last night

I'm at a huge hotel. I leave my room to go swimming in the pool and before I get in the water I realize I forgot my bathing suit and need to take a shower first.

Then I'm in the shower room and there are several other women there. There are not enough showers for everyone and I end up sharing mine with a few other women. I step out as they step in and shower quickly.

Then I finish my shower a long time later and step out and see wet towels everywhere and the only thing I see for clothing is a long pink and white striped shirt and put it on. I have to keep pulling it down to cover my butt.

Now I'm trying to find my way back to my hotel room and first end up at a theater inside the hotel lobby. The film is clips of music videos. The songs are songs from the 70's. I remember one in particular---"Rock the Boat" by Hues Corporation. The video to the song is nothing but the front of a boat with a red back drop and the film looks old--crackly and with the sides of the filmstrip showing.

I leave this and they are having a drill sponsored by the emergency management team. I head for an elevator and see two young guys head for it. I consciously pull the shirt down again and start to head in the elevator when I see there are no lights in it. I would be in an elevator and have it pitch black and knew this would make me feel claustraphobic and decided I'd take the stairs instead.

I run by a desk and there is a young boy and girl standing there and crying for their parents. The girl yells something to me but I move on. The stairs in front of the desk are wooden and wide and I run down them so fast I'm almost gliding.

Now I don't know where I am and head back up on another elevator that is lit. When the elevator stops, I enter a room with people sitting at conference tables and they are having some sort of game quiz. I pull my shirt down and hear the next question---"How is it possible for someone to be morally opposed to abortion and still support gay marriage?"

I started to anwer by saying that you can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but woke up.

SS, Thats a lot of happenings in one dream. Do you feel maybe the hotel represents yourself? All of the people inside are parts of yourself. Pulling down your shirt could be feelings of inadequecy. Its a complicated one, no doubt.

Hotels and other big buildings are a reoccuring theme for me. Stairs are too now that I think about it. I live in a fairly small trailor so I think part of it may be a longing for more space?

Stairs can represent one's direction in life. In this dream, I go down but head right back up again. Where I end up is interesting.

You're right about the shirt. It's how I feel sometimes on the job, reluctant to express my opinions about certain subjects because of the work enviornment. It's at a school in which one of my co-workers believes in teaching creationism. I don't agree with this but keep silent because I don't want to make waves, and possibly losing my job. I don't have the authority to change things. This makes me feel inadequate sometimes.

So that sort of relates to the last part of the dream where people are discussing topics and I wake up before I have a chance (perhaps subconsciously?) to speak my opinion.

Hi,

All my grown life I have also dreamt about Hotels or looking for accomodation and I have come to the conclusion that (in my case) these facilities, just like houses, represent me and the fact that they are unpermanent housing, represents change and transition in me. In my life there has been constant inner fights and changes and maybe the same is true for you.

When it comes to identifying the "problem area" I think your guess about work and the issue of standing up for your opinion sounds as if it could be right. I also think that you might actually have given yourself the answer to the dilema already in the dream. Do you have to oppose to creationism being taught at your school (and fear to risk your job) or is it possible to stand up and say that it is ok to tech it, as long as the other alternatives are given as much attention so the students know that there is a lot of people out there with another opionion? It feels like your statement of "not painting everyone with a broad brush" could indicate that it does not have to be a big deal or conflict situation, but it's possible to add more sides. Or would that not be a possibility at in your work environment?

Thanks for the reply Karin.

Yes, it is possible to state that it is OK if certain ideas are presented in my work enviornment, as long as alternative viewpoints are also discussed. I think you hit the nail on the head when you suggested that it need not be a conflict, or one that could cause me to lose my job.