This is a pretty great analysis (though I'm replying late and snipped the quote for brevity's sake). I have been trying to get into some sort of spirituality, but I keep feeling like my issues are more existential in content, only spiritual in an emotional sense. I think and worry about morality and ideals far more than any distinct religion; I've had several nihilistic/existential crises in the past year but I thought I was mostly over them by now. At the very least, I've buried them sufficiently.

A week after this supposedly meaningful dream about moving toward something in my future, I feel awfully, painfully stagnated and tied down. I guess it was more about a desire to move forward than anything else. And when I woke up I was especially impressed by my being a strong, active character in that dream, as opposed to a more passive figure, or not in it at all.