Intense dream last night. Just looking for anyone's thoughts.

Hey! This is my first post on here, so I'll try to do my best based on the Dream Interpretation guidelines.

A little bit about myself: I'm a twenty-something male, American, English teacher. I arrived in Russia a few months ago. My dream life has become a little more stimulated since arriving in Russia, so I think it would be a good idea to try to explore this part of myself a little more. I recently graduated from university in the states. I studied philosophy. I've been interested in questions concerning personal identity for quite some time, but I haven't really explored the connections between this and dreams. Anywho, I'll give a little info about last night/recent events. Maybe that will give a little context to the dream? I'm not sure.

When I was a little younger, love and relationships were the main focus of my life. Over the past couple of years, I've tried to focus more on other goals rather than the often times unstable endeavor of love. Somewhat ironically, this shift in priority has left my love life often times filled with uncertainty, emotional pain (inflicted on myself and others), and scarred friendships. However, since being in Russia, this hasn't seemed to be a problem...yet. I'm hoping for the best here I guess. But I can't help but see myself falling into patterns that I repeatedly fell into back home. ANYWAYS, this does relate somehow, I swear.

So, 'tis the season in Russia. In the states as well. I was one of the few (actually the only in my group of friends) to stay in Russia for the holidays. This left me spending the past week mostly with strangers. I decided last night, to hell with my pride: I'm going to go to the bar by myself. (Side note: the girl I have been seeing is out of town for the week). I saw a girl I met a few weeks ago. One thing led to another. We didn't spend the night together, but mutual feelings were exchanged. At any rate, I can't help but feel that this may have been the cause of my intensified dreaming. Also, my sleep has been completely out of whack. The sun is only out from 10:30am-4:30pm, and it's usually dark and cloudy. Because of this, my sleeping patterns are not anywhere close to what they used to be. So, last night I only slept from 5:30am-8:30am, when I awoke from this dream, and couldn't fall back asleep. I wrote about it when I woke up, before I found this site. So I'll just paste what I wrote, and add in any details that seem necessary.

I was in a large building. The air felt very thin. People were passing by and I was moving from room to room without ever actually moving my feet. My aunt was there (I ran into her in one of the rooms), and she was very upset with me. I’m not sure what about, but she was threatening to never speak to me again. I think she was packing a suitcase, or re-arranging some things on a bed. When I looked at her face, I saw my grandmother. And quickly, her face changed into that of my mother’s. I made a quick apology. I don’t think I actually said anything, but my shame was assumed. Then I realized I was dreaming. All I could remember from my waking life was one of my students, Alexander, saying so calm and collectedly in his kitchen, “if you ever find yourself aware that you are in a dream, look at the palms of your hands.” So I did just this. But as soon as I looked down, my aunt was introducing me to a young girl in a white gown. My aunt said, “look at her. She is always looking at her hands, but she’s always looking away.” I looked at the girl, and she didn’t really have a face. I heard another voice say, “she talks to you without ever making a sound, and she never looks you in the eye.” My body disappeared, and I started floating around the building. The young girl was with me, but not physically by my side. I could feel that she was flipping her hands back and forth, palm-up, palm-down, at an extremely fast rate. I can’t remember what she said to me, but it pushed me out of the dream. (The more I think about what she said, the more I think I distort what I actually dreamt. So, I'll just leave it at that) I jolted in my bed, and looked up at the coat hanger at the foot of my bed. It always looms over me while I sleep, and I always think it’s a person. The other night I thought that it was a tall nun. This morning I thought it was a man dressed in all black.

[I rarely see my aunt (one of 7). I have never, that I can remember, been in a confrontation with her. I was close with my grandmother. She passed away 3 years ago. I am close to my mother, and we have a good relationship. I didn't recognize this girl from anywhere. I mean, she didn't have a face. She was just wearing a white gown. It was kind of shabby. She had to have been 6 or 7. The coat hanger thing may or may not be relevant. It just always plays tricks on me when I wake up.]

If anyone took the time to read this, thank you. I've never really written about myself online to strangers, so this is new to me. It seems really easy to ramble on for a while, but I tried to include anything that may be useful. Thanks!

Interesting experience, is it possible the faceless girl represents your uncertainty in what you want in a woman or even if you currently want one in your life at all?

Or is it a reminder of an old interest that you set aside for the time being?

Truthfully the best person to interpret dreams is always the dreamer, all I can do is try to help guide you to the right answer. Its would also be unwise to rule out the possibility the the dream meant nothing, and your just over-analyzing it.

BTW I work for the company building the giant tower in Lakhta :D, its possible I might actually get transferred to that project.

I agree with boss man, the best person to interpret dreams is the dreamer.

This is just how I would think of it:

I would say the large building would be a symbol of your life. The thin air (making it somewhat harder to breath) would be a symbol of some sort of stress. When going through the rooms without walking, I think of "going with the flow" or "going through the motions." And in your dream you are just going through the motions in your life until you recognize some sort of conflict that you feel some sort of guilt about. In this case it starts out as your aunt. Maybe on the inside you feel as though your aunt is angry at you for not being closer to her. When your mothers face and grandmothers face appear, it could be your mind telling you to compare your relationship with them to the relationship you have with your aunt so that you can recognize what the dream is trying to tell you.
When you recognize that you are dreaming it makes sense that one of your students guided you to go deeper into your subconcious because he could be a symbol of teaching yourself.
As you looked down at your palms and saw your aunt introducing you to the young girl in a white gown, that could be a representation of the women missing in your life.
When you see the girl in the white gown looking at her palms it could symbolize her "dreamer" personality. When you float up in the air around the building (around your life) feeling her with you, but not physically, it means that you break away from the life you knew and share in her ideals and dreams. When you meet her your whole life changes, and you are no longer just going through the motions, you are moving with her, starting a new life.

I know this went on forever, but I get carried away sometimes and just keep going haha.
And maybe this is way far off, but remember, the best person to interpret your dream is yourself.