Dreams are odd when you're uncomfortable - Freudian?

[sugarplumkitty]

I fell asleep in my chair last night with my laptop and Scampi sharing my lap. I was giving her a last snuggle before I headed for bed, so she had her head nestled against my arm. Ah! It was so comfortable and she was so warm.

Next thing I knew I was walking through empty city streets. Suddenly, hundreds of professionally dressed men rushed out of one street in a panic. They all headed in one direction and none of them would stop to tell me what the danger was. I ran along with them effortlessly asking different ones what was wrong. All they would do was to look at me and shout "RUN!"

We came to a train that was parked. A few of them jumped aboard. The majority kept running down different streets that led away from their origination point. I came to a building and a crowd of prostitutes suddenly ran past me, urging me to take shelter with them.

I started to enter the building with them but then I saw an elderly man separate himself from the crowd and sit on a bench in a tiny park. Maybe he would tell me what was happening! I went over to speak to him and was waiting for him to catch his breath from all the running. I was worried about him because he wasn't doing very well. He seemed to be stricken with something. Another man came to stand next to me out of concern for the elderly man. The elderly man was trying to tell me something about the danger but couldn't quite form the words.

Before he was able to speak, I suddenly woke up. It was 4:30AM and I was shivering with cold. A big furry cat in my lap isn't enough to keep me warm when I'm wearing shorts and a tank top.

What I find odd about the dream is that all the men are business men (professionals) and all the women are prostitutes (professionals in a completely different sense). Aside from the elderly man, the men only would make eye contact when I forced them to. The women urged me to shelter with them without being asked. It only was my need to know what was happening that made me refuse to accept shelter.

Is this a representation of my life? I do tend to go for the male-dominated professions. My curiosity has gotten me into interesting situations. But why are all the women prostitutes? That certainly isn't my usual perception of men and women's roles.

Comments

[honeyswtrose.livejournal.com]

Wow that was an interesting dream. I would like to see and read the responses from others that are dream interpretaurs.

[ninjafeline.livejournal.com]

hm... maybe it wasn't so much the real idea of men and women for you, but just the first-response that happens in dreams, like for a lot of people the first colour they think of when asked is red the first fruit an apple, the first tool a hammer, but they may love mangoes and never use hammers hehe.
so maybe it's more like an idea, like the fact that business suit makes people more sexless anyway so the men aren't really men as such they are drones which is of course not good, and the prostitutes might represent emotion, but again in a strange, commercialized way. but then again this is a fear dream and it's a society dream, so that could make sense. so there's a fear in society but the really worrying thing to you is the fact that society is so messed up in itself that you can't get reason from them. they either offer to join them right out like the prostitutes or when asked like the businessmen but they won't tell you what is so scary so you have no way of finding out if they're right and if this really is the best thing to do.
on top of that, the only people not running are not the ones that opt out, like you hoped, but the ones that just can't do it. at least one person goes to look after the old man who can't run, which is positive.

in general that's a scary mean dream *hugs* i would get from it a feeling of being caught up ina frenzy, hysteria or just general motion but probably somewhat driven by fear, that you have the mind to try and figure out but find it difficult to get any information on from anyone around you, which is more isolating and therefor scary and the stampede itself.

you could always go back into the dream and walk backwards, against the rush, taking sidestreets if the crowds are too big, then trying to find what they are running from. as this is a dream you can do so, if it's a really bad thing you can always just fly away out of reach :)
that's the kinda crazy dreamstuff I do to solve heavy colourful dreams when they affect me.

sorry! such a long post of hypothesis!! but I love dreams :)

sorry!!

xxxxx

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

No apologies neccessary! I put it out there hoping for interpretations. What you said made sense. I am feeling like an outsider to society at the moment. I'm stressed because my final exam is tomorrow and I'm not prepared yet. I'm sure that fed into the dream.

I've fallen out of the mainstream of working professionals. I've been feeling a little lost until recently with the whole networking thing. Until I start working on a daily basis, I will continue to feel detached.

It's probably comment on where I am right now.

[honeyswtrose.livejournal.com]

I agree. I thought that was a wonderful interpretation. Does make sense.