Some Dreams Sent In

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Male - Age 17

"I was a pillion passenger on a motor bike being driven by a young girl. We started going down hill and as we did the road got narrower as concrete walls on either side got dangerously closer."

In this dream the road, representing your current direction, is downhill. This could be saying that you are on an "easy down-hill run" or on an "unfortunate down-hill slide".

The  motor bike could symbolise your need for independence. But you are a passenger - meaning you are not in total control of your destiny.

Other people in a dream may be those people but more often they represent different aspects of yourself. The young female driver may be your immature feminine side. Perhaps you are too emotional or too receptive at the moment.

In summary, the dream could be saying that  your immature emotions could be placing restrictions on future opportunities. It is suggesting that you need to take control.

"I was walking through Hobart College when suddenly I was in a narrow street with high buildings on either side. It was dark in places."

The narrow street could represent how your mind is feeling about your life (or college) at the moment - narrow and confining - hemmed in. High imposing buildings accentuate this and could also represent a coldness or lack of empathy toward you.

Darkness often represents the unknown or undiscovered parts of yourself.

This isn’t one specific dream, but often when I dream, what I dream could be a real life situation, and when I wake up it can take me days to work out if it actually happened or not - conversations with people, particularly people I don’t normally talk to but would like to, etc. Sometimes the people and place are totally familiar to me, but not possible, for example, I might have been talking to my school friends and my cousins as well, or something similar - two or more things that could not usually go together, but it seems quite natural at the time. Often the people I talk to I just have ordinary old conversations with, but a few times they’ve been people who in real life I’ve wanted to ask out. But so often my dreams are so close to life it’s amazing, but I have to focus on one particular aspect to realise they’re not real.

These type of dreams may be examining the relationship between dreams and reality within you. They might be saying that dreams can seem real in the same way that what is real can seem like a dream, and that this is "quite natural".

They may also be saying that you need to make real what you wish for - make your dreams come true. The people you wanted to ask out may be those people but they probably just represent things that you wish for. 

I am always having dreams about the beach.  Sometimes there are huge waves which swallow the beach itself, and other times the waves are small.

Beaches are places of relaxation and rejuvenation. They also represent the balance between water and land, heart and head, intuition and intellect.

Huge waves swallowing the beach could be saying that emotions are swamping the mind, while small waves may be representing a dominance of thinking over feeling.

Male - Age 40s - 12th August 1999

I was in a house and was surrounded by women. Two of these women were named Mary. One of them was my ex-wife, the other whose house it was, was someone I had met at a training course some years earlier. There were other women there and some of them indicated their interest in me, giving me signals that they found me attractive. I felt a warm inner glow at this and a sense of responsiveness but my mind was saying “Don’t get caught up in this ego bullshit”.

I left the house and looked in through the window and could see the two Mary’s still inside. I was attracted to the other Mary and wanted my ex-wife Mary to leave and felt a little agitated that she was still there. I wanted to go back and have sex with the other Mary. Eventually I went back into the house and I saw a note written on the back of an envelope which my ex-wife had written. It was about her feelings of possessiveness towards me and was written in threatening terms, stating that she would do damage to any one who tried to make a move on me.

I felt sickened and a little scared at the tone of this letter and decided to leave. I began walking along a road and she came along on a motor scooter and swept me up. I was being transported along on the front of this scooter with her sitting behind me driving. I felt restrained by her and found this both uncomfortable and oppressive.

Eventually we came to a small town with only a few houses and shops. It was night time. I got off the bike and went to speak to a man in one of the shops. My ex-wife had followed close behind. I told him  that I had been kidnapped by her. I did not get much response from him and then I repeated it, a bit more forcefully and convincingly that I had been kidnapped and felt afraid and wanted the police to be contacted. He told me the nearest police station was at Oyster Cove. I estimated that this was too far away to expect a prompt and considered response as did he. He told me that an ex-policeman had a shop down the road and that this may be my best bet. So I set off in search of thi

"Surrounded by women" may indicate a dominance of your feminine side at the moment - not necessarily a bad thing as indicated by attractiveness both ways but perhaps not for the right reasons ("ego bullshit").

The house, representing your body, may have a dominance of the feminine past. You move on ("leave the house") but they don't. You may still want to integrate ("sex") the desirable  feminine aspects into self but feel threatened by old news ("writing on the back of envelope").

In trying to move on in life ("leaving and walking along road") the undesirable feminine side (past possessiveness?)  takes over ("swept up by ex-wife"). This may be literal but is more likely to represent aspects of her in yourself - perhaps aspects which should be left behind. This leads to reduced opportunities ("small town") and less certainty (it's dark).

But what are the masculine needs ("man in shop")? The possessive feminine side from the past is dominating the current masculine side ("kidnapped by her"). The masculine side is unresponsive and the dominating feminine side needs to be arrested ("police"). This is difficult ("too far").

The dream continues suggesting that the solution may lie in past management ("ex-policeman") practices that will deliver needs ("shop") in the near future ("down the road").

Perhaps you need to find out what the ex-policeman represents within you.