Keep 'em comin!
El28:
Realizing that you are dreaming is a form of lucid dreaming (though true lucid dreaming also involves you 'taking control' and directing the flow). When you lucid dream, ninety percent of the dream content loses its symbology, because you are now controlling it somewhat with your conscious mind, and not your subconsious.
Dreaming you're dreaming is a way your mind has of slapping an exclamation point on whatever its trying to tell you. Basically, 'this is so important I'm gonna show it to you twice!'. Sequence dreams..or dreams that you return to when you fall back to sleep, have to do with two different things...firstly, you may be maintaining a bit of your dream state brain waves...so technically, you never really STOP dreaming, even though you are mostly awake. Remember, dream state brain patterns are almost identical to conscious thinking brain patterns. If you don't do anything major that requires definitive concentration, it is more than possible to return swiftly into the dream state and...well, pick up where you left off. Like pausing a vcr. Also, sequence dreams where you DO pursue significant activities and yet return to the same dream...such as dreaming part of the dream one night, waking up and going about your day, and then resuming the dream the following night...this falls into more the recurrant dream category. There is something important, again, your mind is trying to specifically work through.
Teeth dreams usually have little to do with dental work (though a worry about dental work can cause them). More, they have to do with fears about your appearance, how others see you, and sometimes with keeping secrets or being unable, for some reason, to express yourself properly. The appearance one is easy to see. I mean, if someone is glamour model gorgeous, then smiles and shows yellow, rotting, breaking teeth...well, you get the picture.
We covered the snakes. Falling dreams are always about being out of control...you're never more out of control in life than you are when falling. You literally can do NOTHING when falling from a height to stop what's going on. Once you're in the air, you're basically done until you hit the ground.
Eyes too heavy to open usually signify a great emotional or physical exhaustion. So does dreaming that you're sleeping.
Naked dreams have to deal with exposure, humiliation and helplessness. We never feel more helpless than when we're naked out in public. You have no protection between you and what people see. Your private life is suddenly public. That you cover yourself with paper towels suggests you are trying to shield this emotional exposure, but that your attempts are really rather flimsy and perfunctory.
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tanya&jazz:
Your boyfriend's dream has a two fold meaning. The first is he's very responsible. Responsible people hate feeling like they're slacking in their duties in any capacity. Therefore, discovering a whole floor of horses he didn't know he had suggests he therefore hasn't been caring for them and they've been going without because of his oversight.
The second meaning is that he's exploring new avenues of his own potential. He's discovering things about himself he did not know before...hence the discovery of both new rooms and new horses. If the dream has a pleasant sense to it, its probably this meaning more than the other. He finds joy in the discovery, and is always seeking ways to improve himself.
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The Shadow:
Your dream, even though you say you are more levitating than flying, still fits the classic Flying dream scenario, and shares its meaning. That you had it more as a teenager suggests it was more relevant to what you were going through then, more than now, which makes sense. The dream itself would fit more with what a teenager is going through than most adults, though it is still relavent to adulthood. Let me explain.
Open fields suggest health and clarity. You can see everything, nothing is obscured. Hills denote a rise and fall of easy versus difficult times, but nothing even remotely insurmountable...just the ususal up and downs of life. However, you continue to concentrate, trying to levitate. You seek freedom, desire it greatly. You want to be free of even these simple ups and downs, to break free of the shackles around you. However every time you even start to feel that freedom, something else happens to drag you back down again. It's frustrating, and you start to both anticipate and fear this...in effect, contributing to it happening. People who are sure something is going to go wrong, after all, usually find subconscious ways to MAKE it go wrong. You fear your freedom will be taken from you and will make you fall back down, and therefore you fall back down. Yet you keep trying...and that's all any of us can do
That you regain control before painfully hitting the ground shows that the restrictions are not as bad as you might think (it never hits you as hard as you fear it will), but it is still immensely frustrating.
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Owen's mom:
Actually, believe it or not, most dreams of an intimate nature mean nothing of the sort. And a lot of dreams that seem mundane and benign mean very strongly something of an intimate nature. It's weird, I know...but true. So nothing here to be truly embarrassed about. Having such dreams during your relationship could simply be a dreaming reflection of real events, or a way that your mind used to embrace the idea of being in a relationship, that you were changing and growing, going from 'I' to 'we'. When the relationship ended (and my condolences, by the way), the 'we' went back to 'I' and therefore such processing was no longer needed...hence, the dreams stopped.
Dreaming that you're pregnant is a common dream as well, though not quite so common to make it into the top 6. It's clearly more common among women, but believe it or not, some men do have it as well! It has nothing to do with actually being pregnant usually (though, clearly, if a woman is pregnant and dreams she is, that's understandable). It means you are developing some part of yourself...some part of your personality. You may be excercising your creativity more, or advancing in your job, or in some personal goal you have set. You could be coming up with a new idea or project, or even developing a sense of your inner child, retouching with basic, innocent pleasures you had forgotten. The shopping for clothes suggests a change as well. We buy new clothes when we want to improve our appearance, replace something old and tattered, or paint a new picture of ourselves to the world. Sounds like since the beau left you are truly regaining a sense of your own identity and have freed yourself to grow personally once again. Bravo!
