What does my dream mean?

Question

I had the coolest dream last night...yet i cant help but feel it means something also:
Ok, so i'm at my grandmas house and this girl (who is a family friend of my stepdad's) is there also. We are sitting there talking (though i dont know what about). Suddenly, the newspaper is hit at the door. I go out on the front step and get it. I open it up and a tiny brass beetle (it's not alive and is about the size of my thumbnail) falls to the floor. I pick it up and set it on the mantle. Then i open up the paper and the first thing i notice is an ad for a concert to be held at the mall. the ad reads: "HIM and My Chemical Romance today at Fox Valley Mall!" then under that it says in fine print: "Bring your Harley (Davidson motorcycle of course) and you and your friend get in free!" The girl that was with my grandma and i has a harley and shows me that she has remodeled it: decked out in gold beetles! So she takes me to the concert and the stage is also decked out in gold beetles.
Meaning???

btw, the girl's name is sara and i dont even know her that well. In fact i just met her a week ago at her wedding so i have no idea why she was at my grandmas (who has no relation to my stepdad except by marriage) house.
Also, under the ad, beetles were under the "Bring your harley and a friend and you both get in free!" in ink, decorated in glitter. Then they got off the page and flew away. (I ran out of room up there on the actual question part to mention it.)

Answer 1

one time when i was in new m exico i was ata truck stop in the middle of the night. i went into the bathroom and the sink was FULL of beetles, or a hard exo-skeletal insect of some variety. at the time it was fascinating but had no real meaning. of course this was real and not a dream. but it makes me wonder, if there is no meaning in the waking world to strange and unusual occurrences, then why must there be in the dreaming world.
Of course, the dreaming world is built of symbol and innuendo. all of it though seems to be to be in a very personal language, so maybe you are internally obssesed with gold and the status that it can offer, you have always wanted to have a strong shell (you feel weak), and look like a badass biker.
the answer is that you secretly desire to be biker beetle with lots of bling, that is up on current events (newspaper), and that feels free to go to concerts, you have been waiting for permission to "come out of the beetle closet" for a while and spread your bike riding wings, but you were waiting for the right sign...the beetle in the newspaper. now it sis time for a little self actualization.
course it is just a dream.

Answer 2

You know, I am going out on a limb here.
First, I think your dream has something to do with marriage or a relationship, most likely with someone who is "fast", rich, and a free spirit.
I don't know if beetles mean anything to you. I remember a movie that had a gold beetle in it. But to me, beetles have a voracious appetite (a voracious appetite for life), and I think you have some interest in that.
We usually dream about some thought we had that day or recently, and dreams allow for free association of ideas. The purpose of dreams is the consolidation of thoughts in memory. So, these ideas might help lead you to search for a fuller understanding of your dream, but according to Freud, all dreams have to do with wish-fulfillment. I think it has to do with desire and anxieties. Anxiety dreams are the worse. Also note that bad dreams do not always denote bad things, but rather sometimes they are attempts to hide things you rather not look at. This dream seemed to be a happy dream and probably was a "desire" or "wish-fulfillment" dream.

Answer 3

Anyone with a little imagination could interpret your dreams for you, but their answer, no matter how interesting, wouldn't be true.
Here's why:

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of your dreams is simply that you are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for you, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into your mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given what seems to be going on, it's not really surprising that lots of things appear in your dreams that have nothing to do with what has been happening in your life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in your dreams that have been part of your memories as far back as you started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the jobs it was designed to do

Answer 4

According to the activation-synthesis theory of dreams, your dream probably has no meaning at all. (Sorry, that's probably not what you wanted to hear.)

Although dreams are influenced by our thoughts throughout the course of the day, this does not mean they are special messages to us that we should carefully consider.

Here's one perspective:

"Activation Synthesis Theory is a neurobiological theory of dreams, put forward by James Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, which states that dreams are a random event caused by firing of neurons in the brain. This random firing sends signals to the body's motor systems, but because of a paralysis that occurs during REM sleep, the brain is faced with a paradox. It synthesizes a narrative by drawing on memory systems in an attempt to make sense of what it has experienced."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_synthesis_theory

Answer 5

It means you should not eat Mexican food before going to bed.

Answer 6

so scary...it seems like a nightmare...do not think about it...sleep good tonight!!!