# Interpret my dream for me? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919 "2012-05-14T19:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/1 "2012-05-14T19:12:00Z")
I woke up this morning with two lines in my head, repeating over and over as if to remember them: **Five times I dreamed again of spotted knees A leopard leg is keeping me adrift** Noooo idea what that’s all about; but it seemed important. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/2 "2012-05-14T23:50:08Z")
Wow! Those are complex lines! I often wake up with very short, simple lines of speech running (over and over and over!) through my mind, but yours are remarkable. I don’t think, even wide awake, I could remember those, even if you recited them for me ten times running! My opinion is that your mind was having fun with the _sounds_ of the words, but that there isn’t any actual meaning to them. It’s somewhat akin to “'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…” The linguistic centers of your brain were active, but didn’t have anything concrete to work with, and so slipped into “free association” mode. It’s lovely word soup…but it is just word soup. But, as my old psychiatrist would have said, “Well, what does it seem to mean to you?” ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/3 "2012-05-15T02:30:11Z")
It means nothing, no dreams do. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/4 "2012-05-15T02:33:04Z")
Sounds like you’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately…or should start writing some. 🙂 I’d call it word soup as well, but write it down! That’s a fun little couplet ya got there. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/5 "2012-05-15T03:59:23Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > It means nothing, no dreams do. Oh, some do. I’ve been dreaming a lot (a LOT!) about my old workplace. Being unemployed for quite some time now, the meaning is (obnoxiously) obvious. Dreams about dead family members are also obviously meaningful. Dreams about Star Trek characters running around in mazes…not so much. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/6 "2012-05-15T06:22:57Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > It means nothing, no dreams do. Sure they do. Usually something along the lines of “X,Y, and Z played a part in this dream because I’ve experienced X,Y, and Z in the previous 24 hours,” or "I felt _generic feeling_ in this dream, probably because I feel _generic feeling_ in real life. But the OP’s example? I think it means your brain was randomly firing while you were asleep and you ended up with a few incomplete random thoughts strung together. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/7 "2012-05-15T06:39:07Z")
Leopard legs have spotted knees, makes sense to me. If it was keeping you adrift, perhaps it was a [leopard-leg-like life preserver](http://i.imgur.com/8lAF0.png). ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/8 "2012-05-15T20:52:25Z")
Let me clarify a bit. I put dreams in the same catagory as things like horoscopes. If you believe they mean something then they do, if you don’t believe that they mean something, they don’t. No scientific way to prove or disprove that they have meaning so it is up to the person’s own belief. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/9 "2012-05-15T21:01:20Z")
I usually wake up with a tent post. Of course, that is because I dream of humping the wife when I wake up WOOO HOOOOO ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/10 "2012-05-15T21:42:46Z")
Occasionally I will awake from a dream with a phrase, idea, or insight that at the time seems absolutely profound. Meaning of life kind of stuff. But then somehow I forget it or never get to jot it down. I have a feeling if I ever do happen to remember it or write it down it will be as profound as what you have there. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/11 "2012-05-15T22:51:22Z")
Sometimes a leopard leg keeping you adrift is just a leopard leg keeping you adrift. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/12 "2012-05-15T23:00:39Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > I woke up this morning with two lines in my head, repeating over and over as if to remember them: > > **Five times I dreamed again of spotted knees > A leopard leg is keeping me adrift** > > Noooo idea what that’s all about; but it seemed important. > > Anyone? All by itself I’d say it may be something you may understand later in life. Do you have any more to go on? Not really getting anything. A WAG: From those lines another phrase will emerge that has a different and understandable meaning 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/13 "2012-05-15T23:33:16Z")
Who is the person you know with freckled knees? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpret-my-dream-for-me/621919/14 "2012-05-16T05:30:46Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Occasionally I will awake from a dream with a phrase, idea, or insight that at the time seems absolutely profound. Meaning of life kind of stuff. But then somehow I forget it or never get to jot it down. > I have a feeling if I ever do happen to remember it or write it down it will be as profound as what you have there. A great-uncle dreamed poetry, but never could remember it afterward. Once, he took the effort of getting up and writing it down immediately. “She was the white on the barber pole. I was the red, God bless my soul.” He never again bothered to write down his dream-poetry.