LDI ~ The locked up dogs and the bus

A picture I stuck on my wall behind my computer just the other day.
 
Two dreams I had sometime during this lockdown period and how I interpreted them using Logotherapy Dream Interpretation.
 
Dream 1 – I dreamed that I’m outside with my children, I think.  Inside there are two rooms where dogs are locked up.  The building looks cold… made up of concrete walls with only a black slit for a window on the ground level and one on the upper level.  We are not allowed to take the dogs out at the same time… no obvious reason.  But I am fully aware of how much they are suffering by being locked up and alone, trapped in their rooms.  In one room, there’s two dogs, and in another room higher up in the building, there’s one dog.
 
My interpretation
Why am I dreaming about the dogs being trapped inside… well, because of our lockdown situation, my spiritual dimension and subconscious has symbolically used the fact that I have worried a lot about people stuck in tiny shacks.  And, my dream is trying to help me understand and connect with the emotions involved in the symbolic messages in my dream.  
 
Dog’s represent something I love and miss terribly, so why are they locked up, and why can they only be dealt with separately and not all at the same time?  Why is the lone-dog locked higher up in the building… Higher up to me represents more important, or in a better-higher position.
 
So, after some thought, I realised that the unique meaning message of my dream is, that I am torn between two separate and important things… taking care of my son and I during this lockdown period, rests on the ground level, representing the two locked up dogs which needs our combined time and effort… we need to exercise and try find ways not to feel so trapped.  (this is my/our DUTY)
 
But on the higher level is the lone dog… something of equal importance to me… something I am LONGING to be with more… to spend time with… to find freedom with… to find time for… SPACE… TIME FOR CREATIVITY… TO FINISH MY BOOK!  (this is my HEART’S LONGING) 
 
The lone-dog is the one I am feeling sorrier for in my dream.  It has no friends… it is begging to be set free… to have company… to feel loved and find its place… it is mourning its loneliness… This dog is higher up in the building, because on a subconscious level, it is something that is extremely important to me. Without seeing to it, I am finding myself unmotivated and the days drag on endlessly.  I feel as empty and as cut-off from my joy, as that dog in my dream must be feeling.
 
The unique meaning message of my dream is to try and find time to do what my heart is longing for… to try and balance all that is expected of me (DUTY & CREATIVITY), so that I can somehow include the lone-dog also.
 
Dream 2 – My son and I desperately need to get somewhere, but the taxi is packed full.  With a sense of desperation, I plead for us to get onto it, and the man goes in to see if he can make space.  I’m thinking, there’s no ways he’s going to make space for both of us and we can’t be separated, but I stay near the door, ready to get on with my son if space is made.  In the meantime, my son takes a stroll around the bus as if he senses no urgency… this worries me, because I feel he needs to be with me if a space is made.  There are other people outside the bus, they might get on before us if we are not ready.
 
My interpretation
We need to be a team… we need to work together to make this lockdown work.  I struggle to get my son to help me with clean-up or to even move out of his seat.  He doesn’t bath or shave… I struggle to get him to exercise.  If we are to make it together, we need to work together.  His slouching unmotivated-presence is demotivating me… he is not as invested in making the whole lockdown thing work for me as much as I need it to work for him… FOR US!
 
The unique meaning message of this dream. 
This was a hard one for me.  I can only imagine that the dream is telling me not to wait for him if I can’t keep him at the door that takes us forward together… but the problem is, that if the meaning message of my dream is telling me to get onto the bus without him… I don’t think I could do that.  But… at least, I could choose to make a conscious effort to drag myself out of my own de-motivational struggles and get up and find ways to exercise and be creative, even without him.  I cannot expect him to motivate me to do what it right, for my sake… and, just because he’s not doing it, doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t be doing it on my own… for ME!  I AM A SOMEBODY ALSO!!!  So… I have to find a way… just like the man who is trying to find a way against the overcrowded-odds, for us to both fit on the bus… and I’m aware, that he might only find space for one of he somehow gets it right by organizing space on the bus, I need to find a way to my own progress and maybe… maybe then, my son will follow.  If he sees me exercising, he might actually choose to put down his games and join in.  My lack of motivation might be affecting him equally to his lack of motivation affecting me! 
 
So, both of my dreams are telling me what I already know on the deeply subconscious and spiritual level of my being.  The answers to my dilemmas are inside of me and revealed through my dreams…
 
IF I WANT TO PROGRESS AND DRAG MYSELF OUT OF MY OWN DEPRESSION SLUMP TO SOMEHOW BECOME MORE MOTIVATED ON MY OWN… IT’S UP TO ME TO TAKE ACTION! BUT, WILL I? THAT IS THE QUESTION?
 
I hope you enjoy my LDI posts and find them useful in giving ideas on how to interpret the meaning message in your own dreams.
 
Thank you for sharing.
~ Panayiota