Dreamtime - Your two dreams have the same theme - something that was lifeless being revived.
You were looking for an old familiar place - the friends house, but instead you realised it was the wrong place. The compound probably represents a mixture of parts of your nature that you had not experienced consciously before. They were animal parts of you and in the dream dictionary are described as “instinctive or intuitive wisdom about relationships, social interactions and life. The Egyptian god Thoth as the baboon is a symbol of arbitration, and is also active in resurrection and giving of life and wisdom. He was the power that judges the balance of your life after death. So the baboon can represent a world of experience human beings have lost and feel sorrow at its absence.” The parts of us that the dream represents feel the town people irritating and they misunderstood them. Exactly how we kill certain parts of our self. We are educated to do so.
As you can see it deals with resurrection. So a wonderful part of you has come to life and you will slowly see how it colours your responses to everyday experiences. It might be a good idea to explore being the Hispanic man - see
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/The second dream takes the theme a step further. The image of nature sounds as if it represents the ideas we are taught about nature and our own human nature. It paints a picture of life as being non communicative and it is actually alive with ‘natural energy’ and intelligence.
The same realisation about the town people is echoed again - I knew we had been there at some point long ago but he didn’t remember it. The killing process that denies us of our full awareness. The long ago maybe refers to what has been killed in us - see
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/#Inner In a sense it also says that your memory of who you are goes back a long, long way beyond your birth. I think it would add to your memory if you explore being the golden bridge and the towering old historical buildings right at the water’s edge and the grand stone architecture.
Tony