I don't tend to put a lot of stock in the belief that "our dreams are telling us something". I say blah to that. Most of my dreams I can't even remember! So how important can they be if your memory erases them?
I never took a psych class though, so it's possible I'm missing the point all together; but after the dream I had in Kyoto (9/10) I think even Freud would have a hard time intrepreting the odd scene of events that took place in my mind.
Luckily for you, the dream was memorible. Completely crazy, totally strange, but it stayed with me when I woke up, so I'm going to share it with you! It was brought on by travel and that's what I'm sharing here, so enjoy(?) :)
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I was sitting in an auditorium with someone - they weren't really a person, no one I was able to recognize, more a body form than anything else. Our location would constantly switch. First, we'd be up in the balcony all alone, standing looking down on the main floor. Then we'd be down on the main floor, were judges sit during theater audtions, in the mix of all the seats with a group of people. It wasn't that we moved, it was more that we were two sets of people. Based on where we were sitting we'd have different roles - above: observers, below: participants (I don't need Freud to tell me the symbolism there).
On the main floor things were quite friendly between all of the group memebers. Everyone was chatting, getting along, but then something disturbed us, stopped our pace. We turned and saw Us (us here is me with Mr. Body when we're the balcony verison) standing with a young, red-headed girl.
Either she says or We say to the group that they "need to make her believe...".
Group: Believe in what?
We: Belive in farm animals.
Group: Believe in farm animals?!
Right? I know who doesn't believe in farm animals?! But this was a dream fueled by a pre-mixed canned beverage, two beers and a long day traveling with what most doctors would agree was an unhealthy absence of water in conditions (high heat and humidity with lots of walking) that required hydration, but received little.
And then, as things happen in dreams, farm animals started to descend from the balcony. First in smoke form, then solidifying into realistic-cartoon formations.
But as you and I know, everyone believes in farm animals. Actually, I'm not even sure how it would work NOT to believe in them. Maybe you don't (wouldn't?) think they were "farm" animals, but that they fall under some other classification... perhaps the milk cow is a pet, or perhaps you don't live on a farm, but you happen to have a cow so therefore, technically, it isn't actually a farm animal... ?! I'm not sure how it would work. It happened in my dream so it doesn't need any explaination, it's a moo point. (Friends reference)
As I said, everyone believes in farm animals and as a result the claim made by Us had to change and so did the scene.
The little, red-headed girl pulls off a wig and yells that she's actually the cousin of one of the people in the group, and that they must "make us believe that they (pointing to two people sitting apart from the group) are in love".
The group is shocked! Them?! In love?! Noooo....
But then they kiss! and everyone believes they are in love!
Change scenes again and the group turns into the gang from 'The Magic School Bus'.
And that, with no additional fabrications, is the dream I had my first night in Japan.
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