In which I get my period, am attacked, take a test I didn't study for, and forget my pants

[rachelmanija]

I was so intrigued by the dream poll that I decided to try to remember my dreams more. I had a nice long one last night, full of sexual and work-related symbolism. I think. Would you care to help me interpret it?

Comments

[green_knight]

Your 'friend' is unbelievable. I'm sorry, I know that in real life people act like that, but this is not how human beings *ought* to react. FWIW: you judged the situation, you acted to minimise damage. Getting it wrong in the direction that the car woulnd't blow up and she'd twist an ankle is *far far better* than getting it wrong in the way that the car _does_ blow up and she can't get out. Your reaction was, whatever the circumstances, one hundred percent sane. There are times when you can't stick around and wait, and even if your judgement of the situation had been wrong your action was not. I'd like to think someone like you would be around if I got ever stuck in a burning car.

Jumping the gunman sounds like an exact translation of that situation into a different symbolism: You're in one reality - the one where the situation is dangerous and someone needs to act and you have the means to act and you succeed, while everybody else is in another (it's only an exercise/oh, nothing would have happened). Only this time your dream says that 'they are right' (see, here's the trainer to proove it was an exercise) and you were obviously wrong.

I'm finding the second part much harder to interpret. In real life, if you hadn't been informed and got it wrong and then messed up some more: would you have quit?