Author

Subject: Stolen car

Melinda

20:41 08/04/2000 

I am clothes shopping with my ex-boyfriend. I don't see anything I really want to buy. I think they are too expensive.

We walk to my car (which actually my mum's car which I drive in waking life). My friend opens the door and gets in the back seat as I go to the driver's side.

I realize instantly I hadn't unlocked the door and see that someone, possibly Lenny Kravitz, is stealing the car. I step in front of him and try to block his path as he drives off with my friend in the back, but I can't.

I try to memorize the number plate. I try to use my mobile phone but it doesn't work. It says "cracked wheat" and something else on the screen. I go to a shop and call 000 and explain what happened.

Note:

I am still friends with my ex-boyfriend.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Jane Anderson

10:51 10/04/2000 

Hi Melinda,

There is a lot in your dream and I'm sure others will come in here and comment and make suggestions. I thought I'd start with an observation about dialling the emergency number at the end of your dream:

Frequently people find themselves in their dreams either trying to phone emergency services (and not getting through) or actually getting through. In your case you moved from not being able to get through to persevering and finding another way to "explain what happened."

Difficulties in getting through to people on the phone in dreams often reflect our difficulties in communicating ("getting through") in waking life. Of course the thing about dreams is that most people in our dreams represent aspects of ourselves, so such dreams are really more about the difficulties we are having comprehending something within ourselves, or the difficulties we are experiencing with communicating ourselves and our needs in general.

Once you get as far as dialling an emergency number, in a dream, you are often on the brink of big changes. There is a play on "Emergency" as in "emergence" .. what is emerging within yourself, what is moving into understanding.

When we are faced with crises in life we sometimes find these crises to be opportunities in disguise which push us to change in positively enhancing ways: to emerge.

Your dream looks at what is emerging for you, what changes are there for you, where you have come from and why ... in the dream you get it and are able to explain the lead-up, explain what is bubbling and changing deep within you, ready to surface soon. Here's something to consider:

Your mobile phone is your personal communication device - you couldn't get through on that. A shop is a place where you go to make choices, to get help - you did get through in that way. Perhaps this is a time to reach out for help and, more importantly, to make new choices.

Over to everyone else to interpret /make suggestions / ask Melinda questions about the first part of her dream to help her understand it all.

Hope this helps.

Jane Anderson