Saskia
Hi all, I had a weird dream I can't comprehend. It seemed to go on and on - I woke up in the middle and fell back asleep - and the same dream continued.
The dream
I had agreed to marry a young man whose family my parents know and are friends with (imaginary people my parents don't know in real life). I hadn't met the family or the man and I was treating this as some sort of business deal, favour or help to my family and the man's family.
The whole dream was about me trying to get ready at my parents' house to this wedding that was supposed to take place in 15 minutes in a nearby chapel and I had nothing ready: I thought I'd just wear a nice dress but I couldn't find a suitable one from my closet, even though I had a number of nice festive dresses. I couldn't find my make up pouch. I didn't have time to do my hair, so I just plaited it wet straight out of shower. The lights went off so I was groping to find underwear etc from my closet in the dark. The whole dream was about me trying to go through these motions but everything was hindered somehow.
I vaguely remembered I'm married already and I thought how can I marry someone else? The family of the groom started calling to my parents, asking where we are, because we were running late. I started having doubts of the whole idea and asked more about the man from my mum. She said he's shy and hopeless. I felt wronged. In real life and in the dream, my parents have a lot of friends from their church and many of those friends are in need of some sort of help (financial, practical, help with addiction).
I woke up before anything further happened. In the middle, I also woke up and thought it's about my PhD studies, (I'm 'groping in the dark', trying to find sources and meaningful things to say), but when I fell back asleep, the same dream continued and I think it's because I didn't get the message.
In reality, in the past I have participated in helping those church friends in some minor ways, but I'm always telling my parents not to be exploited by excessive requests. Also, I divorced my first husband because he was lazy, selfish and socially awkward and didn't try to do anything about it in our 8 years together - my mum then told I should have stayed with him 'to help him.' But that happened 5 years ago. Nothing has happened recently that could have prompted this dream, so I'm looking for more symbolic interpretations.
Thanks for your help
The dream
I had agreed to marry a young man whose family my parents know and are friends with (imaginary people my parents don't know in real life). I hadn't met the family or the man and I was treating this as some sort of business deal, favour or help to my family and the man's family.
The whole dream was about me trying to get ready at my parents' house to this wedding that was supposed to take place in 15 minutes in a nearby chapel and I had nothing ready: I thought I'd just wear a nice dress but I couldn't find a suitable one from my closet, even though I had a number of nice festive dresses. I couldn't find my make up pouch. I didn't have time to do my hair, so I just plaited it wet straight out of shower. The lights went off so I was groping to find underwear etc from my closet in the dark. The whole dream was about me trying to go through these motions but everything was hindered somehow.
I vaguely remembered I'm married already and I thought how can I marry someone else? The family of the groom started calling to my parents, asking where we are, because we were running late. I started having doubts of the whole idea and asked more about the man from my mum. She said he's shy and hopeless. I felt wronged. In real life and in the dream, my parents have a lot of friends from their church and many of those friends are in need of some sort of help (financial, practical, help with addiction).
I woke up before anything further happened. In the middle, I also woke up and thought it's about my PhD studies, (I'm 'groping in the dark', trying to find sources and meaningful things to say), but when I fell back asleep, the same dream continued and I think it's because I didn't get the message.
In reality, in the past I have participated in helping those church friends in some minor ways, but I'm always telling my parents not to be exploited by excessive requests. Also, I divorced my first husband because he was lazy, selfish and socially awkward and didn't try to do anything about it in our 8 years together - my mum then told I should have stayed with him 'to help him.' But that happened 5 years ago. Nothing has happened recently that could have prompted this dream, so I'm looking for more symbolic interpretations.
Thanks for your help