Two dreams.
I was in and around a busy shopping mall. I was finding different areas to sit in the street, not satisfied and moving on to another, hoping to be noticed by women passing on buses. I then sat in this corner area. There was another guy sitting there who I considered may or may not be a threat to me in some way. Nonetheless, I sat there for a little while, still hoping to be noticed by a woman on a bus. Then I was crossing a street, at which point I heard or imagined a woman making a negative remark about me apparently having 'large nasal passages', which made me suspect that was why none of the women were showing any interest in me in this dream. Then I decided to get on one of the older buses in the area. I was sitting at the back with two other people, one of which was, I think, the woman who made the negative remark about me. There was another guy in the middle. We were sitting on what seemed like bicycle seats, pedalling these blue pedals which would move the old bus. However, the driver at the front would still steer, and I suspected could still drive even without us. I felt at one point that my cycling was irrelevant. It was difficult to push the pedals, partly because each of the three sets of pedals were connected. Even if I decided to stop, the pedals could still move as long as the others were pedalling. At that point, I felt like the whole thing was a waste of time.
In my other dream, I cannot remember as much. A man would climb over a fence into my back garden and ask for money. Apparently this had been going on for a while, but finally I decided it needed to stop. He was the third person to do this, and I was done helping them. My mother stood nearby, watching, as I began to demand the man leave and made threats. It was out of my comfort zone, making me feel anxious. Despite knowing that I have a martial arts background, the weight of a real encounter made my body feel heavy and useless in the dream. The man, although backing up, raised his fists in preparation. But then he stood there with a very wide stance. Forget all the techniques and everything else, I thought. I quite simply kicked him in the
. I was, with that, able to have him climb away over the fence, and it seems my demands and my threats were fully acknowledged.
A couple of my thoughts regarding the dreams. I suspect a negative perspective of myself is shown when I sat next to the man I considered a threat, as well as the man sitting between me and another woman. There is a sense of inferiority. My feeling is that I swap seats as if to suggest sitting next to the "superior" person (or version of myself) would get my noticed. I'm not sure of the relevance of nasal passages, although it makes me wonder if it's about standards or not seeing my options clearly. I'm thinking along the lines of 'turning your nose up' and not giving other people you might not have considered a chance. I could probably say that about myself. The old bus, I'm not sure. Old ways? Maybe trying to take control and work with others but still doing so in your old ways. It's like taking a positive step to go to a particular place, but you do so with the same mentality and habits. Any thoughts?
I'm not sure about the homeless person (forgot to add the homeless part) climbing over the fence. I appreciate that I stood up for myself in the dream, though perhaps I could have gone a different way about it.
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