| weird, interesting, helpful dream |
[nov 29th, 2009 >>1:50pm] |
So, I think I'm sick, which makes my dreams a little more vivid than usual.
So the dream centered around: myself; my house--which had an extra-long driveway, as it normally does in my dreams; Ryan; an old, 20's style race car that my dad had stored in our other garage here; Hayley; a house which has been in many, many dreams in my past and has always been mysterious.
I don't remember all the details of the dream but there were two main parts that flowed into one-another rather nicely. The first major story-line was that Hayley and I had started hanging out and then we ended up dating, or something to that effect. She lived in the house that's been in my past dreams. It is gigantic--perhaps five stories, though I've never really been able to see much about the floor plan previously. It sits atop a hill that is difficult to find and has a curve in it.
One day Hayley and I had been working on something together (school project?) and had been hanging out, and we ended up back at her house. Now, all the bottom floors on this house were pretty familiar, but I had never really gotten the gist of the top floors. They were always dark and creepy and I could only see the area immediately around me. Now, it was dark up there when Hayley and I first went up, but we spent some time talking together in her room (which was located on the top floor), and eventually fell asleep in her bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and there was this strange glow all over everything. It wasn't overwhelming but it also wasn't the scary, shrouded light that I had experienced in my past dreams. The top floor of the house had one more bedroom and two bathrooms.
I'd like to describe the cool and calm of sleeping there, but I'm going to keep the creep factor of this post as manageable as possible and explain that this had a lot to do with the new-found warmth of the house.
We ended up sleeping for a long time--through school, and until the warmth of the afternoon daylight flooded through the windows and softly roused us from sleep. Hayley explained that she'd let her mom know why I was there and that we should get to work on our project again so it could be turned in the next day. So that's what we did, and that night we again slept in her room. I awoke in the early morning hours, helped her get ready for school, and then left for my own house (because apparently I don't have to go to school? This part confused me).
At my house I had to do a couple chores, but Ryan came over after those were done. Ryan and I went looking for things to do around the house, and ended up finding an old race car. I really wanted to drive it, and also to fix it for my dad. Ryan was very apprehensive about it and wasn't sure that we could do it, but I told him it was fine.
Fast-forward to when we're finished with the car. I decided I wanted to start it up to see if it would run. After a few attempts, the engine turned over but soon failed. We tried again. Less successful that time. All-in-all, I spent a lot of time trying to get the engine to start before finally deciding that maybe I should charge the battery for a while instead of trying the same thing over and over.
Other random parts of my dream that don't fit in with the rest:
Bagging shit at my mom's store.
Looking for the right hair product in the cottage that no longer exists on our property.
All said and done, there are two major life messages in this dream.
In the first part of the dream, the house represents a relationship to me. The way it's situated in a weird place that often takes me out of my way, the way it's recurring, the way it was dark and scary in the past but this time around I was able to see things exactly right. I think it's hope that there IS someone out there for me, and that there is more to this "house" than what I've seen in the past.
The second part shows me that I'm strong and able to do anything, but before I can get all the way to where I want to go, I need to sit back and assess the situation and figure out what truly needs to happen--and that part, the re-alignment of my path, may take a reasonable amount of time.
So yeah. That's what I have this afternoon. I miss the feeling I woke up with today. The content, happy, glow.
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