Date

Calendar date: This needs to be considered in connection with the other parts of the dream. It can relate to something that happened on that date in the past, and is still important to you in some way. If not that try looking for what you associate with the month, year and numbers in the date. In this way they are a reference point, usually for important experiences or relationships that occurred in the past.

If it is a future date, this may be about the way dreams tend to extrapolate a future from present and past events. It is like drawing a line on a graph from prior performance.

Idioms: bad date: blind date; dates you; up to date.

Romantic ‘date’: Hopes about or insight into a relationship. Release of pleasurable feelings about yourself.

Example: I was in a dorm room and saying goodbye to someone I had been dating. There was a corkboard with old pictures of me on it. I thought it was unusual for him to have these pictures of me. He really liked them, which made me feel like he was really going to miss me, which surprised me. He was trying to kiss me goodbye, but I hesitated because there was a carload of my friends looking at us, and they didn’t approve of our relationship. Then I went to my mom’s house, where I found my dog; she is actually dead in reality. Angie.

Angie’s dream is probably typical of ‘date’ dreams. In it she is assessing the relationship and realising that he really likes her. It also show how the pressure of her friends attitude interferes with her own natural feelings. Then the dog shows the coming alive again of warm feelings that were dead.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was the dream telling me about the date?

Was it with and ex or a new friend?

Did it work out well or a complete disaster?

See Integrating an Ex – Difficult Relationship – Characters and People in Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams