Alley
This is a direction you are taking at the moment. The dream shows you the often hidden side of what you pursue, so the condition, mood and quality of the alley is a comment on what you are doing or feeling. Because most alleys are small, it may be saying you are leaving the main highway of your life. See: road.
Like any road it indicates your prevailing direction in, or approach to, life – this direction/approach can be either self created out of your own actions or decisions, or arise out of other peoples or social influence. But the alley suggests limited possibilities or horizons, or present limited possibilities will be overcome with effort and initiative. The ease or difficulty in the alley shows the state of your present situation.
An alley with a dead end suggests concern about a tight situation that appears to have no easy way out.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What situation in my life does this describe – limited opportunities, lessened horizons?
What is the main action in the dream and is there any connection with situations in my life?
How would I describe my situation in the dream – i.e. happy, lost, searching, etc – and in what way does that link with my waking life?
Am I walking this alley or looking down it – if the latter, what opportunity or difficulty does this suggest?
Am I involved with other people, and if so in what way?
Where am I going or what a I trying to achieve?
Comments
I had a dream of escaping a massacre and running through narrow alleys with brick walls on both sides to avoid the killers who are chasing me.
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Debanjali – All the people, animals, places you see in your dreams, are simply your own feelings, fears, hopes and wonder projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind as images. So, it makes sense to take the image of your dream person, thing or animal back into you and own it. In that way, you are meeting and dealing with the things about yourself you are not owning or conscious of. That is why dreams are often difficult to understand, because we are hiding things from ourselves.
Also whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear. So all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/masters-of-nightmares/
So why are you running from your own fears, for you are massacring parts of yourself. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
I had a dream i was in labor in the alley and didnt have nothing to cover my daughter but she look so beautiful made me sad and worried and by the end of the dream i ended up with a cat.