Broken Glass

[lord_cliff_turtle]

I'll try and do as The Blue Meanie says and be pretty descriptive, unfortunately I've forgotten a few of the details that I had, and probably didn't ever remember other things but here we go. It begins with me in my brother's flat at University. It's a small place with long corridors and a few, grubby furnishings. Except this dream flat isn't his real flat, I've never seen this narrow place before. It seems fairly quiet and dull here, and I wish something interesting would happen. We get on pretty well, and normally play games together or talk, at least we interact whenever we meet up. But he's 500 miles away so that isn't often. My brother (21) is lounging on the sofa just across from me, where I lounge in a similar manner. He's playing a games console and I'm watching him. I get bored and tell him, "I'm going to go investigate your place, ok?". He doesn't seem to reply, and so I wander off figuring that he'll be plenty entertained by his PS2. I make my way to the kitchen, where I see a woman I've never met before, she kinda scares me and so I move on quickly, leaving her to cook. I head upstairs along another dingy long passageway and try several doors, most are bathrooms but one is a dark, brown, maybe wood paneled room. I enter with curiosity and it morphs into a churchyard. My dad walks ahead of me faster than I can walk and my little sister beside me. I follow my dad, trying to keep pace whereas my sister cuts around the edge of the churchyard. There is broken glass everywhere in this churchyard (no gravestones oddly) and I'm in bare feet. The splinters penetrate my soles but still I press on, conscious of how sensible my sister was to avoid this pain, and walking swiftly after my dad. It seems important to stay with him. The glass is about as painful as, say, a drawing pin. When we reach the stone steps I sit down with my dad and sister and look at my feet with a strange detachment, I pull the shards out of my feet - feeling them slide out but with little pain beyond the strange sliding sensation. My friends arrive around the corner and I'm glad to see them, I show them my feet and say a witty one-liner that I forget, something to do with me, pain, glass and wishing I'd avoided it. Strangely, the transition from the room to churchyard was barely noticed and the whole dream was seen as though through a smokey window, with an odd detachment from my emotions and feelings. I don't remember any striking colours apart from the green of the grass, the red blood and the drabness of the flat. Hope that wasn't too long or rambling.

[unclesirbob]

Well dreams symbolise your feelings. Think about everything you thought about yesterday and your frame of mind. Did you wish you had more freedom like your brother who can lounge about. Maybe it seems good int he short term maybe you have been thinking over the seedier and less papealing aspects of this. Maybe your parents have been anoying you recently and making you wish you had more freedom? ------------------ Some dreams have lots of symbols in and seem bizzare. It is likely that these dreams are symbolic dreams and that hidden inside it is some concept forming in your mind. It maybe an intellectuall idea. It maybe a thought about a relationship. But it involves well thought ideas. A dream can therefor be about an idea such as - "I have got to realise that my relationship had to break up. It had continually been a failure". Think of quotes that summon up your previous day. Think of flash points which defined and shaped your emotions. Dreams then can pick up on the new feelings forming in your mind. Try this page as it features a dream dictionary which will help you understand dreams http://www.geocities.com/hairybobby2000/dreamessay.html Each symbol can link to precise emotions and feelings. A railway could suggest that you have been heading in one direction and do not seem to be able to get yourself out of a routine. A farm or garden may link to new attitudes growing within you. You have then to weave the symbols together to form a conceptual meaning.

[lord_cliff_turtle]

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to my parents and freedom. I was complaining about (yes, as trivial as this) them not letting me out to a party on Saturday night, and this dream was on Sunday morning. Most probably related. Also maybe why I was happy to see my friends at the end. The glass is what interested me, many interpretations are made for it (now that I search), e.g. "to see broken glass in your dream suggests something you thought would last a long time will end surprisingly and too soon." "To see broken glass in your dream, signifies a change in your life. You will find that a situation will come to an abrupt and untimely end." Although this is my dream, so it's unlikely to mean the same as for someone else, I think it's more probable to do with a tough path ahead of me with pain/difficulty but which will pass. Freedom at university too? The hypothesis certainly fits the facts...