Some believe that your dreams are your subconscious talking to you.
I don't remember a lot of my dreams but some have stuck out in my mind. A number of years ago I had a dream that when I woke up I wrote it down so I would remember it. It represents some things to me that I continually have to remind myself of. I carry the piece of paper with me in my purse. I rarely look at it (mostly only when I'm digging for something else but I don't even read it then) but it's always with me.
I used to have a recurring dream that I would get in elevators and the bottom would fall out. It was really bizarre because these elevators would be in strange places, like boats and planes and I would always get into the elevator on the third or fourth floors going down but when they would start their free fall we'd be on the 700th floor or something. It would be awful and I would wake with a start - every time. It wouldn't stop me from getting on elevators when awake but if they ever grunted or groaned, I'd be just this side of panicked. Someone interpreted that dream as me having a fear of losing control. I could see that analogy and I haven't had that dream since.
But last night, I had a strange dream. I was on a school bus with two of my co-workers. We were the only ones on the bus. They work in my group but I don't work directly with them. One I never have, the other I only did briefly. Neither have any input into my career in the company and I don't socialize outside of work with either of them. Having said all that, one was driving and she was driving down a road that led to some body of water (I have no idea where it was, where we were going or anything but you could see the water). We came to a fork in the road and she went to the left. She'd barely gone down it and decided to go another way so she put the bus in reverse. She backed us into the water and we could see the water around the bus as it was submerged. I started panicking because I knew, at best, we would have difficulties getting the windows down or the bus door open. Suddenly both my co-workers were behind me, towards the back of the bus and we are all walking towards the front of the bus but it is very laborious and water is starting to come into the bus. I'm trying to remain as calm as possible but I'm convinced I'm going to die in this bus. I'm hearing a voice telling me to remain calm and to breathe normally - it's one of my co-workers, the one that had been driving the bus. The bus is filling with water and none of us have opened any windows or anything and now I'm holding my breath. I woke up with a start and I was holding my breath. I couldn't go back to sleep. It was weird.
Any thoughts on what it means?
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Are you working on a project at work that isn't doing well? Something that is failing or not achieving what you think that it should, but have little or no control over the outcome? It sounds like something at work is sinking, so to speak, and you are trapped and feeling like you are going down with it. But that may just be the obvious interpretation. Frequently our dreams mean more to us because our subconscious tries to use imagery that we will understand.
I have recurring dreams about tornados. They always signify a change or new challenge in my life. I think the last tornado was an F-5, because it was huge. LOL Should I be worried?
Honestly, that was my first thought too Aura. I'm not happy in my job and this past week, one of my attorneys (the difficult one) was out of the office all week and the other (I adore him) was out Thurday and Friday. I figured it would be a great time to catch up on things I haven't had time to do but need to be done. I even made a list of things I was going to accomplish and I let everyone (including the difficult attorney) know what was on the list. Well, this was the week from hell and although I worked my tail off, I didn't ever even make it to the list. (Life, what happens when you're busy making plans.)
I found out on Friday that the difficult attorney dropped the ball on something but I know come Monday I'm going to catch hell about it, as if it was my fault. So yeah, I can see where sinking at work would be a valid interpretation of the dream. LOL
By the way, how was the birthday celebration?
I'm sorry things are going rough at work. I understand about catching hell for someone else's mistake. It happens all the time at my job too. My boss passes off a project she's been sitting on for weeks or months to one of us until it's past the critical point and then we have to work with pissed off people and can't always get what they need in so short a time.
My birthday celebration was really nice. My roommate, her boyfriend and her daughter and I went to the Outback for dinner. The food was good and it was nice to go out to eat for once. We almost never do. I don't have a lot of friends up here, so there really isn't anyone else to go out with. But it was a good time anyway. :) Thanks for asking!
L, I know you're concerned about page totals for the KIA.
It's sounding like you're feeling swamped and can't find a way out of it.
Hope things settle down, ducks.
K.
Kait,
I don't think it's Kia related. Yes, I feel like I'm letting the team down because they're flying and I'm not but I think the dream would have had me driving the bus instead of being a passenger with no control over what happened. I never at any time felt responsible in the dream. Just helpless.
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