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If we look at the dream from a physical point of view, we can see the “friends” as simply representing the idea of friends. The dream scene would thus appear to suggest first of all that there might be some emotional uneasiness pertaining to the number of friends you see yourself as having. Note how you particularly mention “talking to one of my few friends”. The scene also suggests that where conversations with a friend are involved, the communication may not be very satisfying. (conversation about something bad) When things are looking down for you – a bit discouraging or depressing – the friend or the friendship is gone.
You are searching for “a friend” within the context of your own “school of thought” or philosophy – one probably pertaining to the issue of “friends” as if expecting to find the friend within this context. (searching for this person in the midst of my school) For some unknown reason, you have chosen to see the principles you stand on (the legs) in relation to friendships as being unsound. (for some reason I was limping .. pretending to limp) You keep searching as if the friend – one who leaves you when things are not going well for you – as if that “friend” or kind of friendship would be “a find”, i.e. a friendship to be valued or treasured. You seem to have a call for, or need for, this friend as being very significant or important to you. (calling out their name)
By waking up within the dream, it is implied that you are seeing a situation with a heightened sense of conscious awareness. What you see in this state of mind are 2 friends as manikins. The 2 friends are an indication of some wrong and negative thinking pertaining to “friends”. As these manikins are recognized as being your friends, it can suggest that in your mind you have created a statue to honour these friends – but this image is obviously not a living image. This view of your friends is not one you can actually live with. It is not an idea of friendship that gives you life either. You also assume that you have murdered or terminated the friendships; that you have turned your friends into people who cannot make a move on their own. But – your friends are not in reality “dummies”. It is these assumptions made while thinking you are seeing a situation with great awareness (as if wide awake) that is leaving you feeling empty or depressed.
The problem as shown by this dream is that where you think you are seeing a situation regarding friends with full awareness, you are actually seeing it from a perspective coming of your own Dream World or overly imaginative and emotional thinking. Your response to the assumptions made when not thinking with full clarity of thought is to go back to sleep, i.e. you simply continue on in the same state of unawareness. You go on living in your own Dream World. [It is not the number of friends you have that is important but rather the quality of those friendships. Friends who leave when you are having difficulties cannot be classified as friends. Good riddance.]
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