Can someone PLEASE help me interpret this dream I had yesterday?

Question

(I KNOW THAT IT APPEARS INTIMIDATING BECAUSE IT'S SO WORDY BUT I REALLY WANT TO INTERPRET THIS DREAM SO IF ANYONE CAN PLEASE HELP ME I WOULD BE GRATEFUL! THANKS!)

The portion of my dream that I can remember the best and I think might signify something about me is seeing a big, old refrigerator that seemed somewhat empty but contained a few items. I remember my mom telling me to take water bottles from one of the higher shelves and place them in the bottom part of the fridge because that's where the rest of the water bottles took space and so I carried the bottles and placed them where she asked. (the bottles were filled with water and sealed ranging from sizes small medium and large).

In this part of my dream I remember being in a bus with my cousin and she told me to wait inside of the bus because she wanted to go in a store. I waited but somehow I ended up getting outside of the bus. I wasnt sure where she went but I didnt remember where she lived either (in real life she lives far away so I really would get lost if left alone). Than this stranger I saw on the street started talking to me and giving me directions to my cousin's house without me myself even asking for his help (I think he knew her but I'm not sure). I thanked him. Later this freaky creature that looked like a frog or grasshopper popped out of nowhere and it was huge.(At first I thought it was a grasshopper but now I believe that it was actually a very skinny but giant probably human size freaky looking frog.) It was jumping and everyone was making way for it. I got out of its way too but that didnt matter since the creature ignored those people and all of its attention was drawn to me. I tried to move the opposite direction but it was following me, blocking my way, and staring at my direction with those beady little eyes.(It still scares me a little to think about it lol)

Than in the next part of my dream I was in a barn that looked very dirty and had these people who were either african slaves or the people who live in there and suffer from extreme poverty. Many of them appeared to be sick, starving, and laying all over the ground. I think my place there was to help out. (maybe this is from some show I might have seen a long time ago on television or perhaps it has to do with the fact that I had to take the SAT exam today and were seated in a classroom with other students who also had to take it or maybe it could mean something else you never know).
Also than after I saw a principal who made a mean comment about my body which hurt my feelings.

I'm sorry Enn but other people dont control me. While it's true that I can be a bit of a pushover and dependant on others but I dont like being controlled therefore I draw lines when I think things have gone too far. However I always look for guidance from other people.

I have books like that but the meanings are often not very clear. For example I saw water bottles in my dream and when I looked up the meaning of water it said that it meant spirituality. However I dreamt of bottled water so I'm not sure what spirituality sealed in bottles means lol.

lol oh and Enn I had to take the SAT in real life but not in my dream.

Answer 1

Enn's comments are very clever but in my opinion mistaken. Most dream research shows that dreams are really a series of images that are not connected in any coherent way. It's the waking mind that connects them-and that tendency to connect them all into a meaningful narrative is ideological; that is, it is rooted in the idea of linear narrative realities and has little to do with the images themselves.

That said, I think there are interesting common themes. The bottled water in the mostly empty refrigerator is intriguing. You will have to think yourself what water means to you, and how you feel about water in bottles. Culturally, water suggests life and connection. Here the water is in bottles, seemingly clinical in appearance-alienated? Feeling of separation? And all in different sizes.

Then it's your mother who tells you how and where to arrange these bottles. Again, there's the personal question of how you feel about your literal mother, and there's the Mother image, or archetype which may mean something else culturally. Archetypally speaking, it seems appropriate to have a mother talking to you about arranging bottles of water, women being associated with liquid, mothers being archetypes of primal connection. You don't say how you felt about arranging the bottles, or how you felt about their place in the refrigerator. Your impressions and attitudes are very important to the interpretation.

The cousin and the bus deal seems to suggest alienation and disorientation. Kinda like the water which should flow together but was arranged in bottles of different sizes. The part about the stranger strikes me as disturbing-was it? To be told by a stranger where to find a member of your family?

Then that frog-grasshopper thing. Two creatures that are both very alien looking, pursuing you when everyone else is able to get out of the way.

I'm seeing a pattern of alienation and anxiety over separation in the dreams. Maybe a sense of your anxiety over the new experience of leaving for college, finding yourself in a strange place, removed from your family and lost?

My feeling is just the opposite of Enn's then. It seems to me that you may be the kind of person who is VERY in control of everything, and facing the uncertainty of being in a place or around people that takes things out of your control.

So that brings me to the starving slaves. It's interesting you should assume they're slaves-because that suggests a part of your dreams where you can begin to take charge. The idea that these people are in a condition where they require your help is the significant thing-they are helpless and you can do something about it. You even say that you were there to help. What about all those bottles of water in the refrigerator? Why not use those to help give nourishment to the starving people?

The question, then, that your dream poses for you is one that you are about to face head-on. How can you reorganize your life so that you can use the resources at your disposal to take control of your world. Obviously, you go from your mother telling you how to arrange the bottles, to a section where you are with your cousin (slightly more distant, and your cousin leaves you alone), to an encounter with a perfect stranger, to the weird bug-frog (frogs are water creatures-in this case the folktale monster who is in your way along your quest).

The fact that your dream ends with the sick people and you thinking you need to help them. Everything in your dreams is some aspect of yourself, and the starving slaves are really you as well, that part of you that feels helpless and alone in facing this future. But the other part of you is the part that can see the people in the barn and give them help.

The question is whether you can get to the water, and what you can do about the bug-frog.

You may want to take a look at Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces." Campbell traces the mythology of the hero through cultures across the world in an attempt to isolate archetypal figures.

That's what I can do-hope it helps!

Answer 2

The first 2 parts of the dream and the 3rd part of the dream are actually all connected, even though they seem pretty random.
The 1st 2 parts refer to you taking orders from other people and obeying them without question. You are given inane orders - moving water bottles to a different shelf, waiting at a bus stop for no reason - and you follow orders obediently without question. It doesn't matter what happens in the rest of those parts of the dream, they both start with you taking orders and obeying them.
The 3rd part about the slaves shows how you really feel about being ordered around. Yes, taking the SAT factors into this, because it's just another standard test you were told you had to take in order to get into college, and so you signed up and took the test without questioning the reson behind it.
You feel very trapped and ordered around - you even gave more deference to a grasshopper or a frog rather than stand up for yourself and establish a personal individual power within yourself. You feel like a slave to others, hence the dream of all the slaves in the barn. Those slaves are representatives of you each time you obeyed without question an inane order (even though sometimes your intentions were for the best, you still felt ultimately like you were never allowed to say "no".)
The best thing you can do about this is take control over the things you can control, and begin establishing your independence where you make your own decisions without someone else telling what to do and how to do it. Now is the time to look into getting a job, earning your own money, and saving towards a deposit and 1st month's rent on your own apartment. Now is the time to establish a personal financial budget and sticking to it. Now is the time to learn how to cook for yourself to save money by not going out, learn how to shop at thrift stores for your clothes and save money not paying full retail price for your wardrobe, and now is the time to learn how to clip and use coupons to save on your grocery and fast food bills.
Now is the time to volunteer for something that is a step towards fulfilling your childhood dream. Now is the time to learn how to fix up a car to drive, buy books at yard sales for your library, learn how to travel around a big city using public transportation, and most important, learn how to take care of yourself so you are no longer under someone else's thumb all the time.
It's possible to break out of the chains you feel bound by and establish your own identity. It's okay to say no to inane orders and question authority and discover your own opinion.
Good luck in finding yourself. Some people take years before they figure it out.

Answer 3

The first part of your dream I interpret that you have being doing something for a long time and it's time to make a change. Or you might be antisocial and it telling you to be more outgoing and break your old ways. Maybe That's how I see it.

Answer 4

Last part of your dream I think is actually a differant dream. Animls of all types come to us in our dreams differant ons have differant meanings. Were you running because you were scared is one ? you should ask your self. I bought a book called 10,000 dreams interpited you should read it sometime it is pretty interesting.

Answer 5

OK... I think dreams are highly personal anyway.
Shows that you have to make up your mind sometimes and show appreciation to others. Maybe........
I think you have to be careful with dream interpretations because people do not know you nor your past...

Answer 6

nothing serious.It only tells that you should mingle to all kinds of people dont looked down to those you think is in lesser position or level.treat them equally and stop critisizing others.In this case they will not critisize you either.

Answer 7

lol the hell of dream u had girl...how long it took 8 hrs...lol

Answer 8

i have to agree with ENN. very good preception.