One completely loopy dream

[MorningGlow]

Warning: Makes no sense whatsoever (to me, anyway--interpretations welcome).

I was in England and took a ferry across the Channel to France. I specifically wanted to drive the same route as Princess Diana when she died. I have no idea why. I got a car (or brought one with me on the ferry--I don't know) and a map, and drove into Paris.

But the streets were more like a highway--very wide, with lots of lanes--instead of city streets. I could see the road stretching out in front of me for miles, as though I were at the top of a hill or at a higher elevation for a prolonged period of time.

In several spots, the road went both overland and through a small tunnel at the same time--you could go either way, and you'd come out in the same place. I saw the underpass/tunnel where Diana died coming up, and I thought I saw a burn mark where the car had crashed (even though it didn't burn, right?). At the last minute I realized I couldn't bear to go that way, so I chose the overpass instead. Then I felt like I had chickened out, and I thought about turning around and trying again, but I don't think I did.

Then I visited a few shops at the coast and got back on the ferry to go back to England. I went to the lounge/bar, which looked like a very small pub, and Paul McCartney was standing at the bar. He was very chatty and bought me a drink. I don't remember what we talked about.

Like I said, odd one...

[Callie McAllie]

1. I love this!

Paul McCartney buys you a drink. What more do you need?

Seems to me the dream is about you pushing yourself to revisit something painful or sad, and deciding you don't have to do that to yourself, but then feeling a bit guilty about letting go of that pain.

But in the end, you were rewarded for your choice--by Paul McCartney, no less--so it must have been a good one!

Also reminds me of a dream a friend of mine had once. We still joke about it. She was on a train, mixing a pitcher of margueritas and she called out to the crowd to see who wanted one. The Queen of England was there, and she called back "I'm in!"

:toast:

[MorningGlow]

4. But, see, that's the weird part

George was always my Beatle!
:rofl:

Just kidding. I love Paul as well.

I do like your interpretation about revisiting something painful. I can't think of what that might be at the moment, but it sounds very feasible. I'm always ruminating on things past. And I won't argue with the reward--Paul all to myself with drinks and chatting? I'm okay with that!

GREAT dream your friend had! I love that!

Thanks, Callie! :toast:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. You took the high road

so that is good. That is my impression, at least. The choice you made was good.

[MorningGlow]

5. I like that

The high road, literally and figuratively. I didn't go stare at the car crash. Very cool. Thanks, Ayesha! :hi:

[PinkTiger]

3. How strange and interesting!!

I've been there many times, and the highway in from the airport looks much as you say. And there are tunnels, and overpasses, and you could go either way.
The only thing is, you can't really take a ferry into Paris. You could take it to the coast and then take the train, but the fastest way is to fly or take the Eurostar. I've done that - this last summer-- and it is amazingly fast.

Oh, I love Paul. He was MY Beatle!!

[MorningGlow]

6. GET OUT!!!

I have never been to France! OMG that is so freaky.

I think, in my dream, I drove from the coast to Paris. But of course it all happened in a flash.

I was always a George girl, but I wouldn't kick Paul out of bed for eating crackers! :toast:

[elleng]

7. Good one!

I had a huckleberry dream sun pm/mon am; loved 'cause of resulting sense of lightness, that is, kind of, i think, I liked him except for praying part! Need all the help I can get to feel good about politics these days.

[MorningGlow]

8. Ewww a Repug invasion in your subconscious?

Interesting that you found the Huckster likable, though! It's a good reminder that the folks on "the other side" aren't pure evil. Well, except for Darth Cheney and W, of course.

[oceanspirit]

9. Girl!!!!

You do have the strangest dreams. Trying to make sense out of them is sometimes impossible. I do like alot of the interruptions however. Since you did go to England I dont think that it is too far fetched. However going to France where Diana died is what I can't figure out. I like the one who said you took the high road. I agree with that one. You're always one to take the high road. You are also one to do what you feel is right, and not what everyone else is doing. You are definitely your own person.

As far as having a drink with Paul. I don't see that as too far fetch. Why you might ask? Well think about it. Isn't he the only one still alive? I'm not much of a Beatle fan, but I do know most of them are gone now right?

You crack me up with all your dreams. I wish I could remember some of my dreams, but I don't. I won't say I don't dream, because everyone does, but some of us are unlucky not to be able to remember them. Maybe for me it's a good thing. The only dream I remember was the one about my brother, which ultimately came true. So maybe that is why I don't remember them.

Keep writing to us about your dreams. I love hearing about them. Girl I live through YOU!!

Oceanspirit

[MorningGlow]

11. Strangest dreams--ain't it the truth!

With symbolism so convoluted I can't figure 'em out without help!
:rofl:

I thought it was strange that in the dream I visited France, when I'd never been there in real life. I started out from England, but I wasn't actually there in the dream--I was just "on the ferry". I mean, heck, I love England so much I'd think I'd want to spend time there at least in a dream if I can't be there for real!

I did wonder about Paul being one of the Beatles still alive (Ringo's still alive too). But when do we ever get picky about whether the people who visit us in dreams is still alive or not? Hee.

I was also wondering about archetypes--how each Beatle is a "type" (forced by the media, but still). What does Paul represent for me? I don't know the answer to that one yet!

[Stevepol]

10. Rather than something painful as suggested, maybe Diana represents

the queen part of yourself that you sort of let go of or lost somehow or died to or something like that, and you don't want to go back over that, maybe rather than something painful it was just a lowering of ideas or something like that, a loss of faith in yourself, in your higher self. It sounds like too this is a re-play, a movie going back over your past maybe, that part of your past that you have some fondness for, the time and place of romance (Paris), but coming back from a higher a bigger perspective this time.

I've had a lot of dreams of re-playing the past, usually asstd with seeing old movies or something like that. I think that's what I'd be thinking if it were my dream, but probably I'm way off.

I'd also have some personal assns, such as England representing the English which I teach and that frame of reference, Paris the city of love, in this case love-lost or the loss of the queenly and beautiful aspect of love. The fact that you say you felt you "chickened out" would suggest to me that I don't want to face something right now that was like a burning up (passion? anger? youthful energy?) or maybe a time when I was betrayed or not properly treated.

Anyway, the meeting with Paul sounds like a good symbol. In fact, the whole dream sounds good in the sense that you seem to recognize that you can't go back to a time like that and you're accepting that and comfortable with it and also as somebody said you're taking the high road the whole time.

[MorningGlow]

12. That could very well be, Stevepol

Diana could represent a loss of youth for me; I was in high school when the royal wedding took place. I was still young, but two months away from getting married, when she died. And lately I've been feeling kinda old!
:rofl:

But then...Paul also represents youth, in a way (the eternally young moptops from Liverpool), but youth successfully aged--he's still alive and kicking and acting young even though he's, what, 65? And he's eternally cheery. And I was a huuuuuge Beatle fan when I was in high school. (Yeah, I'm an incurable anglophile!)

Great suggestions. Thanks, Stevepol!