[Missgemmy]

Hi there,

Hoping someone can help interpreting my dream I just woke from.

My car was on an ocean cliff ledge - not sure how I ended up there. There were 3 of us girls in the car. I was the driver. The waves started to get higher on the cliff and I told the others to get out of the car and run to the cliff stairs. I thought about trying to move the car. Then a huge wave hit so I jumped out of the car and ran for the stairs also. I looked back from the stairs and saw the car was now sinking in the rough ocean. I was upset that I didn't manage to grab my handbag from the car.

Then I woke up.

Can anyone shed some light?

[MusicMike]

An important step is to get your own associations to the various images in the dream. You could reflect on the answers to some questions. What are your feelings about the ocean? Does this ocean cliff remind you of any place you've been? Are the other girls in the car people you know? What would your handbag have in it; what are you losing if you can't get it?

Mike

[medkev13]

Water, especially when it's tumultuous like you describe, typically reflects emotional unrest. Something is wrong within, and it's threatening to your subconscious mind. Carl Jung, as well as a plethora of other dream interpreters, make the stance that while characters in dreams may resemble people you know, they are actually representations of parts of yourself. If the characters do resemble people you know in waking life, then you have to ask what do you see in both them and yourself? That would be what these characters identify. So there you are, in this car, with these parts of yourself...facing an emotional unrest. The car, by the way, would probably be the reflection of your body - mobile, but facing a point of no way out. It may also reflect where you see yourself at this point in your life - again, seeming to see no way out of this unrest. You do manage to escape the waters safely. But this anger toward your handbag... does it feel justified in the dream? There is a feeling of unspoken understanding here, that you will have to lose something small to escape unharmed. But is it such a big deal to lose? That would be what the feeling of justification would tell you. Mike was spot on, I think, with the considering of the waters. What emotions were connected with it? Whatever it was, it was building up, rising to the edge of the cliff.

[Thunder Bow]

You are letting go of your urgent need for the car. The handbag represents letting go of a part of yourself.