2/20/06

It is pouring outside. I drive my car into a garage and go into a friends' apartment. It is an upstairs loft that is big, drafty, and very slanting. The floors in every room sag and slope. I try to find a comfortable place to sit and watch TV, but the living room has no furniture in it because of the sagging slope.

I go to a bedroom and sit on a bed and see on the slanting wall what looks like a butterfly on fire. On closer examination, it is some kind of insect with bright irridescent wings that comes out in heavy rain storms and they seem to be coming out of the woodwork. One gets in my hair and as I pull it out, it bites me. I yell, "It bit me!"

Then a strange woman (not my friend) comes into the bedroom and sits on the bed. She has one of the bugs in her fingers and looks it over to determine exactly what type of flying insect it is and it bites her repeatedly.

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That sounds quite surreal, even for a dream I mean - a bit like one of Dali's short films.

I know what you mean about the Dali imagery. I love Dali's work and I often have dreams with objects and structures that have that distorted, warped look.

This dream I did not associate with Dali and I'm stumped to what it could mean. I looked in the site's dream dictionary and didn't see any entries for floor's, sagging or sloping. I sometimes have dreams where I'm in structures where the foundation is weak, rotting away, or on the verge of collapsing. They never have though.

My best guess is that this dream, as well as the others similiar to it, is related to being on a shaky or unstable foundation. Now I need to think what is "shaky" or "unstable" at the moment.

There's also the rooms themselves, which often represent different aspects of your self - you might be able to figure something out from that? Might be another set of images related to the same message as the burning buildings in your other dream?

this is an exerpt I had from a dream a few nights ago:

I'm in a basement with high school kids. We have to go through obstacles to get upstairs. One obstacle is a rickity table with plywood on it and we have to walk upon it to reach the middle stairs. A few teens watch as I do this. I hang on to the rail and hoist myself up and vow I'm not doing any more of this. end

I think what's happening is a feeling of insecurity on the job (I work with a high schooler with special needs) and insecurity about my finances. First I have the sagging, slanting floors, then I have to climb up on a rickity structure. Fear of "losing ground" perhaps? I like what I have to say at the end about not doing it any more. I'm going to work on taking my own advice!

I think you're right if the unstable or unusual floor is a recurring theme, it's the one thing in life we always expect to be there under our feet, unchanging and solid.

People have dreams about earthquakes that have similar connotations.

But the slanting floors imply that if you work hard, you can move upwards, so in that way they are positive dreams.