Yesterday's dream

The way I woke up yesterday made me forget my dream. I knew it was an interesting one though and throughout the day I kept getting flash images, but they would disappear before I could make any sense of them. As I lay in bed last night dozing off I suddenly remembered, so I grabbed a pen and wrote down three key words to remind me this morning.

Volcano, Sea, Flood.

I was at home (my parents home) and I was packing to go to university and Mum was there, but Dad was out at work. Then it got all dark as if there was a storm. There was water crashing on the windows. We thought it must be a terrible storm, but we didn't worry until water came into the house under the front door. Then I looked out one of the windows and there was sea all around us about a foot deep.

In the distance I could see a huge orange flare. I got closer to the window and looked closer at it and thought it must be a volcano erupting in the sea. We live about 20 miles from the sea in Lincolnshire and we live just below the first 10m line on the OS map. So I figured that the volcano had erupted in the sea and caused a tsunami that had made a wave about 10m high (or so) come over a good portion of Lincolnshire. I have no idea how our house withstood it, but we weren't scared that it would fall down. I knew if the water went up higher I could go upstairs and be okay.

Then a big boat sailed up to our house. They were saying something about it not being a volcano. It was an explosion on a boat so they said. Because a boat exploding looks like lava spewing out of a volcano doesn't it? I didn't believe them. I did believe them though when they said they were giving up the sea defences at Boston and that we now officially didn't live on land.

Then I woke up.

Possible meanings: A volcano is a powerful warning sign, especially if it is erupting. Dreaming of a volcano indicates that you have been repressing or stifling intense emotions. The dream is a message to look for ways in which to release these safely in waking life. Flood dreams may indicate that your personal feelings are 'flooding out' into areas of your life, such as career, which are inappropriate. This could be a warning to find safe channels through which to direct your emotions.

Three for the price of one

I had several dreams this morning:

• One of my dreams was reasonably realistic and set in the next week or so, somewhere in Leeds. I can't remember exactly where, but I was inside with C and we hugged and then we kissed for the first time. It was really special. I felt happy and not at all worried about anything. Possible meanings: signifies hopes of a romantic involvement, represents need for affection and attention, I need to show and accept affection, happiness is on it's way into my life.
• Another dream wasn't all that realistic. I was living in some weird futuristic style building at Uni and there were many flights of stairs. The stairs were a pale creamish colour and made of stone. At one stage I was going up to my flat and I got talking to someone I used to go to school with who also lived in the building and I ended up going up too high. I looked down the stairs and was too scared to go down. When I looked down I could see gaps between the steps and the handrails were there, but not all the verticals were there, so I was scared I would slip and fall. So I stayed at the top and I watched some people do a music exam. Possible meanings: reflects inner fears, perhaps of delving into painful/deep memories.
  
• Another dream was set in a similar building, but with slightly different shaped steps (these ones had more spirally bits). I was at the top of the stairs trying to go down. I was scared again for the same reasons as before. OB was there and was trying to protect me and stop me from falling and in doing so he fell 2 or three floors himself. I saw him fall and on the way down his leg hit one of the railings of a lower spiral staircase. I saw him land and lay motionless on the floor. I tried to scream for help but my throat was dry and no sound came out. I knew I had to try and help him and up there I could do nothing, so I somehow crawled down the stairs very slowly and carefully. When I got to the bottom a girl I didn't know was helping him and he was fine. Possible meanings: reflects feelings of anxiety and inner fears of memories or of losing status somehow.

In the beginning...

Dreams are very important. Scientific trials have proven that people who have been woken to prevent dreams become disorientated, confused, erratic and forgetful. They good for our mental health even if we cannot remember them or do not act on them.

I often have quite memorable dreams and people have often commented that my dreams would be fun to analyse. So I'm going to try and keep a log on here of my dreams. I will write only about dreams that occur from now onwards. All dreams that have occurred to date will probably only confuse matters as I have changed since then and we need to set some sort of perspective and scale on this kind of experiment.

So my rules are:

• record dreams in the order in which they occur
• record only new dreams