I'll start with my most memorable dream. First a little background. This was around middle school or high school and I was attending a summer prep program. Everyday I sat next to this girl with beautiful bronze legs. We chatted a couple times but I was ultimately too shy and summer passed. Anyway, I was wild over this girl, she invaded my thoughts. I had this dream during that summer.
I'm in a small room with a low ceiling huddled around a candle with my girlfriend and another couple. The room is dark, the house is wood. The boyfriend proposes we go out for a walk. I stay behind but say I'll catch up for whatever reason.
When I go outside I see a meandering corridor of old houses lining a cobblestone path. I start searching for them and I notice the night sky. If you've ever been on a mountain top without a city for miles, that's what it looked like. The sky was just saturated with stars. I continue searching for them and cut through a courtyard when an imposing woman appears and begins chasing me. She was tall, dark, almost like a statue. I begin running from her, down the cobblestone path when I see my girlfriend up ahead. It looked like she was bathing in the moonlight. I ran towards her and as I got near she said she had been looking for me. I held her, she rested her head on my chest and said - "I can feel your heartbeat." I tried to feel hers through my chest but felt nothing, and said "I can feel yours too."
The feelings in the dream were vivid. In the house I felt gladness for the love I had, in the streets I felt beauty, in the courtyard I was terrified, which drove me toward the affection I experienced when I saw the girl in the light. In our embrace I felt empty.
My interpretation of that dream has always been that I would never be able to find a true equal, I invite other thoughts. I've also never given much thought to what the statue woman was meant to signify, if anything. Lastly, this dream was from a long time ago and I've revisited it many times, so I'm sure my memory of it has altered somewhat.
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