Me and my weird dreams

[WalrusSongs]

I'd be lying if I said that I can understand my own dreams. Sometimes they seem obvious to their meaning and I'm just not comprehending, but usually they're so strange and seemingly nonsensical that I'm convinced that my dreams have no meaning and are just a means of entertaining me while I'm asleep. Also, mostly my dreams will be one long sequence of stuff, then will segue into something either only loosely connected or completely different.

Take the dream I had last night for example:

I just happened upon a building that for some reason was a combined hospital/airport. I walked around watching people get on airplanes and also get put in hospital beds. I saw my friend's husband sitting down talking to someone and thought, "Huh. That was weird." then kept walking. Finally, I stumbled across my friend and we started talking and went into a room. We were talking about how great her husband was, and then I just said "I'm taking my pants off." She laid down in the bed and said "You really shouldn't." I kept threatening to take my pants off and finally I did and then it ended.

Eventually I was for some reason a German soldier in WWII and got fed up with the Nazis and said I wasn't going to fight for them anymore. They said I was still wearing an SS uniform, so I took it off and walked away. I was completely naked and in the rain. And that was it.

See what I mean?

[Tony Crisp]

Walrus – I believe you are thinking about your dreams, and thinking has no part in understanding your dreams. Dreams come from your core self, which existed long before you learnt language. See - http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/clicking-on/ also http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/animal-children/

You need to realise that everything we see and meet we build feeling associations with. As an example I was recently asked by a man who had given no thought to dreams how on earth you could extract any meaning from them. He was wearing a fairly old T-shirt, so I said, "OK, let’s imagine you dreamt of your T-shirt, what would you make of that?"

After a while he said, "I don't know that I would make anything of it."

My response was to say, "Right, but now tell me where you bought the T-shirt, and what memories it has for you." Whereupon he told me, with some hesitation his memories of being abroad, and that the shirt was part of memories that he didn't want to walk about. Not only did he realise he had very powerful associations with the T-Shirt, but he wanted to hide them.

The important point is that everything we see and deal with, every person, every imagined scene, has such a background of feelings and perhaps memories. It is exactly this background of feelings and information that the dream weaves its story from. It is these associations that are the language of our dreams. To understand them you need to become aware of the usually unconscious feeling responses you have in connection with every thing, place, person and animal you fill your dreams with.

So your dream are not loosely connected, but you fail to find your associations. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working

Obviously I have to guess at your associations – but the hospital, airport suggests you need healing for a part of you that watching your own life – shown as other people, see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/characters-or-people-in-dreams/ - before you take a journey into yourself  - or are making a big change.

The friend you thought weird was a character – see character of people in dreams again to define what characteristics she represents – but I guess it is part of you, you feel easy about being totally honest with. There is also a sexual feeling here as she lays on the bed.

The SS uniform shows that you had previously been someone with uniform attitudes, one that you did not like and so left behind; and then you really are ready to feel who you are beyond any pretence. So it sounds like you are on the move. But to help it please try using one of the techniques in http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/

And good luck – with blessings.

Tony