I went to visit a hospital for a checkup, but they put me in a gown and gave me a bed. The bed was in this huge open room with tons of other beds and no walls.I didn't know why I was there, or what was wrong with me, other than that they were going to operate. There were going to open up my stomach and cut me.
I was so upset, I didn't want to have this operation. No one would tell me what was going on, no one would talk to me. I felt fine! I thought that if there was something wrong with me, surgery should be the last, rather than the first, effort to solve the problem.
I was crying and pleading with people as they passed, asking what was happeneing, demanding to see a doctor, but no one would pay any attention to me.
Finally a nurse stopped, and explained that I had little growths, like plantar's warts, on my intestine, and that they were going to remove those parts of my intestine.
"But, That sounds very risky! what if they grow back? Or my intestine doesn't heal properly!"
"That's ridiculous! This procedure has a 100% success rate"
I didn't believe her. I begged to see a doctor, and she left, exasperated that I was so silly about this perfectly safe procedure.
I just lay down on the bed and cried.
Then I woke up. Freaky. Dreams can be so interesting.
Fortunately, I have a marvelous book.
10,000 Dreams Interpreted
I will admit, this dream is kind of baffling, but I have found Dream dictionaries (which is what this book really is) to be quite useful for understanding what my subconscious is trying to tell me.
This book is a good resource.
Article comments
1 - jadester
sounds like i'll have to check this out. I don't always dream, but when i do, they tend to be freaky (but not in an obvious way)
2 - Mark Saleski
i had a dream once that i was watching a los angleles lakers game on the tube...and jerry garcia was playing for the lakers...not in uniform but in the usual genes and dark gray tshirt.
this, being in a dream, made perfect sense.
he even took a pass from magic johnson and slammed it.
what the hell did that mean??!
3 - Sparrowbon
The premise of the book is ridiculous. Nobody can interpret your dream, other than you. That's one reason why therapists, especially Freudian psychiatrists, are so fond of them. You talk about the dream and the projections are totally, 100 percent, your own. Unless you're 100 percent trusting of the therapist, be careful what you reveal.
Then again, one might take the Jungian viewpoint. As before, everything in the dream is the dreamer's own projection, but more so: say you dream of a cow on top of a burning barn, eating a hamburger -- you are the cow, you are the barn, you are the hamburger, you are the fire -- and you are the one watching on, probably yourself. What do these various elements mean to you? Together, you and the Jungian therapist figure it out.
Finally, there are universal symbols: crosses, circles, snakes, death, and so on. These do have limited value but, in the end, it is the dreamer's own interpretation of the symbol that counts; that, and nothing more. If you want to learn something about the interpretation of dreams, read the psychology books. Skip the dream symbolism.