Laura Borealis
I was in a town on an island that got cut off from the mainland when rich people withdrew the bridge from their side. There was a tidal wave approaching, and most of the island people were very poor. Those that survived were picking through the mud-covered ruins, looking for whatever they could find to help them rebuild. This part of the dream wasn't in linear time -- I saw the aftermath before I saw the actual wave.
I escaped the destruction of the wave by climbing to the top of an embankment where the bridge/highway had been. The people who climbed with me were college students, and they were looking for their professor, a wise older man, who had told them to meet him there. Then we saw the wave come in -- HUGE and blue and covering everything. It was surprisingly calm looking.
After that, I was in a different setting, like a posh doctor's office. The lost professor from the island had died. Rather, his body had died, but his personality had been saved and temporarily stored in another mind -- mine! I had both my own mind, and that of the professor, in my brain. But they soon extracted him into a donor body, that of a young woman. I don't remember this part clearly, but there was some procedure that had to be performed to do this.
The next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital bed. At first I wasn't sure where I was. But I was wearing a hospital gown, so I figured it out. I picked up some dirty dishes that had been left on my tray table and took them down the hall to a small kitchen. I heard a soft noise in another room, and looked in to see the young woman who was now the professor. She appeared to be asleep, and I stroked her hair, like you would your own child's. Then I became aware that she wasn't alone -- she had a lover under the blankets. I backed out, hoping they had not realized I was there. She was making snake noises as her lover moved under the blanket -- ssssssssss, ssssssssss, ssssssssss.
Then I woke, a second time, and for real.
Interpretation:
I tend to see the ocean or large bodies of water as symbols of the unconscious, or of emotional issues. Certainly I've had some strong emotions lately. My elderly father was very ill recently, possibly near death at one point. Though he is slowly recovering, there are still a lot of emotional issues there. In this dream, though I had foreseen destruction, when the wave came it appeared calm (while still covering/overwhelming the landscape).
I really don't know what to think of the professor character. He saved the students by telling them where to go; his personality was saved within me though his body died. A father symbol? If/when my father dies, I will still carry him on in me in some sense. But then, what to make of the young woman who received the professor-personality, and her secret lover under the blankets? And the snake noises? I almost don't want to know what that was all about.
Any thoughts?
I escaped the destruction of the wave by climbing to the top of an embankment where the bridge/highway had been. The people who climbed with me were college students, and they were looking for their professor, a wise older man, who had told them to meet him there. Then we saw the wave come in -- HUGE and blue and covering everything. It was surprisingly calm looking.
After that, I was in a different setting, like a posh doctor's office. The lost professor from the island had died. Rather, his body had died, but his personality had been saved and temporarily stored in another mind -- mine! I had both my own mind, and that of the professor, in my brain. But they soon extracted him into a donor body, that of a young woman. I don't remember this part clearly, but there was some procedure that had to be performed to do this.
The next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital bed. At first I wasn't sure where I was. But I was wearing a hospital gown, so I figured it out. I picked up some dirty dishes that had been left on my tray table and took them down the hall to a small kitchen. I heard a soft noise in another room, and looked in to see the young woman who was now the professor. She appeared to be asleep, and I stroked her hair, like you would your own child's. Then I became aware that she wasn't alone -- she had a lover under the blankets. I backed out, hoping they had not realized I was there. She was making snake noises as her lover moved under the blanket -- ssssssssss, ssssssssss, ssssssssss.
Then I woke, a second time, and for real.
Interpretation:
I tend to see the ocean or large bodies of water as symbols of the unconscious, or of emotional issues. Certainly I've had some strong emotions lately. My elderly father was very ill recently, possibly near death at one point. Though he is slowly recovering, there are still a lot of emotional issues there. In this dream, though I had foreseen destruction, when the wave came it appeared calm (while still covering/overwhelming the landscape).
I really don't know what to think of the professor character. He saved the students by telling them where to go; his personality was saved within me though his body died. A father symbol? If/when my father dies, I will still carry him on in me in some sense. But then, what to make of the young woman who received the professor-personality, and her secret lover under the blankets? And the snake noises? I almost don't want to know what that was all about.
Any thoughts?
Your comments made a lot of sense to me. I just wanted you to know that I'm working on a reply, but it's taking me awhile because I have to think about it (also because I have other things I'm doing). I'll post it later today, though.
