Iced Coffee and the Library

Okay. This is my first post! :) I have two dreams and they sort of go together. The first one is about a month before the second.

This dream just kind of starts up with black. Solid black, like a T.V. screen before it starts up.

All of the sudden I start seeing all these pictures of this guy, Alex. The pictures are all smaller than the black background, so it doesn't take up my whole view. The pictures are just in a little box. Pictures I've seen before, pictures I haven't... and none of the pictures are moving. There's stuff of him pouring lemonade, going to homecoming, at school, in band, all sorts of stuff.

Right before I wake up, a woman's voice echoes in my head: "Alex ****** (his last name)"

I wake up sort of panting, feeling like the sheets are constricting me, and sit straight up. Without even thinking about it, his name comes out of my mouth. And then I lay back down and fall asleep again.

I dream that same dream about eight times in one night, wake up the same way, and everytime his name is just echoing in my head: "Alex. Alex ******"



The second one:

Megan (my best friend) and I walk into our elementry school library and go straight to the row we always go in. As I go in that row, this girl (the one that I thought Alex liked) comes out. I see that at the end of the row, Alex is lying with his back against a vertical counter on the ground. So his body's kind of like:
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Anyway, so I want to turn around and run, but Megan keeps going forward. We get to the end of the row (where he's sitting) and she stops and starts looking at books. I'm right behind her ... so then I see him getting up in the corner of my eye, and I think he's going to leave. I'm kind of relieved, but when he gets up he just stands right behind me. Megan looks from me to him, and back and forth like that until I finally look at Alex.
He has that look... he's looking straight at me. Just staring.
Megan leaves that row, and I start to leave.
Alex goes to the spot where I used to get all my books, and he takes SIX Nancy Drew books from the shelf and carries them over to a table.
I run over to his table and go, "What are you doing?!"
He looks at me like it's blatantly obvious and goes, "I'm trying to read what you read so I can get to know you better."
I look at him like he's psycho. I open up the first book, shove it in his face, and go, "This is too easy for you! Look at it!"
I heard Harry's (my closest guy friend) voice from somewhere go, "You would've been better off with Agatha Christie, Dude."
"Read it! You start in the middle and see if it's too easy. READ IT!"
He starts reading it.
"See? I told you. It's too easy. You can't read this."
"But-"
"No. YOu can't read it. You can't."
And I walk out of the library and suddenly I'm in the mall, only it's not my mall. It has all these candy stores and I just keep thinking, "I really need an iced coffee."
I walk past all the coffee shops and go to the movie theatre (bad choice considering that's where he WORKS - he's the manager there) and went, "I need an ice coffee. Now."
There were like two teenagers behind the counter and they went, "Sorry. We havent been able to sell anything because the mana-"
"I NEED iced coffee."
"I'm sorry. We don't have the managers code, I-"
"Now. I need an iced coffee NOW."
They start scrambling around, saying how they don't know what his code is.
I go, "Look. He's coming," (because he was indeed walking toward us looking distraught)
I'm panicking because I don't want to see him after what i just did.
"GIVE ME THE ICED COFFEE!"
"We've tried everything we can think of! I can't guess his code..."
So I go over to the key pad thing, type in 8895 and that must've been his code because everything lit up and they made my iced coffee.
Alex finally gets over as I push the straw in the cup and take a long, grateful drink. He looks over at me, then at the rest of the staff. He says something, but I'm not sure what.
I see my friend, Sarah, and I go over to her and go, "...I got an iced coffee."
"Oh. Can I have a drink?"
I hand it over, she takes a drink, and she makes a yucky face.
I see my history teacher walk behind Sarah and I start talking to him about iced coffee.


Any ideas what these dreams are trying to tell me? Because I'm pretty confused... other than I needed an iced coffee. :P

Your dream is very interesting. I'm just speculating on the meaning of the dream from what is written. I think I'm right though.

Well, to me the dream seems to be saying there's a part of you trying to understand you.

The dark part of the screen might represent the part of you which you don't know or the part of you which is undeveloped. The darkness which you associate with the TV screen, surrounding Alex, could mean that the part of you (as represented by Alex) is developing. That part of you hasn't developed enough to fill the whole screen though. From what you wrote, it appears Alex is really important to you. The fact that you keep on dreaming the same dream over and over is saying that this particular message and what Alex represents is really important to you. Maybe the fact that the dream keeps on repeating means you aren't getting the message, so to speak. As a frame of reference, when that part of you on the TV screen is fully developed, the images should fill the whole TV screen.

Typically libraries represent recorded knowledge. The library in your dreams might represent a record of who you are, your life, etc. Technically, if you were to take everything about you it'd probably fill up a library.

Your friend Megan is an archetype representing the part of you which understands you, the part of you which is knows you. I think your friend Alex represents the part of you which doesn't understand you, the part of you which is unknown to you or the part of you which you don't understand. Everything in your dreams is a reflection of who you are. So the fact that your friend Megan is close to you might mean she is that part of you which you know, which understands you. Alex represents the part of you which doesn't understand you, which in turn reflects the part of you which you don't know or maybe the part of you which you are afraid of. Typically we fear the unknown.

The part of the dream where you and your friend are walk down the library isle towards Alex, might mean that the part of you which you understand (as represented by Megan) gives you the courage to walk towards that unknown as represented by Alex. Again, Alex represents the part of you which you don't understand or that doesn't understand you.

The fact that Megan stands in front of you and Alex stands behind you also might represent the ideas of what you know and of what you don't know. Megan stands in front of you where you can see her and Alex stands behind you where you can't see him. What you can't see is what you don't know and what you can see is what you do know. You can see Megan so you do know her, you can't see Alex making it hard for you know him. Not seeing Alex might mean that you don't know the part of you as represented by Alex. The fact that Megan can see Alex might mean that Megan represents the part of you which does understand Alex.

I believe it's clear that Alex is really important to you. The archetype of Alex could mean that what's unknown to you is really important to you.

The mystery books also represent the relationship between that which is known and that which is unknown. Megan is the part of you which already understand you. Alex is the part of you which doesn't understand you, but which is trying to understand you. He reads what you read because that part of you is trying to learn more about you. The problem is you are too impatient which seems to be a common theme in the dream. Maybe your impatience is a way of dealing with your fear of the unknown.

You want the part of you as represented by Alex to understand you before it's ready to. It's like asking a child to be able to spell before he has even learned the alphabet. Or as your dream illustrates, it like asking someone to start reading a book at the middle instead of from the beginning. If you don't start from the beginning you miss things that might be important to the overall story as a result. In Alex's case, he's having a hard time understanding who you are because he hasn't read the whole story of your life. For him, something is missing. Maybe the dream is saying you don't understand a part of yourself because you haven't properly examined certain parts of your life. Specifically the dream seems to be focusing on your elementary years. Maybe the reason you neglect this part of your life is because you believe you know all there is to know. I think the dream is telling you that you have missed something that might be important.

I think the relationship between the Agatha Christie books and the Nancy Drew books might represent the relationship between you childhood self and you adult self. I think you also see the concept of the relationship between the adult self and the childhood self in the mall. The candy stores represent your childhood self and the iced coffee represents your adult self.

The fact that you didn't recognize the mall could mean part of you had traveled to a place unknown to you. Maybe it was a place you weren't ready to be in. Maybe you went there because that's where you asked Alex to send you .

Like the library, the movie theater might also represent recorded knowledge in the form of movies.

In the mall part of the dream, the fact that you want the coffee before the employees have permission to give it to you might mean that you are looking to mature before part of you is ready to mature. We also see this possible theme in your confrontation with Alex concerning what books he should read. You want him to skip the more elementary school books and jump to the adult books before he is ready to. Again in the mall dream as in the library part of the dream we see the theme of impatience.

In the mall dream again we see that you fear Alex. As I said, this could mean you fear the unknown. Also, maybe you fear what might happen if you let Alex completely know you. You don't want to let him know your elementary school self which is why you don't want him to read the Nancy Drew books.

You get the coffee, but you fail to get it through the proper channels which is represented by Alex. As a result you get the coffee before it is ready to be sold. This might mean that you are looking to develop a part of you that isn't ready to be developed. The fact that your friend Sarah didn't like the taste of the coffee could represent the consequence of taking the coffee before it's ready. By skipping parts of your development you might be causing that part of you to develop improperly. Developing a part of yourself before it's ready to be developed might have caused that part of you to develop improperly. The reason the coffee doesn't taste good to Sarah is because it wasn't ready. As a result the coffee is "distasteful".

So I believe the dream is saying you need to be patient and you need to develop the parts of you which are undeveloped before you go forward with your life. The parts of you which you don't think are important might be more important then you think.