Between today and a few days ago, now I have had two dreams about myself being appraised by multitudes - in one case they specifically wait for me outside a building to praise me. What does this mean?
Do you just mean multitudes of people? Or does this have a religious meaning for you as well? How do you feel in the dream? Do you feel like you deserve the praise, or do you feel embarrassed and maybe unworthy?
Multitudes as in "crowd". I do not think it has a religious meaning (thought in both cases we are all wearing uniforms, the school of which the uniforms pertain is not a religious one). In the first dream, the multitude largely ignores me. I am above it in a sense (because I am standing on the back of a pickup truck) but the only people to actually notice me were past friends. I greet them but then they go by. In the second dream, the multitude actually waits for me to come out of the front schoolgate. They are waiting for me. I do not want to deal with the crowd however so I take the backdoor instead. This allows me to elude the crowd effectively. I should note that the uniform and school referenced by the uniform is the same in both dreams.
Since the only people who notice you in the first dream were past friends, do you feel like there is something about you that has changed, but you don't want people to see it? Wearing a uniform could also have to do with the idea of not wanting to show change (uniform=conformity)
I am not sure about the first - I was never open to begin with back then, but those few people I trusted them. As for the second... Probably. But why then would I stand on the back of a pickup truck or a crowd wait for me? I am the same as them, yet not. The dream is conflicting...
I wonder if the dream is telling you that it is better not to think of yourself as being different from (or above) other people.
Seems straigthforward enough, though I do not have such feelings of "superiority" any longer. Thank you for the interpretation by the way.
Back then I was pretty much picked up (verbally, not physically) and my way of coping with that was assuming that they were just inferior (and thus were trying to make themselves feel better by picking on someone). Nowdays while I still hold that they were trying to ridiculize non-conformism, I realize they were just misguided.