Bizarre dream that's stuck with me all day...

[Oneirix]

I had a really strange dream last night. Normally I'm not compelled to put any sort of meaning on dreams, but this time I had the urge to ask someone and since it's kind of complex I couldn't really find it in any general dream interpretation index. Plus I very rarely ignore my instincts when it's stuff like this. It's kind of long, but if anyone is interested in helping me make sense of this it would be extremely appreciated! In my dream I start out on the second floor of a bookstore walking towards what looks like a children's section, or illustrated books section. It looks like a cross between an old psychic bookshop my mom used to take me to and the second floor of a Borders. As I'm walking a young man who works there is helping another customer find something and as he's directing the other customer past me he says something along the lines of "hey cutie" or "you're a cute girl" or something and I pointedly ignore him, although a part of me is flattered because I even though I didn't see him I know he's extremely handsome. He sort of chuckles something like "oh you're ignoring me" and keeps going past. Then I'm in with the books and leafing through some of them, I think they're like those kid's dragon books that are really popular right now, and I'm on the ground floor. I can't really hear for certain, but I know someone (my mom, I think) is talking to the man from earlier behind the register about me a few yards away. They're saying good things about me, but it's nothing all that important. Suddenly I'm alone in a hallway and the man is standing over me and saying something along the lines of it's obvious that I want him so I should just give into it. He kisses me and then I fall down from shaking from excitement/nervousness and he laughs (in an amused way, not maliciously). Then I'm in a bed with him naked, although I'm sitting up and I'm holding the sheets to my chest kind of absently. He's asking me if I really want to do this, and I'm sitting there staring off into space and I can hear my mom in the room diagonally across the hall talking on the phone. There are no doors in the door frames. I realize that this guy is not what I want, I already have a boyfriend who is perfect for me and nothing is worth hurting him, and suddenly the guy next to me seems older and less attractive. I tell him I'm sorry and that I can't do this and I have to go. He says it's fine. So then I'm in this giant parking lot at night that is really hilly. I start walking down towards what I think is my car and I see that I have a parking ticket and I get kind of exasperated, until I get up close and realize that it's not my car at all and I can't imagine why I thought it was. I then see my car farther off and walk towards it. It also has a ticket and I get bummed out. When I get close to it again I see once more that it's a different car, and the ticket is not a ticket but a notification that I had won a free year-long permit so I'd never get tickets again, but it's not my car. I finally find my car and drive to my dad's house to see my boyfriend. I go inside to my bedroom and my boyfriend is sitting naked in my chair playing video games on my computer. We kiss and I realize how perfect he is. I tell him I love him and that I want to have sex with him right now, but he says that we don't have enough privacy; the weird hallway from the bedroom before is back and I can hear my dad and his girlfriend talking in the room diagonal, and there are no doors again. I tell him it doesn't matter, and then I'm naked and we get into bed and cuddle, and I feel extremely happy. At that point I wake up and feel great. But there's something about this dream that keeps nagging at me, and I'm not sure what. It still bugs me somehow. I'd love to get some thoughts from people experienced in interpretation; I know next to nothing about it. I left out a few minor details, like descriptions of the rooms and the people, so if you need any more information I can definitely supply it. Thanks for any help in advance.

[Samael]

First of all, take into account that anyone else's interpretation of your dream isn't going to be perfect. Nobody here actually knows you. Anyway, I'll try to point out a couple things that look like themes in the dream. Your dream self seems conflicted about your relationship with your boyfriend. Maybe you're not sure of yourself, of him, of some aspect of the relationship in some way. Or maybe it's the other way around, and this dream is just reaffirming your relationship with him. Alternatively, your worries might have nothing to do with your boyfriend at all, in waking life. You're worried about something, or you feel guilty about something that has happened or might happen, and you've acted out in your dreams a scenario that might leave you feeling the same way. In short, this isn't a perfect science, and it's really up to you to say what the dream means. I find that quite often my dreams at night are just about things that I was thinking about during the day or while I was falling asleep, even if that was something as mundane as a tv-show. So if you were worried or unsure about something, those feelings might manifest themselves in your dreams, sometimes in very strange ways. Don't worry about it too much, and don't let it affect your waking life more than is warranted.

[The Doctor]

Did one of your parents cheat on the other one? It's just I get the feeling from your dream that you are worried that "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". What I mean by this is that you are scared of maybe imitating a mistake and messing up your relationship, which you may have witnessed someone else you care about do. I think that person may be a relative like your father say and you think that you take after him maybe.