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Anyone have a dream they’d like to be interpreted?

Some thread necromancy. I woke up this morning from an incredibly vivid, long narrative dream of being an African economist with one hand, working in Africa on various projects, dealing with local issues, felt like days. There I was, ebony skin, knowledge of village development in unnamed African country, hook where my right hand should be.

The only association I can see is Truman's crack about the one handed economist, that he wanted to find one because all his economic advisors would constantly say "but on the other hand..."

Yeah. One of my more memorable dreams was about me & my friends robbing a bank during the long school break (20 minutes) and afterwards continuing lessons with bundles of cash in our schoolbags.

I often (maybe a quarter of all of the very few dreams I remember) have criminal dreams, which is very odd because I'm the kind of person who leaves his phone number under a wiper if he scratches a car badly by accident.

On Saturday night I dreamt that a civil war broke out in Cuba. Two of my uncles volunteered to travel over there and help out (I don't know in exactly what capacity: one is an accountant and the other works in PR). There was an explosion in a hotel and both of them were killed.

I changed jobs two weeks ago. In my old job, once a month I had to write a report which went to a public body concerning all of the events which took place in my building in the month prior, including accidents or health & safety incidents. On Sunday night, I dreamt that I was back in my old job writing my monthly report, and had to write up about an accident in which a baby was killed. I don't know exactly how old this baby was, but they were less than 1 year old.

I'm a little perturbed that I've had dreams in which blameless people die on two consecutive nights. Maybe the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had, but the dreams in which other people are dying are decidedly not.

What's the summary of the art/science behind dream interpretation?

I am skeptical of looking too much into dreams because dreams operate in a closed system with no external feedback, I.e it's all in your head. What excess insight do you have in knowing thyself from said interpretation that you can't get while thinking and awake?

Anyways I'll give you two for interpretation (strong pseudoscience warning), I tend to have dreams that fit into these two molds quite often;

Dream Template 1

  • I'm in a frozen and icy landscape during a beautiful purple sunset (StabbleDiffusion gets close enough). But I'm not cold, Just a cool relaxing breeze. I'm usually accompanied by my dad, both of us sitting in lawn chairs usually with a drink in hand, and we talk about the life we lived. There is a latent sense of finality, as this is the last conversation I will have with him before we have to part ways and say goodbye for good. Our ages are usually ambiguous, sometimes I know I am older (around my late '30s) sometimes I am my current age (25).

  • My interpretation: I'm aware that my dad's here time is running out soon. As for the setting, I don't know. I live in a very hot country with usually grey skies, and I don't like it. The different environment might suggest that I am at a different station in life, radically different from where I am now, probably better; when the time comes, which is to suggest I don't expect the time to come soon. My invincibility to Antarctica weather suggests to me that I am probably a lot stronger (or should be) than I am now.

Dream Template 2

  • My younger brother is usually in a very bad physical state at the hands of others. Let that be being beaten up or killed. I see all of the action, including the killing, happening, but I am usually not in a position to intervene. These dreams are quite distressing for me, for an hour or two after I wake up.

  • My interpretation: Older brother shit. I live a continent away from him, so I can't really help or intervene in any problem he has in real life, he's not out there doing things that would get him killed or beaten up. So that could just be an artifact of me watching too many Narco and ISIS executions. I usually model getting killed by Narcos as the worst end to one's life (see <Worst gore you will ever see, be warned>: 'Funkytown Gore').

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