From what you’ve written, it looks like a combination of factors exists wherein you’ve hit upon a formula that has released your potentials somewhat (e.g. your grades are now skyrocketing), but since you’re at a very important transitional point in your life, it also looks like there’s a need to somehow balance out what’s happening as you move forward.
Dreams are often harder to interpret than they seem to be on the surface, so all that can be said is that your dream seems to reflect the idea that an important aspect of your unique personality (symbolized by your grandfather) has indeed “come alive”, but on the other hand, there are apparently some issues that could get out of hand (e.g. your grandfather gets hit by a car and dies).
For example, your leaning towards the scientific, while it appears to be a very important aspect of your personality, might potentially lead to problems if the spiritual side you mentioned is gradually left too far behind.
Also, a drift away from paying enough attention to ethics, values and emotions, which tends to be very common in our technologically-orientated society, might result in relationship issues which you’ve apparently already had a taste of.
In addition, being active and friendly are very valuable traits which will help you in the future as long as you’re able to maintain an equally good relationship with your inner world, as it were.
Along these lines, it’s possible that even the fact that you’re remembering more of your dreams, which are very vivid, could be nature’s attempt already to make sure you keep in touch with this “inner world” of your psyche in order to balance things out.
The problem is that you’re actually not dreaming more, but only remembering more of the dreams that are happening.
There’s a cycle which consists of deep sleep which rises to a lighter sleep where dreams occur, then deep sleep returns.
We all have about 5-6 dreams per night, so the idea is that your sleep is tending to be lighter overall and you’re apparently tending to wake more often after each dream. Since college is a very busy place, not getting deep enough sleep could tend to catch up with you over time.
This might also tie in with a need to get some regular exercise to reduce tension and to sleep better overall.
Doing so would also help to keep you in touch with your body as opposed to staying in the mind too much because of your studies which can happen in a college setting.
Your dream might have been touching on this issue because, generally speaking, a vehicle in dreams (whether a truck, car, bicycle, ship or aircraft etc.) represents a complex mix of the physical body along with the dreamer’s interests, drives, wishes and beliefs etc. etc.
So it symbolizes a kind of body-and-mind mix with which the person moves through daily life.
In this way of looking at your dream, the reinvigorated development of your true self (e.g. your grandfather is running through the neighborhood) gets hit by a “stronger movement of energy” (the car) which “kills” the movement towards the development of your genuine self.
The danger could be that those things which are needed to “slow you down” and make you more balanced and complete (e.g. paying attention to your feelings, spiritual needs and your body etc.) might come to be seen as “things that are in the way” of your future “success”.
If so, this is a very common situation in modern society and it takes fortitude to kind of go against the flow and try to be well-rounded at least to a reasonable degree.
Since you’re interested in science but also have a spiritual side, you might be interested in a book called “Man and his Symbols”, edited by the famous psychiatrist, Carl Jung.
This book was directed to the general public, and the last thing that Carl Jung ever wrote appears as the first chapter. His chapter looks at approaching the unconscious, dreams and symbols in a very engaging and practical way which you might find helpful, although it has to be said that the current paperback edition isn’t much to look at.
One of the main things about Carl Jung is that he believed that psychology is both an art and a science, contrary to today’s main theory about it’s being mostly about “brain science”. So you might find his approach of uniting the spiritual/meaning side of life with a scientific approach to be apt for your particular outlook overall.
In any case, I hope that these additional ideas can be helpful, and please don’t hesitate to ask any questions.
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