Dream Library

*THIS IS AN ACTUAL DREAM AND ITS INTERPRETATION. ALL SCENES OCCURRED IN ONE NIGHT THROUGH A SERIES OF DREAMS.

DREAM: SCENE 1

“My husband, I, and our two kids were visiting His family. We were staying at a lake house that my husbands parents owned. We felt a little upset that we had never known about the lake house until this trip, but apparently everyone had forgotten about it and now one knew they had owned it.

INTERPRETATION 1

In reality, whenever we go visit his family, we have to find a place to stay (camping, outside, not even a house) because I am allergic to the animals in their house.  In the dream -finding out that they had a lake house upset us. We were offended for the lack of care towards us  and inconvenienced at prior visits. In the dream we were also surprised that they owned a lake house since (in reality) their finances didn’t seem to be the greatest. When I think of a lake house, I think of it as a seasonal house, something temporary. But even though it is a seasonal house, it’s a house. Meaning, it would have been a step up from a tent. In reality, my husband, kids and I, are staying in someone else’s house while we are making a temporary house for us that we will live in for a season of time.  I feel upset because I would have liked for it to be ready for us prior to this time. It’s also kinda like a surprise to us, because it hasn’t been livable for a long time and now it almost is. It’s also surprising to us, because we don’t have much money but suddenly we have a temporary place to live.

DREAM: SCENE 2

Somehow, a girl and I had switched bodies, although we saw ourselves, everyone else saw the other person. The girl, chose to to tell her fiancé about the “switch.” I, however, waited in a room for myself to return to normal. When we returned to normal, the guy told my husband that he made out with me, but really his fiancé, just to see what it was like. “

INTERPRETATION 2

When I think of the girl and her fiancé I would describe her to be a searcher and he is a worker.  In reality, I have been searching for jobs. The fact that they made out – I want to connect searching for a job and getting a job.  Me hiding in the other room is me waiting for something to change and get things back to normal.

DREAM: SCENE 3

“In the next scene, we all went out to the beach. The beach was unfamiliar, although I think I have been there in dreams before. It seemed to be big, but there wasn’t really a place that we fit in.

When we got back to the lake house, I saw a note from my mother in law stating that they had left. My father in law saw a bra of mine hanging on the bedroom door nob and was extremely offended. I can’t remember what the letter said exactly, but it seemed confrontational.”

INTERPRETATION 3

The beach is a place to relax, but even though we were there, it didn’t feel comfortable to me. In reality, we are in a secluded area and we should be relaxing, but I can’t get comfortable here because it is temporary. My mother in law is a peace maker, my father in law in anxious. When I think of bra’s I think of support. Our current life situation makes me feel like we don’t have much to support ourselves with and I am anxious about it.  I have been trying to calm myself about it by choosing to have a healthy perspective.

DREAM: SCENE 4

“The next scene. I was outside in the parking lot. All of a sudden the waves seemed to be coming out of the ocean and into the land. I yelled for everyone to climb the trees to survive. My husband and children all climbed the same tree with me. There were hundreds of people climbing the trees. The trees were abnormally tall. They reached far into the sky. But the water kept rising higher, and we climbed higher. My thoughts were to save my family, and looking around at all of the destruction that was being caused and hoping people would survive. Soon, we ran out of tree. So I pulled the tree out of the ground and pushed it up so we would have more to climb. This worked for a while, but the the tree started to capsize, but I felt it happening and was able to keep it upright.”

INTERPRETATION 4

This was the most dramatic scene. When I think  of the ocean I think of it’s instability, it is always moving. This goes to reaffirm my feelings of instability. Lifting the tree from the roots represent how we’ve unrooted out lives. All of the other people around me and distraction happening and my hopes that people survive goes to that in reality I am a counselor. I try to help people, I call out to them, I warn them, but I can not save them. My hope is that they survive.

DREAM: SCENE 5

The next scene, I had my two kids, and I was trying to keep both of them alive. We were now swimming. I would take turns putting each one under water and letting the other one up to breath. It seemed that I was trying to find a rhythm to this, one up – breath, one down – hold your breath, one up – breath, etc. My focus was mainly on the youngest, trying to see if he was getting enough time over water. It seemed like he wasn’t, but when I watched him under water, he gave me the look like he was ok, like this was working.

INTERPRETATION 5

My second child was the only one I saw in the dream. He reminds me the most of me. I think that this is how I am trying to get into a rhythm, trying to help myself breath and survive and not be over taken by the waves. Even though I didn’t see my first child, I know he was there. He represents the part of me that is capable. He didn’t take my focus because I am capable.