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Dear Class...
Don't forget to give each dream a title.
I look forward to reading your posts this week!
Dr. D
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An Ironic Meeting!
In my dream this week, I was on my phone messaging a guy that I have been talking to over a month now. During this conversation about us hanging out, he decided to tell me he couldn't hang out with me because he would rather hang out with a kid named J. Asher. This kid was my ex-boyfriend. What was so ironic was the fact that he didn't know that Asher was my ex. But, he still decided to blow me off for my ex. Shortly after, I decided that I would follow where he was supposed to hang out with my ex. Once I got there I saw my ex, but had nothing to say to him until he decided to say something rude to me that consisted of the fact that I'm so pathetic and no one likes me or wants me. He was also with another girl and was like she is so much better to be with than you were. After that I told him how I was glad that he left me and that I was no longer with an person like him. Also, I told him he deserves that girl because she doesn't care about him and he doesn't care about anyone but himself. This was ironic because I haven't seen him since we broke up in early 2007. I just thought it was weird how my current friend was friends with my ex-boyfriend. Shortly after, I woke up and was really confused.
Speaking with no sound! ! !
I dreamed that I was at my best friend's funeral. She was there, wearing a white flowing dress, like an angel. She was walking around to all of her family and friends greeting all of her grieving loved ones. She walked up to each person and told them not to cry anymore, and how much she loved us all. She told everyone to dry our trears, because she will be watching over all of us and will be our guardian angels.
Then, she disappeared. I was chosen to give a speach at the funeral. I prepared a really really long speach from the heart. When it was my time to go on, my paper with my speach written on it was gone! I was freaking out and realized that I was going to have to wing it.
When I got on the podeum, I began to cry. I told the audience that I was sorry, but that I lost my best friend and they would have to bear with me. As I began my speach, I was talking in the microphone, but no sound would come out of my throat. I tried and tried, I even tried yelling! But my voice had NO sound!!!
Before I knew it, someone else took my place on the podeum, and my chance was gone.
"I Speak But Cant Hear Myself Talk"
The dream started out when I woke up in the mourning. I got out of bed and told my mother that I was going to work at 8. I then went to dunkin donuts and ordered a bagel with an oj. The lady looked at me very strangly when I pulled up to the window. I pointed on the list and she gave me what I asked for. At this point im driving to work and the lady asks for the toll money. When i get to work i say hello to everyone that I walk by however everyone looks at me with a very strange look. As soon as I get into my office my boss comes running and the door slamming it behind him. He starts yelling at the top of his lungs at me and when I try to give him an answer, he screams louder. I cant seem to quiet him down. Then I realize its because im not saying anything at all.
"Someone you dont like"
This weeks dream was very unusual. I dreamt that I was at home and I believe it was at my house. It looked like my house. And for some reason my boyfriends ex girl-friend and her sister were there. I seemed as if I was trying to play host and entertain them because my boyfriend asked me too. But the problem is that me & her do not like each other. And as I was attempting to entertain and make small talk about work and school. To me it seemed like I was never even there so I remained quiet not saying a word. THe last thing I remember about the dream was that they were leaving or I was leaving. I couldnt really make out who was putting the distance between us. Then I woke up, feeling very confused and asked myself was that really a dream?
"Strange World"
This is one of those dreams were u wake up feeling puzzled. I am foreign place and I'm not really sure were its located. When I look around all I can see trees and tons of foliage. The entire area is similar to a Rain forest,and looking up is useless because the trees block the sun. When walk over to the river to drink some of the water, in notice a lily pad that was ten times bigger than a regular lily pad. It look as though the giant lily pad could support my weight, so one foot at a time I get on the lily pad. After that the lily pad it begins to drift further down river with me along for the ride. As I am on the lily pad a large snake slithers down a tree and hangs above me on a branch flicking its tongue in my direction. I try to use my hands as paddles to escape. As I narrowly escape the deadly snake the lily pad slows,and then lily pad drifts closer to land so I get off. When I get on land I hear familiar noises, so I walk towards the sound. I stumble upon several members of my family having a barbecue. I wake when I see my family
Streetrider
Maybe your dream is your unconcious' way of telling you to be more assertive at work and in everyday life. It may also be that opinion isn't as appreciated in your workplace as you would like. I could be that your young or just new to the job in which case it would take time to be completely a vocal and have all your ideas appreciated.
"Restaurant in the middle of the Hallway"
This week's dream was rather simple and straight to the point i guess you could say. I was in my dorm room sleeping, when all of a sudden out of no where my mom appears in my hallway and we are at a restaurant in the middle of rem hallway. However there was glass on both sides of the restaurant where you could still see people walking by going to class.
More than friends…
Lately I keep having dreams about my friend Robby from high school. My dream last night started out at cheerleading practice (where his girlfriend and I were the captains). We were leaving practice and she asked me to follow her back to her house to go over what we were going to do for the pep rally and to decide who was getting what for decorations to decorate the football players rooms. Of course I said yes, because it was for the team, but she always seemed to think that Robby and I were more than just friends, so every time we hung out it felt like there was an awkward cloud hanging over us. So we got to her house and she went to shower so I started a list of who should get what, and which girls will have whose rooms. When she came out of the bathroom her hair was jet black, which was a drastic change from bleach blonde! Then I went to shower and when I came out she was talking to Robby on the phone, she told him I was over and he told her to say hi. When she hung up the phone she went straight to talking about the rooms, but kept adding in little details about Robby and me and how good of friends we were….it was obvious what she was doing but I ignored it. Then she flat out accused me of living with Robby that past summer when she was in Rome for 2 months…and that we were hiding everything from her. I couldn’t believe she was saying this…then I woke up.
Childhood memories..
In this dream i was a young kid again and i was paying baseball in the back yard with my brother who is only one year younger then me. We were out there for hours just throwing the ball to the other and hitting it as far as we could until one of us broke our neighbors windows, and then we went inside and then i woke up.
"reappearing house"
in my dream there is always this wierd house that appears over and over again. i usually go to it while chasing my boyfriend. he tells me to follow him and starts to run. i follow coming out of my house and while running, all of a sudden there is nothing but a blank road. there are no houses around, nothing at all but darkness and an never ending road. abruptly out of the blue a blue house appears. it is old, two stories high, and looks run down, and like it is falling apart. kind of like a scene from a horror film. there are broken windows, and cobwebs all over it. my boyfriend does not just stop outside the house, but goes in through the door that is open. when i enter my boyfriend runs through all the rooms still asking me to chase him. as i am going through the rooms, it seems as if someone is living there. there is furniture, toys, tv's, everything there would be in a normal house. as we are about to exit the house through the back, i notice a old man sitting in a rocking chair smoking a cigar, laughing at me as i run through the house. as soon as we reach the nacl door and exit the dream ends. after i woke up the old man was still making me confused. i had no idea who he was or what he was doing there.
“A Shift Too Early”
My dream this week was the night before I had to get up at 5:30am for the 7-3 shift at my job. I had a dream that I went into work for the 11-7 shift when I was supposed to be there for the 7-3 shift. I didn’t realize this at first but there was one more person there then there usually is for staff but I didn’t think anything of it. There were people screaming and yelling and the whole place was set up differently but I could tell it was my work. I looked at the schedule and realized I was on the 7-3 shift and that I was there at the wrong time. I told everyone that I was going home and sleeping until I had to come in for my correct shift. I then woke up to my alarm and had to get up and go to work.
I think I had this dream because I am always nervous that I’m not going to get up when I’m supposed to when I have to wake up really early for work. I must have been thinking so much about waking up that I had a dream I was a shift too early.
"A man with no class"
In this dream I’m at my college in the fall. I hear the Chapel Bells in the middle of campus ringing to signal that classes are starting. So I run…and run…and when I get there, I can’t remember where the class is. I know that I’m enrolled in a course, but I’ve never actually been there.
So even as we grow older our college days still haunt us. I’ve had this dream many times and have begun to see a pattern of when it happens.
Perhaps this is wish fulfillment and I’m working on ways to get more of the class to attend on Fridays…hmmm…what do you guys think?
Dr. D
A response to "Speaking with no sound"
A friendship lost?
What terrific imagery, from the white dress to the angel imagery!
How is your relationship with your friend? Do you feel guilty about not communicating with her often? Are you mourning your friendship?
Losing your voice is an interesting metaphor…perhaps you feel like she’s not listening to you? Or perhaps she’s moving away from you (friendship wise) and you want to say something but can’t. I made this comment because of your statement “someone else took my place”.
Do you feel like someone else is taking your place? Hmmm…I can’t wait for the sequel!
A response to "restaurant at the end of the hall"
Freud has your answer!
This dream specimen represents an excellent application of Freud’s concept of “condensation” CONDENSATION:
Condensation is one of the methods by which the repressed returns in hidden ways. For example, in dreams multiple dream-thoughts are often combined and amalgamated into a single element of the manifest dream (e.g. symbols). According to Freud, every situation in a dream seems to be put together out of two or more impressions or experiences. One need only think about how people and places tend to meld into composite figures in our dreams. The same sort of condensation can occur in symptom-formation. The other method whereby the repressed hides itself is displacement.
So the combination of the dorm room, your mom, and a restaurant (with glass on both sides). Perhaps the glass represents your wish to view Nichols College through the perspective of your Mom? Or more simply stated, it could be wish fulfillment. We had Fall weekend recently, and maybe you desire to share your view (get it) with your Mother in an atmosphere that you unconsciously believe has not threatening possibilities? What were you eating? Did yo have a conversation? Why do you think she appeared while you were sleeping?
Dr. D
"Realistic Tornado"
I am in Florida with my mom, dad, brother, dog, auntie jenn, uncle bob, their dog, auntie patty, uncle greg, my cousins eric and katie and their two dogs. I go outside on the deck that overlooks the ocean and trees. I see a huge F5 tornado in the trees in the distance and I start freaking out. My dad starts laughing and says it won't come near us and that he knew I would freak. I run into the house and when I come back out, the tornado is closer and I start to yell for everyone to get into the house. My dad realizes and starts to panic too..he appologizes for not believing me that it could come towards us. Everyone starts running into the basement and I found a bathroom for us to hideout in. Someone says it's too dirty for us to be in but I say it's fine and they agree. I look back and I do not see my mom so I yell for her and I hear her coming down the stairs with two dogs. When she sees me she says "okay everyones here lets get safe". I grab my dog and hold him for the rest of the dream. The tornado rips through the bathroom and my Auntie Jenn's dog is taken by it. The scene all of a sudden changes and we are all in the bed of a pick up truck. My aunt freaks and reaches for the dog and breaks a rib. Then, I am suddenly in the car with my family and dog. My dad says "oh no greg is caught between two". We look over to our right and there are two tornados hitting my uncles truck. My cousins are in the bed of the truck and some how they make it out safe. Next thing I know, we find a guy with a warehouse that we can hide out in. He has us all squish in and sit next to each other. He ties rubber belts around 3 of us at a time and screws them shut tight. I am belted in with my dad and cousin eric. All of a sudden, the warehouse turns into a white van and we start driving away from the F5 as fast as we can. When we reach the end of the beach, we all jump out and the parents suddenly disappear. The guy driving the van tells us to go into the house infront of us. I knock on the door and a scary looking lady with warts on her face welcomes us in. We start running for the basement and everyone living in the house is freaky looking. After about twenty minutes in the basement, we notice the sky is blue and the sun is out. We try to leave but the scary women says we can't because there is another tornado out there but she was mistaking a tractor for a tornado. We leave and she yells at us and says we can't come back if we need help. I suddenly wake up when my cell phone rings.
"The mysterious road"
Once again I haven't had any dreams with much content. In this dream I am walking down a dirt road, and it is fall so the foliage is quite beautiful, but I don't know where I am heading. Then all of a sudden I start hearing this noise and apparently I know that it means I need to switch paths and head in another direction, but then I realize...no that's my alarm, and I woke up.
A response to a realistic tornado…
or "Twister part II"
First the amount of detail is amazing! If I didn’t know better I’d swear it was some form of past life regression. However, I think this dream theme is very important to you. In a way it is the repetitive dreams life this that have the most to offer our conscious mind.
What does the tornado symbolize in this dream? Similar to the movie “Twister” which came out in 1995 I can really sense the depth of emotional imagery in this dream sequence. DO you think that stress brings this dream on? How has the dream changed over time? Specifically, how has this dream rearranged itself? Which parts have become more apparent over time? I noticed that you presented this twister as an “F5” and the details all fit together. Let me do some more research and see what Freud or Jung would say about the archetypal elements found in your dreams!
Nice work on this.
Dr. D
"LOOK OUT!"
This dream was really weird. I was driving in a car with one of my best friends boyfriend. We were going to find her because she had called us and was lost somewhere and sounded very upset. I remember we were driving a big green station vagon. I was in the passenger seat and my friends boyfriend was the one driving the car. All of a sudden we were driving on the top of a roof and I saw he was going a little fast so I told him to look out and that we were going to fall off. We both screamed and fell off the cliff. It was in slow motion and I remember saying while we were falling lets pretend we're dreaming and we'll wake up and still be alive. So in my dream I was dreaming and when I woke up I was landed on the group looking up at the building. Then I woke up.
Title: Florida
I recently had a dream where I was vacationing in Florida with my Uncle. I'm 21 and he and I are checking out all of the night clubs he usually visits when he's down there. For some reason I feel incrediably akward being around my Uncle and ofcourse being able to drink. I'm worried that I'll do something stupid and embarrass both me and him, so I try to refrain from drinking. Just as we enter our hotel rooms at the end of the night, the dream ends and I wake up.
dreamweaver
i have had dreams similar to yours. i sometimes incorporate sounds from the outside enviornment into my dreams. lots of times someone will be trying ot wake me up, and i think they are speaking to me in my dream. lots of time i have taken sounds of the alarm into my dream. like this morning my alarm went off, and in my dream i thought the house i was in was shaking and about to fall down, until i woke up and realized it was the alarm.
A response to "A shirt too early"
ghj25:
Do you think you were anxious about getting up for work because of the place you work? Why do you think people were screaming and yelling at you, because you thought you did something wrong? Did you wake up feeling anxious or nervous?
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