My brother's all time favorite is a dream I had a few years ago. Sean Penn was MCing the Oscars when munchkins, straight out of the Wizard of Oz, took over the ceremony wearing tuxes and held the city of L.A. hostage with a weather machine. Apparently in my subconscious, there is nothing L.A. fears more than snow. The real tragedy is that I can't for the life of me remember what the munchkins wanted in exchange for leaving the mild Southern California weather alone.
As weird as that one is, I don't think it compares to when I dreamt that my plane crashed on an island. While my friend searched frantically for water, food and basic survival gear, I was searching equally as frantically for a bra. Even the appearance of his brother, my friend, bruised, battered and sunburned on the island only briefly deterred me from the hunt.
It's to these kinds of dreams that I like to pull out the ole dream interpretation book to try and figure out what on earth is going on between my ears when I'm asleep. The second seems pretty straight-forward; I'm stranded and searching for er, "support." But munchkins? Weather machines? Sean Penn? I don't even like Sean Penn!
I gave up trying to interpret the munchkin dream but I want to take a stab at a dream I had the other night ...The Submarine Building Dream... It looks so much more ominous when it's capitalized and bracketed in ellipses; don't you think?
Here's the premise: There is a three man team submarine building contest. There are strict rules that have to be obeyed and three submarines have to be completed in three days.
Rule 1: 20 minutes a day have to be spent in the adjacent canal dodging bombs
Rule 2: At least one person in the team has to be working on the submarine 24 hours a day
Rule 3: A submarine has to be completed at the end of every day.
So the dream begins with me and two friends navigating a canal in a submarine. Dodging bombs from below and a searchlight from above, we cross to the other side where out submarine building station is waiting. We immediately get to work and crank out our first submarine in record time. (I'd like to mention that we are doing things like cutting out strips of paper and these become legit, working machines. A little "Puff the Magic Dragon" magic working here). End first day and we sleep, two members sleeping, one member working. I'm sleeping and the guy on my team is supposed to be sleeping but he keeps talking, so in order to keep himself from talking, he attaches his face to the back of my shoulder and that's how we spend the night. This whole segment is punctuated by the sense of urgency we all feel and the danger from the bombs and the people looking for us.
Half way through day two, we're still making good time when the submarine contest turns into an interior design competition and we're debating how to hang our centerpiece from the ceiling when all we have is toilet paper. Really the only thing noteworthy in this segment is that the danger we felt dodging bombs carries over to hanging toilet paper.
Even though I felt I was in danger, it was a fairly happy dream and when I woke up, I laughed at the team my subconscious put together for the task. Friend A: is very by the book and organized. Friend B: Is by the book, fun-loving but not at all organized. I float somewhere in the middle.
Weird, right? So just for funzies, I perused some dream interpretation sites for some insight into the key parts of the dream. Here's what the portable dream dictionary has to say about submarines:
All vehicles appear to symbolize the way that we maneuver, or get through, a segment of our life's journey. A submarine is a powerful moving machine that travels through deep waters. Deep waters represent our emotions and our unconscious. A submarine could represent the way in which we are navigating through our emotional waters and deal with the materials that are coming up from our unconscious. A submarine can have negative or positive connotations. It could suggest that you are feeling strong and are prepared to aggressively deal with whatever issues and emotional concerns that arise in your life. On the other hand, the submarine as a dream symbol could be suggesting that you are overly guarded and defensive and are currently not open to airing of personal issues.
Bombs:
Unexploded: A fear of a negative future event. Exploded: Recognition that things or a situation has fallen apart.
Competition:
To dream that you are in a competition, represents your need to grow and expand. Learn the value of endurance and perseverance. You also need to be more assertive. Alternatively, the dream may reflect your anxiety about some real life competition that you are involved in.
I'll leave you to draw whatever conclusions you'd like.
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