Analyzing Dreams

Originally Posted by journey

Wow! this is so cool....I just found this thread today.

I have a recurring dream that I can't figure out what it means (obviously).

In my dream I am packing,as in moving to another house packing.
A few years ago, I would always have a sense of panic in my dreams because every time i would look in another cupboard or shelf or room I would see more stuff to pack that I hadn't even seen, and in my dream I am moving in like, 5 minutes, so the panic starts and I don't have enough boxes, etc.

Presently, when I have this dream I am almost finished packing, don't have such a sense of panic but just a little anxiety about moving and packing. There is still stuff around, but I know I will be able to pack it.

What do you think this means or represents? Thank you!!!

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Well, I think that when you have this dream, you are experiencing some kind of life changes, and theres some underlying anxiety there. Houses represent you and your state of mind, so when you are moving to another house, you are moving into another aspect of yourself. Maybe there were some changes going on that you were unsure about.
The good news is, that the dream has progressed, which means that you are able to accept what has been going on in your life a little easier. You are confident enough to realize that you will be able to complete what you are supposed to.
When you have this dream, are you going through some changes?

This is the dream I had, I honestly feel its a sad and depressing dream...

In the dream, I am in a hospital, after having had a traffic accident... but its a friend who was with me the one who is injured and unconscious, and that I am not... and the entire dream consists of my sitting in a virtual vigil in the hospital room before him in bed, that I am hugging myself in a heavy jacket because of the cold of the air conditioning, and that there are constant tears in my face, that I am in extreme sadness feeling its all my fault and that I am pretty much uttering almost like a desperate mantra "please don't die".

Originally Posted by yoviher

This is the dream I had, I honestly feel its a sad and depressing dream...

In the dream, I am in a hospital, after having had a traffic accident... but its a friend who was with me the one who is injured and unconscious, and that I am not... and the entire dream consists of my sitting in a virtual vigil in the hospital room before him in bed, that I am hugging myself in a heavy jacket because of the cold of the air conditioning, and that there are constant tears in my face, that I am in extreme sadness feeling its all my fault and that I am pretty much uttering almost like a desperate mantra "please don't die".

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Hi, Victor. Thanks for posting your dream.
Anytime you have a dream that pertains to a vehicle...be it a car or a truck or whatever, it is usually referring to how you are travelling through life or a certain situation. When there is an accident that involves a car in your dream, it means that you are headed for or are about to experience a rude awakening about something. Knowing your background, I am guessing that something has come into the open, and this friend in your dream could eventually be hurt by it or dragged down because of it, and you feel it is all your fault. The fact that you fear that your friend will die is pointing to the fact that this relationship or this part of your lives together could end. In your dream, that ending is represented by death.
Is something major happening in your life, that could effect your friend?

I always have dreams about moving..and the house never looks the same
and in the dreams,im so upset that i have to move that i cry all the time.

I was told that the house represents me..but what does that really mean?

Well lately I've been seeming to have the same dream quite often. but I'm going to have to explain something first.

During the school year I had a crush on this boy and was actually kind of friends with him..well then he started to like drift away from me so I asked him "Do you hate me?" and he had said "Yeah I do." and walked off. That just killed me because I cared about him so much!! Well I had thought I had ripped him out of my life but lately..

I've been having these dreams that I'm walking through this dark hall that seems to never end and I hear his voice calling out to me. So knowing that's him I keep running faster and faster trying to get to him. Finally I see a light and I see him. He turns around and looks to me..and that's where I usually wake up.

(I should make a horror movie out of this)

Originally Posted by Lil_Axl_Gurl

Well lately I've been seeming to have the same dream quite often. but I'm going to have to explain something first.

During the school year I had a crush on this boy and was actually kind of friends with him..well then he started to like drift away from me so I asked him "Do you hate me?" and he had said "Yeah I do." and walked off. That just killed me because I cared about him so much!!

Well I had thought I had ripped him out of my life but lately..

I've been having these dreams that I'm walking through this dark hall that seems to never end and I hear his voice calling out to me. So knowing that's him I keep running faster and faster trying to get to him. Finally I see a light and I see him. He turns around and looks to me..and that's where I usually wake up.

(I should make a horror movie out of this)

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How old are you? (this information is kind of pertinent to my explanantion of the dream.) For starters, you do not need to waste your time on someone who says they hate you when they dont even know you.....it sounds to me like in reality either 1.) he got teased because he might have had feelings for you as well, or 2.) He was afraid it was getting out of hand on your end and said that...I dont know, but I am sure it did hurt you....but you dont let it bother you for too long....and that is what your dream is trying to tell you....the dark is the unknown-unknown to you what might have been with him. The fact that you can't see him, is your minds way of saying....Let it go. Let go of the situation and move on. The other scenario is that your dream is trying to tell you to move futher down that dark hall until you reach the light. The tunnel can be your past and you have to walk through it to get to the present and the future. Just remember: if you live in the past, theres no future.
Good luck with that, and understand that it takes time, especially since you developed feelings for him. Give yourself time to heal.

Originally Posted by diane8704

How old are you? (this information is kind of pertinent to my explanantion of the dream.) For starters, you do not need to waste your time on someone who says they hate you when they dont even know you.....it sounds to me like in reality either 1.) he got teased because he might have had feelings for you as well, or 2.) He was afraid it was getting out of hand on your end and said that...I dont know, but I am sure it did hurt you....but you dont let it bother you for too long....and that is what your dream is trying to tell you....the dark is the unknown-unknown to you what might have been with him. The fact that you can't see him, is your minds way of saying....Let it go. Let go of the situation and move on. The other scenario is that your dream is trying to tell you to move futher down that dark hall until you reach the light. The tunnel can be your past and you have to walk through it to get to the present and the future. Just remember: if you live in the past, theres no future.
Good luck with that, and understand that it takes time, especially since you developed feelings for him. Give yourself time to heal.

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I'm 17..and thanks that does make a lot of sense.

Now this was a dream I had quite awhile ago and I think that it was trying to tell me something before the event it relates to came up.

It was a dream about Warped Tour (Which is a big concert that has like a ton of bands playing in it..happens every year and I was supposed to go this year but my ticket never came in the mail) and in this dream I was really excited and running to the front row of the concert to see my favorite band The Offspring! And finally when I got to the front I look over and saw my best friend Bobby (whom I haven't talked to all summer) and we were just having a blast!! But then next thing I know it started raining on us like severly bad..I mean POURING LIGHTNING and THUNDER. So everything was cancelled and I'm standing there alone in the rain.

Yeah I know..my dreams are usually depressing..every once in awhile exciting ones do happen..but usually..they're depressing.

(I hope I'm not repeating myself. I just made this post and don't know what happened to it)
Diane, I am curious. Just a general question: I understand that things represent other things in dreams. Are there exceptions? For instance, last night I dreamed that both toilets were overflowing in my house. (In real life, we only have one bathroom ) I work for a company that does water damage mitigation and our customers have over-flowing toilets on a regular basis. If overflowing toilets mean something in dream analysis, wouldn't the interpertation be different for someone in my situation?

Thanks so much Diane..That really helps me to know what it meant

I had a dream last night somewhat like Journey's.. I was on my vacation (we took a road trip to Florida) and we were leaving to come back to NJ. I decided to stop and get gas before getting out on the road. Some how we ended up in the hotel room we were staying in before. Where I noticed that I had left a bunch of stuff. Someone had already taken the room and their things were in there too.

I was surprised that the hotel would have not cleaned everything up. But I tried as quickly as I could to pack everything up before the people who were in the room came back. Everytime I thought I was ready to go I would notice something else that I needed to bring. And somehow, one of my cats, CJ, ended up there. Since I was carrying so much I was going to move the lock so he couldn't get out but I could run back up stairs and bring him with us. As I was opening the door the alarm rang and I had to get up for work (which I should be getting ready for now -- whoops!)


I think I have an idea of what this means but I'd like to hear what you think. Don't know if it makes a difference, but I also used to live in Florida with my dad.

But now I have to go and hurry up and get to work. I have to get ready and be there in 10 minutes.

I can't run in my dreams...I always fall down,what could that mean?

Originally Posted by chelle

I can't run in my dreams...I always fall down,what could that mean?

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Me, neither! I am always real sluggish, like I can't move .Sometimes I drop down & start running on all fours-totally weird, but it works.

But here is what I can remember of last nights dream..
Some guy was introducing me to a new job, we went underneath this big airplane & he showed me how to replace certain parts, like gaskets or something. Then I was left there on my own, laying on my back like you would underneath a car. The plane was big & white, I was looking at it's big underbelly, not at all comfortable with how close it was, how claustrophobic it was, so I started to crawl out from underneath it..it started to come down on me as I was crawling out. I could actually hear the noises made from dragging my body against a gravelly tarmac, could feel it against my clothes. I remember being glad to be thin, I was able to squeeze my pelvis out, & was looking over at the group standing some distance away. I screamed for Mike so he wouldn't leave me there. I got out & was yelling at that guy, called him a murderer for letting the plane down on me, on purpose..the dream changes to being in a back alley back home in the neighborhood I grew up in, watching this guy yelling at his girlfriend as they got in a car & took off. I came out on a residential street where some guy was doing yardwork(in the dark) & a few houses down there was a drunk guy stumbling & falling into a neighbor's yard..I said something to the yardworker, but don't remember what it was..something about him being used to seeing drunks all the time..
Strange one, as usual! Can you make any sense out of that?

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Here.... have fun with this one... lol....

Ok, so first I am in my house, its just like the house I live in now, with the ugly yellow brown shag carpet in the living room and such, but... its arranged differently? We live in a good neighborhood and our livingroom faces the street. There is a hallway behind it and my moms room is to the right and mine is to the left... so we are sitting there watching tv and just relaxing.... when people in the street start screaming....... we're like... "whats up with these nut jobs?" and basically wondering why those idiots are running around like that.....


until the giant teradactyl crashes through our living room window.

so we're like. "omg... holy crap" and I know I have to take whatever I can fit in my backpack... though at first I want to put it in a black plastic trash bag because I am aware it would be more comfortable to take.... but then I thought the backpack was larger so I put some stuff in there... only then all of the sudden I had three tall boxes to put stuff in also.... so I went and got five pictures from my mom's room, one was my grandpa with my three great uncles around him and they were all smilling and laughing (though the uncles are my GRANDMOTHERS brothers and they all would have been the same age!) and two other pictuers I picked and took tothe box. I put essential things that I love in the boxes, also with smart things like bags to carry things in... I packed the cats almost at the top of the boxes but still had to put stuff on top of them....

and as I was doing this the giant teradactyl crashed through the BACK of the livingroom!!!!!

so we hurried up faster and somehow I shrank the boxes down so they fit in my backpack???? But people had started coming up to our house and looting it!!! I tried to push them away and I locked the door, and I noticed more, expensive things we should have taken (liek new movies) so I took some more things while people still tried to get in our house... but after a while they al went away and my mom and I left! So we are in our car and aware of the fact that much of the human population has been eaten by the teradactyl.... but also new creatures have joined society (because we stopped at a mcdonalds to see a blue tyranosaurus rex (all cartoney) flipping burgers. In front of houses there are usually three different types of vehicles or more, because people collected them for the gas inside... we are almost out of gas but dont know if we should just take one of these other vehicles because someone might come out and have a shotgun or something.... so we're driving through a long desert stretch of road and suddenly we see lights ahead... and its like "Hey.. isnt that new york city??" AND IT WAS!!! but we didnt cross the very very very long bridge to go to new york but noticed a small arrangement of buildings about two miles before the bridge. it was a big, dusty, sandy parking lot. On one side there was a video rental place..... next to it was a big, fancy restaraunt.... accross from that was a smaller restaraunt.... and it was also a grocery store... and it had pet supplies in it! it also had somethign downstairs which was like a dancing floor/skating rink and on some of it the floor came up like waves and there were whales painted on the walls? and the bumpy floor was painted like the ocean floor! So my mom and I stopped in the giant restaraunt which also turned otu to be apartments! They were cheap too. The restaraunt was a giant room with tables arranged in a rectangle so there was a hole in the middle, and people sat around the tables and ate... but on the side of the wall there was ten or so doors that led to apartments. The apartments were cool too. There was a first level that was a liviingroom... a second floor that was a bedroom/bathroom... and if you went down a level from the livingroom.. you got a kitchen.. and next to the kitchen was a bed and a chair and a table with a lamp on it... accross from the kitchen were hammocks in the wall! More places for people to sleep even though it was only for me and my mom. Then I was like... crap the cats! And I pulled the three tall boxes from my backpack and looked in there for the cats because I was afraid they had been squished and suffocated.. but nope... they ahd each gotten out of their box and were lounging about the house like they owned it.

So in the morning my mom and I were mingling with the neighbors when I discovered that the traumatizing event of the teradactyl had made my mom a good singer! Therefore she became the lounge singer for the restaraunt. One day at the restaraunt there was this boy who kept trying to get into my mom and my apartment... and I was like.. hey stay out of there! And the restaraunt people were mad ta me because his parents were prominent people.. and I told them the kid was trying to get into my house... and then they told the kid to stay away from the doors. Next there was this little girl who was being a terror! She was walking on the tables and throwing tantrums.. and I told them it was because her sister wasnt paying attention to her, she was with her boyfriend and they were sitting all close to gether and kissing and stuff so the little brat was being a little brat. SO after that she calmed down cuz the sister payed attention to her.

I then decided to go get some breakfast.

I went to the restaraunt accross from the fancy restaraunt.... it had a bar with stools and one counter seperate.. and there I saw someone from my school. I was like.. woah.. how did you get here? anda nyways... for two days I ordered three dollar eggs for breakfast.. while my mom made $2,500 for being a lounge singer..... adn the next day for somer eason I ordered a lamb chop and mashed potatoes.. and I sat next to that guy from my school again and he had ordered chicken and mashed potatoes.... and I had eaten my potatoes and vegetables and bread but I was like... why did I order these lamb chops? the lamb chops were six dollars.. adn I dont even like lamb chops! So the guy was like... oh... well I love lamb chops.. and I dont like chicken.. so lets switch! So we switched adn I got a carry out box so I could eat the chicken later. My mom bought a junker car that was green with lots and lots of rust but that ran well for $450.... and this sleezebag behind the movie store said to her.. well if you coudl afford 450 for that why couldnt you afford 100 for this? and then he didnt want to sell her the nicer car for 100 bucks.. (because before she became the singer she coouldnt afford the 100 bucks) but my mom showed him her credit ratings and that she owed no one money except for some funny IOU's because one of her friends mowed her lawn (she owed him $2.30) so the guy was like psh... whatever... but uh the bumper in the front of the car was falling off so my mom had her friend run it over with her tire while my mom backed up and she ended up pulling off the bumper or whatever in front and then the car didnt look too good cuz you know.. the engine was showing and stuff.. and brown smoke was coming off of it...

meanwhile.. I had made friends with the kids who lived in the culdesack (sp) and we all planned to go to new york for the day... but see.. the bridge was broken and up in the middle so in order to go to new york we would have to jump the gap in a car... well the first four people failed to jump their cdars and they were like.. oh come on... jump your car! and I was like.. uh... no....

I also asked that guy from my school after we swapped meat if he wanted to go for a bike ride on the bridge and he was like o.. ok sure.. so we went for a bike ride but the bridge turned really flimsy and string like and we fell through it onto a boat.. and turned into these little blue fuzzy balls of fluff!!! soon though the fluff below us was immobilized and we were starting to be too.... there were these really large dinosaurs on the boat that were collecting us little blue fuzzies and I was like "HEY, HEY YOU GU YS!!! WE CAN HELP YOU!" because they were looking for someone or something at the place we lived... so they unfroze us and turned us back into people and we biked back home but I dont remmber what they wanted and I dont think they came back...

and then I woke up.

Originally Posted by Rockcat

(I hope I'm not repeating myself. I just made this post and don't know what happened to it)
Diane, I am curious. Just a general question: I understand that things represent other things in dreams. Are there exceptions? For instance, last night I dreamed that both toilets were overflowing in my house. (In real life, we only have one bathroom

) I work for a company that does water damage mitigation and our customers have over-flowing toilets on a regular basis. If overflowing toilets mean something in dream analysis, wouldn't the interpertation be different for someone in my situation?

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I'm curious about the meaning of overflowing toilets too. I had two separate dreams last night in which the one toilet in my house overflowed. This actually happened last week for the first time since I moved there.

well if you can read dreamd I will let you on one of my dreams I had about 2 months ago...

I remember being in a church basement in one of the rooms with a guy....I am not sure if I know him or not and I am not sure if there was onyone else in the room..all of a sudden 2 man come in and shot that guy(but he didn't die....yet!),they told me that if I leave this room I will be shot too...so you guess it..I stayed in the room...the while this man was dying I was talking to him like normal telling him that I love him.I was crying he was in pain..I tried putting my hand on the bullet wound but he still died and I was still crying...any ways a cop came in and took the dead guy away and left me there.I could hear screaming and shooting for everyone that was in the church...now the last thing I remember was walking away from the church and then I looked back again the I walked away......thats it I woke up....

what do you think it means