sister and my half brother, playing monopoly. They turn and my brother says "Lets help him!". The curtain closes and I wake up.

[crabapple]

Originally Posted by Angra

Naaa, i may not visit them as much as i probably should, but i have a good relationship with them both. And they do live close to me. Besides, they weren't much in the dream.

Well, seeing as they are people you know, it's more likely that they do have importance in this dream. Where they actually live in real life doesn't matter, because the "moving away" and the new neighborhood is a symbol of something.

Conversely, I think the details in the grocery store are not important. But, the scene serves to illustrate that a normal activity, which typically should give a person no problem or cause for alarm (buying groceries), suddenly becomes difficult, confusing, and tedious. And uncomfortable, and alienating. Your credit card isn't where it used to be. Time speeds up and slows down. You see? This is no ordinary grocery store--this is the one in their new neighborhood which you found when you got off the train.

I would say that your mind was turning over some feelings of uncomfortability about your folks, and the "new neighborhood" is a symbol of some emotional distancing taking place which you have started to feel.

Again, it's not necessarily something that's actually happening in your life, but your mind is considering the idea of it, for some reason.

[Zero]

taxi cab to mom's new apartment - $15.00
dinner at the grocery store - $12.50
jumping back and forth in time - priceless

[crabapple]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

This is a dream I had about 3 times a year from when I was 4 - 8. I was sitting in my living room, watching television, when a small leprechaun (from a popular television show) snatched the remote off me and changed the channel. I said, "That's not very nice."

I hate when that happens!