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Let me zee…i zink you ah unda too much stress.

That will be $300.  You can pay my receptionist on your way out.

Not exactly an interpretation but I think it covers it.

Hmmnn… let’s go with a mixture of numbers 7, 8, and 4. - “a jumbled, lethal game of hide and seek with a pet you did not realize was your responsibility.”

Audrey Hepburn on the brain (and her eyes were actually green too)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIZ3RSU1MM

If I had to take a really off the cuff guess from reading this I would say that I get the impression you are searching for something.  Not necessarily something tangible though and it may be something (an event from your past perhaps) that you need to assign some sort of meaning to in your present.

I suspect the sense of loss/worry is over not being able to find (or put your finger on) what it is you are supposed to find or figure out.

Again, that was TOTALLY off the cuff.

Sounds a bit like my life on a daily basis.

Though I’d say the universe is calling you to go back to school, I’d say it more generally is saying it’s time for something new. School just so happens to be the ‘newness’ that is most prevalent in your mind. Perhaps you enjoyed school as a child? Perhaps you count those as some of your best days? Regardless, you associate school/college/learning with happiness and you desperately want to return to that state of happiness (with or without school).

However, you are fighting this (even if subconsciously). The reasons, as told to me by the universe, are:
1. You fear starting over . . . again
2. You fear uprooting the children (whether physically or relationally) (pts 3, 4, 5 ,7). You feel responsible for them, as you should, yet you feel they are your sole responsibility when at the same time you feel responsibility should be shared by your ex. You feel the children have done well through the divorce, but fear that any adjustment to their current state of normalcy will rupture that
3. You fear failure (pts 3, 6, 7, 8)

Hmm…let us think.

I’m not sure about one or two, but here is my take on the other dreams:

3. Perhaps the “rugged terrain” represents an area in your life that is somewhat “rocky” or less smooth than other areas. And instead of two feat working at different intervals, you have one foot, or mode of transportation, which might represent both areas of your brain working hard to move you forward on your path, rather than using each area of your brain separately (our left foot is controlled by the right side of the brain, and vice versa).

4. Having you been, or have you ever, taken care or responsibility for something that was in no way related to you? Perhaps this represents your unselfishness, and your willingness to help others.

5. This one is very interesting. Do you, or have you ever, felt or feel as if you want to escape, leave, and never look back? This could be one interpretation.

6. The location might be irrelevant, seeing as you really have no business going there. You seem as if you are in such a rush to leave or escape, that you will pay the extra money to leave.  (Perhaps not your whole life, but situations in which you feel you have no control). 

7. The class schedule might mean your own, personal schedule that you keep, and you may feel as if something changes, it will alter and demolish the success of the whole day. Perhaps it is good to let go once in a while when things don’t always go your way?

8. The alley ways and the house might represent the inner recesses of your mind or soul, and it could be that you are seeking to discover areas of yourself you haven’t found yet. Dark, mysterious areas, or unexplored avenues in which your inner self knows you possess.

There are my interpretations. Let me know if I hit upon anything; a nerve, a thought, an impulse. Or if I’m totally   rambling incoherent things that don’t show any resemblance to your actual life.

BTW, I’m new. And I love your blog.

Ok, I see several recurring themes here that I have also experienced in my own recurring dreams

- let’s see, I often have dreams set in familiar places, yet are assigned different meanings in my dreams (such as dreaming of walking into a stranger’s home, which is actually my parents’ house),

- plus, hazardous navigation/transportation; in my dreams, it’s usually driving a car with my foot on brake, as hard as I can stomp on it, yet the car barely slows down, with me having little to no control over the car,

- finding myself back in high school, very suddenly, without any knowledge of how I got there, or what my course schedule is, yet understanding that I “have to” get to class.

I always have these dreams when I’m experiencing some level of turmoil in my life.  I had the out of control car dream frequently throughout my marriage to my abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband, gee isn’t that obvious?  But I have also had that dream occasionally during other stressful times in my life. 

I would call the familiar setting staged as something else (the not-your-dorm-room, and not-your-college-campus), forging a subconscious connection between the familiar and the unfamiliar; as in, seeking comfort in the face of the unknown, or in trying to make sense of that which doesn’t, creating logic by applying that which you know and understand to new situations.

Most of your themes portray an overall sense of urgency and anxiety, which your brain can interpret and translate a million different ways (lethal hide and seek? extreme over-dramatization of whatever life outcome you most fear) - the only one who can truly “intrepret” these recurring themes is you.  It was not easy for me to face the fact that my recurring car dreams reflected the manner in which I felt a complete lack of control over my life while under the rigid dictatorship of my ex-husband, but I understood it for what it was, even if I wasn’t ready to take back my freedom from him at the time.  I would venture to guess that, deep down, you are probably aware of what ails you, though you may not necessarily know what to do about it - or maybe you do, but are afraid to take that next step, whatever it might be.

I also used to have recurring nightmares about my teeth falling out, which I know definitely stemmed from both stress at work, and conflicts in my marriage (interestingly enough, have ceased since I became a stay at home mom, and have ceased a certain destructive behavior that severely hurt my relationship with my husband).

My prescription?  Face your fears, even if you can’t resolve them.  Avoiding opening a bill because you’re afraid you can’t pay it?  Open it anyway.  You might not feel any better about it afterward, but it will no longer have power over you.  Don’t give your anxieties the power to terrorize you, find solutions to whatever’s troubling you and these dreams will go away.

Do you, or have you ever, felt or feel as if you want to escape, leave, and never look back..? This could be one interpretation.