Dream invading my present waking state

[Susan Leybourne]

I have been meaning to write about this for ages now, but never had the time until recently. In 1989 I returned from a trip to Egypt, it was a Thursday afternoon in May, I was tired from travelling and so went for a nap. That afternoon I dreamt of walking over a brick built flyover, with an old neighbour and their kids my mum and Grandmother were there too. There were lock up garages, and outside toilets and a factory. I experienced going up and over the concrete steps, and someone like a gypsy tried to sell me a plastic bangle on the steps. Not a very exciting dream at all, but over the years, this dream has invaded my waking state every so often. I would be reading or watching TV, then suddenly I'm on the flyover again feeling the brickwork and avoiding the plastic bangle seller. Over the last few months this dream/ waking invasion experience has come back more regularly, pretty much at least 3 times a week. I'll be doing nothing in particular, reading, watching TV, Plonking about online, making dinner.... then there I am again in that dream, but wide awake. Wondered if anyone had any similar experiences or ideas as to what might be going on.
All the best Susan

[Sandu]

Do more sport. It's seems like blood is not getting to your brain and you fall asleep.

[Susan Leybourne]

Sandu,
I do not fall asleep, I am wide awake when this happens, I certainly do not nod off while cooking or walking although I understand it is easy for some people to fall asleep watching TV but if I did, why would I return to a dream I had 23 years ago. Regarding sport, I do not play games, but I am very active doing at least 1 hour of Dance/fitness most days, I study, meditate, research and have a job where I use my Brain, so I'm confident I have enough blood in it. No clever points there Sandu, try again
Susan

[Sandu]

The dream is connected with some event from your life , and may be some circumstances from present are associated by your brain with the same events that happend 23 years ago. So it can be a mental problem.

[Sandu]

This dreaming is a state of trans , and that explains why it happens when your a doing something automatic (like cooking) or watching TV. People are not aware that they get every day in different states of mind. I read this in a book about hypnosis. So you really need a psychotherapist intervention.

[YouAreDreaming]

Susan,

When you are awake, do you suddenly shift your focus and see that dream? Yet, you are physically awake and what you see is overlapping waking reality?

If you were driving a car and suddenly the gypsies pops up and waves a plastic bangle would that impair your drive?

I'm just trying to gauge just how invasive this dream experience is, and if it's a phenomena that affects your waking life in a completely divergent way.

[Espiralli]

Hi, Susan. Thank you for sharing your dream, of particular interest where you said:

I have been meaning to write about this for ages now...I experienced going up and over the concrete steps, and someone like a gypsy tried to sell me a plastic bangle on the steps...over the years, this dream has invaded my waking state every so often...

I know little of your life, Dear Dreamer, but if I were to have had this dream, I'd interpret the "going up and over the concrete steps" as indicative of some inner urge to raise my consciousness or gain greater understanding of a matter or otherwise "go up" in my life, realizing that doing so involves steps along the way.

If I were to continue to remember the dream years later, I'd surmise that the process of "going up and over" was still in progress, still of tantamount importance to me in some arena(s).

I'd interpret the gypsy as someone I didn't know and who didn't know me, who came from somewhere unknown, passing briefly through my existence. I'd perceive the plastic bangle the gypsy tried to sell me as being something of little value, her presence and her suggestion that I buy of her wares a diversion from my "going up and over the steps."

...So it can be a mental problem.

and

...So you really need a psychotherapist intervention.

If I'd felt an urge to write about the dream for quite some time, and finally did so here - only to receive such immediate response - I'd suspect that my gypsy had appeared, those words being her plastic bangles, of no actual value to my progress.

So…did you stop to buy of the gypsy's wares, Susan, or did you simply pass her by and continue climbing the stairs?

espiralli

[Swann]

Hi Susan,

What an interesting phenomenon. The image is important for some reason or it wouldn't keep popping up. Personally, I like to keep an open mind when exploring things like that. When it happens, ask, "What does this mean?" or some open question and see what pops into your mind. Sometimes it takes me 15- 20 years to understand the significance of certain experiences (like yours). I'd disregard those who have a pat diagnosis/analysis based on their personal pet beliefs. We are so much more than any of those theories allow for, aren't we?

Best Wishes,
Swann