Hello Dream Forum :] I have never posted here before, but I had a dream last night that I just had to share with dream interpretation experts, and I assumed that with any luck, I'd find some skilled ones here (I typically post on the Astrology forum on Hip Forums ;p). Now, I do own a dream interpretation book, but its a "Complete Idiot's Guide" (how quaint), so I'm not sure how far it can take me into the realm of dream-analysis. Anyways, onto the dream. I dreamt that I was rushing around New York City on foot on New Year's Eve (cars did not exist in the dream), giving everybody I saw hugs. Didn't matter if they were somebody I knew in my waking life, or a complete stranger that my dream invented, but I gave them a hug. I did this because I was aware of a certain "Hug Meter" that I had in my dream, that I was trying to fill. And while everybody I hugged thought I was being a very nice and sweet person, I was actually trying to fill this secret meter that only I knew about because I was aware that once it was full, I would have enough power to unleash an "attack" which would destroy the world. But I had to do this by the stroke of midnight, at the fall of the New Year's Ball (Not sure how familiar you are with American east coast traditions, if you live somewhere else). Anyways, time is ticking away and I'm rushing more and more trying to get enough hugs to fill my hug meter, and finally I have enough left, so I run to Time's Square and climb the building with the big ball. Standing on top of the ball, I watch as everybody in the world counts down the New Year, and when they hit zero, I release my attack and watch as the world beneath me gets utterly obliterated. The actual scene within my dream of the world's destruction lasted about a total of 2-3 seconds, then I woke. Sooooo... What on earth does this all mean?
I always liked the idiots guides..... they're great! I learned a lot about Wicca from those kinds of books. (They were written by actual witches, so why wouldn't they be thorough and clear)
Maybe hugging people is representative of love and "destroying the world" is actually transcending the world, reorienting towards spirit, which is only possible when your "hug meter" (love meter) reaches a certain point. On the other hand, maybe you're subconsciously harboring the belief that fulfilling a "quota" of affectionate acts towards others (which in waking life could be anything stemming from being overly dependent on a falsely affectionate persona) is somehow maintaining your sense of well-being, and the destruction of the world is symbolic of the fact that relying on such a system could ultimately only be self-destructive, or masking intentions that only appear to be benevolent but are actually insidiously self-centered. For the record, I'm no dream interpretation expert (this is my first post here as well), so take my post with a grain of salt. Regardless of your dream's actual meaning, it's an intriguing one to be sure. One question does come to mind: what was your overriding emotion during the destruction of the world and upon waking? It seems to me that feeling exhilarated might mean something different than feeling fearful (and the same would go for feeling melancholic or elated, etc.). Travis
Thank you for that interpretation. It was very well analyzed and precise. Its kind of scary though... because, thats really accurate. That's probably what the dream meant, because I do find that I often have to take this emotional, sensitive, and supportive exterior with my friends, because they all come to me when they have a problem, and of course I love to be reliable and a helpful friend. The truth is though, that I'm not really an emotional person at all. I'm much more logical, so on the inside, I kind of ridicule the situation because I find it so sloppy and unnecessary, but I would never express that externally. That would ruin the social system I have running. I have another one now, this one is fresh from last night: I had a dream that this boy I used to be friends with for about a year, and then we stopped talking, started walking up my driveway. I spotted him outside the window. When he gets nearer to the door, I lock it and run back into one of the other rooms, telling my family not to open it, because I somehow knew that he was there to kill me. So he starts shooting from outside the door. My father, who is an ex-cop, opens the door and takes the gun from him, brings him inside, and kicks his ass. Just when we think that he's calmed down, he tells me (this is where it gets really odd) that he needs to take a feces sample for his doctor, but he wants to do it outside away from the house so as to not create stink. So he asks me to walk with him to keep him company, and for some strange reason, I say yeah. So as we're walking away from the house, I suddenly had a burst of awareness/fright, because I realized he was trying to take me away from the house to kill me where nobody would hear me. Cleverness was the theme of this part of the dream. I'm not sure how I became aware of his intentions, but I did, and when I did, I got so scared, that I immediately reacted with cleverness. In my waking life, this is often the case too, when I feel threatened my first mental rebound is cleverness. So I tell him to hang on a sec, I'm going back to my house to get my beret. As I'm walking away back towards my house, I somehow see him roll his eyes like "lets go already lady". Then I start running and I shout back "Be back in a jiffy!" a few seconds later I hear him mutter "shit." and he starts running after me, but I get in the house and lock the door and we're back where we started. Now the rest of the dream is foggy from here, but I believe I remember him claiming to be a changed person, but I stay very cynical about him. I also think at one point in the dream my mother discovered women's clothing in the backpack he was wearing, suggesting he was gay/crossdressing, and maybe had some psychological issues because of it. Either way, I thought it was very strange that this particular person whom I only used to talk to rarely on occasion for about a year, had come back into my dream with such a powerful influence, even though in my waking life, I consider him more of an acquaintance than just a friend. I didn't feel close with him at all when I knew him, nor did I feel like he made a big impact on my mind (I like to believe that each new friend is a different source of new knowledge and experience). The entire dream really confused me, but it was very emotionally intense, and I remember feeling very insecure at times, very scared at times, and very fearful for my life at times. I also felt very suspicious of others at certain points during the dream.
You're welcome and thank you. Yeah, well, I sometimes have flashes of insight like that...so don't be too scared. Hopefully you'll be able to find a way to continue to be a reliable and supportive friend without having to sacrifice or censor your own outlook on life (or maybe find a balance point between them). Your new dream strikes me as being a bit more ambiguous. I think sometimes dreams are very succinct and reflective of very well-defined aspects of our beings, like your first one. I have a feeling that your new dream might be a bit of a mesh of various subconscious themes, and some of them may only be decipherable using your waking experiences as a reference point (like your cleverness connection, for example). With regard to your old acquaintance being in the role that he appeared in, however, I wouldn't necessarily assume that it has anything to do with him in particular. Sometimes our subconscious minds will choose someone who we have a sense of neutrality about and then use them as a sort of "blank slate" that our fears and beliefs can be projected upon. Anyway, sorry I couldn't offer more insight for that one. Travis
