And by dream I mean the ones you have while you sleep, not life goals. And I realize for some of you your last dream that stuck with you will be "I beat the crap out of my dad with a watermelon while listening to Spongebob" and that may be pretty meaningless and something you can't interpret as having any meaning, so only interpret it if you actually think the dream says something about you.

Anyways, here's mine:

A week or two ago I had a dream where it simply began with me waking up on a couch with bright light shining on me, and a voice I interpreted to be God (note, I'm not saying God -actually- spoke to me in my dream and that the dream was a vision from God, I'm simply saying God was like the placeholder go-to presumption I had for who the voice was) said "so, you're finally ready to stop running, eh? You know as well as I do, the one to kill you will be a woman." Hearing that, I let out a rather calm sigh and immediately head out to face my death. I wasn't afraid or anything, I seemed completely ready, and if anything, I only felt....tired.

So I arrive at this bar to meet the woman I presumed God was referring to: my last love interest. She's sitting at the corner bar stool chatting with some people, and I just sit down on the other side of the corner and wait for her to notice me. After a moment or two she does, and I just give her a small little half-smile, to which she simply stares back at me speechless, perhaps looking a bit upset and scared. After a moment or two when her friends start laughing and trying to talk to her again, she simply excuses herself, going to the bathroom or something I guess to collect her thoughts. While she's away I wait, and I figure hey, what the hell, might as well get a glass of whisky since I'm facing my death in a sec, and the waitress immediately takes a liking to me and hits on me a little. While I'm waiting on my drink, I notice one of the guys near me eating some dessert thing, and the waitress notices me eyeing it and offers me a plate. It SOUNDS as though she's offering it to me for free, and since I'm facing my death, I accept (last meal to go with my last drink). Only AFTER I actually bite into it once does she make it clear I'll have to pay. Once I realize I need to pay, I realize I'm not gonna have the money to pay for it, so I try to apologize and send it back, to which she declines and insists I enjoy it. The dream ends with me simply having this sinking feeling I'm going to owe her somehow.

And as a little snippet of backstory, my last love interest isn't actually someone I wronged in any way: quite the opposite, I was the one who was wronged and I was the one who cut ties with her.

My interpretation?

Kinda shows how I constantly feel guilty in life. I'm well-liked and I've always got friends, family and even acquiantances telling me there's something special about me in some way or another, but at 24 years old? I can't say I feel like I've accomplished much at all. It's rather frustrating to feel like you owe it to those people who believed in you to do SOMETHING, but you have no idea what and you're more inclined to think they were wrong. I believe I remember hearing God is often a placeholder in literature as a voice of justice, judgement, morality and various other positions, and it feels to me as though that's the voice in my head telling me I've failed, though I'm not afraid to face that voice or the punishments tied to my failures at all, hence why I don't hesitate or seem scared at all when I'm told to face my death. However, the very people I'd expect to want to punish me in some way seem reluctant to do so, and before I know it, someone else is already treating me special and giving me things that'll later fuel even more guilt and make the whole cycle repeat. In short? Yeah, I feel guilty.

Just thought it was kind of telling how much that dream stood out to me. I sorta believe dreams can be a window into a person's mind. Not in the sense that "oh you had a dream your teeth were falling out, that means you're worried you're gonna lose your friends!" Erm...or maybe you were banging your teeth up against one another in your sleep and that's how your subconcious interpreted the feeling?

However, I do think dreams can be telling about a person's mind in that the one's that stand out to YOU the most are the ones that hold the most meaning to you, much like how a person is more likely to enjoy a work of literature that covers an issue or problem they can relate to.

At any rate, I thought it might be interesting if we all had a thread to record and discuss such dreams.

I prefer to take my dreams at face value.

Scary things happen when you ask questions.

last night involving using drone to scout a mine shaft hidden in a grassy field wih some large mechanical robotic snake thing... Probably from watching The Worlds End and X Rebirth Videos

If you have difficulties remembering your dreams, and most of us do, there is an exercise to help you recall your dreams. Keep a notebook beside your bed and when you wake up, write down what you remember of your dreams. First few mornings you won't remember much, but as you keep this exercise up, you will have better dream recall, and eventually won't have to write things down in the morning to remember them.

What's to interpret? Last night I dreamt I was in an English style pub with kegs of never ending beer. It means I like to drink and I was in paradise.

One time I had this dream for a game sequel to the Valis series. For those who haven't played this game it's a side scroller hack/slash game where you play as some warrior maiden with a magical sword slashing bad guys. Anyway I tried to make this dream a reality-it's what started off my still animation and video hobby, I made two attempts the first one didn't have good flow the second was perfected...BBBBBUUUUUTTTTT....all I got was anti-American bigotry (honestly this is what happen) for my efforts. Not only that but i use stencils to help maintain my characters (drawing them by hand every time is a pain in the ass and time consuming) and By the Nine did I get flack for that as well (I did use to draw by hand). In the end I scraqed my project and started doing She-Ra Princess of Power still animation---and so far no ones saying anything bad about it, so I guess I'm doing something right there .

My last dream was about Denise Crosby

My interpretation? never you mind...