Dream by 55 yrs British female in fast car ride

[Deb]

anyone like to take a stab at interpreting my last night's dream please? It was a fast car ride although I don't have a car and I use a mountain bike instead which I love. I have 3 kids and 1 grandson and I would have expected at least 1 of them to be with me and my husband on this car ride because I include them in what I do at every opportunity, but none of them was. Anyway my husband was driving this fast car (which he doesn't have, his is ordinary) and I was in the passenger seat. Interestingly enough the car was a right-hand drive (as in the UK) even though I have lived in Spain for 8 years and here the cars are left-hand drive. The road was a narrow lane, we sped along it in the car and sometimes the road surface would suddenly turn from an asphalt surface into a natural rock road, for instance a limestone pavement formation. It was dark and I could only see the road. The dream ended suddenly when my husband pulled the car up at the end of the road. The road ended outside a building which I knew was a monastery and I also knew in my dream that I had been there before, even though I have never been there in my waking state in my present life. That was the point I woke up. Seems to be full of symbology, but I can't work it out.

[Seeker]

Hi Deb, Welcome on board! It's always a pleasure to welcome another Baby Boomer on board. I've moved your post to Dream Interpretation.

[Burned up]

anyone like to take a stab at interpreting my last night's dream please? It was a fast car ride although I don't have a car and I use a mountain bike instead which I love. I have 3 kids and 1 grandson and I would have expected at least 1 of them to be with me and my husband on this car ride because I include them in what I do at every opportunity, but none of them was. Anyway my husband was driving this fast car (which he doesn't have, his is ordinary) and I was in the passenger seat. Interestingly enough the car was a right-hand drive (as in the UK) even though I have lived in Spain for 8 years and here the cars are left-hand drive. The road was a narrow lane, we sped along it in the car and sometimes the road surface would suddenly turn from an asphalt surface into a natural rock road, for instance a limestone pavement formation. It was dark and I could only see the road. The dream ended suddenly when my husband pulled the car up at the end of the road. The road ended outside a building which I knew was a monastery and I also knew in my dream that I had been there before, even though I have never been there in my waking state in my present life. That was the point I woke up. Seems to be full of symbology, but I can't work it out. I guess the two main symbols are the journey and the destination. The journey is an archetype often encountered in dreams. Only this journey was especially fast and the road surface became more primitive. Suggests to me you're in a hurry to get to a more primitive part of your mind. The monastery also suggests something more ancient in your mind, as does the feeling of familiarity. You don't state how you felt when you reached the monastery, other than the familiarity. Was it as calm place, a foreboding place or what? It certainly sounds like a very personal place.

[Deb]

You don't state how you felt when you reached the monastery, other than the familiarity. Was it as calm place, a foreboding place or what? Thanks Bu! The monastery felt "desolate", like the road to it because it was the "dead of night" and the only light in the dream was from the car headlights. I had an OBE many years ago (my only one) in my sleep and it was "all dark and desolate" there too except for the street lamps from a housing estate which I recognized as the one on the hill above where we lived then. I was a little grey cloud floating along the footpath up the hill and as soon as it dawned on me I was astral travelling the shock was so great I woke up. Not all my dreams are in darkness though.

[Burned up]

Thanks Bu! The monastery felt "desolate", like the road to it because it was the "dead of night" and the only light in the dream was from the car headlights. Right I've got a better picture now. Not particularly a place of solace, then. More kind of ancient and eerie? I had an OBE many years ago (my only one) in my sleep and it was "all dark and desolate" there too except for the street lamps from a housing estate which I recognized as the one on the hill above where we lived then. I was a little grey cloud floating along the footpath up the hill and as soon as it dawned on me I was astral travelling the shock was so great I woke up. Not all my dreams are in darkness though. The two dreams do seem to have similar features, though. The lights "light your way" in both cases, so it's a place you really want to find out about. The road is probably a metaphor of your journey through life. With your husband at the wheel, the implication is that it's not you who is in control. Where is "he" taking you? (Note - this says nothing about your husband, this is all about you). The hill generally suggests higher level of consciousness to me, but somehow that context is wrong in the dream. More like it's less accessible / more defendable. You didn't say that there was a hill in your recent dream, though, only that it was the end of a road. I sense you wonder in life if you're travelling willingly towards whatever this monastery represents. Like you're wondering the purpose of life or something? Or perhaps a particular aspect of it (spiritual perhaps). I'm not really knowledgeable about OBEs, although I have had many flying dreams (lucid and non-lucid). Again, though, I sense a yearning to know what this place is about. Don't know if any of this feedback helps to take the dream meaning to the next stage?

[Deb]

You're right Bu, the whole dream was eerie. You're right about the ancient aspect too. Big contrast between that and the modernness of a fast car. The mode of transport should have been a horse and cart or even walking. Well, the car was going much too fast to control and would have crashed many times in real life... my husband doesn't drive that way, he's careful, but maybe symbolically he is "rushing me into" something. Not sure what. The road was level by the way.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

Another interpretation: Maybe the car is your body? Cars often symbolize this, or your life-drive. You are approaching the destination of your life: death (dead of night). The Monastery in the dark can symbolize the ancient divine but unkown knowledge of death. Your husband is your life partner so it would make sense that you two are traveling together towards this destination. Not a prophecy as such, though we all die, but perhaps just your subconscious thinking about it.

[Deb]

I didn't make the connection with death Dannon, but actually I do feel I have a (self-imposed) death wish hanging over me, and that would account for the dream as you interpret it. I've got internal bleeding, currently awaiting diagnosis but probably IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and although that in itself is not life-shortening, due to the blood loss I have mentally been preparing to say goodbye to my family! My own feeling is that I have brought this condition on myself in order to force myself into present time; when you're preparing to say goodbye to your family, it helps to focus you and make you think clearly. What brought that on is that previously I was mentally projecting myself to 2012, i.e. not living in present time. I am one of those people who believe that the earth will have "ascended" from the 3rd to the 4th dimension by then, i.e. be in a state of peace and co-operation. But the time until then seems like a big abyss to me: how am I gonna keep going while people are still able to trash the planet, imprison people who defend human rights, etc. and get away with it? I guess my bleeding will continue a while longer till I find a way to reconcile myself with living in present time during the next few years. I know the answer to the problem, but not how to implement it yet. Going back to the dream, my husband believes the same as me about 2012 but is well-adjusted, so I reckon he is just my driver in the dream and does not have any "death wish" for himself. Interesting that neither of us went into the monastery, that would have been creepy given that you associate it with death, wouldn't it, ha-ha!?

[Dannon Oneironaut]

I don't think it would be creepy necessarily. Especially if you were lucid and you opened the windows and took out the walls and let some light in and some fresh air. Maybe make the sun come out.

[Burned up]

You're right Bu, the whole dream was eerie. You're right about the ancient aspect too. Big contrast between that and the modernness of a fast car. The mode of transport should have been a horse and cart or even walking. Well, the car was going much too fast to control and would have crashed many times in real life... my husband doesn't drive that way, he's careful, but maybe symbolically he is "rushing me into" something. Not sure what. I would say not so much that he in particular was rushing you, but that you are feeling that events are out of control. Easy to blame someone for "making me feel that way" - we do it IRL and in dreams! The road was level by the way. OK. I've read your exchanges with Dannon and if indeed you have a heightened awareness of death then, yes, I would agree this will affect your dreams. We can't be aware of life unless we're also aware of death - or so they say. You lost me a bit with the 2012 part. Are you saying the bleeding is actual or metaphorical? Or both? Of course there could be a link between your own condition and how you perceive the world. If the monastery is symbolic of death and you didn't go in then it sounds like you don't really believe you're going to die - at least not as a result of the journey in the dream. For the record I don't believe that dreams prophesise, but they do shed light on what we (unconsciously) think might happen.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

And it might not be literal death, either, but some sort of unknown transformation. I suggest if you have lucid skills to investigate this monastery.

[Deb]

Well boys, I've now worked my dream out although without your help, I would still be clueless. 1) The fact that the dream was "handed" to me (like someone hands you a video on DVD) just before I woke up meant that it was a message. From a spiritual guide or maybe a group of them ganging up on me he he!! 2) The message said, Deborah, this is road you are on, and this is where it leads to (death). If you don't want to go there soon, you'd better change direction. 3) To change direction, you have to reconcile yourself to living in the world as it is now, no matter how much you might yearn to live in a happier one for everyone (2012 and onwards: Golden Age...). About the blood, that's real... there's nothing like the sight of blood (mixed with unmentionable contents of my intestine! - I have been taking samples of it to the hospital...) to bring one into the present, so really the blood has the same "message" as the dream. I suppose when the bleeding stops it will mean I've "got the message". As to what to do with the message, I feel too physically weak to do anything, in fact I'm surrendering (going out of) control just like in the dream. Maybe the surrendering will get me somewhere as it's just about all I'm capable of at present! Cheers and thanks to you both.

[Burned up]

Well boys, I've now worked my dream out although without your help, I would still be clueless. 1) The fact that the dream was "handed" to me (like someone hands you a video on DVD) just before I woke up meant that it was a message. From a spiritual guide or maybe a group of them ganging up on me he he!! 2) The message said, Deborah, this is road you are on, and this is where it leads to (death). If you don't want to go there soon, you'd better change direction. 3) To change direction, you have to reconcile yourself to living in the world as it is now, no matter how much you might yearn to live in a happier one for everyone (2012 and onwards: Golden Age...). About the blood, that's real... there's nothing like the sight of blood (mixed with unmentionable contents of my intestine! - I have been taking samples of it to the hospital...) to bring one into the present, so really the blood has the same "message" as the dream. I suppose when the bleeding stops it will mean I've "got the message". That's a powerful link, Deb. If it feels right then I'd go with it. Sounds like it's making sense to you. This is an excellent example of how impossible it is for someone else to interpret your dream but how useful it is to engage with others in order to make sense yourself. As to what to do with the message, I feel too physically weak to do anything, in fact I'm surrendering (going out of) control just like in the dream. Yes, that's the bit I caught. Perhaps you can now own that journey, as it seems in the dream that you were hostage to fortune. Time for you to take the wheel? Maybe the surrendering will get me somewhere as it's just about all I'm capable of at present! Maybe it will. And maybe you won't be scared of the journey now. Your dream showed you what you feel might happen (death). In fact you really don't know what might happen (which is probably even scarier). Cheers and thanks to you both. Well thank you for the dream and the subsequent exchanges. Looks like you made some connections. All I can now do is to wish you well whatever may transpire.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

Maybe it will. And maybe you won't be scared of the journey now. Your dream showed you what you feel might happen (death). In fact you really don't know what might happen (which is probably even scarier). This confuses me. Isn't the end of the journey for all of us Death? Isn't that a definate? However, the journey still continues even after death. What else might happen? Deb, do you practice lucid dreaming? I feel that 2012 has a lot to do with lucidity and lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is also great for healing.

[Burned up]

This confuses me. Isn't the end of the journey for all of us Death? Isn't that a definate? However, the journey still continues even after death. What else might happen? Do you believe that dreams predict the future? Yes, we all die but do we know when? The dreamer's post suggested that her condition might lead to death but this is by no means certain. If the dream concerns the blood loss, then it is just about one possible outcome, no, not definite. Not sure what you mean about the "journey continues even after death". Do you mean in an afterlife?