I’ve been having this recurring dream. I am watching this scene mostly from the third person point of view, but at times I seem to be “in the head” of either of the two main characters.
There is this man who has escaped from prison. He is an Evil Criminal Mastermind type. I don’t know what all he has done–but name it and he probably has. I open upon him in a room at a hotel getting ready to go out. I see a detective bearing in on the hotel. I don’t know why there is just one person after this guy, but there is. (The setting looks Edwardian London.) The detective gets near the man as the man is leaving the hotel. A chase ensues! The man evades the detective by jumping off a pier and swimming to a different part of the shore. I don’t think the detective can swim, but I don’t know how/why the man knows this. The man gets back to shore and waits, dripping to see who leaves a nearby house (it looks like it is time to go to work) and he breaks into the house when the man leaves. He bathes and takes clothing. The man goes and sets up a reservation at another hotel. He is posing as a Viennese doctor in town for a conference. He has some sort of dummy that is supposedly his father who has some sort of disease and can’t walk right. It is bizarre. The man goes up to the hotel room, it looks like a big windy house–like the hotels in London actually. 🙂
He is plotting something and I can’t tell what. Once again, the detective gets close and he flees….
That is about as far as I get. Throughout this dream the details are excrutiatingly vivid when I am in the dream. There are conversations and small nuances of feeling in everything. I see their clothing in gorgeous detail and how they do their hair and… I don’t know what it is supposed to mean. Usually my recurring dreams end up meaning something. This one is baffling the hell out of me.
I also didn’t sleep well last night. I didn’t fall asleep until way late because I was giddy and excited about something, but then I woke up at 7 and just couldn’t really get back to sleep. I got to snuggle on Wednesday with someone I “fit” with and I think last night was backlash of being alone again. 🙁
This dream is really about the chase. Chasing in dreams usually indicates a thoughts about your financial future and most interpretations would say that it indicates success will be yours for a comfortable retirement.
You didn’t speak about the emotions you felt during the dream – anxiety would be telling that your worries would soon be relieved.
I understand about the sleeping being off. Believe me on that one…
Have a great weekend! 😉
It depends on the point of view I am living in. When I am the man I feel very cocky and snotty and confident even when I am close to being caught. When I am the detective I feel anxious.
I have a history of dreams telling me about people who are about to come into my life. And chase dreams have been a huge pattern for me throughout my lifetime. Though I am no longer flying around in a huge warehouse trapped like a bird (though I am still a person).
hmmm… I see it as two sides of you battling; the part of you that wild and adventurous wanting to run free, and the part of you that worries about doing the right thing… chasing down the part responsible all the “bad” actions, judging and punishing yourself for actions and feelings that some people might see as “wrong”. Even though you enjoy doing things that are outside the social norm, a part of you is scared of doing the wrong thing (hence it is an evil criminal mastermind instead of something with less judgment value but also outside the norm.) It also occurs to me that the criminal’s father in the dream, an inert lifeless replica that he carries around with him, like the heavy burden of a painful memory, ties in with your feelings toward your father and brother’s suicides. Feelings of guilt: I could have done better, been a better person, done everything exactly right instead of succumbing to evil desire. It also occurs to me that water often represents emotion. The part of you that rigidly wants to always do the “right” thing, the detective, cannot navigate these waters. How turbulent is the water? Can the detective not swim because he is afraid, or because he doesn’t know how or has not learned?
I know I am babbling, I’ve been in the car all day coming back from Vegas and my brain isn’t working too well, but I wanted to jot down my initial impressions.
This is a really cool analysis. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I think the water has a few waves–like the ocean does–but it isn’t choppy or particularly turbulent. I think the detective hasn’t learned, but I don’t know why.
*hugs* This is awesome honey.