Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events just before the dream), a few ideas can be tried out to see if they might fit your personal situation in some way.
For example, the location outside on a busy street might point to certain habits etc. related to how you usually interact with others but this likely also includes feelings and attitudes etc. that you have towards yourself.
Your friends, apparently all female, probably symbolize various generally conscious parts of your personality that are typically involved in relationships with other people and yourself.
An unusual long line of black baby carriages then appears on the scene, maybe announcing the arrival of potential new insights or actions etc. (the babies) related to aspects of yourself that are currently mostly unseen and unacknowledged.
These realizations apparently might tend to be a little upsetting or disruptive because the color black is emphasized, and as you mentioned, this has some negative connotations for you.
The unknown young man in the white T-shirt could be an important clue about what’s possibly going on without you normally being aware of it.
For instance, he starts telling jokes and the dream-ego figure makes some snappish and sarcastic remarks about the coming punchlines which it turns out are pretty good after all and everybody laughs.
To help understand what he symbolizes, it’s good to know that in the dreams of a girl, a guy usually represents her so-called masculine side which is connected to, for example, thinking, words, opinions, focus and assertiveness.
So it’s possible that this inner figure could be the source of some clever jokes and sarcastic, amusing comments which unfortunately might be hiding some feelings of hurt and bitterness underneath.
If so, this situation might underlie the appearance of the black carriages and, probably more importantly, the visit to the haunted house.
Of course, a haunted house implies the presence of ghosts, and the latter tend to represent “dead” parts of ourselves that are no longer conscious, growing and changing.
Because of this fact, it’s as if they “haunt” a person until they’re paid attention to, in your case by maybe occasionally appearing on the scene through sharp comments that can hurt others although they’re “jokes”.
In your dream, the tour guide has you wrap some aluminum foil around a cat apparently in order to amplify any “strange sounds” that may be heard (that is, communications from any “ghosts” deep in your unconscious mind).
Especially for women, a cat often stands for a kind of “real essence” of the dreamer.
The idea that a cat could represent the basic reality of a woman may sound unusual, but for instance, the Egyptians treated cats with veneration and they were linked to various goddesses, that is, to inner feminine energies, and this ancient traditional attitude toward cats often appears in the dreams of modern women.
(You might like analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book “Goddesses in Everywoman” to find out which psychological energies are most naturally part of your own personality.)
Cats are also strongly linked to the moon which often symbolizes the core intuitive, feminine part of a woman and therefore the place of her true nature and vocation.
It’s possible that the cat also symbolizes overall the more feminine traits related to allure, enchantment and the ability to beguile through visual contact.
Additionally, many cats often get what they want with a certain ruthlessness and relentless determination, so perhaps these qualities have sometimes been put aside in your own nature or not as the case may be.
A Japanese story from the 1600’s, “The Swordsman and the Cat”, also illustrates the central role of the cat in a person’s psychology.
In the story, a group of cats returns from a busy day of rat-catching and later respectfully ask the great Cat if she will divulge her secrets to them for their benefit to which she replies:
“Teaching is not difficult, listening is not difficult either, but what is truly difficult is to become conscious of what you have in yourself and be able to use it as your own”.
So the idea could be that you have to trust more often your own quiet, feminine intuition and natural reactions in order to hear if some aspects of your personality are tending to be left in the dark too much.
But various influences in our society discourage doing this and maybe the dream is hinting about that by showing you and the other girls laughing about the trip to the haunted house and not taking it seriously.
Everyone even laughs at the one person who was spooked by the experience, the guy in the white T-shirt.
As partly representing your ability to reflect and make decisions based on what’s really best for you personally (instead of, say, just tending to go along with what everybody else believes is the “right thing to do”), his reaction is probably the correct one in the circumstances because there are apparently parts of yourself that are “making a few strange sounds” that should be paid attention to.
Just as most of us prefer to not pay much attention to some nagging physical symptoms, hoping they will go away and not become more serious, so too we often tend to avoid annoying psychological symptoms.
The dream could be showing this in the scheming to separate WhiteShirt from his girlfriend and have him hook up with Redhead.
The flirty Redhead could possibly symbolize your skills of putting on a very effective face which sometimes could hide, for example, your true feelings both from others and yourself.
In contrast, WhiteShirt’s older and quieter girlfriend could represent a more mature you who is willing to take on responsibility (e.g. she apparently had a baby by him, probably symbolizing that some new and precious insights about yourself could potentially appear on the scene and grow clearer over time).
So the dream could be showing that you might potentially want to induce an increase in your usual methods of maybe putting on a bit of a show regarding your true feelings in order to quiet down any doubts or questions etc. that could sometimes be appearing in a subtle way.
The gentle smile of WhiteShirt’s current girlfriend might not be about her agreeing per se but instead might be saying something like “OK, go ahead and see what happens even though it might not what you think will happen”.
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well if at all, but I hope these ideas aren’t too confusing and that they can be helpful in some way.
Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dream.
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