The following week I am going to be in London for work. I am leaving today and I am already tired. But before I leave, I wanted to tell you about this dream I had. And if you can explain dreams (I sometimes explain other people’s dreams, but not mine) please let me know when the men in white are coming to get me.
I was in a big elevator. It was as big as a big studio flat. There were sofas and tables and chairs in the elevator. It was made like someone’ s living room. I often dream of elevators, exactly like that one, fully furnished. But the elevator was in space, or rather in a parallel world, and we all knew we had to take it to go back to Earth, to our world.
I was a bit apprehensive, just like you are in aeroplanes, but nothing more than that. I knew that many people did that every day so why would anything happen to me? Next to me there was my son and M and another man who was scared and sweating all the time and making me nervous. The elevator started its descend and I thought "it is great, we are going to be safe". But then the sweaty man felt something and grabbed my hand and the hand of the person next to him and the elevator bumped a bit and stayed in the air, I mean in space, just like elevators do in buildings, between floors. Not only did it bump, it also tilted to the right and some furniture moved.
There was screaming and shouting and a voice said -again like in department store elevators - that we all had to get off there and then. We opened the window and there was a lightning and we saw a landscape much like earth’s but with different colours. The trees were not green, they were orange and the houses were all painted in bright colours, like toy houses. Huge fruits were hanging from the trees and the flowers were very big and bright. And on the corner of a street there was a dinosaur, that as it was explained to us, had been dead for a few centuries and had been painted and stuffed. Because dinosaurs had recently disappeared from that world. It had a mechanical device that made it open and close its mouth and make a sound. It was supposed to be funny for kids to watch.
But all this time I had a sense of being in another world, not on another planet simply. But somewhere where things happened parralel to things on Earth, only a bit more twisted.
I didn’t see this dream last night, so it probably doesn’t have much to do with my trip to London, I saw it about a week ago but wrote it down because it was so vivid and strange. So? Am I going to live?
August 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pm
The elevator represents the vehicle needed to move you and your family from one place to the next. The spacious size of the elevator means this vehicle that’s capable of changing your life is something you find comfortable and at home with, especially with all the nice furniture.
M and your son represent themselves, but the scared sweaty man is your own personal fear or doubt that the goal you’re trying to reach won’t be attainable, and because of this fear or doubt the elevator stops at a place you weren’t wanting to go to, an “unknown place.”
To translate all of this with a little more detail and focus I’d say that you still want to move to the UK with your family, and you have a vehicle for doing that, your business, and you’re comfortable with your business and you know it well, but you do have doubts like we all do that maybe the vehicle won’t get you to the UK and you’ll end up somewhere you’re unfamiliar with.
Have a great weekend.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:14 pm
My mom works as a dream therapist–it’s pretty interesting stuff. The first things to know about dreams is that the meaning of all the things in them depends on the dreamer’s associations with them. What dinosaur means to you is different than what it means to everyone else, so no one else can really tell you what it means specifically–although there are certain images or concepts that are fairly universal. For example, something happening under water usually relates to things your unconscious is processing.
I’d *guess* that the decent in the elevator and references is similar to being under water, symbolically–you’re processing, somewhere in the depths of your mind (”another world”)–some childhood stuff (all that kid-delight stuff). The message may be that while you may be afraid to go there, it won’t turn out to be as scary as you anticipate.
I know that sounds a bit woo-woo and intangable, but that’s the nature of these things.
In short: You’re not crazy. It likely isn’t an omen. The brain’s a complex thing. It processes, its capable of producing weird stuff for the healthiest of us.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:42 pm
London sounds amazing!
How do you do it to recall such vivid detail of a dream? When I sleep, I’m out!
To me, what your dream reminded me of was a phisiology lecture in which a professor said ‘the human body is only equipped to capture a small range of the spectrum of light and sound, there is a lot going around us that we can’t see or hear’.
My creativity soared to parallel reality undetectable by us! Of course, mainly as a joke, but it’s an interesting thought!
You’ll be fiiiiiine
Enjoy your trip!
September 1st, 2007 at 2:14 am
i like Papa’s interpretation.
September 1st, 2007 at 2:19 am
Papa did the job! But Cavu also has a point. Only the dreamer can interpret it to the core, even though it’s sometimes easier for the person outside to spot certain coicidences.
That was such an amazing and detailed dream…Must be the Pisces in you, the dreamer of the Zodiac, in all senses.
I’ll miss you, take care!
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Wow ..this is the 4th ” dream blog” I visited just this morning..Crazy!
Everything will be fine and I wish you a safe and productive trip. Hugs~
September 4th, 2007 at 2:06 am
Inexplicable…
Well, to me anyway. I am not good with dream interpreations. Probably because I so rarely dream myself. But oh, how I wish I had dreams like that!
So, perhaps you had too much sugar before bed? Or alcohol? Or….well, too much of anything, I suppose.
I hope you’ve had a good trip!
Tell us all about it when you return.
xoxo
Cathy
September 4th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I had a vision of a person trapped by circumstances and making a life for herself in a very restricted place.
She uses her powerful imagination to enlarge and beautify her world.
She has fears for the future, as who doesn’t.
Mind you, that’s just my vision, not yours.
September 4th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Yes, Papa and Cavu have offered reasonable explanations. Your dreams are wonderfully expressive. Your willingness to share them with us is very refreshing. Such a creative soul you are, my little Chloe.
September 5th, 2007 at 3:14 am
Hope you have a safe trip. Take care.
Your dreams are like movies…I never have anything so vivid.
Hugs,
Connie
September 7th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
it means you’re normal. your mind loves to entertain you with random synapsis while you sleep. oh, sorry. that’s not popular.
Hug Missy for me
September 8th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I can usually explain dreams but this one is a little difficult for me. May be because i have seen many times dreams with elevators, without furniture. Very narrow and scary. So, you are luckier! Have a memorable trip. I feel very convinient making trips in your blog!
Take care!
September 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Yes!
You will live to tell the tale!
Reminds me of the elevator scene in “You’ve got mail”
which prompted everyone in it to follow their hearts
etc -
Have an awesome time in London!
Love the photo:)
September 11th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Wow! Your dreams are about as interesting as mine. You can’t make this stuff up. You’re the only that knows how to really interpret based on what’s going on in your life. I have a dream blog, http://www.rebeccadreamed.blogspot.com, where I post my dreams (actually some of them are so out of this world I don’t even know where to begin — perhaps overactive imagination). I’ve just begun this blog but i have a couple that “I just can’t plain interpret them. Period.”
I’ll see you in the padded room…lol. Loved the dream, though. Loooveedd it. You have a very creative mind.
Rebecca
September 14th, 2007 at 1:52 am
Hope you have a safe trip Chloe.