Perhaps the oddest dream I’ve ever had (or at least been able to remember in detail) happened to me the other night.
I dreamed I was in bed, but it was the bedroom in my childhood home; I awoke needing to pee, so I got up but from the knees down, my legs were covered with crawling insects; I stamped my feet and they all fell off and scurried away, but not before I noticed that they were termites - I said “That’s strange, I didn’t think we had termites here”.
Immediately, I started to doubt that they really were termites, but the insects were quickly gone, so I looked under the bed to see if I could catch one for closer examination; I found no insects but there was a small brown frog - perhaps an inch and a half long. I tried to pick up the frog but it jumped into a shallow dish of water and expanded to many times its former size.
The next thing I knew, I was back in bed, waking up again. This time, I noticed beside the bed, the crouching form of an attractive female former colleague - she was kneeling on the floor, curled up with her back completely arched and her chin resting on her knees. I’m not sure if she was completely naked or just her back was bare.
Her back was being massaged by one of my male colleagues; I said “Man, I shoulda got me up at 7, I coulda had me some o’ that”(I spoke it just like that even though I don’t normally talk like that at all) - meaning that it would have been ME massaging her back. My buddy said “It’s OK, I’ll do you next”.
Even though this wasn’t what I had intended, I lay on my front and settled down to enjoy a back massage, but my buddy pulled out a tool with a curved blade and a handle at either end (something like a drawknife or spokeshave) and shaved my back instead.
Then I woke up in (as far as I can tell so far) the real world.
All interpretations are welcome - pick apart with accepted psychological techniques or just plausibly invent, if you prefer.
I had eaten a small piece of mature cheddar a couple of hours before bedtime, but this is nothing unusual.
This is indicative of a classic Pinnochio complex. Wherein one cannot or will not accept his true wooden nature despite incontrovertible evidence. Pinnochios are given to truth-stretching but by virtue of a good conscience and overall honest nature eventually compel themselves to “come clean and save face.”
The truth-stretching theme is further supported by the presence of not only a frog, but one that expands in the presence of liquids. Frogs, as we all know, are the archetypal representation of hidden truth and of fertility. The fairy tale of “The Frog Prince” is an example of how deep this archetype runs in our collective unconscious. Your need to pee, or alternatively to provide a substrate in which the “truth/fertility” can be “stretched/magnified” indicates an unobserved (hidden under the bed) truth your life, which is currently manifest as its alternative: the lie which is your current lifestyle.
The presence of the girl is of interest as well. I find it compelling that you are unsure of her degree of undress. Also that you were aware of her back being bare. Your uncharacterisitic and (un)deliberately vage inuendo tells me that your ego is hard at work in conspiracy with your subconscious to bring a matter of some latent sexuality trait to your conscious attention. From what you’ve told us I would go so far as to surmise that, by willingly accepting a back-shave from a (“buddy” = trusted?) male colleague, you are submitting to a transformation from yourself as you believe you are into something which you want to be: a creature which is at least *perceived *to be a girl. Not at all homosexual, mind you, for you did belie an attraction to the quasi nude female. It is very interesting that your attraction was more to the *potential *of a female, and not necessarily a bona fide one.
Therefore, I would interpret your dream as a plea to your conscious mind that** you are a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.**
To dream of sleeping in your own bed means security and peace of mind. To dream of urination means there is a need for releasing of negative emotion. To dream of your legs means to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. To dream of termites means a temporary increase in fortune. A frog in a dream symbolizes the potential for the unexpected. The color brown stands for materialism or conservatism.
So, the first half of your dream means that you came from a place where you had peace of mind to stand up for yourself and cleanse yourself of negative emotions, which brought about good fortune but also an unexpected growth in your materialism and/or conservative outlook on life.
The second half of your dream is harder to interpret.
For the second half of the dream, we begin again with you in a place of security. To dream of a naked back means that you have secrets. To dream of a massage means you are lacking sexual stimulation in your waking life. To dream of your own back warns that lending money to a friend will cause a rift in the relationship. Shaving represents a minor life changing decision, and someone else shaving you means you are replying on them too much. I can’t tell you what the two other people signify - think of what characteristics define their personalities to you and that is what they mean.
So if we put all that together, you are keeping secrets from a woman of a sexual nature. You have been relying on a friend too much to help you through a life-changing situation, while helping him along financially which will all result in a falling out with this friend.
Dreams might be just the brain’s way of making your eyes move around so that they don’t dry out and stick to your eyelids: randomly cross-filing different memories would sure get my attention.
As for the details, my analysis is that you are as mad as a balloon.
As common 3- dimensional projections into this world of 34 different 8 dimensional beings, our “earthbound” limbs are necessarily cut off from direct mental and physical contact with the main body. It is only when our minds and senses are quieted through sleep that we are able to receive affirmations and directives from the main bodies. These messages become imbedded in our “unconscious” minds and we behave accordingly. Occasionally the intensity of the message is such that it echoes in our 3-dimensional brain but due to lack of campatability with that organ the message is garbled and quickly lost to the noise of conscious thought. It doesn’t matter, because themessages are not intended for the brain, but for the force into which the brain taps–one of the 34 which we all share. Do NONE of you remember this in the briefing we had before the journey?
Making the eyeballs move…indeed! That’s right up there with “looks like she’s got a case of the vapors” or “imbalance of humors.”
You woke needing to pee. This shows your obsession with your penis. When you awoke to take care of your penis, you had termites crawling on you. Obviously, something is bugging you about your penis. When you check to see what’s bugging you, you find a frog under your bed. My user name is “Crunchy Frog.” Obviously, I am on your mind. You notice this frog grows many times its size. This is due to your insecurity about your own penis because you know I have an enormous wang, which is symbolized by the growing of the frog in your dream.
This realization startles you into your “dream-within-a-dream” state, where you wake up for a second time in your dream. In this part of the dream, you lose out on an intimate moment with a female colleague to a male colleague. I am somewhat of a colleague on the boards, and pairing this bit of the dream with what happened previously, you are obviously anxious about me and my monster schlong usurping your power in the bedroom. The fact that your colleague (read: me) in your dream shaves your back is further evidence that you feel unattractive when compared to me because in many cases, esxcessive back hair is not considered attractive.
In short, dude, quit obsessing about me. I’m married now, you have no need to fear me sweeping away any of your potential love interests anymore.
[sub]Hey, if I don’t say this stuff about myself, no one else will![/sub]
Needing to pee could be evidence of a strong, urgent compulsion to do something IRL (needing to pee is pretty urgent!); the termites are preventing you from doing this–a persistent nuisance keeping you from doing the thing you strongly want to do. Note that you were not bugged out (forgive me :)) by the termites, which suggests that you’re not afraid of doing whatever your strong compulsion is telling you to do.
Trying to find out about the termites might mean you’re trying to resolve this persistent nuisance, get it over with; finding the frog under the bed means an unexpected discovery IRL (maybe an obstacle?) that grows and grows in importance until you can’t help but be confronted by it.
Hmmmm…Mangetout, you did not offer to answer questions but I am wondering if you have back hair?
If that is the case perhaps your dream is telling you of your subconcious thoughts that shaving said back hair will lead to lovely women appearing at your bedside.
The frog, then becomes your fears and uncertainty, growing and growing and undermining (termites) your ability to move forward.
I am not a shiny polished man, but neither am I a gorilla - I have hairy arms, chest and legs, but nothing on my back that could be described as more serious than ‘downy’. In the dream, however, I did have more back hair, but still not a dense mat of it (not sure how I knew this though).
As far as I know, I’m actually quite happy and comfortable (perhaps ‘resigned’ would be a better term) with my IRL body-image; It’s nothing special, but we’ve been through a lot together.
[sub]Hey, if I don’t say this stuff about myself, no one else will![/sub]