I am lost in a forest. I’m with a group of strangers who are also lost, but luckily one of them happens to be a survival expert. The expert guides us through the forest until we reach a river. He then tells everyone that they must wash their babies in the water. All of the adults who have children enter the river with their children, who did not appear earlier in the dream. The adults stand in the waist-deep river and repeatedly dip the babies in the water. All the while, our guide keeps giving instructions like, “In and out, up and down, etc.” as if this is a class. All of the babies start to cry because the water is cold. I go in the river and look at an African-American baby. It stops crying and smiles. I pick it up and it laughs. I think about how cute the baby is and walk over to a Caucasian baby. When the white baby sees the black baby, it also starts laughing. Pretty soon, all the babies are happy again. I think about how adorable they all are, then wake up.
2007-02-19 08:29:13 · 7 answers · asked by wsxuyhb;iyfoutf 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Freud would say you have some unresolved issues to do with sex. Maybe that the children are a personification of your inner childhood and a fixation on the phallic stage; ( In and out, up and down) And that as a child your wants were not socially acceptable and so had to be cleansed in the water (social restraint) Therefore creating a supression of urges.
However, in my opinion, Freud was a rather disturbing person with far too many fixations on sex, therefore, I would say that your dream shows you obviously had a good night's sleep.
2007-02-19 08:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by Jayne-Linda 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dreams are more complicated than that..... you have to break down the dream in order to get a true meaning. Dreams are a way for your mind to talk to you using what it knows, symbols or pictures. REMEMBER DREAMS ARE A MAJORITY OF THE TIME ABOUT YOURSELF
To get the meaning I would ask you: How do you feel being lost in the forest? Does the forest remind you of anything, if so exlplain? Is it day or night? How do you feel about the strangers? Who does the survival expert most resemble or most remind you of? Do the people remind you of anyone? etc.
But from purely looking in from the outside (this is not guaranteed to be accurate)
It seems that you are or might be pregnant. Maybe you are even considering it. That would be a very general interpretation.
You may also be going through some big changes in your life, something big is happening that is unlike things you've been through. Stress is likely something you are going through right now, but more than the usual.
You are a kind person. You are very careful not to offend or make others feel bad.
2007-02-19 16:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by Achilles 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a nice dream. The forest represents your impressions of your natural abilities. You felt lost in the forest but you were not alone. Many are lost in the forest. But the guide showed you the way. The river is a cleansing symbol and a source of truth. Within the river you find your way, your uniqueness and place in the world. You are a peace maker, healer, and teacher. All qualities that make a great leader.
2007-02-19 17:57:54 · answer #3 · answered by Psychic Daniel 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow... What a wonderful dream :-)
In my view, kids/babies in this dream symbolize one's inner-self, inner-Child.
Washing one's inner-core from some disturbing old environmental influences.
I find your dream very humanly balanced, very social, very humanly earthian.
You know, as soon as a baby is born, he/she brutally comes into a lower temperature environment, caught by big hands, extracted from a comfortable liquid isolated medium, obliged to breathe his/her very first gazeous fuel - cryes, screams.
Your dream sounds like a kind of natural regression, self-healing. Humanly balanced.
Giving birth to your inner-child again. Group therapy.
2007-02-19 16:44:46 · answer #4 · answered by Axel ∇ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have a gift to deal with children they feel comfortable with you because you may have a calm spirit.
This may be the most fulling job for you is working as a teacher, or around children.
2007-02-19 16:35:16 · answer #5 · answered by curious 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Looks like:
* you like children
* you're not racist (hehe)
*are you perhaps pregnant, or planning to? seems maybe like a kind of class for some reason can't think of the word offhand.
*maybe you are the savior of children...you like keeping them from what they don't like?
*also, who's freud???
Neferiel
2007-02-19 16:40:20 · answer #6 · answered by Neferiel 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he would really like it
2007-02-19 17:20:07 · answer #7 · answered by srmrtr 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋