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Paige's avatar

My dreams have been a huge focus for me as long as I can remember, reoccurring themes and settings. It’s as if it’s a different dimension. It’s not the exact same dream every night, but it’s the same exact rotation of scenes varied, and motifs. So every dream has a list of reoccurring symbols: 1) a house that I grew up in or am familiar with, and a house I’m unfamiliar with in real life but recognize it in my dream. 2) bad men or people chasing me, sometimes I run & sometimes I hide. 3) bodies of water, typically a lake, large river or water park. 4) driving in a car, often I will be trying to drive the car from the backseat, sometimes other people will be driving and they wreck the car. 5) a store, usually it’s a mall and I’m looking through clothes and other things. Sometimes it’s a small gas station or bar.

I have been taking notes every morning of whatever I can remember. I find the this one to be interesting; where I’m trying to get myself home but I keep finding myself in peoples back yards, accidentally going through their houses and when I’d look for the door outside I’d end up in another strangers house. I’m reminded by that dream after listening to “Navigating the Labyrinth”.

I have so many dreams that in waking life I have memories pop up like real nostalgic memories, sometimes it’s hard to remember if it was real or a dream.

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond if you do so 🙏🏼

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Alyssa Polizzi's avatar

Some of the recurring themes/symbols are one's I've talked about before (and mentioned in the Jungian Dreamwork class if you wanna take a look). In brief:

- Houses: a typical symbol for the structures and states of the psyche

- Being chased: interacting with shadow material

- Water: connection to the unconscious or aspects of dissolution

- Car: a symbol for autonomy, will, volition

As for the last dream theme, perhaps there's something to do with searching for resources, things of need?

The theme of returning home is also interesting, I wonder if anything in this article resonates with you (https://www.theartemisian.com/p/odyssey-the-archetypal-yearning-for). Perhaps the dreams are speaking to a path of inner work that you are on presently?

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