Make like Dr. Melfi
I dreamed there was a flood of near-biblical proportions: water was flowing into my second-floor apartment, and I could feel the building rocking. Then the flood subsided and I had to visit my mother in a high-rise building. The high-rise buildings were on a vast, treeless lot, and the ground was mucky. I took the elevator to my mother’s apartment, and when I got out I was in the actor Colin Farrell’s apartment. Colin and I started speaking. Then dammit, I woke up.
Notes: There were no other people in my dream, just Colin. My mother died in 2003; she did not appear in the dream. Colin was wearing clothes. The last time I saw him was on the Oscars telecast.
My analysis: Water is a universal symbol for emotion. In the dream, water is entering my flat, which could mean I’m in an emotional state. I don’t think I’m more emotional than usual, but maybe that’s the point: my unconscious is telling me to give in to emotion instead of processing everything mentally. I will admit that I find emotional stuff icky. Also, Carlo recently asked me if I’m ever sad or lonely. I said, Of course. Apparently I do not show feelings other than hilarity or fury.
My mother was highly emotional, and I found her outbursts embarrassing, which may explain why I’ve grown up Vulcan-like (Although I think I’m emotional, other people think I’m a rock). I’m guessing the high-rise buildings are phallic symbols. I have noted that in most of my relationships, I take on the alpha male role: I am more of a guy than the guy, which does not help their self-esteem. Colin’s presence: self-explanatory. Who doesn’t want a guy whose dick is bigger than hers. So this is a textbook dream and it means: Be emotional and girly. Eww.
Alternative explanation: I wish I were in Venice with Colin Farrell.
March 3rd, 2008 at 21:41
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March 3rd, 2008 at 23:31
Curious… was the water clean or dirty? Having escaped the flood sounds like a good omen for you. I’m not sure if there’s any connection, but it’s worth mentioning that Colin Farrell was at last year’s Venice Film Festival to promote Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream”, which also starred Ewan McGregor.
March 4th, 2008 at 00:08
Maybe this comment should be directed to Mr. Lichauco, but I have constant recurring dream of being naked, standing on wet grass, then slowly I begin to float into the atmosphere, as if I am being sucked by some unseen vortex, and it is quite frightening, this feeling of leaving the earth, which kinda sucks all my energy. Then I can’t breathe, can’t move, then before long it becomes what many people call a full scale bangungot. But always, almost always, I am awakened by what I sense to be a finger poking my back, jolting me awake. The last time it happened, the finger felt so real I literally jumped out of bed. (I sleep alone in a locked room. ) Am not superstitious. I can’t explain it though. Has this ever happened to anyone?
March 4th, 2008 at 00:53
The water looked clean. I’ve had those very real-seeming dreams in which a demonic figure is standing in the middle of the room talking to me, and I can’t move, it’s as if I’m paralyzed, but I know that if I can just raise a finger I’ll snap out of it. Then I manage to move a finger and I wake up.
March 4th, 2008 at 01:36
They say that if you dreamt a flood entered your place, it means there will be an “opening in the affairs”. Maybe, as you’ve analyzed, something to do with your emotional affairs. Clean water suggests positive outcome. I guess it doesn’t get any more positive than a Colin Farrell. Or perhaps a Jon Stewart in your future?
March 4th, 2008 at 08:47
I could only guess for the following as possible explanations to your dream:
1. It’s that time of the month where you have your period. Explains the water, pun intended. Women are generally emotional whenever they have their period. Explains why you dreamt of your mom.
2. It’s possible that you’re ovulating, another viable reason why you dreamt about your mom, your mind’s subconsciously giving out a message, telling you that your body is yet again, at that time of the month, that it’s primed for conception.
Also justifies the presence of Colin Farrell. It’s been scientifically proven that whenever a female ovulates, they naturally, and more likely, are attracted to males that exemplify brawn, and rugged personality. Also explains the high-rise buildings that you refered to as “phallic symbols”.
3. You wanted to try something new for a change, but something kept holding you back from doing so.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:05
franzi,
That’s a sex dream. You’re not getting enough. I read somewhere that dreams about floating or flying are related to sex. I remember I was always having these dreams, that I was either flying or running without my feet touching the ground. I got curious, so I looked up the “meaning”: sex, or the lack thereof. :-)
Lately, I kept having dreams of me being naked. I looked it up, too. Dreaming naked means financial difficulties. Which got me thinking.
About 90% of Filipinos must be having this dream, too.
Or maybe we should consider what Sigmund Freud said:
“A dream is disguised fulfillment of a suppressed wish.”
March 4th, 2008 at 12:51
McCoy, first theory out, but it is clearly a sex dream. As for the flying, I am reminded of the Simpsons episode in which Smithers flies with Mr. Burns. Franzi, I just saw an X-Files rerun (it’s on daily, 1 am) and your dream sounds like an alien abduction. Sidebar: Which is the reality, and which is the dream?
March 4th, 2008 at 14:43
Well then, I guess that leaves me with my second theory (I’m crossing out the third theory I made, it’s the least likely).
Re sidebar, I guess if you’re aware that you’re currently dreaming, then it’s completely otherwise (unless your just daydreaming). Similar to when a person admits he’s crazy, it’s most likely that he isn’t.
March 4th, 2008 at 16:40
Uh, you don’t have to be ovulating; people think about sex constantly. Carlo just saw a guy whose T-shirt said, ‘Tight Butts Drive Me Nuts’. I said, Maybe he’s your destiny? Carlo said, He’s not my type.
March 4th, 2008 at 17:25
People do think about sex incessantly, I totally agree. However, a person does not have dreams of, or anything related to, sex, every single days (or nights) of their sleeping lives (which of course, unless you’re JC Chasez who dreams about sex all day, kidding).
So that specific dream you had, which had so much subconscious sex metaphors, clearly says (at least to me) that your hormones are working double time this time of the month, which takes me back to my ovulation theory.
But of course these are just all products of my crazy thinking.
March 5th, 2008 at 03:44
I once dreamt that I was in the middle of a rice patty next to an isawan stand along with a colleague (who in real life was 8 1/2 months pregnant ) and a faceless rock star. My colleague suddenly clutched her oversized belly and started yelling to the rock star, “Why didn’t you tell me the truth about the music?!! Now look what happened to me!!”
Given the Freudian premise that a “dream is disguised fulfillment of a suppressed wish”, does this mean that it’s time to visit UP and get my isaw fix?
March 5th, 2008 at 20:16
#7 jediknight,
I always thought it was a spiritual dream, or maybe what they call an OBE, but I can’t prove it to myself. But when I was about 8 or 9, I had the same dream, though back then, I never made it past our ceiling, and it was more like a peaceful, hovering sensation, which feels real good, almost comparable to sex, as I would find out much later, hehe (I distinctly remember to this day that I was touching the Christmas light bulbs in our terrace .) Jessica, I don’t think it was an alien abduction though I wish it was, so I could finally meet them, hehe. Occasionally I catch a few episodes of the X-Files re-runs at 1 am but I always fall asleep after the first few minutes. I’m more concerned about the finger that pokes me in the back because it feels real enough to jolt me out of bed. I am praying that I never experience the horror of feeling my bed move or levitate. I’d die! Thanks, guys.