Some nights ago I had a dream which I still remember. I’m wondering if there’s an expert Doper who can explain it (if it has an explanation).
In the dream I woke up, went down the stairs and found I’d been burgled. On looking out of the front window, I saw a group of my ex-colleagues. To the back left of them but clearly with them was a woman I’ve no recollection of ever having seen. She wasn’t a stunner, she was of moderate height, mousey face - but not pinched and weasel-like like Clinton - and slightly curly blondish hair. At that point I woke up.
You will go on a journey, possibly quite a short one, and something will happen to you. Do not be too quick to trust complete strangers with dark or light hair, or with no hair at all. You should also avoid standing in the middle of busy roads.
I think dreams are random firing of synapses which the brain interprets into short term memory. Those interpretations may be influnced by certain stresses that you have been under, but they are mostly nonsensical.
beef up security at your home; contact your ex-colleagues for a get-together; you will meet someone new in your life in the near future. that’ll be 5¢ please.
Your are always the best interpretor of your own dream. But that said, in dreams a house often represents oneself. It seems to me that one possible quickie interpretation of your dream is that you feel a co-worker or co-workers, or your job itself, is stealing an important part of yourself from you.
Pretty vague, I know, and can’t most of us say that about our jobs? How did you feel on awakening? Afraid, annoyed, puzzled, bereft? How did you feel about the person you saw? Any personal associations? What was missing from the house? That is just the beginning of the questions you can ask yourself about your dream.
That’s what I was going to say. I always thought that there was something mystical about the ability to interpret dreams. Then, I took a Psychology class in college. A homework assignment was to remember a dream, then use the techniques we used in class to interpret it.
According to my dream, I was worried about being too poor to pay the bills and was jealous of my roomate, whose parents paid for his tuition, rent, bills, and even gave him money to live on.
Well, duh! I was a poor college student. Nothing was too profound there!
Well, they aren’t all profound. Some are just random recycling of the day’s events, some are concerned with everyday matters, some are concerned with deeper psychological matters, and some are very mystical and profound. There’s a whole range of possibilities.
And some dreams that seem trivial on the surface turn out to have some important information, once you take the trouble to unpack them. But they are personal, and it is work, and there is some expertise and practice involved. One assignment from one psych class covers dream interpretation about as well as painting one water color in one art class makes one an expert in the whole range of visual art.
Quartz’ dream might be expressing just a generic unhappiness at work, a form of ranting, a personal barbecue pit, and no more than that. But the fact that s/he remembered it and was interested enough to post it and ask for comment makes it seem like there might be something more important going on. Again, Quartz could consider the feeling tone of the dream, and if the burglery felt like a violation or was just ho-hum. If it is a violation, look into relationships with co-workers who in some way remind you of Clinton, not necessarily in appearance, but in personality or something. Think about how you can change things at work to keep from losing your self. Or maybe even start thinking about a job change.
However, if the burgerly is not alarming, is not a problem, and that which has been stolen is insignificant, or is even a white elephant that you are glad to lose, well, that puts a whole different interpretation on the whole thing. It’s up to Quartz, and what is uncovered as investigation ensues.
Last night I had a dream that included elements of the Dope and a conversation I had with a co-worker yesterday. We were discussing harmless practical jokes at work, like filling drawers with Styrofoam pellets.
In my dream, I hid his MP3 player on him, which isn’t even funny, but is reminiscent of a recent thread that I won’t link to. The next day when I was going to show him the “missing” MP3 player it turned out to have been stolen/found by someone else and was now actually missing. The co-worker recognized it as a “prank” gone wrong but was still rightly pissed.
Some possibly important info which I’ve posted in other threads:
Burglary - I’ve been burgled several times, this house has a burglar alarm which is always on at night. What was stolen? Everything in my sitting room: TV, DVDs, paintings (mostly painted by my mother), furniture.
Former colleagues: I took voluntary redundancy 6 months ago.
The girl: Hi Opal!
The girl (redux): At 40, I have been entirely unsuccessful in love. Nary so much as a kiss, and these past few years, I’ve stopped looking.
Do you feel that your job, stole from you? (stole your life, stole you dreams)
I think deep down, you are not satified with having stopped looking. The things that occupy your time, TV/DVDs, are not what you want in your house but a woman, even a plain woman, is something that you would like in your house.
Were any of the burglaries during the time frame when you worked with these other people? Because perhaps you are feeling that you lost out on a lot during this time:
Lost the people, lost your possessions, lost out on love.
You were ‘sleeping’ and it all went by. When you woke up and looked around, you had lost all three. Now you’re feeling regret that these things are not in your life.
One possible solution, and I know it sounds wierd but it sometimes works, is to ask (or basically program yourself) to dream about solutions to this issue. It might take a while and you might not understand it all, but give it a shot, and give it time.
I don’t think this is always true, sometimes they’re heavily influenced by environmental stimuli. A person’s whose alarm is going off might dream of an annoying sound like a jack hammer or off-key trombone in their dream. Or like in my case last night, I dreamed of elaborate bathrooms right before I woke up - with an uncomfortably full bladder.
I’ve also had a few “prophetic” dreams: I’ve dreamed about things that shortly revealed themselves to be true. But given they were things like a friend revealing himself to be bi, and a female friend secretly hooking up with my then crush, I think it’s safe to say some of the dreams that predict the future are just things we deeply suspect on a subconscious level. The only weird dream I had of that nature that can’t be explained away in that manner was that a band was going to play my college and a couple of months later it was announced they really would play there.
But on the other hand, this weekend I dreamed that I was having a costume birthday party which was detoured when a couple of us decided to dig up some amazingly long-stemmed pansies, and then had to hid from security when we belatedly realized they were on an estate. So it could be that random synapse thing a lot of the time
