Vivid Dreams - please help

[Rose519]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Dream Central but have been interested in understanding my dreams for as long as I can remember. Usually I have a good idea of what I'm trying to tell myself, but lately I've been stumped. I don't know if this is true for other people but I have one week of very vivid dreams every month, and also tend to get them more when there's a lot of work to get done.

This week is the final week for editting my dissertation - I will (hopefully!) graduate from University in about a month, so stress levels are high. My boyfriend of 7 months is also studying here and has exams, so we've not seen much of each other. Last night he went home alone (something he has to do a lot now, unfortunately) and afterwards I had a lot of dreams. For once I have no idea what I was trying to communicate to myself and was wondering if anyone could help.

There are two main images which I can't shake, so I guess they must have been the important symbols. Firstly, I was dreaming about escaping from a huge manor house in the countryside. It was owned by a man I knew in the dream but not in real life, and I didn't see him in the dream. I only knew that I wanted to escape and take others with me, so I set about finding a way out. In the process of doing so I had to hide in some rose bushes to avoid the guards and ended up with maybe 20 or so thorns stuck in the palm of my right hand. My left was apparently unscathed. The part that I really remember is pulling each of the thorns out and finding they were made of a glass like material - almost more like shards of glass than thorns at all. And it really hurt. Like really hurt.

Secondly, in a separate dream, my boyfriend and I were stood in a train station, with bags and travelling gear. Then I remember my boyfriend needing to hide some vodka he was carrying (over here we're both two years over the age limit!) so he started to pour it into a bottle of my favourite perfume. I remember being disheartened by it, a feeling of disappointment but begrudging acceptance. I think the country was under some kind of regime, as a heavily armed policeman in riot gear entered the waiting room, just as bf was hiding the perfume bottle up his sleeve. The guard saw the bottle and stepped over to confront us, whereupon my boyfriend started to lie about the contents, much to my suprise. I had felt compelled to be honest but shut up and listened to him persuade the guard otherwise. Then I woke up before any consequences were meted out.

Does anyone have any idea what this could be about? I'm really confused, although I did wonder if the vodka/perfume thing is a representation of mine and his needs (not that he's actually a big drinker) and perhaps a demonstration of my reluctance to sharing the same vessel for them. I'm really not sure, but I will admit that there has been some tension over how much we see each other - I'd prefer to get my head down and work til the deadline, he'd rather we saw more of each other now and the work suffered a little.

Thanks in advance, sorry for the lengthy message!

Rose
xxx