Repeated hotel/nighttime motif and gambling?

Hello everyone,

I am a 19-year-old bisexual male who loves to travel, and who has had little success romantically.

Here's my dream from yesterday.

I was at a hotel that does not resemble any hotel that I have ever stayed at. It was night. I remember that the front desk was prominent and lighted, and that the rest of the hotel seemed dark and (literally) shady. I only saw the interior, and I do not remember seeing my room. It seems that friends or acquaintances may also have been staying there, but I do not remember specific ones. I have had many dreams this summer about staying at hotels, always at night, none of which are similar to actual hotels that I know of. There is usually some negative emotion associated with the hotel, like (latent) fright or worry.

I planned to spend a small amount of money playing a gambling machine in an indeterminate location. This machine accepted quarters and had a digitized wheel that called out bingo numbers. My card had all numbers in one diagonal row circled (but none others), and I won an imprinted bronze disc, much larger than a traditional coin (about 10cm across), that could be redeemed for $1,000. The coin broke into jagged rough halves but was still redeemable. I remember that I originally had planned to spend only a dollar or less on the machine, but I raised the amount because I thought I had an extremely good chance of winning lots more money. I felt very certain that I would win again and again and become rich. There were several other games that I intended to explore. However, for some reason I kept delaying, and never got around to playing any of them.

I was then walking to my car at night, and thinking about how to spend the money. I thought I would go to a restaurant and get some caviar to celebrate, even though I do not like caviar much in real life. I remember that I was at a loss to think of ways to spend the money, and caviar was a somewhat weak choice.

Then the dream ended.

I think that the monetary aspect of the dream may have to do with a big purchase I just made. I bought my first car about a week ago, and it nearly emptied my bank account. Also, it will need many repairs, which would be expensive if I had them done at the dealer. My father, an amateur mechanic, will likely fix them, but that means that I will not have my car for the first two weeks of school. However, I'm still at a loss over why I keep having hotel-at-night dreams, and why these hotels are usually associated with stress or some negative emotion. I've had other night dreams, too, that do not involve hotels but that do involve going places and being independent. I remember a dream from a few weeks ago in which I was planning to ride the Washington Metro all night long, and the metro station was inside a large department store where I saw a female acquaintance of mine -- again at night.

Iuno.