posted October 26, 2004 09:01 PM         

1. The first was set in San Francisco. I was with a group of people standing on a slope outside a quickie mart. We walked in and asked for some tea, whereby we were given paper cones filled with a thick lime green liquid. There were little triangular cuts along the rim. Once we drank this, we walked outside and headed up the slope. Then I was at the top by myself when I saw a motor bike hoon around a corner. I was say, on the south-east corner of an interseection, and he came from north and headed east. But then, there was a woman on the road which the boke seemed to hit. The bike took off, and I ran over to the woman and pulled her blond hair out of her eyes. I woke up. I had this one about ten years ago I think. I don't dream much.

2. This one was a mixture of Cairo and New York. I think it was after I came back from Egypt. There seemed to be social upheaval. A massive statue was destroyed and the Head carried over a square. I think it was New York, but there seemed to be flashes of Egypt as well. I think this could be because I knew the population was similar. I remember meeting a girl who took me through a subway. We found some sort of abandoned building where we found some quite and could talk. This was a few months ago.

3. My last one occured about two weeks ago. I was on a train in New York. People got on, then off. I ordered a meal from a machine - a massive burger and hugw fries. I don't remember drinking. Then I look out the window and saw an absolutely HUGE skateboard ramp - the size of a sky scraper. I new I was in California and I got out and looked around. It was definitely California, but it was a big city. About the size of New York now, but a half of its size then. The sun was bright and it was a beautiful day.

I get the impression from all of these dreams that they are in the future, but don't really understand why I had them. What do you guys think?

Heaps of Love,
Dean.

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posted October 26, 2004 10:23 PM         

You have wish to visit new york. At the same time afraid of devastation that might happen if you do visit, in light of recent terrorist attacks. You have an idea that you would love new york, just as you liked your Cairo tour.

Well I am not a professional. But thought the interpretation could be along those lines

posted October 26, 2004 10:32 PM         

Thanks for your analysis though

posted October 27, 2004 11:49 AM         

Wonder what it is about? Now I am scared. I am close to New york

posted October 27, 2004 01:10 PM         

I'll certainly be giving your dreams some thought today. Thanks for coming down here to share them.

posted October 27, 2004 07:16 PM         

IAT, I didn't feel the future of New York is threatened, it just grew enormously. The social upheaval was a good thing, I think. It was a little scary running through a city in anarchy, but it wasn't as well. It's like, the people were happy. The trains were still running. I don't think anyone was hurt. I just think it was a really weird dream. And the scy scraper skating ramp! That was weird. I used to draw huge ramps when I was a kid, and visualise skating over a city, or surfing on a tidle wave etc. They were just childish fantasies, so maybe my inner child is trying to express himself?

posted October 29, 2004 05:00 AM         

I'm not at all sure about this, but here is what I see in dream number one as a possibility from a purely symbolic point of view. I don't have all the little pieces put together (such as the little triangular cuts) but there is some sort of cohesion in general.

You would have to think back ten years ago ... what was going on in your life ... who were you ... you are getting something different than you expect (thick green liquid instead of tea). There is some sort of change happening, probably internally with perhaps some external stimulus, change which suggests emerging growth (lime green), and an increasing perspective (headed up the slope). As the required perspective is reached (at the top) something happens.

**This is where the blond woman comes in and I am not quite sure how to interpret her, so bear with me as I stumble through a preliminary explanation**

You become aware of latent energies within self through some sort of "accident" - not sure if this means you "accidentally" come upon some major insight/realization about self or if something external happens that forces you to become aware, and to act upon it. Whatever the actual cause, an awkening takes place, an awakening of your feminine aspects - creative force, receptivity, feeling/emotion, intuition, etc.

If this train of thought is anywhere near accurate (and it could be waaaaay off), then this dream represents a turning point in your development. It may not have been completely manifested at the time of the dream, and it could have taken years to complete, but the dream suggests that the turning, the awakening, began near this time. And I just realized that an intersection is a crossroads, which suggests choice, change, transition.

Any part of that make sense?

posted October 30, 2004 04:45 AM         

Again, you would have to think back a few months ... what were you doing ... what was going on ... there is some sort of meeting or mixture of old (Cairo) and new (New York) aspects of your psyche (cities) which is causing disruption, an inner change (social upheaval). Or instead of old and new, you may have some other connection between the two - maybe religious, political, etc. - and this connection reflects the same within self.

It is suggested that some part of your intellect, reasoning, or other conscious process (statue head) has failed or been "destroyed" ... perhaps something that seemed logical (head) no longer has legs to stand on, no foundation. Whatever the case, the head is a masculine symbol, so I find it interesting that we have the "destruction" of some masculine energy/aspect and the emergence of a feminine symbol/energy/aspect - the girl.

It is also interesting that we are now entering the subconscious (subway) which is a feminine aspect as well. So, into the subconscious to revisit some issue from the past, or something forgotten, or ignored. You find an "abandoned" building ... a forgotten or ignored aspect of self that for some reason needs to communicate, to express.

Any part of this one fit yet?

posted November 02, 2004 05:02 AM         

You know Dean, I had forgotten that you were married a couple of months ago, and the more I look at the dream, and some of my thoughts, the more the dream resembles marriage, symbolically. Can you see what I mean? Do you thik that's possible?

posted November 02, 2004 09:49 PM         

What do you think the massive skate ramp signifies?

I agree with the first dream assessment. That maybe I experienced many changes as I grew up and felt independent. I had freedom to walk around and purchase anything. And then maybe the woman was my mum when she was younger and the car was changes in her life that I was just noticing. She was blond as a teen.

posted November 03, 2004 04:38 AM         

About dream number three ... again, not sure, but here are some ideas ... First, what do you associate with NY? California? I am tempted to say they are "foriegn" aspects of your psyche, but that doesn't feel right. Perhaps 'freedom', as you mentioned? Or maybe East and West, therefore another allusion to balancing forces? I kind of lean towards opposing but complimentary energies of some kind.

Whatever they symbolize, you are "traveling" through (train) them, and incorporating (eating) them. Being on a train of this type can also suggest that the path you are on is somewhat "fixed" (track) and/or that there is a social nature to the direction of the path, people going together in a "fixed" direction ... family, friends, work mates, etc.

In your dream, being on this train does not appear to be a bad thing, as can sometimes be indicated by a "fixed" or "rigid" path. I mean, you did end up in California. And I think there could be something symbolic about going from east to west. The west symbolizes ending (sun sets in west) but also fulfillment. A cycle ended, fulfillment and a new beginning.

It could be that some part of your childhood psyche (ramps) has awakened or is active (bright beautiful day). Are you feeling like a kid again in some way?

Now, looking back at the whole, your marriage could certainly be symbolized here, but I'm sure there are also other possibilities.

What do you feel about it?

posted November 04, 2004 01:20 AM         

I had a very small dream last night where I think I was a woman. But I was actually many. I looked in a mirror and saw multiple reflections. I think they were all me, but all slightly different. I went to the bathroom and half expected to see a woman in the reflection. Do you think this has anything to do with the above theme?

posted November 04, 2004 04:29 AM         

Cool dream

posted November 05, 2004 04:36 AM         

I'd love to hear any other dreams you may have, especially since you say that you hardly ever dream.

posted November 05, 2004 05:02 PM         

This one was in two parts - the first was the song "Round Here" by Counting Crows blasting in my head, but only the lines "Catch me if I'm Falling, Catch me if I'm Falling, Round Here". And then then I thought "I wonder what it'd be like being in a wheelchair", then I had an accident and was in a wheel chair, only it wasn't exactly me. It was a woman I worked with - there's that femenin influence again! Well, I was looking through her eyes, and I kinda remember when I saw here once, but this time I saw me through her perspective.

I finished book three yesterday, so I'm a little sad. They are good books. If I have any more dreams, I'll share them. I just really wanted to get this one down before I forgot it.

posted November 06, 2004 04:04 AM         

Your 'dream' is awesome. But this was not an ordinary dream (if there is such a thing), this was different ... and I'm not even sure how to describe it.

Did this dream feel different to you? But then, you do not have much to compare it to, do you? Hmmmm.

How do you feel, and what do you think about the dream?

"Catch me if I'm Falling, Catch me if I'm Falling, Round Here" ... What does that mean to you, anything? Does that song mean anything to you?

Keep 'em coming Deano.

posted November 08, 2004 12:31 AM         

The song is a beautiful song by an Ozzie band. I recently had them blaring in my car on the way to the coast. Maybe I was trying to understand that song more in my dream. I sense it was related to the wheelchair - maybe also a way of thinking of that girl. The thing is, I don't see people as different if they're in a wheelchair, but I always wonder if they expect me to, you know? Am I supposed to be nicer and offer to help? I don't think she was asking, merely exhanging a look like "I see you". Otherwise, I don't think there was too much more to it. The other dreams were different as they were me. I think I flew in the second one. They were also somewhere else. Whereas this one was Me being someone else here. With an Ozzie song. Hmm. I haven't had any more yet though.

posted November 08, 2004 05:18 PM         

Is this one related in anyway? The feeling I felt was exhileration and awe at the size of this wave. Because it was so big, it had that dimpled quality of deep sea. I loved looking down and waiting for the perfect drop point. Mind you, I'm not a surfer in anyway. Maybe it's telling me I should get off my butt and try it again. I tried it once, but not for long.

Anyhow, thanks for listening again. BTW, my wife dreamt that I majorly cheated on her. I wonder if she's sensing my feminin dreams?

posted November 09, 2004 05:01 AM         

As for your wife's dream ... I know this one, my wife has it on occassion ... when my attention is apparently elsewhere. And if it's not attention, then it is connection ... some meaningful connection that you have with something or someone else that does not involve her. And there need not be anything "insidious" going on at all, your attention or connection is probably totally on the up-and-up, innocent. But she feels "cheated", left out. See what I mean?