Odd Dreams
Ok, so floating another "what the heck does this mean?" out there to the world.
I dreamed last night that I was back in college (as a geology student) and that we were evacuating the building (which was modeled on my old elementary school) in anticipation of an air raid (I guess London during the blitz was somewhere on my mind). In the evacuation process, one of my fellow geo students says "hey, if this building gets bombed, all of the exhibits will be destroyed. Most of the rest of the dream was spent trying to carry out as many of the natural-history-museum-type exhibits out as we could. By the time I started helping, most of the best minerals had already been taken, so I ended up going out with a bulging pocked full of amber-encased insects and trying to carry a large, fossilized musk ox horn rack (fragile though, it broke in half). No actual bombing occurred during the course of the dream.
This didn't really feel like an anxiety dream. I felt only vaguely fearful about the potential for air raid, I was much more focused on trying to decide what I should try to take with me. What did I find most important? What was most worth saving? What would be the biggest loss if destroyed. Sounds perhaps like a decision-making dream... or possibly a fear-of-loss dream? Not sure. Any and all thoughts welcome. This wasn't a lucid dream (I was totally in that world while in it) but when I woke, it was very sudden and I was highly alert... which seems to me to tend to indicate some significance.
Any thoughts welcome.
I dreamed last night that I was back in college (as a geology student) and that we were evacuating the building (which was modeled on my old elementary school) in anticipation of an air raid (I guess London during the blitz was somewhere on my mind). In the evacuation process, one of my fellow geo students says "hey, if this building gets bombed, all of the exhibits will be destroyed. Most of the rest of the dream was spent trying to carry out as many of the natural-history-museum-type exhibits out as we could. By the time I started helping, most of the best minerals had already been taken, so I ended up going out with a bulging pocked full of amber-encased insects and trying to carry a large, fossilized musk ox horn rack (fragile though, it broke in half). No actual bombing occurred during the course of the dream.
This didn't really feel like an anxiety dream. I felt only vaguely fearful about the potential for air raid, I was much more focused on trying to decide what I should try to take with me. What did I find most important? What was most worth saving? What would be the biggest loss if destroyed. Sounds perhaps like a decision-making dream... or possibly a fear-of-loss dream? Not sure. Any and all thoughts welcome. This wasn't a lucid dream (I was totally in that world while in it) but when I woke, it was very sudden and I was highly alert... which seems to me to tend to indicate some significance.
Any thoughts welcome.