Dream of lost
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:01 pm
Hi all,
This is someone I've been "chasing" remedy for, for some years (some
results, but not the "direct hit" I need!). She sent me this recent
dream, which I would love to hear thoughts about!
*************
Dream: I'm going with [my brother] to a dentist appointment somewhere
across from [a big, fancy office complex she used to work at];
following his car with mine. As we pick our way thru heavy traffic I
remember that I never got around to [finding out] the name of the
dentist and address of the office. Traffic separates us, but I decide
to push on and see if I can figure it out. I figure if I see the
[dentist's] name, I'll recognize it, or maybe will find [my brother].
But on arrival, no such luck. [An old friend was in the car with me,
and] we wind up walking thru the [office complex], getting lost along
the way, looking for the place where *her* appointment is; eventually
we find that, and I depart to try to find my appointment. I tell her
that it's "across the street", and I'll meet her again either in front
of that building or this one, at 11:00 (which is 40 min from the time,
which now looks quite unreasonably optimistic!) As I leave I am
vaguely wondering what she'll do--how she'll get back home--if we're
*not* able to meet up on strength of my vague instructions! I start to
offer her a "what if" plan, someplace we can both phone if we need to
exchange messages--but can't figure one out in time, and wind up
leaving while still puzzling over that possible contency plan. I go
outside, look for "across the street", realize there are two
possibilities (the door I came out of it at a sort of T), and choose
the one that looks more likely, stand looking up at that building,
wondering what to do next. Shortly after that I woke, having no clue
yet about where the appointment might be.
This dream is VERY representative of that whole thing I've had going
for decades!
1) Start out with a purpose or plan or destination in mind, and
quickly become lost again. [Finishing college; cleaning the kitchen;
writing a book... Could be anything, big or small (variable
symptoms!), but huge difficulties with planning and execution in
general.)]
2) The feeling throughout [the dream] is a sort of gentle puzzlement
(despite the predicaments, I don't tend to get particularly upset in
these dreams; though sometimes anxious in a flighty, ungrounded sort of
way). And a REALLY SPACEY feeling, which is very like the feeling I
have so often had in life--as tho everything is uncertain, can't pin
down locations or intentions or (God forbid) anything like a PLAN, so
I just sort of throw myself into the activity, hoping that somehow the
current will lead me where I want to go--but it never does, and I just
wind up "lost" again.
***************
I would love thoughts about remedies, families, types of remedy,
anything of that sort?
Thanks for all thoughts!
Shannon
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This is someone I've been "chasing" remedy for, for some years (some
results, but not the "direct hit" I need!). She sent me this recent
dream, which I would love to hear thoughts about!
*************
Dream: I'm going with [my brother] to a dentist appointment somewhere
across from [a big, fancy office complex she used to work at];
following his car with mine. As we pick our way thru heavy traffic I
remember that I never got around to [finding out] the name of the
dentist and address of the office. Traffic separates us, but I decide
to push on and see if I can figure it out. I figure if I see the
[dentist's] name, I'll recognize it, or maybe will find [my brother].
But on arrival, no such luck. [An old friend was in the car with me,
and] we wind up walking thru the [office complex], getting lost along
the way, looking for the place where *her* appointment is; eventually
we find that, and I depart to try to find my appointment. I tell her
that it's "across the street", and I'll meet her again either in front
of that building or this one, at 11:00 (which is 40 min from the time,
which now looks quite unreasonably optimistic!) As I leave I am
vaguely wondering what she'll do--how she'll get back home--if we're
*not* able to meet up on strength of my vague instructions! I start to
offer her a "what if" plan, someplace we can both phone if we need to
exchange messages--but can't figure one out in time, and wind up
leaving while still puzzling over that possible contency plan. I go
outside, look for "across the street", realize there are two
possibilities (the door I came out of it at a sort of T), and choose
the one that looks more likely, stand looking up at that building,
wondering what to do next. Shortly after that I woke, having no clue
yet about where the appointment might be.
This dream is VERY representative of that whole thing I've had going
for decades!
1) Start out with a purpose or plan or destination in mind, and
quickly become lost again. [Finishing college; cleaning the kitchen;
writing a book... Could be anything, big or small (variable
symptoms!), but huge difficulties with planning and execution in
general.)]
2) The feeling throughout [the dream] is a sort of gentle puzzlement
(despite the predicaments, I don't tend to get particularly upset in
these dreams; though sometimes anxious in a flighty, ungrounded sort of
way). And a REALLY SPACEY feeling, which is very like the feeling I
have so often had in life--as tho everything is uncertain, can't pin
down locations or intentions or (God forbid) anything like a PLAN, so
I just sort of throw myself into the activity, hoping that somehow the
current will lead me where I want to go--but it never does, and I just
wind up "lost" again.
***************
I would love thoughts about remedies, families, types of remedy,
anything of that sort?
Thanks for all thoughts!
Shannon
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