Strange Dream - Need Assistance with Interpretation
So, I've been having this really odd dream every night for the last week or so. It's incredibly vivid and has been almost impossible for me to figure out. Anybody with any sort of notion as to what it all means is heartily invited to speak up.
Here it is, in all it's super-embarrassing glory:
It's sunset. I'm in the middle of this large, old forest. Just standing there, with no shoes on. All of the trees are very tall and cast lots of shadows down to the forest floor. The base of everything is covered in ivy. It looks like a place I used to go when I was a little kid, but older and more dangerous. The forest itself is not comfortable by any stretch of the imagination.
Then Narcissus shows up. Of mythological fame. He's been running through the woods, and seems distressed; like he's being chased. He doesn't look specifically like how I'd normally picture Narcissus, or even in accordance with the Greek ideals of beauty. I don't know why, but he's got a crown of dead leaves on his head. When I see him, I feel like I'm looking at a piece of Autumn - he's got very red hair and very white skin.
He hands me a pair of shoes made out of tiny glass flowers and says: "Things must keep their secrets".
I feel like 'secrets' are supposed to be something else when he says this. Sort of like he's using the wrong word.
Some nights, I put the shoes on. Most of the time, I just hold them.
Narcissus goes running deeper into the forest, and as he goes the ivy begins to grow up the trees very quickly. Like in those documentaries where they film a flower opening over, like, a month and then speed it up so that it takes a minute. While the ivy grows, the sky goes to night. There's no moon, though, just stars.
Then a young punk girl comes towards me out from the darkness; she melts from the shadows. Not punk like that New Punk, like 1980's CBGB kind of stuff. She doesn't speak, but I know she's looking for Narcissus.
I point her in the wrong direction, and she goes down the path I indicate. It's in completely the opposite direction of the one she wants.
When I see Narcissus, despite his looking totally different, I'm completely aware of who I'm looking at. With the girl it's different. When I'm awake, I tend to logic out that she must be Echo chasing after her ill-chosen man. But, when I'm actually 'inside' the dream, I never think it's her.
And that's it. It's a very short dream, I suppose, but for some reason it stays with me all day. I'm absolutely certain that it's trying to tell me something, I just can't begin to decipher what.
All thoughts or insights highly appreciated!