Dream Analysis1. "It took place during the warm weather..."Fair Weather - If you dream of fair weather, you are probably feeling happy with life.
Bright, sunny dreams usually express your creative expansion and potential. The suggest that, in regard to the subject you are dreaming about, you are in control and feeling comfortable and settled.
Dreaming of a fair sky often means that opportunities are open to do whatever you want to do.
2. "The cleaners in the dream wasn't the cleaners I normally go to. It was in a building of only two stores instead of a long row of stores.....(which I've never seen a building like this before)..."Buildings - An empty house or strange environment might signify a soul-searching period of your life, or a change in your awareness that you are finding difficult to deal with.
3. "I remember an aqua colored one and a red one. I don't remember what the third color was, but dark blue seems to stick in my head for some reason."Colors - When your subconscious brings color to your dreams, it usually wants your conscious mind to focus clearly on the dream, to remember all of it, not just parts of it.
When you dream in color, you are often opening up to your total form. You might be starting to know and understand who you are, how you affect other people, what is necessary in life, what gives you great joy and happiness, what creates harmony in your life.
Dreaming in color does not mean that everything in the dream is in one color, but if you dream is dominated by a color, there may be a significant correlation to the chakra from which it eminates.
| Color | Chakra | Location | Function |
| Red | Base | Base of Spine | Expectations, physical energy, physical restrictions |
| Aqua (Green) | Heart | Center of Chest | Empathy, emotion, unconditional love |
| Dark Blue (Indigo) | Third Eye | Brow or center of forehead | Higher consciousness, intuition, awareness |
RedRed can represent a deep emotion or blocked problem. It might mean that the body is undergoing healing or that the dreamer is physically very active and energetic. It might relate to sensual experience, sexual fantasies and personal attraction.
Dreaming in red is also a way of releasing, of letting go of feelings in a dream state that you are having difficulty dealing with in your waking state.
Red can be expansive, indicating hope and potential success. The lighter or brighter the red, the more balanced you feel about a situation in your life. The deeper and more prevalent the red in any dream, the stronger the emotion and the more likely it is to be a warning or represent concerns or uncertanties about the subject of the dream. In its darker shades in a dream about employment for example, red might represent the fact that you are striving for success but perhaps your confidence base is not secure or you are concerned with external influences or other people's opinions of you. The deeper the color, the deeper those concerns.
GreenWhatever the shade, green is an emotional color. It also may amplify your good health and physical vitality.
IndigoIndigo is the color of thought and reflection. An indigo dream indicates that you are or should be practicing self-analysis. This is a searching color that might indicate restlessness with life. It could represent a spiritual quest, a search for more challenges or new directions, or a need to re-evaluate your goals.
4. "As I was getting them, there was an earthquake..."Earthquake - Dreaming of an earthquake might mean that your sleep is being disturbed by outside noises.
Shaking - Such sensations may also indicate a return to the body after astral-travel.
5. "...all the costume racks fell down around me and two other people..."Trapped or entrapment - Symbols of entrapment, such as imprisonment, commonly occur when you feel constrained by necessity in your life, like keeping a job just to pay the bills.
Children resisting boundaries set by their parents might experience dreams of entrapment.
Read the dream analyzed in this post.Well, those were the major symbols I could find in the book I have. I used
Dreams: Unlock the Secrets of Your Subconscious by Frank Garfield and Rhondda Stewart-Garfield.
Check
Venting Insanity to see what was going on in my life during January, 2003, when I had this dream. The book suggested that symbols in a dream have to do with current events in your life. They suggest keeping a regular, day-to-day journal as well as a dream journal so you can correlate dreams and events.
Weekly January, 2003 Archive Links for
Venting Insanity:
Well, I have several dreams up here now. I guess it's time I start analyzing them. I'll do that later when I get home from class... Maybe. It depends on how I feel.
Ice skating. That's all I remember. Funny, considering I've never been ice skating in my life. I just remember the skates on the ice. I don't even know if it was me skating.
That was my first dream of the evening. The next two both involved rescuing something (though I'm not completely sure it was two, or one that got melded together somehow).
In the first one, I went into the woods at night with someone I don't remember now to chase down a non-poisonous, pet spider. Eww... Have no clue why I would go after a spider, let alone have one as a pet. Anyway, we found it trapped among a nest of smaller, but poisonous wild spiders. You couldn't see them without ultraviolet light. When they hit the light, they had glowing red bodies that resembled balls and blue legs. The spider I rescued was a normal looking spider, yellow with brown speckles. It was upside down when I found it.
Somewhere along the line, the dream changed to involve a trip to San Francisco. I was driving across the Golden Gate bridge (which I've never actually done), and someone was talking to me about the orange paint, most notably how the painters have a perpetual job. Everytime they finish painting the bridge, they have to go back to the other side and start painting all over again.
Anyway, we get across the bridge (I noticed a strange man standing on the right side at the end of the bridge, but he was all dark with curly hair, I don't remember anything else about him) and into the city. We're driving up hill, the roads on both sides of us all go uphill, and it's a very rundown section of town. I'm now in the passenger seat (don't know when or how we switched). The hills are all very steep. We get to a rundown hotel. I made note of the name, but I can't remember it now. Instead of going into a room, we start talking about a litter of puppies that we have to rescue. There's a pickup truck behind the hotel with a tent set up in the bed.
We head for the woods (the same ones from the spider dream) and end up in the same clearing where we found the spider. All the puppies are there, and they're buried in the leaves, grass, and pine needles (I know, San Francisco doesn't have pine trees or a lot of forest, for that matter...). I think there were seven. They looked like Boxer pups, but extremely tiny and young. We took them back to the hotel and put them in the tent on the pickup with a lot of blankets. It was cold and rainy at this point, and this girl with dark hair started looking through some sort of catalog while we were in the tent. It was a catalog of dog clothing and she was looking for something for the pups. Someone mentioned a guy that wanted to take the pups home, and I got an image of a man laying on a lawn chair lounger with seven Boxer puppies (bigger than they were in the pickup) laying all over him. The girl with the dark hair started playing with the puppies under the blanket then.
That's when Mom came in and woke me up.
Aly and I went into New York City. We got off the train and headed for the subways. The subways were extremely crowded and I had to hold on to Aly so I wouldn't lose her.
We came down the steps and onto a huge platform. The platform looked really strange, but I didn't realize why until we grabbed onto one of the supporting columns. There were little tracks all over everything. Suddenly, the column started to move with us attached to it. It twisted and wound it's way through the tunnels at high speed until we ended up at a strange desolate depot.
We let go and were lead to another tunnel by one of the janitors. He had scraggily hair that was a medium blonde color. I remember that for some reason. He said that a lot of people were getting lost and ending up there with the columns, but something was wrong with the tracks, and we couldn't use the column to get anywhere else. He told us we had to walk back down the tunnel to the next station to get out. So, we started walking through the dark towards the station.
I woke up before we got out.
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