Want to try to interpret this dream?

[Haole Girl]

Sorry I'm being a nuisance this morning. But, I was curious if anybody can tell me what this dream might represent:

I was driving up a hill, high above a dam, which actually resembled Folsom Dam...

here is a pic (I used to drive up there when I was younger):


Anyway... my mother was in the car (she is deceased IRL, but not in the dream). I don't remember her saying anything in the dream but I was talking. Then, suddenly, I took a wrong turn and drove off into the air... the car accidentally plunging toward the water. Everything was in slow motion. And, just as my dreams often are, I was calm. There was no sense of panic. I turned to my mother and just said, "Uh oh" as the car floated toward the water...for what seemed like a very long time. Just as the car was about to hit the water, I found myself in an apartment complex with wrought iron railings and cats EVERYWHERE! I kept climbing stairwell after stairwell, but I couldn't get out of the apartment complex. The railings were rickety and I kept losing my grip. One of the odd things I remember about the dream is that I was alone then...and I seemed more frightened about not finding my way out of the apartment complex than plunging slowly into the water (from what would certainly be a height high enough to kill a person). It's strange... the way my mind just shifted from one scene to another... without any resolution to the plunging car. Very strange.

Ok. What does all this represent? Do I need to go adopt a couple of kittens? lol No.... I know my subconscious mind is trying to work out something much more serious.

[Inchworm]

1. I dig dreams

I would be banned for posting most of mine.

Like you said, your brain is trying to work something out. Feel fortunate you remember the details. Most people do not.

:hi:

[Haole Girl]

2. Thanks

Sometimes I feel fortunate, sometimes not. I, too, cannot post many of my dreams! lol :hi:

[TK421]

3. I've had some really bizarre dreams, too

I'm not sure if they really mean anything...I used to think so

[Haole Girl]

4. I'm sure they do mean something

If nothing else, they mean we have vivid imaginations!

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Something in your life is causing your a lot of stress?

And you have only been peripherally pondering solutions, but have not really acknowledged that you need to find some answers/solutions. I think the cats all over the place represent you needing to care for yourself first if you are ever going to find your way out of the (apartment) complex situation/dilemma in your life.

If anything...just :hug; :hug: for you!

[Haole Girl]

7. hmm...

Interesting. Yes, I do need to care for myself first. Got that. Thank you! :hug:

[SteppingRazor]

6. Mid-life crisis setting in by chance?

Or do you feel in some other way trapped in your current life, wanting to perhaps start in a new profession, move to a new area, or just in some other way get out of the rut you're in?

[Haole Girl]

10. Oh, my mid-life crisis has set in ....

..for well over a year now!

And, yes, I do want to move. Very good... very astute! :hi:

[alarimer]

8. I've been having some disturbing dreams lately

Since my grandmother died, I have been dreaming about my family (and her) a lot. In one, I was in her old house, which shs sold years ago, alone but I felt someone was watching me. It was creepy. Other dreams have starred my entire family, often fighting, which they do frequently in real life. I have had some disturbing sexual dreams too (NOT the good kind).

It's probably just stress.

[Haole Girl]

11. Oh... sorry some of yours are disturbing.

:hug: Of course, plunging hundreds of feet toward a lake is pretty disturbing too!

Hope things work themselves out for you soon. :hug:

[datasuspect]

9. anxiety

anxiety.

[Haole Girl]

12. Yeah... anxiety, Yes.

Too much TV? Naw. Maybe not enough mind-numbing TV!!

One of the things I find interesting, when I have these types of dreams/nightmares, is how calm I appear in them. It's strange. :hi:

[datasuspect]

13. i have very vivid movie like dreams

and so many strange things happen in that world.

i dream sometimes that i am in texas and when i first wake up i am in a state of panic until i realize that i'm not there.

oh, and you noticed my new sigpic? i thought it was pretty cool too!

[Haole Girl]

14. Oh, that is your sig line? lol

Hey... you know I live in Texas, right?

:rofl:

[datasuspect]

15. i won't hold that against you

just joking,

i just couldn't hack it there.

and i spent many years there. don't get me wrong, there is much to like about the place, but for me it was entirely unrealistic.

i refuse (can't afford) to drive, so living there is completely impractical.

plus, i prefer the jeffersonian grid layout of most midwestern population centers. and public transit. god, i cannot live in a world without public transit.