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OK. Here's the dream I had this morning. What does it mean? Do any of you dabble in dream interpretation? Or feel like you know me well enough to offer some insights into what you think my psyche is telling me?

Thanks!

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I was riding on a bus going to somewhere or other and there were a lot of other people on the bus. It was full capacity. We were like a community of people. Everybody seemed to know each other quite well.

I got to a point where I realized I didn't want to go to the destination where this bus was heading. So, somehow (and I'm not sure how because this was a dream and it was all surreal), I pulled the bus over to a break in the median strip, and I was going to get out, figuring I could walk back to where I was before we left, even though it was many miles.

I started getting off the bus and the bus driver came up to me and said, "You can't get off here! This is dangerous! Plus what about the rest of the people?"

And I said, "Well that's why I pulled the bus over into the break in the median strip. So I could get out and you could continue driving everybody else to where they are going. I didn't turn the bus around to go in the opposite direction! I don't want to go where this bus us headed any more!"

He answered, "This is not the appropriate place to do this. It's very dangerous. You will have to walk all the way across to the other side of the highway and there is a lot of traffic coming. I will turn the bus around for you to let you off at that restaurant across the street, then turn it around again so everyone else can get to where they want to go."

I said fine, returned to my seat, and he did a u-turn to the other side of the 4-lane highway and let me out in front of the restaurant. "Wait inside," he said. "Look out the window. When I get the bus going back the other way, you can go."

I sat and looked out the window drinking a cup of coffee and a few minutes later, I saw the bus headed back up the other side of the highway so I figured it was OK to leave since that's what the bus driver told me.

When I walked out of the restaurant, there was the bus driver waiting for me. "What's going on? Who's driving the bus?" I asked. "I got the guy with a beard from California to drive it. He said he had some experience driving a bus, " he answered.

I told him I was worried that they were going to get where they were going safely since he wasn't driving the bus as he was supposed to be doing. I told him I also felt a little guilty that my decision to get off the bus had effected so many people.

"Don't worry about it, " he said. "They'll be OK. I'm going to walk with you because you shouldn't be walking alone. It's many miles back. It will take us several days."

I agreed and we walked down the highway on the shoulder with cars and trucks zipping by. Several times we had to cross the highway to get to the median strip because there was a sidewalk there and he told me he thought it would be safer.

Once we had to climb a wall to get up to the sidewalk. I could barely reach the railing on top of the wall and had to pull myself up with my hands. I realized my core muscles were quite week and was pisesd at myself for being in such poor shape. He had to help me up.

When the sidewalk ended on the median strip, we'd cross back over again, taking our chances running when we saw a break in the traffic, as the cars and trucks were coming very fast.

I found it interesting that we were not alone. During our walk down the highway which lasted quite a few hours (I was getting very tired), we saw other people on foot who were walking the same way we were walking and having similar troubles. We'd wave to them and acknowledge them but we didn't walk together.

It was a big concern of mine that when I got back, I'd find a warrant for my arrest for hijacking the bus in order to get off of it or some other charge having to do with illegally impeding a public transportation vehicle from going to where it was supposed to go. I was also very worried about the other people on the bus and hoping they got to their destination safely.

Oddly, I didn't know this bus driver very well at all but for some reason put my total trust in him to keep me safe on my journey. I was honored that he was so concerned about me, that he got off the bus to accompany me.

I woke up exhausted and I wanted to go back to sleep to finish walking back to where I wanted to go back to because I knew we had a couple of days of walking ahead of us and wanted to get on with it.

Footnote - before anybody says "you're either on the bus or off the bus" .... please don't. That's too... well.... cliche. If anybody has any insights into what all these symbols mean, though, I'd truly appreciate it. I did this once before on another site... posted a dream... and man, perfect strangers came up with all sorts of stuff about me that really fit! and it helped! So thanks in advance for offering your interpretation. (Don't you hate it when people say "thanks in advance"? I do. ugh)

I'm certainly no expert, but if it were my dream, I would probably take it as the following:

You have to do what you got to do, even if it means abandoning a community and feeling like you're potentially causing disservice to others, and experience struggles and risk danger. But at the end of the day, its alright, cause there are people who are there for you and willing to help you out.

thanks for the link, Clay
I couldn't find anything on there to explain my dream to me, tho.
Maybe I'll try to find a site where you can look up symbols.

and

Thanks, bohonato... that's a very interesting take on it. It really fits, too.

what's with the bondage avatar?



I've never seen this side of you before

Hmmm. It it a bondage avatar? I had no idea. Just thought it was a pretty lady with beautiful long hair. *shrug*

I've been changing my avatars again a lot. Used mickey mouse winking yesterday. I'm collecting them.

Btw, I'm guessing that when I change my avatar again, the image you just posted will change with it since you didn't save it anywhere to reference except my avatar.

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Can we get back to my question about what my dream means, please? I really would like to delve into the symbols a little.

I liked bohonoto's interpretation... but I wonder who the community is? And who's the bus driver? And why a bus? And what is the thing about climbing up onto a wall to get to the sidewalk? There's so many symbols in this!

I always like to interpret my own dreams. It has never crossed my mind to ask someone else what they mean.
I might write about my dreams, or discuss them but not expecting anyone to tell me what they mean.

But here is my gut reaction.
You are getting ready to shut down studio eight cause you are sick and tired of these weirdos here like me.

No kidding
That really crossed my mind.

I tell ya what D for what it is worth
I have printed it out and will read it a couple more times and then sleep on it and see if I can dream up a better answer.


I am sorry I did not save a copy of your winky mouse avatar

LOL!!!

no, that's not it! I like all the studio eighters and none are any weirder than me.. I'm not at all thinking of shutting this place down. On the contrary! We'll be expanding it. (I know I keep saying that and it hasn't happened yet but it IS in the works and one day you'll see!)

thanks, jack... I'll be look forward to your interpretation.

I need all the help I can get.

As I said before, I did this one other time on another site and was just blown away by how the symbols were interpreted and it was wonderful and amazing... how people I didn't know came up with all kinds of stuff that fit so well!

there ya go

I think from what bh was saying you might think you're down and out. But "we" here are going to help you out along the way!!!!
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Honda CLR

this bit in the begining interests me as you said dreams are surreal, does surreal equal meaningless or just strange?

First you are a passenger

I was riding on a bus

Then are the bus driver

I pulled the bus over to a break in the median strip, and I was going to get out,

and then the bus driver is another person

I started getting off the bus and the bus driver came up to me and said, "You can't get off here! This is dangerous! Plus what about the rest of the people?"

I don't know why that interests me so much, as if you are the bus driver, you control your destiny, you have the inner bus driver to help you. Or the light with in, we must drive our own bus I guess, like the buddha say
be a lamp unto yourself (quote from geezer memory.)

Then this in the end

I woke up exhausted and I wanted to go back to sleep to finish walking back to where I wanted to go back to because I knew we had a couple of days of walking ahead of us and wanted to get on with it.

Are you anticipating or do you have a difficult project coming up?

First thought: it reminded me to a documentary film about salmons I saw unexpectely waiting in the national TV for the last president´s speech in plaza de mayo.
In the dream/relato it seems there is a problem, some kind of maybe unnecessary but inevitable & at the same time bloomy mind suffering, there is help and also hard work to do. No idea about symbols in a general way, sorry!!!!!!!! maybe it´s better to be exhausted than guilty, I don´t know!!

Dave -

What a positive analysis! Thanks so much for the reassurance that all my studio friends will be here to help me out! I appreciate that more than I can tell you!

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Jack -

sur·re·al
having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal;

Yes, that means I knew I was a passenger on the bus then was somehow able to move the bus to a position where I could get off of it which usually a passenger can't do. Only in dreams can people do such things. It's surreal. I never actually took the driver's seat. There was a bus driver the whole time. And I never was the bus driver. Just surrealistically, in a dream type maneuver, I moved the bus with my will or something. You know.. just like you can fly in a dream, you can walk on water in a dream, you can walk through walls in a dream, etc. (well I've done all those things in dreams so I assume other people have, too)

That's an interesting take on the role of the bus driver... that you thought of it as ME being the driver... and relating it to controlling my own destiny but as a passenger, I can't do it. Someone else said, on another site, that maybe the bus driver was like my guide.

And yes, there are difficult projects coming up... several... first my life which is the most difficult. I don't know what to do next. I'm lonely as hell. I have no creative direction. I have no energy. And then there's my job which is really iffy at the moment and after 10 years, I may need to move on. I wonder how these difficulties fit in with the dream? You're saying maybe my desire to go back to sleep to get on with it was my desire to try to solve some of my real life challenges which remain unsolved?

Thanks so much fo your input!

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Arcadia -

That salmon documentary sounds interesting!

Mind suffering.. yes! and there IS help? Yay!!!... and hard work to do! ... sigh... omg, it figures! It always takes hard work, doesn't it?
I like that analysis! Thank you for your interpretation.

Interesting dream Doreen ....i did some research...check it out....

Riding in a dream signifies the direction of your life.

A bus ride signifies going along with the crowd.

The bus driver signifies collective power that is not utilized.

Coffee in a dream signifies a need to change routine.

Crowds in a scene indicate a need for space after too much conformity and lack of individuality.

Highways that are smooth and straight signify a peaceful direction, bumpy and windy highways are about obstacles.

Guilt is about repressed and negative feelings about yourself.

Running often indicates an avoidance of issues

Climbing a wall suggests a great obstacle has been overcome, and that reaching goals is iminent.

Hopes this helps in interpreting this amazing dream for you.
H