Strong Words, Softly Spoken

Ever have one of those dreams where you wake up and say to yourself, what the hell was my subconscious thinking?

I have these fairly often.  Once I had a dream that my middle school had a spiral escalator in the middle of the lunchroom that kids got on and rode up to catch the bus at the end of the day.  How the buses got off the roof, I don’t know, but somehow they did.  So I’m on my way to catch the spiral escalator to get on the bus when I notice someone stole my flute out of my locker (yes, I play the flute).  I turn around to see some kid dragging a large chain of stolen musical instruments behind him.  I chased him into the lunchroom and he started climbing up the side of the escalator and I started to follow him and woke up.  That will probably forever remain the strangest dream I’ve ever had.

Last night, however, I dreamed that Alex & I were in Paris with my old youth group from high school.  We went to the Louvre and all I wanted was to see the Mona Lisa….only there wasn’t any Mona Lisa.  They didn’t have it anymore.  And the Louvre looked turned out to be pretty disappointing.  It was all one level…with 3 rooms…and paintings that looked like something a 5 year old might do.  It was pretty disappointing, so after 10 minutes we all left.  So…we’re in Paris and where do we go next?   TACO BELL!  Only nobody there spoke English…and we didn’t speak any French…so we were hungry and had no food and were once again disappointed, so we sat a table and stared at each other…and then my alarm went off.

Odd, right?  So this morning I decided to interpret my dream using www.dreammoods.com.  Here’s what I found:

Traveling
To dream that you are traveling, represents the path toward your life goals. It also parallels your daily routine and the way you progress. If your travels come to an end, then it symbolizes successful completion of your goals.

Paris
To dream that you are in Paris, symbolizes your need for romance and passion. It also suggests that you are a person of distinction. Your own personal experiences and knowledge of Paris will supercede the suggested interpretation here.

Disappointment
To dream of disappointment, indicates real-life experiences of being continually disappointed. Such dreams often reflect repressed disappointments accumulated over a period of time. You dream serves as an emotional outlet which can provide ease of mind.

So, to sum it all up…basically….I’m disappointed with the progress I’m making toward my life goals. The romance and passion bit…eh, I’ve got the romance. Passion though…I’ve been struggling with feeling like I’m no longer passionate about anything anymore…trying to find my passions again. All in all I’d say for a stupid little dream about Paris and the Mona Lisa, I’ve learned quite a lot about myself this morning.