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    Not Any Good

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    JoannaB
    , 07-05-2013 at 11:37 AM (621 Views)
    This dream was about work. We had a presentation of a product idea by someone whom I do not know in real life. This character was very young, a teenager really. I thought he must have been a child genius, and in fact at some point he did say he got a job after elementary school. In my dream he worked for an organization we collaborate with in real life which is out of state, and he flew in for this presentation.

    At some point in this presentation a former coworker who is no longer at my work, he chimed in during presentation that he had solutions for all this. Why did nobody even consider his solutions? My boss started looking at this former coworker's printouts, and agreed that it looked worthwhile. My former coworker was saying that his arms have not been given a chance to do anything in so long, and he bared his arms and showed them to us. Meanwhile I thought but did not say: why can't he (my boss) see that it is no good?

    We returned to our desks. I saw the teen genius sitting at the computer of the former coworker, looking at his solutions. Meanwhile, I went to my desk, and closed down a very loud application that had been making loud music that was not any good (just as I thought the coworker's solution was no good, same with the music). The music was just noisy, and shutting it off cut down the noise.

    My son's pet mice (my son's dream):

    Meanwhile my son reports that he remembers a dream too: "I had pet mice. They kept on running away. They were big mice: about one foot including the tail. Two mice. And close to the end there was a thunderstorm and I went to a church, and I couldn't find my mice. There were small people, smaller than the mice - in the JCC (which is a place he goes to for camp). When I saw the people, the mice ran away." The mice kept hiding but I don't remember where. I at some point got small like the small people, but then I was big again. There was a toy race track, and a toy vehicle, and I had to try to keep the vehicle on the track, and I was not very good at it. (I asked whether the last bit was part of same dream, and he says, yes.)

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    Updated 07-05-2013 at 12:22 PM by 61501

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    1. Scionox's Avatar
      It will get better.
      The toy race track bit reminded me of some video games that i played in the past.
      JoannaB likes this.
    2. JoannaB's Avatar
      Overall my assessment: my son's dream was much better than my own. I wish I had dreamed of huge mice and tiny people, instead of things that were "not any good" at work - though of course you are right, it will get better, and dream recall wise, it already did, since I finally remembered a dream again after almost a week dry spell.
    3. JoannaB's Avatar
      I just realized part of why my son had this dream: yesterday we got two new pet snails for our aquarium, and compared to any other snails we had, these are huge (they are so called "mystery snails"), and the snails do keep hiding (part of having an aquarium involves often looking for a fish or snail where it is hiding now). So I think the two large snails transformed into huge mice in the dream.

      Also I am wondering whether the thunderstorm is due to the fireworks.
    4. JoannaB's Avatar
      Ha! I think I know know what my dream was about: see what a lot of my dreams are about is my spiritual journey - my spiritual growth is something that I have been working on. Lately in the past few days I had participated in a few threads on DV about religion and knowledge, and I think this dream is telling me that some of the latest ideas I have expressed are not any good: that maybe they are undoing some progress I had made and taking me back to a past where I don't want to go, that there has been too much noise, and I need to look at different solutions - I had already decided to step back, and had thought that some of the stuff I posted was not quite right, and that I was wasting too much time in that direction, and I think this is what this dream is saying in a metaphor.
    5. Scionox's Avatar
      That's interesting way of thinking.
    6. JoannaB's Avatar
      Yup, I think my self interpretation here is an example of why self interpretation at times can go places where no one else's interpretation would go: I know what has been on my mind and how my mind work, and so I can draw weird connections and apply my dreams to things I know are on my mind in a way that would make little sense to anyone but me.

      Edit: Some additional thoughts: this dream seems to be questioning what is genius and what is no good, that I need to reexamine that. Some ideas that appear too young and new may be brilliant, but also some old ideas that have been dismissed may need additional reexamination. What is noise and what is music here? Am I right in discarding some stuff and labeling it noise or does some part of me (my boss = my superego or my conscience) know better what is worthwhile than my conscious mind is willing to admit. Perhaps the new needs to help examine the old, and give it a chance to work on the solution - so maybe it is not about returning to old undesirable ideas, but rather the need to reexamine whether I unfairly am labeling old ideas as undesirable.
      Updated 07-06-2013 at 05:54 PM by JoannaB
    7. Superman1's Avatar
      Very good. And interesting.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      I had a go at your son's dream, but I am not satisfied. Though it might near the money.

      DREAM
      Maybe what he cares for, or likes, in people, or his ability to nurture or care, was getting away from him, after a storm in his life happened, or an upset.
      Unless the mice might be two friends, or things he cares for.
      Mice, unlike kittens or puppies, scurry around and are not as easy to keep hold of.
      And being so big might mean the situation was too big for him.

      I also wonder if 1 foot long makes 2 feet walking?
      That his progress was not like that for a bit.

      Symbollic, and creepy, dream image

      Though the snails can have influenced the dream, they are as slow as mice are fast.
      Could the fireworks, of 4th of July, have upset him?

      He couldn't find in himself what the mice represent.
      People became small like mice, while his mice became bigger twice!! Well once each.
      So maybe his care for people ran away. Because when he saw the small people, the big mice ran away. Maybe people had shrunk in his view.
      The nice mice kept hiding, but he didn't know where.

      At some point, he shrunk too, but not for long, and then saw he had to keep on track, but it was hard for him.
    8. JoannaB's Avatar
      Hmm, thanks superman. Though I am unaware of any such issues in my son's life that would fit, however, that does not mean there are not any. Sometimes after school we hear only a very partial story of what happened when he was not with us.

      While I do know that the only thing that upset him about the fireworks was that they were over too soon, but I did mention to my sons that the fireworks being so loud, I wonder how the animals / wildlife nearby felt about that, that they must have been scared I think. So I think my comment may have made an impact there.