photos of someone in a hospital

**lenashi** · 01-04-2014 02:43 AM

I had a silly dream last night, however there was a small part to it that has caused me some anxiety. The dream goes something as follows (I vaguely remember the whole dream, so bare with me:

I was staying at a friend's house for a party, but it was an abnormal house. It had many slides and a large playground that was something you'd see in a Mcdonalds or Chuck E. Cheese's. I remember seeing unfamiliar as well as familiar faces around me, and we were just chasing each other and playing around in her home. I believe at one point someone had made my friend upset and I ended up defending her and feeling powerful for it.

Now, this is the part that took me:

I was standing a bit away from the playground, a few feet from the front door, when someone had come to me and handed me an envelope. I opened it and pulled out the photographs in it revealing my recent ex in the hospital. They were all different, from different angles and of him wearing one of those oxygen masks. A bit later in the dream I kept looking at my phone to see those same pictures he had texted to me. I can't exactly remember how I felt in the dream.

This probably wouldn't worry me if it was anyone else, but me and this ex have a special connection. We can usually tell how each other feels, and we've had plenty of odd instances where we say the same things at the same time, or how when we met we instantly connected, and I know I love him deeply. I'm the only one who knows so much about him as well which includes any health problems (which he does have, but he hasn't ended up in the hospital since I've known him). We broke up once around November of 2012, and I constantly had dreams about him until the day we ended up back together. He recently broke up with me this past November and it's been the same thing, however fewer dreams, but this dream in particularly worried me. He hasn't talked to me in about two weeks for reasons unknown, except on New Year's when I asked how he was and all he told me was "bad" but I decided not to think too much of it except that he wasn't happy. So I'd like to know if this snippet of my dream could perhaps have any real life significance, or if it's just being worried about him.

**Wakinyan** · 01-04-2014 01:37 PM

One can look at people in dreams from either a "objective" or "subjective" point of view, where the objective suggests that the person in the dream represent the person in real life, and where the subjective view suggest that the person in the dream is representing something in the dreamer. In my experience it is very unusual for dreams to comment on other persons, but perhaps that is not an universal experience.

If the person in this dream is interpreted as objective, then the dream is making a comment about his health. That can of course be true, but personally I think the person is representing something in you that is not feeling alright at this point. The dream work one has to do is to figure out what the person represents, and since this is an person that is "current" for you, it is likely that it is connected to your feelings about and experiences with this person, perhaps your hopes and wishes and so forth.

If one would clump these abstract matters together into one image, the person in the dream may very well be the result, and we could call it "a symbol of ..." Putting that figure in a hospital with an oxygen mask on could then mean that that which it represents is not doing well inside of you right now, perhaps even that it is kept alive in a artificial way.

This is perhaps not the "interpretation" you hoped for, but perhaps others can be more succinct; I just made some general remarks regarding the last sentence of your post.

**Mar2000** · 01-04-2014 01:51 PM

In real life, has he ever said to you that you are the oxygen of his life? Or have you ever thought that he is the oxygen of your life?

I cannot see anything of concern in the dream especially that there are people playing and chasing each other merrily. You are also in a house. A house, in my opinion, represents safety. Its being abnormal is not a problem because it means you are facing difficulties (as all other people do) in life.

The envelope seems to represent news that you are looking for. The image with the oxygen mask may represent a problem for which you have proposed a solution.

It does not necessarily have to do with your ex because the mind, while you are sleeping, tends to attach real life experiences with images that can be easily retrieved from the memory. Since you are thinking a lot about your ex, he becomes an easy-to-retrieve symbol.