9-4-11

I'm doing something beside my car, what exactly I can't remember---cleaning it, fixing a door? Anyway, I'm on a hill and I thought I had the car in park, but it's in neutral and it starts rolling down hill fast. I watch as it hits a woman in the leg as she's riding a bike. It then crashes into a store where there are shoppers. I'm horrified and hope no one was killed.

Then I wake up with a start and realize it was just a dream and I'm relieved.

Is there anything going on in your life, or are there any recurring thought patterns, that could be "an accident looking for a place to happen"? Has the good news of getting a new job got you a little too confident, optimistic?

Well, the "accident waiting to happen" could be related to my arthritic hip and fearing falling on the ice this winter. In the dream, a woman gets hit in the leg.

And I wouldn't say I feel over confident, but just the opposite. It could be a warning to pay attention and stay focused in the moment.

Certainly good - indeed standard - advice for driving; and relevant to the coming season. My hip is not arthritic - yet - but slip/fall hazards are no stranger to this Minnesotan who once broke an ankle in three places slipping on a wet wooden walkway.
But, then, "stay in the moment" is good advice in general.

Your car represents an idea, rationale, or way of thinking that is yours. Doing something beside the car can suggest that you are, and need to, do something about your way of thinking. You may be attempting to clean or correct it but you may instead be “fixing” an option, that is, making an option associated with your rationale a more set, sure or certain. What is considered to be correcting as well as making more set can both be seen as questionable acts. (cleaning it, fixing a door?) [Note that thinking realistically could be considered keeping one’s thinking “clean” and correct but any thought often repeated – especially a negative one – can set the option implied by the thinking as the one to be physically manifested.]

The hill usually indicates that you are making a mountain out of a molehill; seeing a situation as if it were more of a problem than it really is. In this case the problem relates to your way of thinking. (the car on the hill) You apparently think that you have given your rationale a rest (had the car in park). Yet when a car is in neutral, there is little control over its functions. In effect, the mind (a car) has been allowed to run free and your way of reasoning is putting you into a losing position. (starts rolling down hill)

There is an emotional aspect of yourself that is using the idea of moderation (woman riding her bike). [This might refer to not being too positive nor too negative when thinking about the dangers of winter, for example.] Where the mind is not being controlled, the principle of using moderation is abused. (it hits a woman in the leg) Where the mind has not been controlled there also seems to be a conflict with a mental attitude in which you might put a lot of store or value. (crashes into a store) [This might refer to positive thinking. Your thoughts about the coming winter seem to focus on the negative.] Here there is another aspect of yourself (shoppers) that could be hurt when a rationale is not under control.

When you come to a greater state of awareness, you are relieved that the horrors you have had in mind were just a dream – that is, that they are simply the product of using too much imagination or emotional thinking.

Thanks for your thoughtful response.

You're right that my thoughts focus on the negative when it comes to winter. My biggest fear is falling. Not good with a sever arthritic hip. Plus I have recess duty at the school I'm currently working at. At least I have have cleats I can put on my shoes to help from slipping and school is cancelled in really bad weather.