"Hoping you can analyse this dream for me:
I am in the town I live in but it's quite empty and looks different. I walk into a store, which is spacious and scarcely filled and venture upstairs knowing I will find books there. I see a person I went to high school with, who in real life is pursuing a stand-up comedy career. In the dream she is so small and child like and when I approach her she doesn't respond, she is like a frightened child or just pretending not to know me.
Somewhere in the dream I become drunk and meet many people, but then I become sober and I cannot remember anything that happened. My wallet, keys and passport are missing and instead I have 2 mobile phones belonging to other people and the wording in them is French. I have someone else's wallet and passport, which is torn and I cannot tell which country it originates from. There is a small picture of an Indian or European looking man and I suppose I must have met this person while drunk. I am then trying to get home but am filled with frustration at not remembering what happened. I have also lost the books I bought, which upsets and frustrates me.
On my way home, a carload of trouble makers frighten me and I run into a store but the store people don't sympathise with me and instead, they appear to know the gang and greet them in a friendly manner. On my way home, I jump through the window of some one's parked car and realize once inside that I cannot get out of the back window and so open the door, hoping not to be seen, and make my way home.
For some strange reason, I end up at the train station speaking to police and explaining I may not find my ticket. I am having trouble locating it in my bag and explain the events of the night. A female officer says I need to learn about gluttony, that over indulging oneself is considered disgusting by one of her colleagues. She introduces me to this colleague, who is a handsome young man.
I eventually find my ticket and find myself with my uncle (who in real life lives over seas). He is smoking and offers me a cigarette but I cannot smoke it and look for more, but they are all impossible to smoke - either smoked to the butt or just covered in ash.I explain my situation and start to look through my bags and find that I must have been home throughout the course of the night because I have picked up a large number of belongings, and I begin to think that perhaps I left my lost items at home. Among these items is make-up, books, and a couple of packs of cigarettes. My uncle is very understanding and doesn't seem to think it an issue that I have become so inebriated and lost my memory.He does make a remark that the job I am in is a dead-end job and I tell him he has no idea, that I have been writing articles for a magazine and he becomes impressed and proud of me.
This is about all I can remember. It was such a vivid dream, and I feel blown away by it. Hopefully you might be able to shed some light on it..."
Dreams that center on realities but display them through the lens of the human imagination are always of particular interest to me. Thank you so much for sending this fascinating dream, and please feel free, all my readers to send your dreams as well, my direct email is Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com and I'd love to do an analysis of your dreams absolutely free. Without further ado, let's dive into the surreal.
The books will tell you that dreaming about your hometown can be an indication of repressed emotions. I believe these themes are sometimes the cause, but additional ideas spring to mind- if you're dreaming about a place you've been before, your mind tends to recreate it incorrectly. Rather than duplicate the place, the mind tends to add rooms where rooms don't belong, or geographic differences, like hills where there are no hills, etc. This could be a matter of what I like to refer to as "brain goo," the nonsensical stuff that's merged in with the more obviously meaningful stuff in your dreams. Conversely, the changes made to a familiar place can be excessively meaningful, for example, if you were attempting to get home and somehow couldn't find your way...
The two emotions that I am reading here are confusion and frustration. More accurately, you spend a great deal of the dream frustrated over being confused, which makes it possible that you might be dealing with some repressed anger. However, I think the larger issue overarching all the images is something different.
You walk into the bookstore, and you see a friend, who behaves in a fearful way and seems to not know you. Then you buy books, a symbol of knowledge, information and learning, which you lose. Being drunk in a dream is often symbolic of a loss of control or irresponsible behavior- I think here, it's a sign of frustration, simply because of the events that it causes. Next you're greeted by authority figures, a woman who is critical of you (and clearly doesn't quite understand you) and then a handsome man. Finally, someone does know you, but you don't know why he's in town, and he doesn't know what you're up to. Through this chain of events, I have to wonder if the core issue here is one of personal identity. Are your ideas about yourself changing? In flux? Are you re-examining your goals in life? An uncle who appears in a dream has been known to be a harbinger of new ideas.
The items of personal property that you've mentioned, cigarettes and make-up, each have associations as well. Make-up is something we use to redesign our appearance. We do this more for the sake of ourselves than for the outside world, take for example the woman who plucks her eyebrows down to nothing only to pencil them back on in a slightly different shape. Do you think her boss cares what her eyebrows look like? Her neighbors? Her boyfriend? Cosmetics go beyond basic grooming, which of course society would like to see from all its citizens. Cosmetics are a mask women apply every day, a tool we use to make ourselves more like the best self we could hope to be.
And the cigarettes, well, if you smoke, this might be your own way of pointing out your dependence on them. It might be a repressed emotional thing as well, if there is something specific that you need in your life that you do not have access to. I would weight the relative importance of the sequence of looking for a cigarette in the dream to the thing you feel is missing. If you spent twenty minutes looking for a stogie in the dream and never finding it, it's not about the cigarette!
I hope that this interpretation of your dream was helpful. Please feel free to leave comments here, or email me at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com with any dream you'd like analyzed fast, free and totally confidential, as always.
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