First of all, a bit of context:
I'm a woman in my late 20s, experiencing a lot of conflicting emotions about life. On the one hand, I feel eager for change, renewal and growth; on the other, I feel held back by things I'm struggling to let go of. 2025 has been a strange year, in which I've experienced the end of 3 significant friendships, which has brought up many confusing feelings about myself alongside a ton of grief.
Now for last night's dream!
In my dream I was in a large car with my old high school friends (I graduated 10 years ago). It was summertime and we were setting off for a swim. The car was old and struggled to carry our weight (it was a weird dream-mobile: a sedan with like 12 seats). This concerned me and I was eager to make it to the swimming place so I could feel safe and relax. Once we got to the swimming place- an idyllic yet simultaneously unsettling pond, surrounded by reeds, sun dappling on dark water- my friend and I got out of the car while the others stayed in. The car drove to the other side of the pond to park on an old jetty. My friend and I were distracted and when we looked up, the car was gone. We feared the worst. When we looked at the water, it was bubbling just as water in a film when a car plunges into it. We panicked. Another girl came by (a stranger) and helped us as we all swam to the bottom, where nothing could be seen, to try and save our friends. I recall having visions of being pulled down by frantic limbs spilling out of smashed windows. But in those depths there was nothing but weeds. I went down and up a few times. We all came to the conclusion that they must have drowned and I felt completely horrified. Then my friend's phone rang. It was the driver of the car. Someone had remembered a better swimming spot about a 2 minute drive away and that's where they were, all alive and well.
I'm a woman in my late 20s, experiencing a lot of conflicting emotions about life. On the one hand, I feel eager for change, renewal and growth; on the other, I feel held back by things I'm struggling to let go of. 2025 has been a strange year, in which I've experienced the end of 3 significant friendships, which has brought up many confusing feelings about myself alongside a ton of grief.
Now for last night's dream!
In my dream I was in a large car with my old high school friends (I graduated 10 years ago). It was summertime and we were setting off for a swim. The car was old and struggled to carry our weight (it was a weird dream-mobile: a sedan with like 12 seats). This concerned me and I was eager to make it to the swimming place so I could feel safe and relax. Once we got to the swimming place- an idyllic yet simultaneously unsettling pond, surrounded by reeds, sun dappling on dark water- my friend and I got out of the car while the others stayed in. The car drove to the other side of the pond to park on an old jetty. My friend and I were distracted and when we looked up, the car was gone. We feared the worst. When we looked at the water, it was bubbling just as water in a film when a car plunges into it. We panicked. Another girl came by (a stranger) and helped us as we all swam to the bottom, where nothing could be seen, to try and save our friends. I recall having visions of being pulled down by frantic limbs spilling out of smashed windows. But in those depths there was nothing but weeds. I went down and up a few times. We all came to the conclusion that they must have drowned and I felt completely horrified. Then my friend's phone rang. It was the driver of the car. Someone had remembered a better swimming spot about a 2 minute drive away and that's where they were, all alive and well.