My mother and I are on our way home from my parents summer house in the car. We are the age we are in awake life (63 and 33). Then we reach the tunnel that connects the island I live on with the main land. There is a traffic jam and a stand still (as very often in awake life). We step out of the car and leave it waiting in the queue. Instead of waiting we start climbing the sides of the mouth of the tunnel. It is a steap climb. We move sideways on a thin ledge. I am worried that my mother won’t be able to hold on with her hands because there is nothing to grip. I try to keep one of my hands on her back so that she won’t fall. Then suddenly it gets unbearably hard for me to hold on and I am the one who is forced to say; “ I cannot hold on”. Somehow we manage to climb up on a plateau on top of the tunnel. There is a restaurant (definitely not in awake life) called the Lane Edge inn, or something similar. It is a very crummy place, like a cantine. People are smoking everywhere (people are not allowed to smoke in restaurants in Sweden.) and I am surprised that they dare in the dream. The fog is thick in there. In the dream I think: “We must really be out in the country here, since they don’t care about the rules.) We stand in line to order food. Then someone says it is a danceband competition Tonight. There is a stage and various amateurs perform. They are terribly bad and we have to make a great effort not to laugh at them. The audience seem to consist mostly of their parents and friends, looking stearnly at us. One girl is just appalingly bad and I cannot help laughing. Someone says to us to come back on “Finnish Night” and I make a mental note that we should really return then. My mother asks what I want to eat; “Cod in an egg sauce” or “ just soup”.

The dream and the surroundings are very surreal. The dream tells me nothing whatsoever.

The dream is very detailed.

In one part, you fear you can't hold on (in this case it was to your mother). Does this sound like anything in reality---something you fear you can't hold onto?

I liked the scene in the restaurant. You described the cigarette smoke like a fog. This could be a metaphor for a situation that you're unsure of. You may be getting mixed messages about something and everything seems cloudy, like a blinding smoke or fog. Does this sound like anything in reality?

Is there a situation that seems ridiculous to you but yet you feel guilty for thinking this way? It is like the scene where you laugh at the awful bands while those close to the members look at your sternly. This could be a symbol that you feel you need to be on your best behavior when you want to just laugh out loud.

Unsure

Well, I am unsure about interpretation, as I was unsure about whole purpose of the dream. It seems taken out of context. There might be things that are foggy to me as the cigarette smoke (most likely, as for everyone) and there might be situations that are absurd in my life and I must not laugh or make a motion - but I just cannot think of an awake life application for this dream.

To be correct, when I almost fall from my climbing on the cliff, I no longer held on to my mother. I try to help her, just to notice that I cannot even hold on myself. It is never terribly scarry, more a note in the dream. Our visit to the resturant is more absurd than it is foreboding. The dream had loads of more detail; the dress of the band members, their acts, the other food alternatives on the menu, besides the cod that we choose etc. It is just very mysterious. Are some dreams just "nonsens" dreams filled with gathered up pictures, lacking of meaning?

Re: Unsure

I wonder that myself. Sigmund Freud once said that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Maybe you just needed an adventerous romp to compensate for a rather uneventful day.

Hej Karin !

Hvordan er ting i sverige?

Tenkte å prøve å skrive svensk, men istedet må du prøve å lese norsk.

Er ikke noen erfaren drømmetolker,men lurte på en ting

Har du barn ?

Vennlig hilsen Hans Petter .


TRANSLATES:

How are things in Sweden?

Thaught i would try to write some Swedish, but instead you have to try reading Norwegian.

Do you have children?

Norwegian Question

Hello (Hej!),

No, I don't have children. Why? Is it relevant to my dream, you think? Or just a social question? :wink:

Things are well in Sweden, by the way.
Karin

Silly questions

It is both .

It is my believe that a dream can have a 1000 meanings and none at all .
It depends on how much you are willing to percieve and interpret yourself. asking about dream interpretations can be very useful, and when we do this we get a different perspetive to examine and concider.

doubt the message or dont understand it . In the end you are the only one who can figure it out, and there is no meaning wich is true.
did this make any sense ?

ohwell... There is a lot of family and women in your dream and you are in a restaurant watching the performance of sons and daughters with the parents.

I was thinking that maybe you have seen your mother going throug menopause and this affects you in a subcoucious way.


As my opinion is based on the very limited word language it is probably my imagination.

Hans Petter Stensland