Two Nights of Dreams

The night before last I dreamed I was climbing a ladder, a very long ladder. My husband was standing at the bottom of this ladder. It looked as if the ladder was suspended in thin air, and at one junction the ladder bent away from me at a more gradual slope. The ladder had hand rails on both sides. I was climbing up toward a gleaming object, like a massive diamond in the sky. It was the more gradual slope of the ladder I was unsure of ascending because I was getting to be so far from the ground and because I envisioned sliding back down it then being flung free. That's where my dream ended, before I reached the top. I didn't fall in my dream, just had a fear that I could.

Interpretation: To dream of a ladder being raised for you to ascend to some height, your energetic and nervy qualifications will raise you into prominence in business affairs. To ascend a ladder means prosperity and unstinted happiness. If someone raises and holds a ladder for you this denotes you will climb to great heights in your chosen profession. Dreaming of a ladder means you will achieve new understanding of yourself. It also suggests growth in your social life. This is a great time to make new friends! That you are climbing a ladder suggests that you have reached a new level of achievement. it is symbolic of prosperity, hard work and your efforts.

Last night I dreamed I had traveled back in time and possibly to an alternate universe. I was once more in high school in Texas. Yet I possessed all the knowledge and experience I have at age 41. It's as though I just stepped into my life already in progress in this time and place, as if to perfectly replace my younger self without the problem of having to sequester that individual. Hard to explain. In other words, my younger self in that time and place wasn't present and couldn't get in the way of my whereabouts.

Of course I didn't really have memory or knowledge of what I needed to be doing or where exactly I was supposed to be. Just a general understanding of the place and time. I had to request so many things that at that point I should already have known. Locker location, combination, class schedule, class room locations, etc.

I had an opportunity to reconnect with my long lost friend Ken. Almost felt as if the purpose of my dream was to go back to that time in my life and atone for my misdeeds. In fact, in real life I have begun to write about that very turbulent adolescent "coming of age" time in my life.

In this dream, Ken and I had met at this amazing complex of pools and ornate, antique copper atriums. It was such a beautiful and mysterious place. We were just starting to get into deep conversation about our differences.

Then suddenly and briefly I was in another place and time. It was an intimate and rather shanty space, representing a restaurant my ex of seven years once worked in. He was there along with some of his childhood friends. We were all in our twenties. I knew what was to come of the restaurant, that it would eventually corporatize and expand. I told them all I had seen the future, and this jovial place teeming with community would all eventually transform into a hipster corral of faceless, nameless strangers who live lives of indifference. I awoke.

Interpretation: To dream about time travel indicates your wish to escape from your present reality. You may want to go back into the past (or jump forward to the future) to a period where your hopes are realized. This type also represents your romantic nature or your desire to romanticize everything. Usually the friends we see in our dreams indicate qualities we admire about them. In this case I think Ken represented companionship, guidance, fun/laughter, confrontation and desire.