Thread: Help Interpreting - Request in a Dream

Hi,

I had a very unusual dream last night and wonder if some of you people could help me make sense of it. To start off, I'm one of those people who rarely ever remembers their dreams - most of the time I close my eyes and then open them in the morning with no recollection of anything happening inbetween. When I do remember my dreams most of them are very mundane and boring - just a rehash of stuff that's currently happening in my life and things I thought of/read about before going to bed.

This dream was very different - it was short but very clear, unusual but realistic, and with emotional content and interaction.

I was walking on a street at night and was approached by an old man. He looked like he was in his 70s or 80s but acted energetic, sharp, and lucid. He talked very coherently and looked trendy and fashionably dressed. However he also looked anxious and like he wanted something from me.

I stopped in the street to talk to him. He asked me if I'm still trying to quit smoking (I had a cigarette in my hand and I'm a smoker in real life), I said yes and he said something like "I tried it too but it didn't work". Then and he told me that he wanted me to do him a favour. He asked me to "take a coin and put it by a wall corner". I saw in my mind jamming a penny under the skirting board of a wall corner facing inwards. I remember he was implying that it was his last wish and it was really important to him, and he was very nervous when saying it and really wanted me to do it. There was also something said about this having an effect on my life too.

I sat with him on the curb and asked "what is in it for me if I do this?". After this I have no memory of what he said or what happened afterwards. While this dream was happening I had that lucid feeling that I knew this was happening in a dream. The strange thing was that the old guy seemed to know this was a dream too, like his request was meant to be done in my waking life.

After that I had another brief bit of the dream where I was getting drunk with my old childhood friends and the old guy from the dream was with us. We talked to him but his speech was slurred and he looked disoriented. I remember thinking whether this was the alcohol or dementia and I felt kinda sorry for him. After that the dream ends and I wake up.

Throughout the dream I felt like I had a connection to that person. He seemed like a relative, a grown up version of one of my friends, or maybe even the future me.

I have never heard of any rituals or superstitions about coins being put next to wall corners and couldn't find any mention of this on Google.

Ironically, the night before I finished reading a psychology book on cognitive biases and really liked it. It's a whole book about how everyone's brain is imperfect and makes us think and believe weird irrational stuff.

Anyway, it would be fun to hear peoples' thoughts on this. I'm pretty sceptical of any supernatural stuff but it's interesting to get some feedback on this.

Thanks in advance.