Conference hydra::dejavu

1813.0. "dream the dream over and over and over and..." by GLDOA::TREBILCOTT (EDS Account Group) Thu Mar 04 1993 11:53

    There are two dreams I keep having over and over...
    
    One I used to think I understood the meaning of...
    
    The one is that I am again in the Catholic school, but I am a grown
    adult.  It used to be that I would be getting yelled at by the nuns and
    although I now had the reasoning and the courage to fight back, often I
    couldn't open my mouth.
    
    Then the dream shifted...one of the times, in the middle of my getting
    yelled at, I stood up and told the teacher off, and he backed down...it
    was still a Catholic school although this time it was a man teacher
    instead of the nun.
    
    After that the dreams stopped for awhile.  I had figured that they were
    a representation of a work-related situation where I was trying to be
    recognized for my abilities, and trying to be taken seriously.  About
    the time the dreams stopped, things at work got better.
    
    Well, recently I've been dreaming about the Catholic school again,
    being there, but again being an adult.  This time, I'm walking through
    the halls, looking at all the children in the halls and in the
    classrooms, and the nuns walking about, and it seems as if no one even
    knows I'm there.  Last night I had a nun walk right through me in the
    dream!  
    
    There is nothing that I can consciously think of, going on that would
    reflect why I am again having these dreams about being an adult but
    back in school.
    
    Any clues?
    
    Second recurring dream:
    
    I keep dreaming about the house that someday I am going to live in. 
    It's always located on the oceanfront.  It is always basically the
    samee.  It always happens that before I make the buy, I bring people
    through to show them.  I don't know if this is for approval or what.  I
    don't feel tense, just incredibly happy about it, excited.
    
    I always wake up before I ever buy the house.
    
    Something disturbing to me is that I am always alone.  I am going to
    live in this house alone.
    
    So, the fact that I keep having this dream, is that a sub-conscious
    reflection of the fact that I want buy a house on the water? 
    
    The fact that it is always the same house, does that mean this is what
    I want my house to look like?
    
    I mentioned sub-conscious because I can't think of any conscious reason
    why I keep having these two dreams, often in the same night,
    successively.
    
    

    I read your account of your two dreams several times and would like to
    share some thoughts about them.  (Keep in mind that dream symbols are
    highly personal - they mean different things to different people - so I
    could be completely off-target).

    If I had those two dreams, this is what I might think:

    The school represents what is learned in childhood, perhaps with an
    emphasis on the religious teachings of childhood.  There are two
    feelings that stand out for me in the first dream:  powerlessness (and
    overcoming powerlessness) and insignificance (if people walk right
    through you, they are not even acknowledging your existence).

    The second dream is about the house.  Houses are often representative
    of our own selves (body/mind).  This could be a dream about what you
    are to become.  The ocean could represent a vast unknown part of
    yourself.  Maybe your internal Self wants to live and interact with
    expansiveness.  

    You bring people through your house...these could be the relationships you
    have with other people.  You're not sure why they're in your house
    (your life).  Maybe you could look at your current relationships and
    ask yourself why they are in your life.

    And then you do not buy...For some reason you could be stopping
    yourself from growing into the person you want to be.  If you consider
    the previous dream, it could be telling you that before you can grow
    into this new self you must deal with some unhealed part of your
    childhood -- maybe some leftover beliefs about your own insignificance
    or lack of self worth, or feelings of powerlessness.

    Peace,

    Ruth