When I was 15 years old, I had a dream I was in an oddly shaped room, which had very large mirrors for walls. The floor was completely covered with snow and there were these white trees everywhere.
The trees had no leaves but they did have some very large fruits that kind of looked like really big white pears. The higher-most ones had blood coming out of them.
I fell on my back in the snow, and a voice told me something about this being the "Hall of Innocence", and that if I wanted to look at my past I should look inside the mirror straight ahead. So I looked, and I just saw myself. I thought, "Look INSIDE the mirror..." and then I bashed my head into it, breaking the thin glass, and looked inside out of curiosity.
I saw some woods, but these were the woods where I had lost my virginity to my first boyfriend. I had just broken up with him so I didn't want to see anymore. I started running away, and then I woke up.
What does it all mean??
2007-01-22 14:22:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
This is a bit detailed, so bear with me.
Dream imagery usually represents emotional correspondence; if we like the sun when we are awake, dreams of the sun usually mean happiness.
Your use of an 'oddly' shaped room sounds interesting, since the fact that you notice it is 'odd' could mean several things. What I think it means is that the 'oddness' is related to the 'oddness' of the situation (the break-up) you were experiencing. The use of mirrors all throughout the room could be seen as reflecting one's image or perhaps even preventing one from seeing. The color of 'white' and snow are symbolic for innocence, without stain or mark upon it.
The lack of leaves signals that these are symbolic trees; the fruit on them represents either knowledge or ideas. The reason the top-most fruit were 'bleeding' was that they were the furthest away from you, and which you could not reach. This could mean that they represent something which you are not ready to grasp or something which you want to keep the farthest away from you. It could also mean that the 'blood' means that something has entered this place of innocence and made them bleed, which would also help explain the 'odd' feeling you experienced.
A 'Hall of Innocence' can also be considered 'a place where innocence is protected'. Innocence is also another word for ignorance and/or inexperience. People usually retreat to 'innocence' in an attempt to recover from, or escape from, the present.
The 'woods of innocence' where you went were a 'construct', a way for you to confront the real 'woods' where you bonded with your boyfriend. The voice telling you to 'break through the mirror' can mean to break through the 'safe' and 'singular' pereception you have in that place. I say singular because, like a child, innocence is essentially a singular place, where no outside (other) influence has yet to occur. Your own voice telling you to 'break' the glass can mean to 'break' the barrier which you constructed to shield yourself from what you were feeling. This is because, although you have replicated the 'woods' of your memory, it is a 'safe' replication, a 'safe' version of the woods that your mind is asking you to see.
The emotional sexual identification in your dream (the bleeding fruit far away from you, the trees being like those where you had sex the first time) seems to be a composite metaphor your mind created to deal with the break-up. It could be that the break-up 'destroyed' or 'cut' the perfect idea you had of your relationship, which made the fruits or experiences of the relationship overall 'bleed', or it could be that because he was your 'first', the emotional intensity and/or romanticism of the event (we are all taught to believe that our first time is 'special', which it is, although not always in the way we think) made you feel as if it summed up the entire experience of him being your boyfriend. The reason I think you ran away is because I believe you felt that the break-up was making you feel as if you had to make a choice: either keep the innocent/untouched/special side of the relationship or throw it all away. Because you did not have the tools or experience to be able to keep/maintain what was healthy and forget what was not, the feeling of having to give it all up was too much for you to handle.
Just because a relationship with someone goes bad doesn't mean we have to get rid of all of our memories with that person. Keeping the positive memories actually helps us maintain our own sense of self, since we are not letting them dictate what we should, or should not, feel and/or hold onto. The intensity of the dream, I think, meant that breaking through a mirror doesn't mean that you can never go back; it means that now you can come and go as you please. A mirror prevents movement; a window/door allows and encourages it.
2007-01-23 00:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try swoon.com.
When I ever have a dream, I go there and find out what things mean. It's also free and extensive, so you might want to bookmark it.
2007-01-22 22:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by Pristine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to sound rude, but I think it means you made a horrible mistake not waiting to have sex... I agree with the dream...
2007-01-22 22:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have books that interpret dreams they're pretty interesting to read.
2007-01-22 22:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by ?only?me? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guilt and shame
2007-01-23 09:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋