The dream: “I am in a dingy multi storey carpark stood with the floor extending to the left and behind ending with typical walls and an open view to a sparse typical urban landscape and I’m on a high floor. In front-left of me is a winding corkscrew access drive to all floors. Going up or down the corkscrew yields the same situation.
I realised I didn’t know what is to the right. I MoMed this image and found a warm and brightly lit opening to a very pleasant shopping mall, curving off out of sight to my front. It feels inviting and all things good.”
We have found that MoM dream analysis works best on the short punctuated dreams that conclude with waking up. Most of the time such dreams are largely without a narrative and are little more than a situation or event. For example, a personal dream I use is that of sitting in a plane, in the cockpit. The plane hits some wires and crashes. That is all. In total it’s no more than a couple of seconds of real time. Analysis of such a dream can yield a huge amount of information that is otherwise hidden from conscious access.
So, to the dream described above. The car park as a context is important. The qualities of this car park are also important.
It is multi-storey. Many levels. Multiple stories.
It is dingy (English expression meaning dark, run-down, damp, uninspiring). These are unlikely to be stories of hope and happiness. He can change his story any time he chooses, but it won’t help.
Left-in-front is a corkscrew access drive. The choice of expression here is unlikely to be accidental. It is not a spiral, it is a corkscrew. Using this corkscrew does not change the situation, it achieves nothing.
The dreamer is high … in an elevated position, but this does little to improve the experience. It’s merely a place to park for a while, not a place to reside. But residing there does set him apart from everyone else, giving him a prime position to look down on the way that they all live their lives. Himself, he has put all that behind him.
No vehicle is mentioned, suggesting that the dreamer lacks the right drive for this place. He is not a driven individual, but is someone who can readily move from one story to another.
I shall leave it to the reader to decide what we can tell about the shopping mall. Please use the comments section below.
