I don't mean in the Freudian snake means a penis type thing.
And I know that if you are going through a trying time at work or in your personal life, your brain is not just going to switch off when you go to sleep. I understand that my dream about working at a till was because I had just done a 12 hour shift AT a till.
But recently, well over the last few years or so, I have been having dreams that, although they vary in theme, are always set around the same place - a building, or group of buildings - that I have never, ever seen, or at least do not recall seeing.
One set of dreams involved a white, single storey shopping complex. It was set in a green surrounding which doesn't exist as I know the road that I 'drove' out on to. The first time this property appeared in my dream, I was taking my original Fiat 500 to be repaired in the specialist garage there. I don't own a Fiat 500, original or otherwise.
The building next appeared in a dream a few nights later. This time I was shopping. As I walked down the lane (no car this time), one of my bags broke. A handy table was at the side of the road and I put all my shopping on there to try and sort it back into the remaining bags. The Police came along and arrested me for shoplifting as I could not find my receipts.
A few nights later I was back, with Mum and Dad, for my day in court - apparently the garage/retail shop emporium had one of those too - but I never actually made it to court as I woke up.
Another property was at the seaside. In one dream I was with a group of people, some I knew, some were the 'I know you in the dream but have no idea who you actually are, or even if you exist', type that always seem to pop up.
We were walking away from the sea front and passed a big white house with a huge balcony. A few nights later, the house was in my dream again, but this time I owned it and I was looking at the street I had previously walked down from inside it.
I have not dreamt of either of these places again.
Did the dreams mean something? Were they trying to tell me anything? Or, as is more likely, were the random firing of my synapses creating coherent images?
Will we ever know?
I have three recurring dreams, (1) the dream is the same every time, with just a few more details added each time; (2) a different dream each time but set in the same buildings, I have no idea where these buildings are, or even if they exist, I do not recognise them and (3) the dream is different every time, as is the location, but the same man appears in all of them, again I have no idea who he is or if he is real.
Dream No. 1 - This dream is initially set in offices, the initial office is a long rectangle with dark blue carpet. There are metal shelving units along one wide, all containing electric equipment. I notice water running down the wall behind the units and dripping onto the electrical equipment. The end unit is empty apart from a roll of dark blue quilted material which I drape over the equipment and head upstairs to find the cause of the leak. It is a huge fish tank in the office above. Then I wake up.
Since the initial dream, the room has changed to more of an hotel room, still long and rectangular with the dark blue carpets, the metal shelving and the electrical equipment, but now with a bathroom added. Later still, the bath is running and overflowing.
In the dream I am either the person whose room it is and I am trying to deal with the leak and sometimes I seem to be an invisible bystander. Occasionally a big dog runs into the bathroom and starts drinking out of the bath.
Dream No. 2 - This dream changes every time, but is set in the same location. It is a large mall type building with a garage attached, a car repair garage rather than a parking garage. It is set in a large grassed area which looks like an abandoned industrial estate. There is a single lane in from the nearest road and you exit via a single lane to the opposite direction. There is a row of houses by the entry to the inwards lane, and their cars are parked opposite to them. The dreams are too many to mention here, but no two have been the same.
Dream No. 3 - Again, this dream is different every time, it is also set in different locations every time too. The only constant is a man that appears each time. He is tall, with long hair tied back in a ponytail, and wears black jeans, boots, a long leather coat and a leather hat, not a cowboy hat, more flat crowned than that, something I would consider an Australian Outback hat. I always got the impression that he was younger than me.
In the last dream we actually spoke, and it turns out he is a couple of years older than me and originally from New Zealand. We talked and we hugged. Then I woke up.
Do any of these dreams mean anything? I've never had a recurring dream before.
