Dreamer
As soon as I thought of the title for this posting the Supertramp song started playing in my head. Ahh but I digress, I had a dream last night. Why is that such big news, well besides the fact that it was an interesting dream, it was the first time in weeks I have had a dream or a decent nights sleep for that matter.
My dream is about me, one of my favourite subjects, I am in a strange house where everything is big or at least I am too small too reach anything. I smell something tasty on a counter but cannot reach high enough to get whatever it is. I am alone and trying to figure a way to get to the counter to get what is on the counter. I am not sure what is up there but I definitely want it! As I look around I see a chair which is too large for me to lift so I push it across the floor to the counter. Now I need to find something to help me climb up on the chair. I find some books and pile them up beside the chair. Next I climb on the books and pull myself up on the chair but I find I am still too small to reach the counter. I try jumping up and down on the chair but still am not able to reach the counter. I lean off the chair and pull the books one by one up unto the chair. After piling the books on the chair and climbing on top of the books I am finally able to reach the counter. I look around and their is nothing in sight. Thinking it maybe further along I climb on the counter and still cannot find anything. I stand up and look around at a unfamiliar kitchen in a strange house. I walk around the counter but cannot find this most enticing smell. Disappointed I decide to get down from the counter only to discover the chair and books are no longer where I left them. Not sure how I am going to get down I sit down on the counter and with a sudden start I wake up with this strange sense of wanting something but not sure what it is I want.
It is driving me nuts because the smell was so familiar yet I cannot place what it was and also the song Dreamer is still running through my head.
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April 19th, 2007 at 12:51
Smells are usually something to do with our past because our sense of smell is so evocative. That it seemed familiar but you couldn’t place it leads me to believe you need to remember something.
Seeming small compared to objects like chairs and counters may indicate the memory is from early childhood. Is there perhaps a certain food your mother used to cook that you don’t eat anymore and miss?
However, doing all that work to climb up and then finding no way back down is an indication of feeling that you are “in over your head”. In trying to recapture something from your youth you feel you are empty-handed and have no way back? Perhaps the unfamiliar house represents a feeling of being an outsider in some fashion, and the smallness the feeling of powerlessness in that situation.
Hope these help. I’m no psychologist but play one on TV…
April 19th, 2007 at 3:20
Hmmm not bad gives me something to think about.
Thanks Doctor Jim
May 1st, 2007 at 4:04
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May 1st, 2007 at 4:07
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm… or you could be crazy
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:42
Yes I could be crazy….definite possibility. Not a bad place to be!
June 12th, 2007 at 6:50
Hey mate. Research it and see how you go finding the symbolism of the images in your dream. Might be a message from your sub-conscious, or something that’s been on your mind.