A
recurring element in the dreams which I have had since I
have had children is people I used to know when I was at
school. They are often not central to the dreams which tend
to be related to things I have done the day before or
things I am going to do in the next week.
They are not always people I was close to at school and
they just seem to appear in passing but always have a role
to play like picking up something which I have dropped or
opening the car door for me etc.
Familiar places from my past have also become the setting
for my dreams so that a current situation in my life is
played out in a house or village I lived in twenty years
ago.
It is interesting that this has only been the case since I
had children six years ago. It is almost as if it is
causing my subconscious to review things I have done and
places I have been during my life. I think it is to do with
having to be responsible as a parent and perhaps wanting to
go back to the past when things all seemed a lot simpler.
A recent and quite short dream which I had was set in my
current house and I was with my father. The door bell rang
and I answered the door to Richard who used to be my best
friend at school and whom I have not been in touch with now
for over ten years. He had a fleece which belonged to my
father and he was returning it. He had tried to push it
under the door but it had got stuck half way and so he had
rung the doorbell.
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