For years and years I’ve had “vehicle” nightmares. Yep. All kinds of vehicles — cars, buses, metros. I’m either the driver or the passenger, or I’ve left my car parked somewhere. They were mainly repeats for many years. I’d be driving and I’d get lost. We’d be out shopping and I couldn’t remember where I parked the car. I couldn’t see the road in front of me, or I didn’t know where to get off the bus (my kids were usually in those with me).
Then gradually another nightmare reared its head. I’d be driving but I’d have something over my eyes (which I could remove). Or the scariest one, I’d be driving and I couldn’t OPEN my eyes but a tiny bit. The first time I had that one it scared the bloomin’ tar out of me.
I THOUGHT I knew what they were all about. I realized sometime around when the dreams where Drollery and I were shopping or sightseeing and I’d get lost and not be able to find him OR the car, that they floated to the surface when I was feeling abandoned. But I misread them. I thought I was feeling abandoned by others. It wasn’t until the blindfold and not the being able to open my eyes nightmare that it dawned on me I was actually feeling like I had abandoned myself. The ones where I couldn’t open my eyes always happened when I was exhausted. I finally figured out that one was telling me I wasn’t taking care of MYSELF. But over these last 18 months or so of blogging and spelunking and taking all this sorting through my artifacts seriously, the dreams began to come less often.
Then a few weeks ago I had a brand new one. I dreamed I was in a bank and was just walking out the door when these men with masks and guns came in. They didn’t see me and I ran out. I knew I needed to call 911 but didn’t have my phone. Then it hit me, neither did I didn’t have a car to go anywhere and do that. So I ran out into the street and hailed a passing vehicle. I told the lady in the car I needed to borrow it to go somewhere to call the police. I got in and drove down the street to a hotel, went into the office, and called 911.
That was it. The thing that was different about this dream was that I was IN CONTROL. I stepped up and did what had to be done. I was never in control in the other dreams. Not that I was at the mercy of anyone else. In fact, that’s how I figured out the dreams were really about my relationship with myself. And the interesting thing is, that dream was in mid-June. I haven’t had another vehicle nightmare since. It makes me wonder if me, myself, and I have come to some sort of understanding that we didn’t have before.
If so, if I’ve changed in that regard, I give a lot of credit to the blogging and the wonderful people I’ve met on here. I’ll be interested to see if I have another vehicle dream. But I’m almost betting that I won’t.
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DAILY PROMPT: Nightmare
Picture Credits:
woman driving — elkhadra.over-blog.com
woman driving asleep — www.alamy.com
bank robbers — quotesgram.com
LuAnne Holder said:
I used to have similar dreams most often when my kids were teenagers. I don’t think I have had a single one since I started blogging. Or even bad dreams. Just very vivid dreams. I guess that’s from paying attention more. Interesting post.
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calensariel said:
Do you think blogging has affected your dream life other than your observational skills?
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LuAnne Holder said:
I would have to say yes. They seem so much more clear now and blogging now fills so much of my day – the reading, the writing, the meditating. Oh, but it might be the meditating which I also started doing regularly when about the time I started blogging. I’ve been interested in dreams for a long time but now they are just consistently more pleasant. 🙂 Thanks for asking.
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oneta hayes said:
That is very interesting. Makes sense too.
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calensariel said:
But it took me years to figure it out. I think you must have to be in tune with your psycho to observe that wisdom when it comes to you.
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Soul Gifts said:
You’ve moved on 🙂 Next will come the Seeker ! The symbology in dreams is as fascinating as the interpreting !
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calensariel said:
Well maybe that’s why I was drawn to the artwork on those pictures?
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Soul Gifts said:
🙂
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Clare said:
Aren’t our dreams such interesting things? It feels like a personal revelation when we can easily decipher their true or hidden meaning and understand what our subconscious is trying to tell us. Keep blogging Calen 🙂
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calensariel said:
They are fascinating. And I CAN’T quit blogging yet. The Seeker and I are on an adventure, sort of like the hobbits were! (It will likely be as long, too! 😀 )
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Clare said:
🙂 🙂 🙂
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harulawordsthatserve said:
Love this! I find dreams fascinating, and it certainly sounds like you’ve now come to understand the message your dreams were passing on, so they’ve no need to shout it at you any longer 🙂 Beautifully told, and well done for working out the riddle! Blessings, Harula xxx
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calensariel said:
Yeah, it would seem so. I guess time will tell. It was kind of hard to miss the point of those falling asleep dreams. 😉
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K.L. Allendoerfer said:
I love the pictures you post with your blogs. They are funny, and appropriate! This title reminded me of the time I had a little violin solo in a orchestral medley called “Disney Magic.” It was for this song, “A Dream is a Wish the Heart Makes.” I called it “Intonation is a wish the heart makes.” Sometimes I had violin dreams too, like the one where I got to the concert and couldn’t find my bow and had to borrow one that was totally the wrong size and shape!
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calensariel said:
Kind of sounds like the dreams had to do with the same sort of stuff as getting to school and not remembering the combination to your locker or where your home room is. I guess the root of those is pretty common to all of us. But they may tailor-make themselves to each individual?
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platosgroove said:
Nicely done!
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calensariel said:
Thanks, she says, taking a bow… 🙂 If I do have another one it better be about going to buy myself an old beater to get around town! 😉
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platosgroove said:
You are riding without training wheels! 🙂
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