When I was in the third grade, I had a dream about being torn between the friends I made in my old neighborhood and my new neighborhood. My parents had just moved from Flushing to Valley Stream, Long Island during the first month of the school year and I was adjusting to my new nrighborhood (one that I was to live in for 16 years). I dreamt one night that I was in the school yard of my new neighborhood with my new set of friends and then my old friends from Flushing came by. What hapened was funny: my old friends and new friends were fighting over me and played a game of kickball over who would get to "keep" me! Each group of friends were fighting with each each other how I was "one of them" and not part of the other group. It felt like a good old, fashioned tug of war, but an awkward and surrealisitic one at that. I knew that I was dreaming, but I don't know if it was lucid or not, even though I was adjusting to my new neighborhood and friends at the time. Is this lucid, or just the result of my preoccupied psyche at that time?
Comments (3)
It seems to be a case, in my opinion of a preoccupied psyche. Especially since you say you were in third grade. When you're younger, your friends are your world too. It actually sounds like a cool dream. Even though you say it was dramatic and surreal, it seems the high level of drama and tension manifested itself into the dream through really intense wish fulfillment.
Posted by maggie the cat | November 19, 2006 9:57 AM
Posted on November 19, 2006 09:57
Man, that's hilarious! What a surreal and juvenille metaphor for conflict.
Posted by John A. Dreams | November 19, 2006 2:26 PM
Posted on November 19, 2006 14:26
In my opinion, I don't think that this dream is a lucid one, but is a result of your psyche because you don't seem to have any control in your dream. There is no revelation of who you are, and you do not become any closer to spirituality or God or some other form of higher being. I think that this might be a memorable dream for you, and the fact that you know you are dreaming is a characteristic of lucid dreams, but it is only one characteristic. I might be wrong, but this is just my opinion. Very interesting dream though =)
Posted by ladyhira | November 19, 2006 8:45 PM
Posted on November 19, 2006 20:45