Recurring dreams in the mall
Common themes
Generally, malls represent choices, decisions, and options you have in your waking life. The many choices you make helps to develop who you are as a person. It makes sense given that from freshman to senior year you are trying to establish identity and sense of self. Sometimes, malls suggest trying to make a favorable impression on someone because they also represent materialism and the need to keep up with the latest trend. Whenever you see a mall in your dream, consider the type and name of stores that you see in your dreams.
How high you are in buildings represents your level of understanding, awareness, or success. Since you are at the very top floor in your dreams, it seems that you are achieving very high levels of understanding, awareness, or success. Hallways represent self-exploration and the beginning of paths that you are taking in your life. They probably show how you are going through transitions and can also represent the new opportunities in your life. It was an empty hallway which suggests that there is something missing in your life. You are probably waiting to fill the void with those new opportunities. You saw three stores, which seems to represent your experiences. It could also be past, present, and future. Perhaps the closed store is the past where you were at first biased with judgement or unable to consider other options. You might have even felt inadequate and frustrated. Then the pink store might be the present. It depends on whether you like pink or not. If you don’t like pink, then it represents dependency or problems with parents. If you do like pink then it represents love, joy, and kindness. It can be implied that you are healed or are healing with love. This store had a mix of makeup and furniture. Makeup suggests either trying to conceal a part of yourself or putting your best face forward. Furniture represents how you feel about yourself and your family, your relationships with others, and how they fit into your life. It seems that this store represents a time when you were either dependent on others and concealing a part of yourself or a time when you were very happy, healing, and putting your best face forward. The last store had a lot of anime objects, particularly Homestuck. Anime represents a carefree attitude, a desire to escape everyday life, or whatever you associate with anime. The plushies in particular emphasize the escape from daily responsibilities and problems. You might be seeking for security and love. What I searched about Homestuck was that it is about a group of teenagers who accidentally cause the end of the world through a beta of a computer game and they have to play the game to create a new universe. When you see particulars such as these, you need to consider your associations with the show, especially the items that you see. It could also be a combination of the symbols: apocalypse, universe, and computer games. You might be beginning to have an emotional, dramatic change within yourself with endless possibilities for you to change. However, it seems that you see this as a situation where you either win or lose. It seems that whenever this scene comes up, you are looking at how aware you are about yourself and how you are taking new opportunities to explore yourself and your life. The three stores might represent past, present, future.
Dreams
For this dream, chainsaws represent something drastic that is about to happen. However, they can also suggest getting to the bottom of something quickly. Killers represent a part of emotions having been cut off and losing your identity. They can also represent purification and healing process by cutting something negative off. Chase dreams typically represent avoiding situations that you do not think you can manage. From what I remember, color guard involved flags, so I’m going to go with flags for this. They can either be about peace, patriotism, duties, or warnings and issues that are weighing on your mind. Finally, let’s focus on hiding and where you hid. Hiding represents keeping secrets or withholding information. You might not be ready to face up to a situation and deal with an issue. You hid in a store named “zealous” and the closest meaning I can get from that name is representing your growth and insight, channeling your energy in a positive way. Jewelry represents status, self-worth, and value. It highlights the importance of spiritual and psychological riches. The clothing represents either looking for a new image or anxieties on fitting in or being suited for a position or role. It seems this dream seems to be about a decision that you either have to make or have made quickly. I think you are needing to decide whether you heal and cut off things from your life that are negative or whether you would rather let the issue just go away rather than face it directly. You seem to have the potential to grow, but anxieties on fitting in or looking for a new image might be hindering you.
A convention represents a need for contact and communication. You need to keep in mind that choices you make affect people around you. It can also be a metaphor for different parts of yourself coming together. Also consider what kind of convention you were at for additional clues into what you might be lacking. Friends in your dream represents parts of your personality that you need to incorporate and acknowledge. Again, chase dreams represent avoiding situations that you don’t think you can manage. Being chased by David Bowie could be avoiding something that is related to things that you associate with David Bowie. Being chased by your director represents avoiding exerting control over certain parts of your life. I think this part of the dream represents needing to communicate with other people or different parts of yourself coming together but avoiding those aspects or at least control over them.
Again, it seems that you are avoiding controlling different parts of your life, only this time it seems that your emotions have gotten out of control or you feel stuck.
Dreams with Director
Dreaming of forgetting things represents life’s anxieties. You might have a lot of stress and feel that you need to tend to everyone’s needs. Everyone else was trying out for something in Disney. An audition represents insecurity and vulnerability, especially with expressing yourself. Perhaps it is trouble with taking time off and looking for happiness as represented by Disney. Then you threw your bag down. Throwing something represents someone or something that you need to get rid of in your life, or that you are “throwing the game” or working against the objective. In other words, you might be working against yourself and hurting yourself more. The bag represents the responsibilities that you carry, so perhaps you are working against yourself and throwing your responsibilities out the window. You try to run away to the forest but you realized you weren’t going to make it and hid in a tree stump. Running away suggests issues that you are trying to avoid. This is highlighted by the forest, which represents an escape into a simpler way of life. You are weighed down by the demands of your life. Hiding also suggests not being ready to face a situation. However, since you were hiding from your director, it implies that there are some feelings of guilt involved. The tree stump can either be that someone or something is preventing your growth or forward progress or that you are “stumped” on a problem. This dream seems to be about some sort of stress and throwing away your responsibilities. You might not be ready and seeking a simpler solution because you are prevented from moving forward or because you are stumped.
Finally, you had another dream where you had to go to a contest, representing a need to prove yourself as worthy and deserving. Whether you won or lost represents how much self-esteem you have. I think the anger that your director expresses can either represent anger that he does express in waking life or anger projected onto yourself. You might be especially angry with the way you are handling situations. It seems that you are trying to avoid these issues or responsibilities and are taking a passive role.
