I wonder two things here: one, was your actual life situation continuing to spin out of control and your dream was working to reflect that to your conscious awareness? Again, we can be remarkably blind sometimes (pun intended) to the chaos of our own lives, believing we're far more in control than we are I also wonder, however, if you were being pushed towards a state of relying on other aspects of yourself to navigate the world. You can no longer even rely on your sight to survive. Then, suddenly, just as you were barely managing to survive, your eyes fail you. All you could do was try to stay in control and keep moving forward. There were no guardrails, no backup plan, no safety or external support around you. At first, you were driving and everything was getting faster, curvier, higher… manic. Now the progression of your dream is fascinating, and a wonderful window into the forms of resolution that these dreams can take. One's public persona can very often fool everyone, even the individual, which is why dreams provide such a helpful lens into one's actual well-being-just like a microscope can pick up on an infection that is otherwise invisible to everyone. It's quite possible that you appeared on the outside absolutely put-together and in control, you may have even felt that you were handling everything pretty darn well, but your unconscious was mirroring back to you a private sense that you were overwhelmed, exhausted, terrified, and in actual danger. It may have been a very private experience. I would venture, as I've expressed generally, that during the time you were having these recurring dreams your life felt quite out of your control. In this case, I'm going to assume it is your car and, as you indicate, you are driving (or trying to). Questions of relevance to these kinds of dreams can be: Whose car is it? Who's driving? Where are you in the car? Again, consider our language: "who's in the driver's seat?" It's an image that is easily understood. They are the armor and structure we use to travel through the world. One might, in fact, be in danger while driving, but also while crossing the street, or in arguments with their partners, or at work, as they're not as aware as they should be, possibly wreaking havoc on themselves and those around them in ways in which they're unaware.Ĭars tend to represent the social persona of the dreamer. The dream is indicating a state of mind or emotional life that can put a person in actual danger in the physical world. When I have a client with a driving dream of this kind, I highlight the grave necessity of their increased attention-some might say mindfulness-to their day-to-day actions. Indeed, much of the dream's message can be found in our language: think of the state of being "asleep at the wheel" and "driving blind." Dreams like yours often indicate a life situation around which the dreamer needs to develop greater awareness, as if their life is happening without their conscious participation. Everything is moving too quickly you're barely keeping it together and staying alive. Instead, they often represent some aspect of the manic nature of the society in which we all live. Dreams in which cars are featured rarely feel sluggish. The dream of driving and being out-of-control is a very common one (perhaps in particular in our culture), and it's a common dream to return repeatedly for dreamers too. Out of the nightmare of the Groundhog's Day curse, you wake up, never to have the same dream again. Like a labyrinth in which you're trapped, you encounter the same dead ends over and over again until one day, all of a sudden, you discover the way out. Thank you for sharing this series of recurring dreams. The car and I hit the water at the same time, separated by several yards. I opened the car door in mid-air and jumped out, trying to get as far away from the falling car as possible. I looked down and saw that we were falling into a body of water. I did not want to be trapped in the car in the water. As it was falling, my eyesight suddenly returned. This dream recurred many, many times until one night when, as the car went off the road, I did not wake up. I felt the car going off the road and falling. As I came to a particularly sharp curve, I suddenly lost my eyesight and went completely blind. The road became extremely curvy with the curves getting sharper and sharper. I made a wrong turn and entered an on-ramp to an elevated road. The road got higher and higher as the car went faster and faster. I was driving and suddenly I could not control the speed of the car or stop it. Originally published on The Hairpin Dear Satya:
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