My socks... erm, yeah

[Areyoudreaming?]

This isn't the first time I've had a dream with someone I know in it, but they're pretty rare for me and something about this one has been bugging me. Any ideas on interpreting it would be really appreciated! I'm 19 and I've just started university, so I've been living in a new town for a couple of months now. I dreamt that my friend in the second year had hold of my socks, for some reason (they were black). I can't remember if I gave them to him or he stole them, but it didn't really concern me at the time. However, he put them in the coat pocket of a girl on my course, and she immediately remembered that she was late for something and started to run off. The thought of losing my socks concerned me a little, so I chased her barefoot across a dream-version of the town I'm living in at the moment, trying to get her attention so I could get my socks back. This seemed to be the main part of the dream, it went on for a long time - I didn't have any trouble running, nor did I feel exhausted. The most difficulty I had was keeping sight of her on the suddenly very crowded high street, and getting past the crowds. Eventually I caught up with her and she looked in her coat pockets, only to find that she didn't have them and my friend (who I'd left on the other side of town) must still have them. I remember feeling disappointed, then waking up. I find this hard to admit (probably unreasonably, but hey) since I'd never do anything about it - I have a girlfriend and I love her very much - but I do find the girl in my dream very attractive. I think maybe that's what's bothering me about the dream. Not sure how any analysis is going to come out ( I dread to think what my socks could symbolise) but I'd really like to know what you think, thanks!

[Burned up]

I'm not sure what socks symbolise either. But they will mean something to you. Clothes are intimate things really, especially clothes which touch the skin. But I agree socks isn't the first item you'd think of when thinking about intimate clothing. Whatever, it sounds like you're looking for something you've lost. Something that a male part of you has taken away. You're trying to get it back again and you're looking for that in a female. Whatever the socks are, they make you feel whole again. So why does "she" have the socks? Well, I dunno. This doesn't mean you fancy her. But something about her leaves you feeling that she has something you want. Yet your dream ultimately tells you she doesn't have it (the socks). In short, (and metaphorically speaking), you've been chasing the wrong woman!

[Areyoudreaming?]

Thanks, that kind of makes sense

[unclesirbob]

well socks.. yes its not easy to interperet such symbols. But socks are as others have said very intimate personal items.. if you see someone in their socks its usualy when they are undressed. so it could be sexual I have also had dreams which have used very bad puns... socks could even stand for a pun on sex.. or sucks yet really rise above the symbols and look at whats happening. Your friend puts the socks in her pocket yet she runs off. Do you feel pressured to chase other girls by this friend.. even when they are not interested.. or even when you are not interested. ------------------------ Many people think that dreams contain messages. Yes thats true to a certain extent. But really dreams are often just our best guesses. Dreams are symbolic of judgements that we have to make. Often we do not have access to all the information that we require. For instance you maybe angry that a friend seems uncooperative and seems to have been sending out some very negative signals. That maybe the best guess that you can come to. Yet you may not have all the facts and you might be in ignorance as to the real reason for your friends strange behavior. So try not to see dreams as being the best source of advice. They merely reflect some latest judgement. That judgement is probably the best guess but could very easily be wrong. These pages are especially helpful in showing you how to interpret dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowtopost.php Interpreting dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowto.php Triggers for dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessay.php Dream dictionary ------------- http://scarboroughphotos.110mb.com/surfers/surfcity.php

[ZNOFZ]

Freud would be very happy to have someone recall a dream like this to him on his sofa. Socks in classic psychoanalytic psychotherapy are interpreted to be vagina's as are many other objects, such as shoes. Although the dream seems to be rather playful, chasing around a girl who has your socks, the dreams latent content, as opposed to its literal content, seems to be entirely sexual. The other boy who took the socks from you could be symbolic of the you that you wish to be, the one who has the socks, the one who has the girl sexually. It could be a split between two different parts of your psyche. Your superego tells you that you cannot have another girl since you are a moral person and you have a girlfriend, but the id tells you that you must have her! The "you" that reaches her only to find she has no socks for you is the moral you, your superego, and the other boy, a symbolic projection of yourself is the id telling you you must have her at all costs. I don't prescribe to the psychoanalytic principles entirely although I do find them incredibly interesting. Its one of those cases were you cant prove the psychoanalyst wrong, but you sure as hell cant really prove him right! Hope this helped in someway really interesting stuff!

[unclesirbob]

Well you certainly cannot prove a pyschoanalyst wrong. But you are equally right in saying that you cannot prove them right. To me pyschoanalytical therapy exists in some nether world. It obsesses about sexual issues and some trauma that happened long ago. To me dreams link to the here and now. They represent the burning issues in our minds. The issues concerning relationships or issues or even something that has just happened on tv.. something stimulating in the mind rather tahn something long forgotten that is festering. Occasionally dreams can be about issues festering but only in the sense that something has triggered them off. ------------------------ Many dreams are about your current frame of mind. In some ways they are about your fantasies. We dream about how cool we will be in such and such a situation. In our dreams and fantasies we are Spiderman. Yet dreams are also realistic and will contain cryptic messages showing how we are becoming unrealistic in our thoughts. We allow ourselves to get carried away with how things will improve. In truth we are merely motivating ourselves. If we achieve half of what we want in our dreams then we are doing well. If you have been lying awake in bed and thinking about the day to come then that fantasy may appear in your dreams. The connection may not be obvious but it’s definitely there. Generally an upbeat dream is likely to be about the future and how we are trying to get ourselves into the right frame of mind to tackle the problems and sitations in our lives. These pages are especially helpful in showing you how to interpret dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowtopost.php Interpreting dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowto.php Triggers for dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessay.php Dream dictionary

[Burned up]

Well you certainly cannot prove a pyschoanalyst wrong. But you are equally right in saying that you cannot prove them right. To me pyschoanalytical therapy exists in some nether world. It obsesses about sexual issues and some trauma that happened long ago. To me dreams link to the here and now. They represent the burning issues in our minds. The issues concerning relationships or issues or even something that has just happened on tv.. something stimulating in the mind rather tahn something long forgotten that is festering. Occasionally dreams can be about issues festering but only in the sense that something has triggered them off. ------------------------ Many dreams are about your current frame of mind. In some ways they are about your fantasies. We dream about how cool we will be in such and such a situation. In our dreams and fantasies we are Spiderman. Yet dreams are also realistic and will contain cryptic messages showing how we are becoming unrealistic in our thoughts. We allow ourselves to get carried away with how things will improve. In truth we are merely motivating ourselves. If we achieve half of what we want in our dreams then we are doing well. If you have been lying awake in bed and thinking about the day to come then that fantasy may appear in your dreams. The connection may not be obvious but it’s definitely there. Generally an upbeat dream is likely to be about the future and how we are trying to get ourselves into the right frame of mind to tackle the problems and sitations in our lives. There's much more to Freud than sex. And much more to psychoanalysis than Freud. It's about how the past plays out in the present, which I would have thought was very relevant to dreams.