There were two distinct dreams I can remember having last night. In one I was playing soccer again for my high school soccer team. I was playing goalie, which was odd because that was never a position I played. The team seemed to be the one from last year, as my brother (who is now a college freshman) was still on the team with all of his friends. I didn't recognize the field we were playing at, nor the team we were playing. Throughout the game I made a several saves but there were also a few lucky incidents where the ball bounced off a post or barely missed the goal. Come to think of it there is nothing to specifically denote that it was my high school team, it just felt like it was.
The second dream had to do with returning from Japan (or maybe China?) My dad was driving me home from the airport, which seemed to be on the other side of some mountains from our house. While the mountains had the distinct feel of the Sierra-Nevada range (I used to live in California) the house and town we arrived at was definitely our house in Longmont, which is just up the road from Boulder. The strange thing about this dream was that my dad was explaining to me about a bike ride that he did, and even though the locations were made up I seemed to follow along and the dream even flashed images of the locations he was mentioning. The drive back was also not any path that I can equate to real life, but seemed to be the reverse of another dream in which my family and I went on an evening hike in the same mountains. This was particularly odd as in the dream I did not remember it as a memory from another dream, but rather it just seemed to be an actual memory. There were also rapid changed in weather as we were driving, and when we arrived home both my current dog and dog that has been deceased for about two years were both there.
Well the first dream is easy, and the obvious interpretation here is that I feel that my life is hectic but luck keeps pulling me out of situations. The feeling that I was playing on my high school team represents a longing to return to times past, possibly when I felt as though I had more control over my life. The inclusion of family can go both ways, and it especially interesting that in the dream our positions were switched (I used to be a field player and he was the goalie). This could either be that I think he is one of the sources of these hectic scenarios or that he represents how I could be doing things right. Again, I want to stress that I am in no way an expert on dreams and that I have no experience previously analyzing dreams. Also, on the dreams that are mine I am attempting not to read into my own life and act as if I was an objective third party. This is just to show the possible routes that (both constructive and destructive) that analyzing dreams can begin to take.
ReplyDeleteRapidly changing weather is a correlate of moods that are random, as like weather one's mood provides the background on which they view the world. The made up locations appearing as real are just a reference to real life when people tell you about places that they have gone and you have no concept of. In dreams, however, the mind can just associate images with these places whereas in real life you would have to hear the description. This dream is all about change, as airports and traveling are also metaphors for changes occurring. Basically from the two dreams combined it can be concluded that there is lots of change occurring in my life that I feel is out of control. See how this is one of those statements that people could easily agree with?
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