but um...I was kinda hoping you'd offer me a scientific explanation for it...:lol:
Yes, The dreams that stay very vivid with me after I wake up often are the ones I feel I am supposed to pay attention to and to maybe try to understand its meaning.
I had around one last April that was like that for me. My son and I had apparently walked a long secluded road to a large cabin or two-story lodge in the woods. It was a family getaway for a black family that we had been invited to visit with. Their faces were not recognizable to me in the natural, but in the dream we knew them and they extended warmth and friendliness to us. It came time for us to say our goodbyes, for it had become dark and it was time for us to leave and start the walk down the lone road to home.
A few of the family members (it was a large family with cousins there and aunts and uncles, that whole thing) we're outside scattered in a couple places, and we said goodbye to those that were at the porch as we were going down the steps. But before we had taken too many steps, all of a sudden all the family members that were outside stiffened up. Then as if in unison turned and immediately ran into the house...some passing by us without a look or a word. The next thing I knew, all the lights went off in the house. I thought...how odd? I looked around us and I started getting an eeriie feeling, and I said to my son, "Let's just go back inside and ask them what is going on."
When we got inside we groped our way up the stairs in the dark and entered a large family room where we had last left them, and suddenly, before I had barely stepped into the room an arm reached out for my own and I was abruptly pulled down beside someone crotching behind a chair. It was one of the men of the family and I said, "Why are you all here like this in the dark?" He said, "You have no idea what is waiting for us out there, but we do. It is pure evil. You best stay here inside with us...it is not safe for you to walk home now. If you do, they will get you and do the same evil to you they have planned on us because we are black." My eyes got large and I asked, "What kind of things?" And the reply was, "You don't want to know." It wasn't making any sense to me and I asked, "But we are not black, so they would leave us alone surely as we mind our own business and walk home, wouldn't they? " He said, 'It is dark, and these evil men will not take the time to determine skin color, and more than that, they know you have been here on a friendly visit and they will now look at you as one of us. But we are very used to this, and their evil ways. We know what to do because we have been dealing with this for a long, long time. You and your son will always be safe if you stay with us."
Then I became aware that my son was not by me, and I panicked and exclaimed probably too loudly for the situation, "Where's my son!?" From across the room behind another piece of furniture another family member, in a strong whisper, said, "he's here with me, he's safe." And I knew it was true, for these were good, kind, generous, and warm individuals and more than that, they were strong. I felt a warmth and reassurance come over me...and bent back down behind the chair to wait and see what would happen.
Then I woke up...and I kept thinking the dream over and over. It was such an unusual dream for me to have. I'm not sure of its meaning, either. It could use an interpretation.
I felt it was for one thing about racism. That's probably a given. I think because it wasn't as fragmented as dreams often are, where they jump all around, it got my attention.
~ Do you ever wonder how cats and dogs can sleep so much all day long?