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(Exactly as I remember, on awakening, with my analysis/comments/questions in parentheses.)
I was at a rehearsal of a Broadway show like Bye Bye Birdie or Grease. A retro show, in color. People were dancing, stacked on steps (I had recently watched Deal or No Deal.) A Ricki Lake-like woman was dancing the lead, kicking her legs, and I was being told by the producer how good she was, except she didn’t seem to kick very high and slipped off the step. The understudy was called. (Dancing With the Stars had recently changed partnering because of illness.)
I had to leave in a bus/ship (My many travels –bus, ship, plane –they start to meld after awhile.) I reluctantly boarded the vehicle but I called out and asked a person to give me the names and info of those actors left behind. She agreed and I felt better. (Don’t like loss?)
The bus was luxurious and wide, in gold and black/brown hues, with separate reclining leather seats like in a private jet. A seat was empty in the front, but I walked to another one in the back, (My inclination since my childhood in the south, pre-Civil Rights Act -- to go to the back of the bus?) I sat down. The bus was filled with people I didn’t know. I realized I had to pee.
A spiral staircase. I walked down to look for a bathroom. Below was a confined world, off the vehicle, with lots of rooms and light-filled space.
I finally found a bathroom with endless stalls. It was the ugliest, grungiest, filthiest place you could imagine. The stalls were cluttered with tissues.
A little old lady was cleaning the floor, pushing a broom through about a foot of grime, which stirred up in clouds.(I was once in a fetid public toilet in Turkey and a little old lady with a stained straw broom hit me with it on the leg when I didn’t leave a tip.)
I felt desperate. I went from stall to stall. Most of the toilet lids were down. (I didn’t want to scare myself.) The place was empty (At least there was no line!)
Sitting outside. It didn’t occur to me to pee behind a bush. (It was a dream, and I guess I couldn’t wet the bed so the story had to enfold. In real life I would have gone behind a bush, dammit.)
I found a big blue bowl and asked a blond and pretty woman (Sandra Stephens?), if she wanted to work on creating “a pot to pee in.” A man sitting nearby suggested we add water and make it more like a real toilet. (My bidet?)
I don’t know why I didn’t act on this but I couldn’t. (I was still sleeping and having to pee so I guess that solution wouldn’t do)
“Get her help on other things,” the man said. This world seemed to need lots of solutions. (I just finished redoing my son’s apartment. The health care bill? World hunger? Guilt?)
Exploring some more to find a bathroom. So I walked awhile and I found a corporate suite, and the receptionist was -- Tom Cruise. (I can’t stand the smug little sonofabitch. I must have really felt hopeless). I asked Tom if I could use the bathroom there, and that I had done some work for the corporation. He smiled that entitled smile and said “no, find another place or hold it in.” He said he’d been in that very situation. He kept smiling as I left. (I hate him more than ever.)
I was stuck. I had to go.
(So I woke up, and hurried off to pee, then grabbed my computer and wrote this post! I don’t often have such clear recollection and I wanted to get the dream down before it shimmered away.)
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Sheila, I have *far* more interesting dreams. But this one was so clear because it was early in the am.
Smithery, I find that if I remember my dream clearly it so often is pretty easy for me or others who know me to figure out the symbols. I studied dreams a bit and they truly are the attic we can rummage through.
ocularnervosa, I find these kinds of dreams wake me up at just the last minute. For me it was Tom's smug refusal. That got me mad enough to wake up!
Pilgrim, fascinating how our minds are grounded by our bodies. No place more clear than here!
thanks, lea. 8~)
The little weasel.
I hate dreams like that -- I wake up afraid I'm going to wet the bed. Or already did.
One time I was helping rebuild Hoover Dam and a gorgeous black lady was swimming in the river below. I tride to get a pencil and paper to get her telephone number, but had to pee too badly to wait around. I tried to go back to where I left off, but for some reason they never seem to work out that way.
Maria, it's that smug smile, kind of like a big happy hedgehog.
Boa, yes the dream had an urgency to it -- that's why I remembered it so vividly. And yes, he's a weasel.
Bob, isn't that frustrating about dreams? Once you break the spell you can't just return to where you left off.
But when it is a physical thing, like a full bladder, isn't the symbolism of the dream more about that than anything?
Rated!
Jane, yes the things *around* the physical sensation and my choices and my difficulties are telling, I realize. I do find dream therapy extremely fascinating when done with someone who has studied the symbols and such and has intuition and sensitivity and observational skills. Thanks.
Caroline, graceful. Oh my. Thanks. (But I probably just had to pee.)
Ralph, odd juxtaposition of characters. The pretty blonde could have been anyone, but reminded me of SS and she could represent OS!
but what really made me roar was the part about Tom Cruise!! I hate the smug SOB too and I LOVED that he was the final obstacle to you and that you knew this must mean you really felt hopeless in the dream.
Just remember: In Scientology, no one can hear you pee.
Silk, you the brilliant Mad Men analyzer. What a thrill to have you analyze my dream ("Mad Woman"?). Interesting that Cruise does get me so exasperated I want to get up and end the dream, and thus I end it and go.
And is that true about Scientology? And if so, isn't that a bit strange? Or am I being totally naiive?
MAWB, I have one as you may know, but only use it for "special" occasions. And not usually when I'm sleepy or there could be terrible consequences!
I find dream interpretation so individual that I don't believe in any system of 'X means Y in dreams'. I've had fun analyzing my own dreams and those of others, but only people I know well, including knowing what's going on with them right then. I think you were spot-on in pointing out things you'd recently read, heard, seen or experienced that made it into your dream -- I think that happens for all of us. As for what those things you pluck from your life mean in the context of the dream.... I think really only the dreamer can say what her dream "means".
Silk, thanks for the clarification. After reading so many of your spot-on interpretations I tend to believe whatever you write. And Scientology is such a mystery to me that I could believe it might be possible.
Cap'n the only problem with that plan was that I would've wet the bed. But then again, it would have wet so good!
I guess it's obvious I'm just making this crap up. Just like in my blog.
Outside, that's a whole other story. There's a hotel in NYC called the Standard which caters to open windows and people who like to be seem through them. Not a dream.
O'Really, why am I not surprised you're not a fan of Tom.
Polly, I'm not crazy about them either.
Floyd, yes I'm living with a camel. (Right O'Really?)
Sally, agreed. See you later!
I only make stuff up to get out of trouble. Or to avoid trouble. Or I'm bored.
Finally I have to say that you may have come upon a whole new writing genre to explore.
Fun read.
Monte
As for Tom -- I think your subconcious threw him in there for his star power. LOL
Robert Johnson's book on dream interpretation is the best I've ever read though the great Marion Woodman has an intro tape that is fantastic. Have an "active imagination" dialogue with Cruise to get to the bottom of your differences and you may feel it in your bowels.
hugs,
I am a dream fanatic and yours is just so full of imagery. . .I can't resist giving a few of my interpretations:
1. You feel like you are "on stage" in your life and are being watched carefully by some people around you. (rehearsal)
2. Someone in your life (represented by Rikki Lake) is getting praise by someone important to you (producer) but you don't think it's warranted
3. You are leaving a part of your life to embark on another (the bus/plane) but you want to make sure you retain a part of your old life
4. Whatever you're going through in your life now feels good and very comfortable (some part of it is represented by gold and black/brown--maybe a person who is prominent in your life wears a shirt of these colors?)
5. You don't want to see exactly where you're going in your life right now but want to just go for the ride without knowing too much (the back of the bus)
6. You're afraid to fail and that it will happen gradually (spiral staircase)
7. You want someone who you can really "let it all out" with but you feel like you can't do that (all toilet lids are closed and Tom Cruise saying no)
8. You feel like you're not being so nice to someone because you are expecting something from him/her that he/she is not giving (every person in your dreams represents you also--the little old lady that was expecting a tip)
So sorry for writing so much but I have such fun interpreting dreams! A few more pointers: take every image that appears in your dream and figure out what it means to you in waking life. Also, when you write about a dream, write it in the present and you can more easily interpret it.
Thanks for providing me with some fun today!
He acts like his s*** doesn's stink and you're (us mere mortals) not good enough to even pee in his toilet.
Monte, I usually don't remember them either. This one was in the morning, and vivid.
nanatehay, that makes as much sense as most analyses. But keep your day job!
skeletnwmn, I like this interpretation. It makes me feel comfy.
Ben, it was number one, not number two!
Karin, thank you so much for the fascinating interpretation. I concur on much of it.
Anne, just as long as I'm not Tom Cruise!
Ablonde, we agree on that one. Nasty man, I just feel it.
Urination dreams seem to be brought on by the conflict between the body's need to pee and its desire to keep on sleeping.
You may find it interesting to revisit the characters in the dream and ask yourself what you have done lately which they exemplify (yes, even smug toilet denier Tom Cruise). Keep in mind that they all represent some aspect of your own personality.
Wayne, nice to see you here. And thanks for the help. I shall try to think about how Tom Cruise exemplifies me. So far, I'm having a problem, except perhaps that he is a public face, and on here, we are all public faces.
Just taking a stab at it. Was I close?
This is the meaning of the dream. I am not kidding.
I would think the bathroom thing, is also a sign of artistic expression, you are a person who "dosen't like holding it in". A bathroom, or going to the bathroom in a dream, is also another form of artistic expression. The maid in your dream, can be like a certain feeling of being a maid towards your roles, or other areas, where you are forced somehow to manage the aggravation that accompanys your success. The actors are all over the tabloids, sometimes the mind works like magnetic ink, and retains images and sounds even, exactly like the voices we have heard. Eeries since, we are sleeping and our brains are supposedly shut off. But it's just that odd, that when we are relaxed we can truly envision what and how we are percieving things. That is why there are those unusual art pieces I belive they are called surreal, where nothing quite makes sense, but somehow it does. I hope your sleep is peacefull. Gloria
You mention 'actors' and this is often a word associated with sexual content as in 'the actors in a sexual situation.' You also end up in a toilet which you describe as the 'grungiest, filthiest place you could imagine' (you use the more polite term 'bathroom' which is in itself a displacement). Feces is associated with an erogenous zone (th anus) but it is also the expulsive center of our selves, where waste and the unwanted, the toxic, is removed from view. We pretend that it ceases to exist, and the toilet is the site of this magical refusal.
I would say that there is something you want removed from your life, some impediment to a sexual relationship or carnal scene (this could also be food, of course).
Good, intense dream analysis. Was it good for you?
Maybe I just had to pee!
Tom, I missed you back there. Agree with you assessment.
always interesting when the subconscious decides to purge itself, isn't it?