[mike_maple]

I have a recurring dream about being in a hospital - a regular hospital not a psychiatric one - that I've had for around 10 years now, recurring not every night or even every week, (as far as I can remember), but regularly enough.

Although in the dream I am always a patient in a hospital, the setting is never the same, and different things can happen, though it usually involves me wandering around the wards and corridors. Sometimes there are nurses or doctors involved. The dream I had last night was particularly clear:-
I'd been admitted into hospital for some reason or other, and I was walking along and talking with a nurse who was trying to find me a bed - strangely not in the normal sense ie a bed in a ward, but a hospital bed that she was going to find and bring back to the ward I was going to stay in.
We go into several elevators, including wierd ones which move along sideways, finally finding a bed and wheeling it back the way we came. At some point, she leaves me by the doors of some elevator and carries on.
Eventually a group of doctors find me and ask where I belong. I'm disorientated and don't know, but tell them about the nurse and the bed.

They take me up in the elevator to a ward - can't remember any other patients being there, and we all sit down around a white table and talk. I think at some point, either the nurse with the bed or the doctors must have given me some sort of general anesthetic, because my speech becomes gradually more slurry, and my head begins to slowly nod towards the table. Soon, my forehead comes to rest on the table, and although my eyes are still open, I know I'm seconds away from becoming unconscious. At this point, I wake up!

I should probably mention that I went into hospital a few times when I was a child for the occasional bit of surgery, and I still go to see a specialist every 2 years for a check up, so I don't have any fear of hospitals, indeed I view them positively. Whether any of this has anything to do with the dream I don't know.

That's it - if anyone fancies a go at interpretation, I'd be fascinated to hear their opinion. Thanks!

[optimize990h]

Hi mike_maple.



Hospitals symbolize a place of healing. So it may involve physical or/and psychological healing.e.g. a cure healing process. The department that you are in may help determine the nature of healing.

Since dreams are symbols, you have to do the hard way work-putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

Welcome to PsychCentral. I hope you find the human and information resources helpful for any questions related to this site.

[Thunder Bow]

The Hospital is You, and the elevators take you to different parts of Yourself. I like the fact that they go in many directions. The beds represent rest. I think you feel at ease within yourself and are very comfortable with your self. You feel asleep at a white table. White often represent wisdom. You are comfortable with your wisdom, and fell asleep there. It is up to you to push the beds into the right places.

[mike_maple]

Wow thanks both for your replies - the language of dreams is a fascinating subject and it's great to get some other perspective on mine.

Firstly, I can't remember any department in any of these dreams, though I will look out for this in future - earlier this evening however it struck me that the whole sitting around a table and talking thing could possibly be connected to my social phobia - I've always had trouble making conversation with people I don't really know, and I tend to avoid such situations.

Years ago I even believed myself to have avoidant personality disorder, until I found out that people with that have it way worse than I do - now I just put it down to being an introvert. Still, maybe it's something in me that does need healing, or maybe it's got nothing to do with it!

To answer Thunder bow, Yes I do feel at ease and comfortable within myself, that's something that's come with age (I'm 36), as back in my 20's I felt more keenly my social awkwardness and worried about wasting my life etc, but now I'm more accepting of life, I have a few close friends and am content enough - perhaps my subconscious mind is trying to tell me I'm maybe too content!

Again, thanks for your help, I feel a little self-centred talking about me all the time!

[Thunder Bow]

Feel free to talk about yourself. That is what this forum is for!