Last night, before bedtime I had a bit of a crisis with hours of extreme worry when I thought my cat had died. The crisis resolved itself, the cat is fine, but I went to bed completely exhausted. Right now is also a very chaotic time in my life where I consider starting a new, quitting my job, maybe moving etc and therefore it felt like the dream that followed held particular significance.

This is the gist of it:

A crowd of people was gathering under the rain roof outside a mall (it resembled the mall or supermarket of my childhood). I recognized a number of my colleagues from the law department at the university where I work. There are also a number of unknown women that I was told were their spouses (I have never met the spouses in awake life). Everyone is dressed up in gala outfits.

We were standing in front of an old-fashioned theatre or movie theatre. One of my colleagues that seemed to be in charge of the event (in awake life he is the supervisor of my dissertation and a good friend) told us to turn around and look at the show. There were two large shop windows with dark pink curtains on the front of the movie theatre. Some kind of explosion or a very strong gust of wind from within the theatre made the windows open and the curtains stand straight out. We followed the movement with our eyes and look up at the sky. It opened up like a blue hole and there were enormous swarms of black-and-white birds very high up – flying in circles. When I squinted I could see that they were not birds at all, but men and women in black and white clothes: black skirts and white blouses, black suit pants and white shirts - white coller workers. When I relaxed my eyes they looked like birds, when I focused they were in fact people. My colleague stood with his hand pointing up like saying; "watch the show" and the rest of us made sounds of ooohs and ahaas - completely awestruck.

I woke up thinking that something very significant had happened: like if some kind of hidden truth had been revealed.

Opinions?

Wow!

If that was my dream, I would take it as meaning I wish to be freer, free from the constraints of society standards of perfection, corporate greed and interests, and the unwritten rules of dress codes and expectations. I want to escape the black and white world of do's and don't's and class war.

That's if it were my dream.

Free bird

Hi,
It sounds like a very likely explanation of the dream. I suppose it could be my dream conscious state telling me I am on the right track, when I consider leaving my old life and start a new. Maybe the the wind or the explosion opening up the windows is "a wind of change" or "airing out the old". And I do have a lot of lawyers in black and white suits - high fliers - buzzing around me. And all I do want is to break free.

It will be interesting to see what I dream if I start taking real, practical steps towards change.

Thanks!