Posted by TexasChic on June 20, 2006, at 21:39:47
In reply to Dinah, posted by Bobby on June 20, 2006, at 12:55:52
> Well, I dreamed last night that I was posting to you and you got angry with me. You let me know by posting back----don't worry--you were civil(no PBC from the dream police). I was just wondering--am I spending too much time on babble or is there something you want to tell me? :)
I watched this thing on Oprah that explained dreams. So now I'm an expert, (ha, ha!).
From what they said, it all depends on what each detail means to you. For instance, this one woman kept having dreams about chewing bubble gum. She would blow a bubble and it would end up all over her face. The more she tried to get it off her face, the more she would get insnared in it. The (whoever the expert was) asked her how this made her feel. She says she feels entangled, trapped. He ask if she feels trapped by anything in her life. And she did. They quickly figured out why she was dreaming this.
Basically he said, you can't rely on interpretations that are the same for everybody. It depends on what the visual means to you. Like, B2chica may feel overwhelmed by something she can't handle (being overtaken by lice and bugs which totally freaked her out). Or Bobby dreaming Dinah was mad at him. Is there someone in his life he's worried is upset with him? Or maybe he's afraid of unintentionally angering someone (inadequacy)?
I had a recurring dream for a long, long time that my Mom made me go back to finish high school (in reality, I dropped out and got my GED.) I get there and I'm out of place, I can't find my locker, I can't find my class, I end up being late and being too embarrassed to walk in. So I just hide out somewhere. My mom is insanely controlling and almost drove me to a nervous breakdown before I got away from her. So I think it was partly that. But when I think of how I felt in the dream: confused, alone, not fitting in, loss of control, I realize that it pertained to MANY aspects of my life.
I've also had these annoyingly repetitive dreams, like when I worked at a grocery store and dreamed of scanning things over and over and over. That's all it was, endlessly scanning items. I think this was partly from the monotony of my job, and partly about being unhappy with my life and that I was not going anywhere. My T said these were anxiety dreams.
Well, I hope this makes sense. I've never been able to describe this to make any sense to anyone.
-T
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