So dreams/nightmares are meaningless, correct?

[UTUSN]

It was very bright and colorful, a gigantic mall, we’re talking Mall of the Americas (I imagine) size, bigger, with acres of parking lots and hundreds of entrances, and I made it inside to a beauty shop and my mother was in the waiting area and I was a couple of chairs away, and we were waiting for my grandmother to have her session finished.

In real life "beauty shops" were not in their lives, and both have been deceased for 20 and more years. Whenever I dream my deceased relatives they seldom if ever talk in the dreams and are like shades, but here they were fully formed and in bright clothes. So it took a long time, then Grandmother was finally done and was presented to us. In real life she always wore a bun, but here they had dolled her up at her great age with her tresses down her face, and Mother’s hair was done-up beautifully.

So the three of us left the shop and were trying to leave the gigantic mall, and we were looking for one of our two vehicles and none of us knew where our vehicles were and we kept walking and walking through vast lobbies and crowds, and actually the two of them weren’t talking and I was leading them around, then I said we should look for their car, the entrance they used nearest the shop, but we just kept going and going and couldn’t find anything. Finally I woke up.

So this could be read into it some clear afterlife with lost souls or something. Actually, would prefer something about how dreams mean nothing.

[femmocrat]

1. From the dreambible:

"To dream of being unable to find your car represents feelings that the rules of a situation are not working out for you. Feeling that you have not gotten what you bargained for, or that a certain kind of decision-making is not giving you the satisfaction that you thought it would. A situation that leaves you feeling embarrassed or confused. You may feel that there is no meaning to some area of your life. You may not know what you really want to do with your life or where you want to go."

I have that dream too, of not being able to find the car. Usually in a parking garage.

I think your dream means that you wanted your mother and/or grandmother to help you with a decision you need to make. The mall represents having many choices. But instead of their guiding you, they are now gone and you must take the lead. Their makeovers could represent an idealized remembrance that you have of them. Does that pertain to you in any way?

[UTUSN]

2. Thanks so much. Yes, but I tend to have nightmares like this with lots of repetitive tasks

that go on and on and can't be accomplished. It fits with what you said. A long-previous one was about a filing cabinet drawer with folders that had to go in a certain order and everything kept repeating and stalemate, stalemate. Waking up is a relief from those.

[ailsagirl]

3. I know what you mean

Certain themes run through many of my dreams.

Like trying to make a phone call (for help? I don't know), and being unable to correctly dial the number. It's as if I'm wearing thick work gloves or something. Over and over and over I try, without success.

It's so familiar that I'm beginning to realize-- in the dream-- that it's only a dream!! Weird

[UTUSN]

4. "it's only a dream!!" - that's the ticket. Other DUers have posted that they're meaningless.

But they can be so disturbing!!!!!!!!!1

[ailsagirl]

7. Yes they can

[femmocrat]

5. I have that one too!

In my dreams, the numbers on the phone are all jumbled up. Some are larger, some smaller, and out of order. I can't get the actual phone number right.

Sometimes I am using a regular (landline) phone and the call just won't go through. Such a frustrating dream. ugh.

[ailsagirl]

6. Maybe it means we feel we can't communicate??

I just don't know.

And I think dreams are/can be very meaningful... one has to decipher their unusual imagery, though, which is not easy.

[femmocrat]

8. Sounds like a good interpretation.

I think dreams are bits and pieces of things that actually happen, not really predictors of future events.

[ailsagirl]

9. I agree

I sure wouldn't want to be able to see the future, though I'm sure some believe they can.

It's strange to me that dogs and cats dream-- what would be the purpose, I wonder. For us, it seems that dreams kind of work on things that might be subconsciously bothering us, but with animals...? Odd

[UTUSN]

10. I hope they're having fun when they're "running" with their dreams, but they probably also

are prone to anxiety, poor things.

[ailsagirl]

11. Yes they are

They have psyches, too.

Come to think of it, my cats twitch when they sleep sometimes-- perhaps they think they're chasing a mouse.
And my big tabby cat is often spotted licking his lips-- I think he's dreaming about steak or something like that!!