Oh! I remembered - Weird Recurring Dream
I remembered what I had set out to blog about earlier tonight.
Recurring Dreams - always a fascinating and bewildering topic to me. What do dreams mean, and moreover, why does certain imagery or a storyline constantly weave itself into our nocturnal movie theatres?
This one has been going on for awhile. I always have dreams where we either still live on the farm in Paradise, either as a whole family, just Dylan and I, or just myself. Sometimes we are just visiting, or squatting, or some weird situation has brought us back there. Whether or not any of this is explained within the confines of the dream, one thing is almost always bound to happen. At some point in the dream, at least one car will come down the driveway and we don't know who the person driving the car is. Then, they either turn around and speed back up the driveway, or they keep going deeper into the farm, heading east towards the creek and hills. There's always a slightly sinister feeling to these dreams, like most recurring dreams, even though nothing specifically "bad" happens in them.
More often than not in these dream, many cars come down the driveway in procession. We never figure out who they are, despite our best attempts. Sometimes we feel like we're being imposed upon, other times we feel we're being caught. It's always different. Yet I have this dreams so many times and it's always different.
Last night I had this dream but I don't remember much about it. It was only one car this time, and I remember we ran out to try and find out who it was driving the car, but as in many dreams, the person's face remained somehow obscured and then the car sped off.
It should be noted that this dream has obvious roots in real life. Occasionally when we lived on the farm, people would drive down the driveway only to quickly turn around and speed off when they realized someone lived there. Later, after we had moved into the "city" of Hays and would come out to stay for the weekends, cars would come down, presumably to take advantage of the abandoned house, and the quickly scurry away upon finding someone else already at the house. After a few weeks of this happening in a row, my brother, myself, and our foreign exchange student Sergio devised a plan to hide our car in the garage, wait for the visitor, and then suddenly turn on the car and pursue the stranger at high speed. Only later to discover that on this particular night, our cousin Brian was playing a trick on us. We never did gain any insight into who was doing it the previous nights.
Another recurring theme in these dreams it the "Seidi House", aka the Thacker house (?) up on the hill north of our farm. Often, Seidi has fixed up the old house, or something sinister takes place in the old house, or there is a new house in the same location. Last night I dreamed that Seidi built a nice, new house and I lamented that the old one was gone, but admitted that I was glad he had made improvements to the property.
Anyone have any insights or suggestions as to the meanings of these recurring dreams?
Recurring Dreams - always a fascinating and bewildering topic to me. What do dreams mean, and moreover, why does certain imagery or a storyline constantly weave itself into our nocturnal movie theatres?
This one has been going on for awhile. I always have dreams where we either still live on the farm in Paradise, either as a whole family, just Dylan and I, or just myself. Sometimes we are just visiting, or squatting, or some weird situation has brought us back there. Whether or not any of this is explained within the confines of the dream, one thing is almost always bound to happen. At some point in the dream, at least one car will come down the driveway and we don't know who the person driving the car is. Then, they either turn around and speed back up the driveway, or they keep going deeper into the farm, heading east towards the creek and hills. There's always a slightly sinister feeling to these dreams, like most recurring dreams, even though nothing specifically "bad" happens in them.
More often than not in these dream, many cars come down the driveway in procession. We never figure out who they are, despite our best attempts. Sometimes we feel like we're being imposed upon, other times we feel we're being caught. It's always different. Yet I have this dreams so many times and it's always different.
Last night I had this dream but I don't remember much about it. It was only one car this time, and I remember we ran out to try and find out who it was driving the car, but as in many dreams, the person's face remained somehow obscured and then the car sped off.
It should be noted that this dream has obvious roots in real life. Occasionally when we lived on the farm, people would drive down the driveway only to quickly turn around and speed off when they realized someone lived there. Later, after we had moved into the "city" of Hays and would come out to stay for the weekends, cars would come down, presumably to take advantage of the abandoned house, and the quickly scurry away upon finding someone else already at the house. After a few weeks of this happening in a row, my brother, myself, and our foreign exchange student Sergio devised a plan to hide our car in the garage, wait for the visitor, and then suddenly turn on the car and pursue the stranger at high speed. Only later to discover that on this particular night, our cousin Brian was playing a trick on us. We never did gain any insight into who was doing it the previous nights.
Another recurring theme in these dreams it the "Seidi House", aka the Thacker house (?) up on the hill north of our farm. Often, Seidi has fixed up the old house, or something sinister takes place in the old house, or there is a new house in the same location. Last night I dreamed that Seidi built a nice, new house and I lamented that the old one was gone, but admitted that I was glad he had made improvements to the property.
Anyone have any insights or suggestions as to the meanings of these recurring dreams?
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