Dreams

[meboriqua at aol.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> wrote:
> I had to share this even though it's a few nights old-
  Then I got stuck with Draco, going back to
> Malfoy Mannor to get a book from his father's library I needed...and
> somehow I ended up teaching him how to play basket ball and ice 
skate. 

LOL!  
> 
> Anyway, that's my latest HP dream, if anyone wants to figure it out 
go right
> ahead.

I took a class on interpreting dreams a while ago and it was very 
interesting.  The professor told us that dreams are not necessarily 
filled with standard symbolism - losing a tooth means money (across 
the board for anyone), and so on.  He said that dreams are related to 
two things: what happened to you that day and issues you are working 
through.  Every class he had a different student share, in detail, 
her/his most recent dream and then he asked that student all kinds of 
questions - about her problems, what kind of day she had that day, 
etc.  It was fascinating.

If I sat down to think through my HP dreams, the first thing I can say 
is that since I read the books constantly and talk about them on the 
HP4GU site, HP is on my mind quite frequently.  If I have a scary 
Voldemort dream, Voldemort may not necessarily be Voldemort, but maybe 
I had a bad day or maybe I watched something scary on tv before I went 
to bed... so Voldie pops up in my dream, as a symbol for ME of bad 
things in general.  I hope that made sense.  *Sigh* - it would be so 
much easier to explain this in person.  Okay, here's a better 
example: my boyfriend sometimes has violent dreams about his family 
because he had some very serious (and violent) problems with them for 
a long time.  He dreams that he or someone else hurts or kills a 
family member (usually his mother), and he doesn't feel too bad *in 
the dream*.  This is a way of empowering himself because in reality, 
he felt helpless around his family for a good portion of his life.  
Did I just make this even more confusing? 

Anyway, I thought that professor was right on.  I've become quite good 
at interpreting dreams because of that class.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who almost always re