Hey, Tony! Thanks for your assessment of my "dead friend" dream. It was very comforting.
Now, I have something else for you. In the last two years, I've had a series of recurring dreams about the night sky. These are not unpleasant dreams, though something always happens within them that both frightens and surprises me.
In the dreams, which are mostly set in the evening (though one or two have had daytime settings), I'm standing and intently studying the sky. Sometimes, it's very dark around me. The first time I had this dream, I was in the back yard of my childhood home--a home we left in 1968, when I was 15. Nothing in my life has affected me like moving away from that house. My fondest wish is to one day buy it back and live there (more on that in another thread, since I've dreamed about this place many times).
Anyway, in the first dream--which set up the parameters for all the others--I'm watching the night sky. The sky itself is full of stars. Much more than in real life. And the stars are very clear and sharp and somewhat closer than normal. And as I'm watching, something unusual happens. I see what appears to be a comet with a tail flying across the sky, and then it explodes with a loud bang! This frightens me, but I'm also quite fascinated by it. I woke up immediately afterward.
The dreams since then have followed this pattern, with slight variations. I'm always looking up at the night sky. Once in a while, there seems to be a spotlight of sorts on me, but beyond that, it's dark. The stars are clear, bright, and close. Once in a while, they're colored in pastel shades of red and blue, orange and green. And then, I see one or several of them start to move. Or there's a shooting star. In more than a few dreams (including the last one I had just the other night), I also notice a UFO and get very agitated. I wouldn't call it a fear, but more like an anxiety. One of the "daytime" dreams I had also contained a UFO.
I should say that I find these dreams interesting and relatively pleasant to look back on. I actually look forward to them because they're so real and intriguing.
I've looked up the meaning of such dreams, and the night sky and UFOs and comets and shooting stars all seem to point to a life-changing event, something good. I've been a magazine writer for years and have been working on a novel that's in the final stages of completion. My feelings are torn about this book--while I feel it's good and will sell, there's anxiousness there, too. Could the sky dreams have something to do with this? I feel they're connected in some fundamental way.
Thanks--I'm looking forward to your interpretation!
Rod