Hi Phoebe,
Dreams often use numbers to refer to ages, or number of years, or number of months. (They can also use numbers to refer to school grade years, house numbers you have lived in, the number of people in your family and so much more.) You meet 7 people and the 7 then break into 5 and 2. The 2 come with you, (making 3). The cause of the break seems to be the 'break' between the boy and you.
Have a think about what happened to you when you were 5 and 7. From this point of view your dream may be taking you back to when you were 7, showing you that there was a 'break' of some kind when you were 5, due to cutting yourself off (or being cut off) from something or someone (represented by the boy). After the age of 5, did you go off in a different direction, emotionally and perhaps physically?
Alternatively, think of the numbers in the dream as counting backwards: what happened for you 7 years ago and 5 years ago (or 7 and 5 months ago). Apply the same thinking - look for a break.
When you don't recognise people (from waking life) in your dream, but they feel familiar, they usually represent parts or beliefs of your own. You come face to face with yourself in your dream - parts of yourself or beliefs or experiences that you have lost touch with - but in meeting them again in your dream, they feel familiar.
A boy in a dream tends to represent your Yang - that means you 'outer world' or your left brain. Boil that down to how you deal with the world out there, rather than the world within you, and your logical, intellectual, assertive, active approach (rather than your creative, intuitive, emotional, passive, spiritual) approach. Did you cut yourself off from these qualities?
The night time in your dream suggests the material is deeply unconscious - stuff you haven't realised before, stuff you can't see clearly.
The second part of your dream takes place in daytime. So it is more about issues you are more aware of. Cars in dreams are often about how you 'drive' your life - your motivation - how much you are, or are not, in the driver's seat of your own life.
You expected your mother to be driving, but she wasn't. The responsibility was all yours yet the car also seems to be on its own journey. This suggests you are beginning to become aware of how responsible you are for your life - and that it is time to take a new approach.
You see an older woman coming towards you trying to get back onto the motorway. She is probably your older, wiser self - the intuitive knowledge about how to get 'back on the road' (you want to be on). That's why she gives you a look of understanding.
What feelings do you associate with the colour 'navy'?
Your car seems to be on its own journey and YET you feel a need to drive the car to safety. This suggests that your life does have a momentum of its own, but you feel it is going too fast, or that it is out of control. In the dream you steer the car to safety by veering off the road and slowing down.
Do you feel one area of your life is going too fast? Do you feel you need to take time out and slow down?
Do you feel the momentum of your life is taking you where you want to go, or away from where you want to go?
What does the colour lime green make you feel?
Take your feelings for navy: this is supporting you on your journey - it is what you are meeting head on, and yet understanding. Take your feelings for lime green: this is what you fear - what you are trying to avoid. You do avoid it in the dream, by slowing down. It may be something you want to meet or face later - but for now your dream suggests you need to slow down and contemplate all of this.
If you can relate to the daytime part of your dream, what 'light' is thrown onto your understanding of this situation by the night-time part of your dream?
Just some starting questions and thoughts for you, Phoebe.
Jane Teresa Anderson |
