Random dream thread

I thought I would start a thread about dreams. Sometimes dreams can seem pointless, but it is my belief that if you look at them deeply enough, you can find the deeper meaning. Feel free to post and narrate any dream you find interesting. If you feel like sharing your interpretation, or if you would like to open your dream up for others to interpret, do so.

This morning I dreamed I was Harry Potter. I've had Harry Potter dreams before, and often they are very vivid. In this one, It was night out, and me, Ron, and Hermione, were climbing up the wall of a great big tower, since for some reason I guess we couldn't get in through the front door. We passed by a window and there were evil gremlin like creatures inside.

I bashed the window open with my head, since my hands were holding onto bricks. (For some reason I knew no fear of possibly falling to my death). I was holding onto my stuffed wolf in my mouth, but had to let him go in order to smash the window. While I hated to do so, I knew he would be okay when he hit the bottom(albeit a little dirty as he was falling into a swampy substance)since he was stuffed.

I'm not sure why I broke the window open. Doing so would surely alert the gremlins to our presence. I think it was because I needed a better grip by sticking my hand in the window; the bricks I was holding on to were starting to magically erode.

Then I was in my bed again, but I think I was still dreaming because I was half blind, and unable to see the hand in front of my face, almost as if I had turned invisible. I could see everything in my room except for myself.

Then I really woke up.

I will think on this and interpret it later...until then, it's O.F.I!! (Open for interpretation)

I would like to compare HP's courage to my own, but...not sure I can. I'm thinking the tower is a great obstacle I see in my life(there are many), and breaking the window is the acceptance that I'm gonna have to face all the $#%^ in order to overcome the obstacle. There's danger in breaking the window, but...in the end it was the only option.

As far as dropping wolfie, perhaps it also means I will have to surrender some kind of comfort in order to achieve my goal, knowing I'll get it back in the end?

Being back in bed and being invisible...I didn't like it. Perhaps the only way to achieve a full sense of self is to actually make it to the top of the tower, then see what happens.

I love dreams. I love looking at what my own dreams mean, and other peoples. I just wanted to say that this is a GREAT idea for a thread and when I have some more emotional energy I will read your dream properly

Bourbon

I continue to have very unpleasant dreams with my old manager, from my last job, in them. Last night I dreamed that she was calling me by "dividedtruth89". I also dreamed that I met a couple of you in real life.

At one point we were on some kind of air force base and my manager was leading some kind of field day, similar to one I remember from kindergarden. Well actually I don't really remember it I just remember certain aspects of it. some random guy ran on to the field and before anyone could stop him, he stole an airplane. But the second he could really get off the ground he crashed. It caused this horrible bomb like effect and I feared for my life. when I came to, I was in child mode in front of everyone, huddled in a little ball on the ground crying, and everyone was very surprised at how I was acting.

I also dreamed that I was a teenager again and my mom and stepdad were still married, and we were at Disney World. They kept on wanting to split up;some went on one ride, others went on another one. I was bored and just wanted to stay in one spot while they played, but when I was alone, I regretted my decision, because I couldn't even use my phone as it was dying.

I continue to dream those dreams, that my mom is still with him and that I'm calling HIM dad instead of paying attention to my real dad. They are never happy dreams. I don't know why I would continue to dream about my old manager. I've even had dreams before that she's my mom or that she is married to my mom.

Childhood dream, impactful, recurring: I'm in a pit in the ground. It's the general shape of a grave. It's the hole in the ground where my aunt's house has just been demolished and taken away, leaving a huge gaping pit in the ground that needs to be filled. Something about the house, something about the basement, but I can't remember. My mother's head is on a door at the end of the grave. I walk toward it. She's neutral, it's just a head, not her personality, not really her. She's unemotional, calm, matter-of-fact. She tells me "Don't go beyond the door." I want to open it, but something stops me. I know something must be beyond the door. I think about it, then decide not to open it.

Dream the other night: Some young parents and three young children are in an hallway with banks of elevators. I watch them from within an elevator that is ready to go down. There are some odd people in it with me but somehow I know them. They're different sizes, ages, but somehow we're in a group of some kind. The parents are fiddling with some luggage. I see the youngest, a boy, wander away from them toward the elevator doors, which haven't closed although my elevator is descending. He stands with his back to it. I'm concerned. My elevator doesn't have a top, it's just a platform moving downward. I watch as the boy slips and falls down into the elevator shaft. His parents weren't watching, they were very careless. I reach out my arm and he falls into it, safe. He smiles at me and I hold him. I ponder whether to take him back to the parents or continue taking him down to the ground level. He's probably safer with me and I'm not sure they've even noticed he's missing yet.

Thank u so much. Great idea! I dreamed i was n the living room of a big house with alot of windows. I was cleaning the windows. Thats it, i woke up.
Im really n a season of discovering how i see things, beliefs held,false value judgements i have made, and how all of this has impacted my life. It has been, and is a very powerful time of undoing and reprogramming my thought life, and up grading my thinking. As i do, its like looking out of clean windows. Everything looks much better! Its my mind, and im learning how 2 take control of my thinking n stead of it having control over me.

This morning(in my morning, after breakfast dream) I dreamed that I went back in time and interacted with my grandmother(on my mom's side, she's dead.) A little background about her, she was actually a licensed, clinical psychologist for children, and the founder/head of her own Montessori school (kind of like a preschool). Her preoccupation with this actually, I think, caused a lot of the emotional neglect that my mother experienced growing up. But as a grandmother, I barely knew her at all, and only have a couple memories of visiting with her/seeing her.

In the dream my mom and step-dad were still together(this is a common trait in my dreams, not sure WHAT it could mean, since I don't care about/talk to my ex-step-dad anymore. He wasn't abusive or anything, he was just emotionally unavailable/checked out). My grandmother was dying or close to death, and she was visiting me in a child's classroom, and giving the class a talk about what she did for work. But she was basically NOT functional, not speaking up when she got to the front of the class, and not acting herself. Just checked out completely. Then after the class we kept losing her/she kept wandering off, almost as if she had Alzheimer's or something(which she didn't).

The WEIRD part is that she didn't LOOK like my grandmother. She was in a child's body, dressed in tweeny type clothing and makeup, yet still had an elderly face. It was weird, but in the dream, none of us thought this was out of the ordinary.

I had some other/random/weird dreams, but this one stood out. I also had a dream where I was screaming about something, but somehow I knew it was a dream and was able to wake myself up. I don't remember what the dream was though.

If I were to interpret, I guess this might have SOMETHING to do with how I will be visiting my other Grandmother soon for thanksgiving, for the first time since I was 9. There is excitement, but also fear there. I am afraid of what might happen. My T specifically asked me if the deadline for submitting paperwork to have my University medical hold removed will be before or after Thanksgiving. Thankfully it is before, since I have a scary feeling I will become awfully unstable after the visit, a repeat of the last two trips I've made.

Sorry I'm rambling. I don't know what else the dream could mean, although I'm sure it means more! Will try again later. OFI.

-- Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:37 am --

Exceptional wrote:Thank u so much. Great idea! I dreamed i was n the living room of a big house with alot of windows. I was cleaning the windows. Thats it, i woke up.
Im really n a season of discovering how i see things, beliefs held,false value judgements i have made, and how all of this has impacted my life. It has been, and is a very powerful time of undoing and reprogramming my thought life, and up grading my thinking. As i do, its like looking out of clean windows. Everything looks much better! Its my mind, and im learning how 2 take control of my thinking n stead of it having control over me.

Love your dream as well as your interpretation of it! Good for you that you are taking control of how you see your world.

Last night,(this morning?)I dreamed that I went to therapy, and I think my brothers and sister were there, not sure. I just don’t think I was alone. Her office was way different. It was a cross between the office in “Good Will Hunting” and a dance studio(go figure). I took ballet for several years as a child and also in college, and I had a love/hate relationship with it. I hate it now. But lol I love Good Will Hunting and that therapist.

Anyway, zoned out for a second there. And the office was up high, like on the 5th floor of a building or something. My T left and went outside, and I was looking down at her, out the window. She was talking to someone. Strangely, a real life incident that played out at work a little while ago with a very large, heavy shelf breaking and falling on my assistant manager, played out in the dream, in her office, and when it fell, it knocked over my T’s bookcase, completely destroying and ransacking a lot of stuff. I didn’t notice it at the time, but the bookcase itself was completely destroyed. Broken with wood splintered everywhere.

When my T came back I wouldn’t say she was mad, but she accepted my offer to completely pay for the repairs to the bookcase. I felt AWEFUL, apologizing profusely.
Most of the session was spent cleaning up the big mess I had made.

I feel like the protector part of me is the one that messes stuff up. Good intentions, but ends up screwing stuff up anyway. When that happened at work, I shifted into that persona I was at my job, I call it “Gym me”. Little emotion, just want to make sure everyone is okay, fix things, and clean up. Not to mention taking everything on myself, believing I am responsible for ANYTHING that goes wrong, because for me, since I was the manager, if something bad happened, it was automatically probably my fault.

I think this dream is showing how the protector side is going to stop entering therapy, because it’s thinking it is a failure and will just cause more damage (evidence from last T relationship). Not to mention the protector likes to apologize a lot(because everything is her fault)and my T told me to stop apologizing in therapy! If I can’t apologize and take blame for things…I’m not sure what will happen. No one can place blame on me as long as I take the blame first.

If I don’t take blame first…I will immediately become VERY sensitive, feeling like someone is PLACING blame on me. I don’t want to stop apologizing in therapy, it’s not fair!!!