Finally had a dream for you CN that I can remember
and it's one of my crazed bonkers very detailed ones
lovely! I love crazed bonkers of dreams.
The dream was set in the dining room of a childhood friend's house. The actual location of it doesn't seem that important to me, there is other key symbols but going to describe it in case it means something to you. Background of it, in my childhood a friend lived in a massive house. It was very old and was previously converted into apartments. His family bought it (I think cheap and in a dreadful run down state inside). Every room needed redecoration and they had converted it back into a whole house but some of the bedrooms had the old apartment doors lol! they just knocked down the dividing walls. I remember the hall was just plaster everytime I visited him in my childhood. This amused me as a child because my parents had a smaller house but would redecorate one room a year. I didn't understand why they didn't fix it up! I think they did have money!
I can sort of relate. I never had friends who had a house that was made into apartments, mind you--but we currently have a home that had an apartment on the second floor. And, being a very old house, many of the walls are old plastered walls. One room still has the horsehair plastered walls!
I dread when we re-do that one!
The dream takes place in their dining room, it seemed like it. It was connected to a kitchen and was a big room (much bigger than a normal sized room). It had windows at one end and pictures on the walls. I think it was either just plaster or old wallpaper that badly needed redecoration. The interesting thing about the room was a massive dining table. It didn't seem like the best antique wood furniture, like everything it was a bit run down but it could seat a lot of people. I think at least 12! maybe 16. It had a secret though, you could fold up the wooden top and it was a snooker / pool table full size!
wow! now THAT is cool! I never heard of such a thing but as kid I'd have LOVED it!!!
That said, my family did have friends whose daughter and sil bought a pool table instead of a dining table and kept it in their dining room. They were young, just starting out and I can remember her parents complaining about it to my parents (who of course listened but said nothing). We kids thought it was way cool and of course they (the kids) were way cool too! We often would spend the night at their house because they also had an inground swimming pool. This young couple were not very practical at all. They hardly had furniture, but a pool AND a pool table!
My dream started off in that room but it was much nicer. It seemed bigger and much higher in height. Almost like a Tudor dining hall, the walls were bright wood panelling and it was rich with portraits and expensive lights. It was in a lot better condition and full of expensive things than the room I know but it felt like it was the same room. I think I even opened the doors and went in the kitchen to check it was the same house. in the middle was a dining table but it was the best most beautiful wood. I was wondering to myself if it had the snooker table underneath and should I have a look (it was annoying to remove the 'top' on the real table, it folded and was heavy). As I was thinking about this and wondering why I was seeing a glammed up version of that child hood memory, a mist or clouds started spreading in the room. There was a whole level of clouds at about 5ft off the ground or maybe a bit higher at my eye level. it was in front of my head over the top of the table. It covered the whole room but left about a ft gap all away around from the walls. So it was almost a square of cloud. I looked at it and realised there was a fence around it, on top of it and in front of my eyes was a double gate. It was metal but all in miniature. Maybe about 6 inches high. I realised the gateposts and the fence posts all the way along were quite phallic and this made me giggle! I opened the tiny gate with my hand and suddenly I was beyond the gate on the cloud and had shrunk to the size of it. It was very alice in wonderland.
yes, I was thinking of Alice in Wonderland just before I read it here!
When I was inside I realised the phallic posts were actually Asparagus spears (?) and in front of me was a maze inside the fence. the maze was a really traditional, beautifully kept , and green maze. At the corners and ends was the Asparagus as well. So from the front was a high hedge with loads of standing up Asparagus at random points. I entered the maze. I've not had a look at any symbolism yet but I felt going through the maze that this represented your life. Sometimes there is obstacles and dead ends and it's a bit of a struggle.
well, you can guess I'm going to look it up.
but, I do like your thought that going through the maze represents my life & there are obstacles and dead ends & a bit of a struggle. I would believe everyones life is like this.
But sometimes it's a wrong turning or an obstacle and sometimes it's a clear path! I felt comforted by this, you just have to go along with the flows of life but you are gradually making it to the middle which was the goal. I was making my way to the middle as well, it was a hard difficult maze! but it was fun, not arduous!
yes, even though life has been mostly difficult for me from birth through to my late 20s/early 30s, for the most part, I also learned a lot and I credit this for much of my strengths that I possess. Both the easy and the hard times, the good and the bad made me into the person I am, like it does for us all. Life's lessons, and all that you know.
As I was getting closer to the middle I felt the middle had some sort of good surprise for you. When I reached the middle there was nothing there and I felt intuitively that I am not allowed to know what it is. However I think something lovely is to come. something you are not expecting! Like for example winning the lottery and that gives you security or something like that. A really amazing good thing, perhaps life changing. I wasn't allowed to know what it is, and I feel there is a reward for you at the centre of life's maze. Also in the centre was a beautiful old oak tree. It had a huge spread and looked really healthy. That was the end of the dream.
oh, what a lovely dream and what a nice thing to dream for me! I hope that this dream will come true and when/if this dream does come true for me, I hope that we are all still on AT, and I will remember to update everyone.
It would be lovely!
for me the important symbols are...
clouds (they were white and fluffy) - peace and harmony
gate- going through to a new phase, new possibilities
phallic posts - sexual energy, fertility, male power maybe or something to do with men
asparagus - represents prosperity (how interesting!) totally random symbol to me!
maze - feeling lost, life's twists and turns, dealing with a waking task in a better way, you might be making it harder than it is.
oak tree - quoting directly from dream moods - "To see an oak tree in your dream symbolises longevity, stability, strength, tolerance, wisdom, and prosperity. You have built a solid foundation for success in some endeavour"
ah, you did look all this up. Now, I don't have to do so.
thank you, Daniel! I am actually at peace right now. I am also living a pretty harmonious life. I am very happy at any rate! And to know that the asparagus represents prosperity! very cool!!!
I do think I am making things harder then it really is--mainly by also holding onto it still. I am somewhat past what was my hardest time--but I realize I am still holding onto it even if by a string. I need to get myself to the point where I don't even THINK about it at all anymore, I think, to be completely over it--and then perhaps I'll stop making it harder on myself. does that make sense?
I feel for me the dream was very positive, but the maze was tricky and difficult! I wouldn't want to do it again but glad I got to the centre! I found it interesting. so to answer your question, I don't think you need to be focusing on anything, just go along with the twists and turns of life! I am not sure of the significance of the friend's house or room. It doesn't seem like the major thing for me. I have recently got back in touch with the family but not been back to that house or room for about 20 years! they still own it though.
glad to get a dream for you CN
Well, I did look up what dreaming about a friend could indicate and found out that it basically says it signifies aspects of your personality that you have rejected but ready to acknowledge and incorporate. It is also symbolic of positive news. So your whole dream seems to be very positive for me!
to see a childhood friend signifies regressing into your past when you had no responsiblities and lived a carefree life. It shows that I may be wanting to escape the stresses I'm having. It can also indicate I have been acting childish.
I was very happy to see you dream of the oak tree, as it is a tree I so adore! I also know that the oak tree is symbolic of strength and power. One thing that I find especially interesting and intriguing about the Oak tree is that it is considered the door to the spiritual planes--or the access to our psychic visions.
thank you, Daniel, for this dream. I do want to think on this dream some more. It seemed so beautiful a dream!
