what does this dream mean?

Question

I dreamt that i was walking around a small city . it must have been in south america.i do not speak spanish. i knew where i was but could not find the right street to go down to find my way home. i was also naked. i walked down a street that seemed dangerous but i went down anyway. i almost found my way but continued to be lost. i tried to hide my nakedness but i really did not mind. i felt really frustrated. not scared. whayt do you think it means

Answer 1

Sounds to me that you are having a difficult time making a decision and are feeling 'lost' . This is exemplified by what you said happened in your dream, "I knew where I was but could not find the right street to go down to find my way home.' Sounds like you're searching for an answer and perhaps know it but are afraid to make that your definitive answer. Being naked denotes feeling vulnerable and you not feeling that you minded this seems to indicate that you accept that being vulnerable is being human. You are strong. Good luck and hope this helps!

Answer 2

this is only a guess so take what you will from it, i thought i'd give it a try....in your life you know where you are but it is a place you are trying to go maybe for more fullfillment but you don't know quite where to start or how to make it happen...being naked and not minding may mean that you are a more radical person and some people may say that being naked is bad so you cover it up but that's not necessarily your opinion, but you try and respect others...not that your ideas are bad, they just are outside the box, somewhat apart from the norm....a street that was dangerous you went down because you aren't afraid to take risk to get what you want, it's kinda like whatever it takes i'm going to accomplish this, and you almost found your way but didn't, because you've tried things and maybe have found bits and pieces to the puzzle but haven't quite got the answer yet, thus you feel frustrated because you want this thing to come together but it's not coming together in the time you would like it to. this is what i think your dream means...please let me know if i helped at all. thanks!

Answer 3

the confines of a small city might suggest that you are having trouble within a small social circle, possibly a family or a group of friends.. being lost in a dream means you are trying to find something, possibly a solution to a problem or understanding of your own feelings or someone else's. Being naked in a dream means that you feel inadequate about something in your life or that you are ashamed of something, the fact that you didn't mind being naked hints that whatever you are ashamed of maybe you shouldn't be ashamed at all. frustration in a dream signifies that there is something that you would like to do in your life but can't really gt around to doing it, most common of these is to lose weight..

hope that helps!

Answer 4

You know where you are now, but you are searching for your "home" where you will find your "place" in life, and where you will belong. You are even willing to try "dangerous" paths, if there's a chance they might lead you to the place where you really belong. Being naked may just mean that you are transparent, possibly vulnerable, with no hidden motives or agendas. You're sincere. Hope this helps!

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Answer 5

You are about to embark on a journey into what is (for you) uncharted territory--it could be with a new job--undertaking a venture into a new relationship--whatever--something entirely different for you and you will be feeling somewhat unprepared for this--still confident that you're going to be all right--but yet somewhat unprepared---what is the most interesting of all is--even though you admit that you were in this totally unfamiliar place and in a rather compromised condition--you were sure you were on your way home---this means that in this new venture you are going to be targeted in your thinking and even though your somewhat uncomfortable with the situation--you're quite confident that you are in the spot you need to be----all of this bodes quite well in your favor as it being a very positive thing coming your way-----------Good Luck to You in all that-------

Answer 6

Sometimes when you dream, your brain is expressing things that you either didn't take enough time to process during the day, or put off processing.

So, what have you not spent the time to deal with lately? It sounds like something is missing in your life. You talk about not being able to get home. Do you need to get back to your roots?

Answer 7

I have alot of dreams like this. You could buy a dream book. I know that they say that dreaming is your subconscious trying to work out your unsolved problems. Maybe you are worrying about something that you feel you are making a mistake in.

Answer 8

Perhaps you suspect you do not have all the facts in some waking situation and this leaves you feeling exposed and vulnerable. I would suspect the situation involves someone you trust who isn't telling you everything.

Answer 9

Sounds like you need to lay off the drinking before bed.

Answer 10

In a dream in which one is naked or scantily clad in the presence of strangers, it sometimes happens that one is not in the least ashamed of one's condition. But the dream of nakedness demands our attention only when shame and embarrassment are felt in it, when one wishes to escape or to hide, and when one feels the strange inhibition of being unable to stir from the spot, and of being utterly powerless to alter the painful situation. It is only in this connection that the dream is typical; otherwise the nucleus of its content may be involved in all sorts of other connections, or may be replaced by individual amplifications. The essential point is that one has a painful feeling of shame, and is anxious to hide one's nakedness, usually by means of locomotion, but is absolutely unable to do so. I believe that the great majority of my readers will at some time have found themselves in this situation in a dream.

The persons before whom one is ashamed are almost always strangers, whose faces remain indeterminate. It never happens, in the typical dream, that one is reproved or even noticed on account of the lack of clothing which causes one such embarrassment. On the contrary, the people in the dream appear to be quite indifferent; or, as I was able to note in one particularly vivid dream, they have stiff and solemn expressions. This gives us food for thought.

The dreamer's embarrassment and the spectator's indifference constitute a contradition such as often occurs in dreams. It would be more in keeping with the dreamer's feelings if the strangers were to look at him in astonishment, or were to laugh at him, or be outraged. I think, however, that this obnoxious feature has been displaced by wish-fulfilment, while the embarrassment is for some reason retained, so that the two components are not in agreement. We have an interesting proof that the dream which is partially distorted by wish-fulfilment has not been properly understood; for it has been made the basis of a fairy-tale familiar to us all in Andersen's version of The Emperor's New Clothes, and it has more recently received poetical treatment by Fulda in The Talisman. In Andersen's fairy-tale we are told of two impostors who weave a costly garment for the Emperor, which shall, however, be visible only to the good and true. The Emperor goes forth clad to this invisible garment, and since the imaginary fabric serves as a sort of touchstone, the people are frightened into behaving as though they did not notice the Emperor's nakedness.

But this is really the situation in our dream. It is not very venturesome to assume that the unintelligible dream-content has provided an incentive to invent a state of undress which gives meaning to the situation present in the memory. This situation is thereby robbed of its original meaning, and made to serve alien ends. But we shall see that such a misunderstanding of the dream- content often occurs through the conscious activity of a second psychic system, and is to be recognized as a factor of the final form of the dream; and further, that in the development of obsessions and phobias similar misunderstandings- still, of course, within the same psychic personality- play a decisive part. It is even possible to specify whence the material for the fresh interpretation of the dream is taken. The impostor is the dream, the Emperor is the dreamer himself, and the moralizing tendency betrays a hazy knowledge of the fact that there is a question, in the latent dream-content, of forbidden wishes, victims of repression. The connection in which such dreams appear during my analysis of neurotics proves beyond a doubt that a memory of the dreamer's earliest childhood lies at the foundation of the dream. Only in our childhood was there a time when we were seen by our relatives, as well as by strange nurses, servants and visitors, in a state of insufficient clothing, and at that time we were not ashamed of our nakedness. * In the case of many rather older children it may be observed that being undressed has an exciting effect upon them, instead of making them feel ashamed. They laugh, leap about, slap or thump their own bodies; the mother, or whoever is present, scolds them, saying: "Fie, that is shameful- you mustn't do that!"

This age of childhood, in which the sense of shame is unknown, seems a paradise when we look back upon it later, and paradise itself is nothing but the mass-phantasy of the childhood of the individual. This is why in paradise men are naked and unashamed, until the moment arrives when shame and fear awaken; expulsion follows, and sexual life and cultural development begin. Into this paradise dreams can take us back every night; we have already ventured the conjecture that the impressions of our earliest childhood (from the prehistoric period until about the end of the third year) crave reproduction for their own sake, perhaps without further reference to their content, so that their repetition is a wish-fulfilment. Dreams of nakedness, then, are exhibition-dreams.

Source: Freuds Interpretation of Dreams