Does anyone know anything about dreams?

[catherine]

For the past couple of weeks I've been having recurring dreams about going up in an escalator--there are other people involved but none of them are family members--they're former colleagues or other acquaintances. There's stress involved--worrying about getting to where I need to go. In one case I had to go up an elevator to a train platform and the train was pulling away.

I don't pay a lot of attention to dreams, but I have had symbolic ones--like when I dreamed that my boss was a midwife and she helped me give birth--turns out a couple of months later she gave me a huge promotion that led to a whole new career

Because I've had at least 4 of these escalator / missing a train dreams lately, just wondering if anyone else has had them and if they mean anything?

[Tussiemussies]

Hi Catherine, just thinking that going up in an escalator means going to a higher place in life (in the dream going to higher ground). Missing the train sounds like you have a higher aspiration that you are trying to get to but you are anxious because you are missing the mark in some way of this goal or being left out somehow.

Just my take on it!:)

[catherine]

Hi Catherine, just thinking that going up in an escalator means going to a higher place in life (in the dream going to higher ground). Missing the train sounds like you have a higher aspiration that you are trying to get to but you are anxious because you are missing the mark in some way of this goal or being left out somehow.

Just my take on it!:)

Thanks! Now, if I could just figure out where that train is going and why I want to get on it!

[Tussiemussies]

It will come to you! :)

A lot of times the symbolism in dreams represent spiritual things. Maybe you have been indulging in something you don't want to, for example like getting angry more than you normally do. Some virtue that you carry but maye have been missing lately?

Just a thought?

[try2bfrugal]

Netflix instant queue has a good documentary on dreams and what they mean. I had a recurring dream that was driving me crazy that the show helped me figure out. I kept dreaming about an unhappy situation from years ago.

The reason I was having the dreams is that they were telling me to use the same strategy to solve a current problem I was having. One of the ideas presented in the dream show was that dreams were used for problem solving - as in I'll sleep on it. After I saw the show I realized by subconscious was trying to tell me to solve my current issue by doing what worked for me in the past. I did, it resolved my current issue and the dreams stopped.

Maybe you are worried about missing out on something in your current life or something may be slipping away? The way to not miss a train is to do something early or be more organized. Is there some deadline you are worried about or something you are not taking care of in real life?

[JaneV2.0]

From what I read/understand, some symbols are archetypal, but many are personal. Like many, many others, I have the dream about needing one more class to get a degree, but failing to finish it-or even find its classroom. Another one I have involves trying to get on a flight. My life isn't moving forward in satisfying ways, so I think I get the drift.

If/when you determine what that dream means, please share with us.

[ApatheticNoMore]

I have the dream about needing one more class to get a degree, but failing to finish it-or even find its classroom

So many times I have had the dream of having to go back to high school to complete some classes to graduate. I hated high school, it's the last place in the world I want to go back ... and yet I have to in the dreams ...

I have dreams of bad things chasing me (from monsters to murderers), when they have involved various other people I'm always: "we need to hurry up and escape!", and they are always stuck diddling with something or other in endless repetitions and so we can't escape ...

[rosarugosa]

Interesting - I too have the occasional recurring dream that I need one more class to get my degree - but I got my degree in 1983. You would think I could stop worrying about this by now :) Clearly it is symbolic of something else.
DH doesn't remember his dreams except vaguely that someone/thing is chasing or attacking him. Sometimes I will wake him up because he is talking or moaning and sounds so distressed, that I want to "save" him from whatever is happening to him in his dreams.

[JaneV2.0]

Interesting - I too have the occasional recurring dream that I need one more class to get my degree - but I got my degree in 1983. You would think I could stop worrying about this by now :) Clearly it is symbolic of something else.
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Yeah, I got mine back in the Neolithic. The class I'm missing is often Spanish, for some inscrutable reason.

[JaneV2.0]

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/t3.htm

Escalator: To see an escalator in your dream indicates movement between various levels of consciousness. If you are moving up in the escalator, then it suggests that you are addressing and confronting emotional issues. You are moving through your spiritual journey with great progress and ease. If you are going down the escalator, then it implies repression and descent back into your subconscious. You may be experiencing a setback.


Train: To dream that you miss a train denotes missed opportunities. It also suggests that you are ill-prepared for a new phase in your life. You may be procrastinating or putting things off that should have already been completed.

[Mrs-M]

Catherine. My mom has a dream interpretation book, I'll ask her to analyze/decipher for you. Dreams have always intrigued me.

[puglogic]

Catherine, are the other people on the escalator in the way, making you miss your train? Are you frustrated waiting for them, or trying to get around them, or you want them to move faster, or? That would be pretty telling.

Sometimes it's not so much the objects/people/places in the dream as my feelings about them that are most illuminating....

I too have the "School dream" where I can't find a classroom, can't take the exam, realize I don't have a shirt on (!?) etc. Seems like a common one. How funny we human beings are! :)

[try2bfrugal]

I have "school and part time job" dreams. In my dreams I am signed up for work, classes, or both, but forget to check my hours and get busy with other things. Then I remember I had a job or class, but it is too late to keep the job or avoid getting an F in class. In real life I did fine in college and my jobs and was never a slack off.

I think maybe my dreams are telling me I need a schedule in my life now to follow. I work from home and could probably do a lot better at time management. I wish I had a dream where I did better in college than I actually did instead of worse.

[lizii]

For years when I was younger I had a repeating dream about being chased in an attic by something I tried to avoid by running as fast as I could. After that, I looked up Freud's theory of dreams and discovered that it was my mother I was fleeing from.

My mother was always trying to make me be an obedient daughter who always did what I was told to do...a very controlling person I was afraid of since she would punish me severely if I didn't immediately do whatever she wanted me to do.

This affected me for most of my life, even after she died.

[awakenedsoul]

Betty Bethards has a great book on dream interpretation. She's a mystic. I think, (if I remember correctly,) that going up the escalator means you are moving in the right direction. Going down means the opposite. To me, the escalator would also symbolize that you are being moved in the right direction.

Missing the train: I believe she said that trains symbolize travel. I used to dream of trains before I got a tour. Do you have a trip coming up? Maybe you will be sent somewhere on business? I wonder if missing the train could symbolize missing the boat. (Not being ready, prepared, packed, on time...)

You can recreate a dream in meditation and change the ending. You can visualize yourself meeting that train on time, and just see where it takes you...

Now that I get up very early, I don't have dreams anymore. Yogi Bhajan said that dreams are the way our subconscious mind clears out stress and anxiety. If we get up early and pray, meditate, do yoga, or something spiritual, we can program our subconscious mind with those thoughts. 4:00 to 6:00 a.m. is called the Amrit Vela. It's considered the most spiritual time of the day. I definitely feel it! I used to get up early at that time to do my homework. It's so quiet and still then...