I joined because of this dream!! So Weird!

[polymer]

Hello, I JUST joined this site after having a strange dream this morning... I'd love to know what it might mean, if anything. I am a 33 year old professional woman, I own and operate a small business so I'm very busy with plenty of stresses... which may factor into the dream, I'm not sure...


In my dream this morning...
First I was in a house located in the woods, i knew it was my house and I was an adult... hanging out with some friends. they were making these "pork chops" and they just looked weird (the pork chops) and they were cutting them into pieces with scissors to cook in the microwave... I thought this was weird and potentially gross.... but then the dream changed... I don't know if there was a "gap" between these 2 "dreams" but the following is what I'm most curious about...

I went outside of the house (never seeing it) which was still located in woods and it was evening, so it was dark out... and I was fully aware that I was a little boy! (!!??) maybe age 7-8-ish... I couldn't see myself, I just knew and I was running out there to go over to this foot bridge located on the side of the yard... (The bridge seemed similar to a bridge my husband and I hung out on last year) it was long and wood and was over water but this bridge had no rails...

I was going out to do what I always do, meet my little friend who lived across the bridge... (this was SO VIVID!)

I positioned myself in the middle of the bridge walkway to start walking towards the middle of the bridge itself...
(i was "feeling" all this and feeling how I normally feel on a bridge with no rails... cautious...)
I was looking across the bridge waiting to see the silhouette of my friend... and there she appeared in the distance on the other side...

then my cat (my real cat) appeared and was running around.. I remember thinking she shouldn't be out but at the same time it seemed ok that she was, it seemed "normal"... so off I headed across the bridge and my friend was heading my way...

*gasp

I was not halfway and she was about a 1/4 way to the middle when she turned and stepped off the bridge! I was scared!! I carefully ran to where she had stepped and I laid down on my belly in the middle of the bridge then pulled myself to the edge to peer over... it was horrifying!! her lifeless body was laying in the shallow edge of the water !!! she had on a pink or red coat and it was so bright from my view and I was so scared! I got up to hurry back to my house and get help... and there was my cat trotting with me but then she went to the edge and jumped as if casually jumping down from the desk !!!!! I screamed in my dream! and woke up!

NOTE: about screaming in this dream... I can NEVER scream in my dreams... when I try no voice comes out and that's scary alone... but thinking on this I realize that when I can't scream it is when I'm in personal danger... this scream was out of fear v/s immediate personal danger... so maybe that's why?

Wondering what other dream theorists think!! Thanks!

[Gypsy55]

Hi
Your dream age might be something that is going on in your life that makes you feel as vulnerable as a 7 or 8 year old. Your friend stepping of the edge of the bridge could be your fear of losing a long time friend, meeting on the bridge might also mean that you have to go more than half way to prevent this loss. Red is the colour of passion or danger, both of which seem relevent. Being in the woods could mean that you are hiding from something, and the fact that you didn't see the house shows that you are missing or avoiding things in your life that pertain to you. You need to spend some time recharging away from your work.

[polymer]

neat! I definitely need to step away from work...

I felt like i didn't see the house because I exited it and walked away from it, so I didn't look back but I could feel it was a big country home.

I loved reading your thoughts on it, thanks so much!

[sailrmc]

A bridge is very often a symbol indicating that the dreamer is about to deal or currently dealing with emotional transition. There is a hint of what you are dealing with (the intended meaning) and it is an acknowledgment about how you feel. I believe this is a comment by the subconscious that lets you know of the risks in life of loosing those we care about. Separation anxiety, to be more direct seems to be on your mind. Going a bit further one would guess that in your life you have tended to meet people more than half way showing that you are a giver...but you are not receiving a fair return on the risk vs. reward scale. It seems as if you have met others greater than half way and you have been disappointed as a result. In some way you feel that when you do give more than your share and you are disappointed that a part of you dies with each occurrence (most likely your independence and or femininity).

If I am not on track I can tell you that without a doubt this dream deals with disappointments in life that go back to your childhood and how they affect you.
Your thoughts?
sailrmc

[resin8love]

The dream has symbols that are easy to interp. You are young as you stated and you are working running a small business. I'll start with the microwave, you know food taste horrible out of a micro, anything you eat that is not slow cooked most of the time is gross. I don't know how you feel about pork , there are some who claim this as a unclean food. I dont think this pertains to you as much. A bridge shows there is a deal that your buisiness has to cross, or a personal desiscion you have to make, your unsure and are possibly fearful of falure. Cat represents poise. Child represents lack of experience. The dark represents a mood as well as the water under bridge. I see this whole dream as important things that have you unconfortable and as others have stated it seems your personal life and work have you straind emotionaly. You want fast results in your dealings but you cant rush quality. Thats what you will have to contimplate quanitity over quality, The little cut up pork chops is your answer. GOD bless you, Peace.

[polymer]

pork chops are ok. i dont eat them often. :-)

thanks everyone! I loved reading your ideas... not sure on my childhood... it probably wasn't long after my 8th year that I began to spite my father... he was verbally aggressive but I feel very at peace with all of that... did a lot of healing as soon as I flew the coup...

i definitely have business stresses... I run the whole thing alone (mostly) and I mean EVERYthing... I am the owner, manager, csr, designer, laborer, treasurer, accountant (well and I have a real one I send my tallies too thank goodness). I'm pulled in many directions at a time... I've been feeling pretty good right now though, taxes are well, taxing but I'm not really anticipating any major business endeavors... they are currently behind me having purchased a building to move the business into 2 years ago... but everyday is a new day and anything could happen.

sailrmc had an interesting point about meeting people more than halfway... yes. this is true and I have felt disappointment from it before. It was in the past year that I was fully tapped and basically turned a walked away from those not meeting me... but I feel I had made peace with that too... hmmm...

I am VERY curious why I was a Boy in the dream... I've never had this happen where I was fully aware of being someone else... is this "out of body"?? is this "past life" memories??
and my friend in the dream... suicide... it wasn't an accidentally walk off the bridge...
I am constantly healing over a suicide in 2004... someone who was a soul mate... a best friend... we met oddly in our teens and knew pretty quick that we had known one another before, many times.

I have told the dream to a couple of friends yesterday, and I could not come to the point of looking over the bridge at the girl without breaking down in tears... very emotional and visual it was.