Therefore, in the meantime I have been asked to interpret a dream. Problematically, I have not met the dreamer, which always makes dream interpretation difficult. Sometimes a cigar is a cigar, and sometimes it most definitely is not. Knowing the dreamer certainly helps. The dream was given to me by a third party, however, and I have agreed to interpret the following. All sophomoric grammar errors belong to the dreamer.
the first dream starts out with me and a few friends driving in two separate cars to a log cabin in the woods. the driver of my car is my brothers' girlfriend kelsey. we get to the cabin and arent really doing anything when the people in the other car get mad at the people in our car. all of a sudden the mood becomes chilled to immediate fright. the people from the other car become very hostile so the people from my car run away from the cabin. kelsey gets in the drivers seat and takes off with the other car right on our tales. we take a left out of the drive way and it turns from a wooded road to open meadows. we pass a few indian reservations. finaly we stop at one to try to find shelter and protection. we meet the indians and they hide us in a small house. we hear the other car drive in and start wrecking the place trying to find us. right before they reach our little hut i wake up
now i go back to sleep later that night and the dream starts over. we drive back to the cabin with my brothers girlfriend driving the car. the cabin gets even more hostile this time. ( remember we are all friends so there is logically no reason to be furious to the point of wanting death) so this time as me and kelsey and my friend cameron and allie are running to the car kelsey throws the keys of her car to cameron and we take off with him driving while allie is in the back seat and kelsey apparently gets taken by the angry mob. as cameron speeds out of the driveway i yell for him to take a left as we had done last time but he swerves right. this time we got a little more of a head start and the other car was not directly behind us. so as we are driving we never see the car behind us. we are still freaking out though. we are not sure if they are on another road watching us or if we just cant see them but they know exactly where we are. this road also changes from woods but is now really hilly. we start talking about where we should go for shelter. we talk about going to our houses but we know we are unsafe there. so i said we should go stay at the church where my mom works. we decide to do that but are very uncertain about it. right before we get to the church i wake up.
Although I have not met this person, this is what the dream means.
the first dream starts out with me and a few friends driving in two separate cars to a log cabin in the woods. the driver of my car is my brothers' girlfriend kelsey. we get to the cabin and arent really doing anything when the people in the other car get mad at the people in our car. all of a sudden the mood becomes chilled to immediate fright. the people from the other car become very hostile so the people from my car run away from the cabin. kelsey gets in the drivers seat and takes off with the other car right on our tales.
One thing here is clearly important: identity. It's no coincidence the dreamer is going to the woods with his brother's girlfriend, the only named figure. This doesn't necessarily suggest the dreamer actually wants to have his brother's girlfriend. What it does mean, however, is that he is betraying or desires to betray his brother. Whether this is in a romantic context or not can't be known. Note the fact that the identities of those in the other car are obscured. This could mean they were obscured in the dream, or that the dreamer is obscuring them out of shame in his telling of the dream. Either way, his brother is a part of the other car. Note the person who drives away the escape car is Kelsey herself, the symbolic object of betrayal.
we take a left out of the drive way and it turns from a wooded road to open meadows. we pass a few indian reservations. finaly we stop at one to try to find shelter and protection. we meet the indians and they hide us in a small house. we hear the other car drive in and start wrecking the place trying to find us. right before they reach our little hut i wake up
Indian reservations could mean a variety of things. They could symbolize disgrace or gambling opportunities. Given the clear betrayal from the first part of the dream, the Indian reservations represent the unfair dealings between the natives and whites in previous centuries. The dreamer's subconscious is trying to make the betrayal of his brother known in the dream by putting him into the bosom of the betrayed. Of course, his betrayal of his brother only leads to more betrayal--the huts are destroyed despite the fact that the natives were trying to help. Betrayal is a cancer, and the dreamer knows it.
now i go back to sleep later that night and the dream starts over. we drive back to the cabin with my brothers girlfriend driving the car. the cabin gets even more hostile this time. ( remember we are all friends so there is logically no reason to be furious to the point of wanting death)
This is comical. Despite the dreamer's subconscious explaining the betrayal, he still can't imagine why there is hostility. The bell tolls for thee!
so this time as me and kelsey and my friend cameron and allie are running to the car kelsey throws the keys of her car to cameron and we take off with him driving while allie is in the back seat and kelsey apparently gets taken by the angry mob
This is an emotional fact of life. Once you betray someone, ridding yourself of the object of betrayal does not return things to normal. The removal of Kelsey is simply too little and too late. Also, one can always interpret the dream, but one can interpret the telling of the dream here as well. Subconsciously the dream-teller is trying to distract me from his original betrayal by only now giving names to the rest of the people in the car. Both the riddance of the object of betrayal and the distraction through name-giving are attempts to alleviate the original guilt of the dreamer, both within the dream and in the telling of it.
as cameron speeds out of the driveway i yell for him to take a left as we had done last time but he swerves right. this time we got a little more of a head start and the other car was not directly behind us. so as we are driving we never see the car behind us. we are still freaking out though. we are not sure if they are on another road watching us or if we just cant see them but they know exactly where we are. this road also changes from woods but is now really hilly. we start talking about where we should go for shelter. we talk about going to our houses but we know we are unsafe there. so i said we should go stay at the church where my mom works. we decide to do that but are very uncertain about it. right before we get to the church i wake up.
"We talk about going to our houses but we know we are unsafe there." Do you think? It's your brother you betrayed! The fact that his mother works at a church is irrelevant. What's important is that both mothers and churches are figures of authority, and the dreamer desires to hide under the skirts of both. The dreamer's subconscious will not allow him to have an easy absolution of his crimes, however, thus he wakes before he can get to either authority, suspending him in fear. In the end, the dreamer knows what he's done or is contemplating doing, and his moral center will not allow a childish escape by crying to authority. The subconscious is demanding that he give up the betrayal like a man.
No doubt the dreamer will disagree with my interpretation. There is nothing new about that. Dreamers rarely like being told about the things they repress, which is often the subject of dreams. Very seldom does a dream mean something positive. That well is long poisoned with the fears and guilt of the townspeople.
