[In this for ME]

Just woke up from a strange dream..
Kind of a disjointed foggy kind of thing.
I was in a room something like a living room talking to someone I did not know. The converstion was odd. The person was female but not right..like maybe mildly retatred but more like overly or neccessarily medicated.

 I was telling her she acted much better that she did the last time I saw her ( I never had seen this person before this in a dream or in real life) She was a polite but a very negative person.

At one point I confided in her that I never thought ExH would have ever cheated on me and I started to cry and her reply was "He always has"

I got up off the chair I sat on and went into the kitchen. There was food all over in differnt states of being prepared. Like a beef soup and some cooked chicken that had been sprinled with parsley or something. Just a lot of food everywhere.

 The kitchen was a farmhouse style; not modern at all. I thought maybe I would help whomever started preparing the food but found myself unable to concenterte enough on what food to start to make and was overwhemed by all of it; then I woke up.

Bits and pieces for interpertation below:

Stranger
To see a stranger in your dream, signifies a part of yourself that is repressed and hidden. Alternatively, it symbolizes the archetypal dream helper who is offering you insight and advice

Crying
To dream that you are crying, signifies a release of negative emotions that is more likely caused by some waking situation rather than the events of the dream itself. Your dream is a way to regain some emotional balance and to safely let out your fears and frustrations. In your daily lives, you tend to ignore, deny, or repress your feelings. But in your dream state, your defense mechanisms are no longer on guard and thus allow for the release of those feelings that you have repressed during the day.

Kitchen
To see a kitchen in your dream, signifies your need for warmth, spiritual nourishment and healing. It may also be symbolic of the nurturing mother or the way that you are for your loved ones. Alternatively the kitchen, represents a transformation. Or perhaps the dream could be telling you that if "you can't stand the heat, then you need to get out of the kitchen". You need to abort your plans

Food
To see food in your dream, represents physical and emotional nourishment and energies.

OK enough of that..I'm going back to bed 

[In this for ME]

Well I've thought about this dream..and this person I spoke to is right. ExH has always cheated on me- emotionally.
But I have also.
Never letting each other know how we really felt about things as they happened to afraid to express any emotion other than anger.

This man is not predisposed to cheating on me physically-I know that much. But that's the first thing I thought of when the word "cheat" comes to mind. And it was what I was refering to when I spoke to this person.

The rest of the interpretations I can see very clearly.

[In this for ME]

Looking back on some of these old posts I took the time to look some of the meanings up..of course the turd one was funny so I started there:

Stab

To dream that you stab someone, indicates your fear of betrayal and your untrusting nature. You are being overly defensive. ( there was nothing about watching someone get stabbed)

Bathroom
To dream that you are in the bathroom, relates to your instinctual urges. You may be experiencing some burdens/feelings and need to "relieve yourself". Alternatively, a bathroom symbolizes purification and self-renewal. You need to cleanse yourself, both emotionally and psychologically.

Sewer
To see a sewer in your dream, signifies putrid conditions and old relationships. Something needs to be cleaned up or immediately changed. You need to let go of your outdated ideas and beliefs.

To see a sewer pipe in your dream, represents the flow of unconscious material being suppressed deeper and deeper. You need to address these issues before it overflows


And I didn't come up with anything for turd (unfortunately) there was some info about feces but it didn't really fit-

[True to myself]

This morning my alarm woke me from a dream I really wish I hadn't had 

(As most of you will know, I decided to stop Standing for my marriage some months ago. I have been at peace and I have been calm.)

In my dream, I was lying next to my H. I remember seeing our passports close by. Strange! Anyway, I knew something was wrong between us, as if we'd had a fight .............. but I didn't know what was wrong. (MLC, OW and all the rest of the sorry tale had been eliminated from my head for some reason)

H started kissing me and whispering sorry. It felt so 'right'.

So, then the alarm goes off!!  I could not believe what I had dreamt. I can assure you that I have not been having ANY fond thoughts of H     I don't ever see him now and I really am GAL.    What is going on?

I am having to blot it out now and continue as I have been. I have to admit that it has unnerved me somewhat. I just don't understand it.

[StandandDeliver]

Hi TTM

I don't know much about dream interpretation, but I googled dreams with the term "apology" and the first search result said the following:

A desire for peace, harmony, or reconciliation. Regret or remorse. Self-righteousness.

Making an apology can mean you feel guilty or that you owe someone an apology, or it could represent a real-life apology you've made or are thinking about.

Someone else apologizing to you can mean you feel that person feels guilty or you feel that they owe you an apology, or or it could represent a real-life apology you've received or would like to receive.


see also: feeling forgiveness being blamed blaming confronting being confronted denying
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[True to myself]

Thanks S & D.

It's so strange the way my mind had obliterated all the MLC hurt and pain and in my dream I didn't even know what was wrong between us. The experience has completely got to me, it feels surreal.

I don't know if you're religious, but part of me thought God was telling me that I could get past this. (I have been telling myself that I wouldn't ever be able to get past everything, even if he had wanted to return ............. too much damage)

And I have been sure that I made the right decision to move on. This dream has absolutely thrown me. It honestly wasn't me thinking those things!! So hard to explain .............

[True to myself]

After S & D looked into dream interpretation, I decided to do a bit of Googling as well! I found one piece of information which may explain a bit more about where my dream came from! It said that to dream about an ex in this way perhaps means you have accepted the situation and have reconciled things in your own head. That actually makes far more sense to me.

Another interpretation said that maybe you were seeing the good bits of your past relationship and you now had belief that you could find love again in a new relationship (you just didn't have the new person there as you didn't know them yet  )

So I feel a bit calmer now (yes calmer, not Karma ............. although some of that coming along at some point might be nice  )

I'm really enjoying my life now. It's much better than the last 5 or more years. I am going out with 3 friends on Friday night and was out watching a band last Friday. I'm content 

[StandandDeliver]

Hi TtM,
I am glad to hear from someone who feels at peace with the past the way you seem to now. I am very much torn about standing and have been from the start. I know that H is "in crisis", but so much has been said and done that I can not see myself trusting again. I believe I can forgive (for my own sake as much as his), I know I can't forget and I am almost certain I could never trust him, unfortunately even as just friends, which creates a dilemma as we have two very young children that we need to continue to raise together.

I think I could learn to trust again, in general, but I am pretty sure I will never feel that way about him. He lied to me about the affair for months and once I found out he told me he "enjoyed lying" to me. That particular piece of information is scorched into my brain, I think, forever. And I don't know if he remembers saying it, but I will never forget how strongly he meant it at the time, he even looked pleased with himself. So...trust... isn't it needed as a foundation for a relationship?

[GottaBeMe]

Does anybody know what it means when you don't dream, or don't remember them?

I went through a spell for almost 3 years where I had no dreams at all, or maybe didn't remember them. 

[True to myself]

GBM

I think we all dream, it's just that you can't have been remembering them. I know when the doctor put me on sleeping pills, I was delighted as I went into such a deep sleep and didn't remember any dreams. You're lucky if you can manage it without the pills!

Out of interest, do you remember your dreams again now?