The Dream...
My dream started out with me, my dad and my friend Tara all standing in the middle of a field near the time the sun starts setting. It was one of those fields on the back road to Ladner near highway seventeen. The field had rows and rows of nectarines because the man who owned the farm was very famous for growing nectarines. Anyways, we were just walking through the field and then all of the sudden the mounds of dirt that had the nectarines growing on them grew very tall so that it was like a maze. The walls of the maze were about waist level. But the mounds of dirt were randomly placed so there were large areas that were just open field. By now the sun had set and it was pretty dark. I don't know how but some other people had joined us I just don't remember who it was. We were a group of about five or six. Suddenly very strong lights turned on. They were the kind of lights that surround the turf field at Winskill. A truck pulled up and 3 asian men got out of the truck. They were there to steal all of the nectarines. They were very evil men who were going to hurt anyone who got in their way. So really quickly we all hid behind one of the mounds of dirt that was in a shadow. The thieves were getting closer and closer to where we were hiding. Randomly the place we were hiding turned into a room that was newly renovated. There was one window and it was really high up. We knew that the men were getting closer so one by one the people I was with started jumping out the window. Suddenly there was a woman there who was threatening to tell on us if we moved. I don't know where she came from but it was only me and my dad and Tara left so we had to find some way to escape. We couldn't make any noise or we would be caught. Then the leader of the asian thieves saw us and he tried kidnapping me but in that time my dad and Tara got away and the lady dissappeared. I hit the guy really hard and then I recognized him as one of the men who helped my family move houses a few weeks ago. Turns out the asian thieves were really employees at a moving company. He let me go and I can still taste the nectarines everytime I remember this dream.
The Analysis...
My dream could reveal my deep emotional obsession and desire with fruit, particularly nectarines. I really do love nectarines and I always ask my mom to buy them for me. Maybe now since you can't buy them at Thrifty's my mind is coping with my nectarine withdrawal by imagining myself eating them. Sounds pretty accurate to me. The manifest content would be everything that I remember myself experiencing in the dream such as the way the sun looked in the sky and the flavour and juiciness of the fruit. The latent content would be the symbolism behind some of the things in my dream. Tara has pointed out that I may have some issues with asian people and may secretly have very racist views on them which led to them being the antagonists of my dream. Maybe the nectarine represents my desire for zest and adventure in life but that it may lead to dangerous situations. It is a mystery...
The Activation-Synthesis theory states that dreams are the product of random neural firing in the brain. I could have been thinking about food when I went to bed thus the stimulation in my brain resulted in a dream involving food. Another possibility was that I was thinking about moving while I was sleeping because it had only been a week or two since we moved and my room is still a mess from moving. If I had moving on my mind, I could have been thinking about the asian movers which could have led to this dream.
I do think that dreams have some significance in real life. I think that dreams take place often because our minds are preoccupied with the things that are most important to us at that point in our lives. I don't know that dreams provide us with solutions to these problems necessarily. I can't really think of any solutions that my dream may be giving me. I think it was just a really random dream.
