[onlyme2]

I've been going through a difficult time lately and keep having the strangest dream, pretty much the same thing occurs but maybe in a different order. Does anyone know how to interpret dreams?

I'm working in a boarding school for boys and they are leaving for the summer so I watch all the cars drive away from a window then I walk around the house into each bathroom and find the bathtubs full of water, sometimes clean, sometimes not, I always reach in to unplug so the water can drain away but I feel disgusted. Afterwards I go to the supermarket and the only thing they have on their shelves are bowls of soup in different flavors. I realise I have no money to buy anything and feel really panicked. The manager offers me a job which I am very excited about but to my horror my job is a diaper changer working from a van out in the supermarket's parking lot, no mothers would bring their children to me instead, grown men stop by and I am forced to change their diapers, I feel disgusted.

[WePow]

(((( onlyme2 )))) This feels like a powerful dream. In most dreams, water is the symbol for emotions. Because you are alone after younger people have left, it may be emotions dealing with childhood issues. The children who hurt you (( or perhaps people who acted like children with showing no regard for you as a child )) have now gone away and you are left with this "mess" of emotions to deal with. The bathtubs of water being clean would be good memories. Dirty would be bad ones. And the act of reaching into the water to pull the plug can represent your internal feelings towards having to "dig up" those past emotions in therapy or other "emotional cleaning" methods.

The act of buying food is showing that you are trying to nurture yourself - to feed your spirit. Bowls of soup in different flavors can represent emotion (liquid) that you are still thinking about - such as new trusts or new friendships. The fact that you have no money shows you want those things to come into your life - but you may have a deep fear that you are actually not ready for them just yet.

The final scene shows that in order for you to get what you need, you may feal like you are being forced to clean up the messes other people have left behind.

Big hugs to you! No idea if any of this will make sense to you or not, but that is what I got.

[onlyme2]

Originally Posted by wpowers

(((( onlyme2 )))) This feels like a powerful dream. In most dreams, water is the symbol for emotions. Because you are alone after younger people have left, it may be emotions dealing with childhood issues. The children who hurt you (( or perhaps people who acted like children with showing no regard for you as a child )) have now gone away and you are left with this "mess" of emotions to deal with. The bathtubs of water being clean would be good memories. Dirty would be bad ones. And the act of reaching into the water to pull the plug can represent your internal feelings towards having to "dig up" those past emotions in therapy or other "emotional cleaning" methods.

The act of buying food is showing that you are trying to nurture yourself - to feed your spirit. Bowls of soup in different flavors can represent emotion (liquid) that you are still thinking about - such as new trusts or new friendships. The fact that you have no money shows you want those things to come into your life - but you may have a deep fear that you are actually not ready for them just yet.

The final scene shows that in order for you to get what you need, you may feal like you are being forced to clean up the messes other people have left behind.

Big hugs to you! No idea if any of this will make sense to you or not, but that is what I got.

Thank you so much for this, it really makes sense to my situation right now. Especially digging up the emotions from the past to resolve the issues so I can move on from it, at times it feels like the negative emotions are drowning me when the thought of having to face them again and makes me want to sweep them further under. This really helped me to categorize each part of the process of what I am trying to achieve with working with past emotions, thanks again!

[WePow]

onlyme2 - thanks a zillion for letting me know it hit home with you. It is amazing how the brain tries so hard to communicate with us! It just sometimes doesn't speak our language :-)

[onlyme2]

Originally Posted by wpowers

onlyme2 - thanks a zillion for letting me know it hit home with you. It is amazing how the brain tries so hard to communicate with us! It just sometimes doesn't speak our language :-)

Yes.. I agree, Thanks again, Happy New Year, all the best to you for 2010!