Peyton Finley Mr. Antczak PSYCH1101 2nd February 2021 Dream Interpretation Quiz 1. This is a dream that I had August 29th. I write down every dream that I can remember, so I recall this specific one very clearly. The dream had begun when I overslept and missed one of my classes. I had tried to get up and leave my dorm to hurry to the class, but when I opened my door, the entire classroom had replaced the corridor. I had sat down, but I couldn’t engage in class and generally couldn’t retain any of the information. I had gone back to my room (for some reason, I remember walking across campus back to my dorm room) and attempted to sleep it off. I woke up and I had appeared in a suburban neighborhood that looked similar to one of my friend’s neighborhoods. Across the street was a house with its garage door open, and there were parents with children inside. I walked up and asked “Do you guys know where I am,” but they didn’t respond- they just stared at me confused. I had fallen asleep again and woken up in my home. I had tried to talk to my parents but they wouldn’t respond or even acknowledge me. They would only smile and say “It’s almost over.” I drove to my friend’s house to try to talk to them, but they also wouldn’t respond to me no matter how much I had begged. They finally acknowledged me, but never really responded. Finally, I had woken up. 2. This dream doesn’t necessarily fulfill a wish in my life, but rather it shows what I subconsciously want. I can most accurately correlate this dream to the desire of wanting people to notice me or recognize me in my waking life. The feelings of being invisible in the dream can most accurately connect to feeling as if people don’t notice or recognize me. This dream subconsciously describes how I want people to see and understand me both in the dream and my real life. 3. I feel as if this dream relates to feeling as if I am being purposely overlooked by others around me. It could also likely relate to feelings of inadequacy around others. These feelings of inadequacy manifest by comparing how I feel to being physically invisible. Also, by dreaming about missing class, I feel like it correlates with the stress of upholding grades and attending classes regularly. This dream, while invasively personal, deals with an internal, latent issue that I subconsciously struggle with. 4. My subconscious is helping me deal with this problem by showing me blatantly how I feel. By communicating my emotions to me through an analogical situation, it helps me better understand what I feel and breaks down specifically what my emotions feel like. It doesn’t directly solve my problem, but rather shows me what my specific problem is.
