Our nightly dreams: Do they really mean anything, or not?
@innertalks (21916)
Australia
December 14, 2015 5:36pm CST
Last night I was dreaming that I was riding my bicycle in a busy city, whilst I was on holiday there.
I came to a sort of a cheap back-packers hotel, and it being already dark, I decided to stay the night there.
I went in, and I got the lift to the reception on the second floor.
I paid my nightly fee, and I was told to try to find a spot somewhere to sleep somewhere on the two floors of the place. I could take my bike and place it next to me too, for safety, they told me.
The place was seriously overcrowded. People, and their luggage, as well as others with bikes, were scattered all over the floor.
There was not an inch of space left, on either floor.
I went to the stairwell. There were two people set up there already sleeping the night on the stairs. One spot seemed to be left there, enough space for me, I thought to myself.
Then I said to the guy next to me, "No, this is terrible, perhaps I'll just leave and try to find some place else to stay the night in", even though I had already paid my twenty dollars for the night here.
He answered me though like this, "Well, it's only for the one night, put up with it", so I did.
In the morning, I woke up early in order to leave, but before we could leave, a man was giving us all a talk now on safety. He had a microphone, and he was spruiking his stuff, very loudly, waking us all up.
I listened to him for a while, then I left.
There was a waist-high stone fence around the whole perimeter of the grounds of this place, that I hadn't noticed the night before.
I tried to climb over it, but I found that I had not got the strength to lift myself up onto the top ledge of it even, yet to climb over it.
I felt so very weak, feeling that I was now trapped in this place, then I remembered that I had left my bike back in that horrible place back there too.
This thought in my dream made me wake up then suddenly, feeling rather alarmed, about my maybe losing it now, or possibly having it stolen from me, by now.
What could a dream like this mean for me, if anything?
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5 responses
@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
29 Dec 15
thanks siva, we are made of stardust, the scientists love to tell us. That dust has been gathered off of the feet of many others then it seems. Maybe we should dust ourselves off sometimes, to find our real self hidden somewhere under all of this outer dust....LOL
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
30 Dec 15
@Shiva49 Yes, perhaps they must also monitor their thoughts, because while they have a mind, both negative and positive thoughts will always arise within it, I think.
@Shiva49 (26684)
• Singapore
30 Dec 15
@innertalks We have to do inner and outer cleansing all the time! It is tough to keep the negative thoughts at bay - I do not know whether even those who preach or have reached a higher level of consciousness are able to do so - siva
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@Namelesss (3365)
• United States
15 Dec 15
Interesting dream. I thinks some dreams are just fluff for our pillow with no meaning whatsoever. I also think some dreams have a lot of meaning. Does the dream you had have meaning? I think only you could know that. If you feel it does then likely it does.
If I had to guess at the meaning I would say you feel trapped by a small decision that should have been over and done with. That may or may not be too simplistic though.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
15 Dec 15
What did this dream mean for me?
Perhaps it is a warning of being hemmed in, or trapped, by the need to make a decision (as you said Namelesss), or its meaning might be something on an even broader/wider/deeper scale.
Perhaps I feel misplaced/uncomfortable somehow in an ever increasingly crowded world, and even my means of transport is taken away from me then too.
Relaxing into the arms of God involves you in living in God’s way not yours though.
God is always talking to us from all and everything around us.
The stairs represents a new level of learning for me, but I am unsure which step to take, a step back or a step upwards/forwards. The man on the stair next to me says to just accept where I am right now, and not even to worry about this possible next step. Enjoy the night on the stairwell, and do not try to climb away from any experience.
The truth is that we can never do so (try to bypass a necessary learning experience) as we will then be marooned in the experience by other forces, until we accept it for what it is. If we try to move away from it from fear, as held by our ego-self, we might find then that our mind, also represented by the bike here, will not support us then either.
We will then often feel then that we are always/actually being our own worst enemy, so to speak, by our working against our real self’s purpose for us. This will continue until we accept where we are right now, and until we do accept life as it is now, we will usually have a hard time moving on from there.
The first step of growth is almost always our making such an acceptance step that we can then step on and move upwards from there.
@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
15 Dec 15
@Namelesss I think you are right here.
When somebody says something pointedly like this to us in a dream, it often holds the key to something we need to know, I feel, about ourselves.
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@Namelesss (3365)
• United States
15 Dec 15
@innertalks I think you defined your own dream very well. The part where the man on the stairs says to just accept where you are right now is the key I think. By accepting you relax. When you relax you notice other things going on around you and put your personal issues on the back burner. There those issues will clarify and later you can revisit them. Much like clarifying butter. 
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
29 Dec 15
You just reminded me to write down the dream that I had. Dreams have personal meaning. I mean that each person has different mean for different objects example a crow . to me mean a message from someone who has passed.
But for other people a crow means something else many people see crows as a bad thing.
By the way, just so you know, I did my Thesis on dream interpretation.
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
31 Dec 15
@innertalks Yes, there is universal meaning as well. That's why I think it is better for a person to interpret their own dreams. It is alright to have some one help with it but the meaning seems to be much clearer if one does it themselves.
I have a master degree in Metaphysical Science very interesting stuff.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
1 Jan 16
@whiteream I would have loved to do a course like that!!
In my day, the closest thing was just a philosophy course.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
29 Dec 15
That's interesting, what subject of study was that your Thesis in, psychology?
I agree, dreams are sent for their dreamer's own use and have a personal meaning for them, and yet I also sort of agree with Jung in his thinking that symbols, and archetypes have some type of a universal print to them too, a common theme of sorts, or perhaps even a type of language of their own.
Love also often brings itself into a dream and symbolises itself or dresses up itself in the language best suited to the dreamer concerned, I feel, because it the end it is all about love. Love is the real teacher behind all else, and love sets up the needed lessons for us together with our soul, I believe.
@Namelesss (3365)
• United States
15 Dec 15
I'm curious and asking you this because of the clarity with which you wrote your dream. Do you have a mentor in your dreams, someone who tends to show up in different dreams? Of course if you don't want to answer that it's fine.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
16 Dec 15
@Namelesss Mine was helpful too, but I felt after many years that he was becoming invasive in a way, infiltrating too many areas of my life. I also felt a bit too dependent on him, and his teachings.
I had another experience with Jesus Christ then, and I returned to main-line religion, because of my wife being a Catholic.
I did this so we could worship together. I thought it was better to walk her path with her for now anyway, rather than to stay on my own path, or with my own New-Age religion.
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@Namelesss (3365)
• United States
16 Dec 15
@innertalks That's a shame you can't open that file. Thanks for answering about the dream mentor/teacher. I have one in particular that is especially helpful.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
15 Dec 15
I don't think dreams really mean anything. But I could be wrong.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
15 Dec 15
I think that everything happens for some reason, and so in a way, all things must have meaning, even dreams.
Why would they happen otherwise?
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