Analyze This (Dream)

Okay, dream analyzers, analyze this! It's a weird one! I tried to write as much of my dream down as I could. The dream goes like this...

I dreamed that my wife and I went on vacation to some 'Caribbean' island location. It was some kind of a travel package we'd booked through Cabela's. When we got to the destination it seemed like Bermuda (which isn't in the Caribbean) where we were, but everywhere surrounding the resort was complete ruins and poverty (like Haiti). The place we were staying was like a giant Cabela's sporting goods store in combination with a casino. I remember thinking I was pretty disappointed because it seemed like just a big marketing scam for Cabela's. You were essentially trapped inside a giant Cabela's store with no where else to go but sit around and buy their stuff. (Side note - I love Cabela's). That, or gamble in their casinos (and I'm not a gambler). Plus, I totally can't stand contrived experiences like this where you are totally insulated from the reality around you, just not my thing.

The trip was actually quite long, more than several days. At one point I ran out of a perscription medicine I needed. I inquired about where the nearest pharmacy might be and was told there was one several miles away. So I ventured out to find the pharmacy which resided outside of the resort 'compound'. Immediately after leaving the grounds I entered this 3rd world environment. I was actually enjoying this part more than the 'vacation'. The pharmacy was far, and the roads just in ruins. I soon lost my way.

At some point I befriended a well educated national who just happened to work at the pharmacy as an assistant in training to be a Pharmacist. He said he would take me to the pharmacy, but we should call ahead and make a private appointment with the Pharmacist. I didn't understand, but went along with his recommendation. When we got to the 'pharmacy' I immediately understood why he had made his suggestion. It was mobbed with locals all begging for various things, just mobbed. The pharmacy was completely overwhelmed.

We made our way through the crowd and got to the appointment with the Pharmacist. I have to say, I was more than a little uncomfortable with the privileged treatment, but the medicine I needed was very important. Upon meeting the Pharmacist she proceeded to give me a big lecture about being a "rich, privileged and uncaring American". I just let her rant, she probably deserved an outlet 100x over. When she was done she asked what I needed, and I told her. She just laughed and said she hadn't seen that medication in years, whereupon she pulled down some dusty pharmacy manuals and looked it up. She said she didn't have it, but she might have the ingredients to make it (or close), but it was going to take time. I thanked her profusely and agreed to wait however long it took.

While I was waiting my new found friend asked if I wanted to go have some fun. Eager for some real adventure I heartily agreed. We then jumped in a beat up old Toyota Hi Lux 4x4 and proceeded to go on what amounted to a Baja race style adventure ride through the ruins and rubble of the city. My host was jumping over rubble piles at high speed, speeding around jagged ruins, and generally driving like a crazy person. I wasn't particularly scared because I figured he knew what he was doing far better than I did. After a while, I realized we weren't really going anyplace in particular; the whole point of this 'fun' was just the speeding around part.

Soon, we'd had about all the fun there was to have, so we stopped and had some beers while looking out across all the ruins. My friend opined about days gone by and how this once used to be a beautiful city. I imagined what it once looked like as he told me about it. Then he perked up and asked if I wanted to go see something, a secret place he knew of. I readily agreed. We drove to this place which just looked like a flattened building with some exterior walls. Inside, there was this manhole sized hatch, and when he opened it there was something inside. I couldn't figure out what it was at first, but as I looked more closely it looked to be parts of some kind of a missile.

There were three sections, each wrapped in cloth. The bottom section was fixed onto some kind of a mounting plate. The top two sections needed to be assembled onto the base section. Of course, me being me, I tried to figure out how to put it together. The middle section locked into place on the first try, but the top section had some kind of a trick to getting it to lock into place. I tried several times, but couldn't make it attach properly.

I started to think about what we would even do if we did get it assembled properly. Would we launch it? What would happen then? Then I noticed some writing on it. It was a surface to air missile...a SAM! In the back of my mind I was just thinking it might be fun to shoot it off for the fireworks effect of it, but quickly thought better of that because...what if it hit a plane??? Bad idea! I couldn't get the top part to attach anyway, so it was pointless. At one point, while trying to attach the top section, I dropped it down inside the hole. OOps! As I stood there looking at it, I thought to myself how infinitely crazy this all was, and how I was probably messing around with some live ordnance of undetermined age. Complete madness. I decided not to touch it anymore, and we left.

As we got back to the truck there was this massive detonation as the warhead on the missile exploded!! Rocks and debris flew everywhere and we dove behind his beat up truck. After the blast, and without a word, we drove off.

---THE END---


I don't know if I ever got my prescription from the Pharmacist. Heck, I don't know if I ever even made it back to the Cabela's hotel and my wife. It just ended, and I woke up.

So what the heck did that dream mean??????

Feel like I know you from enjoying all your adventures and stories.

Please make a doctors appointment.

I think it means you really really like Cabela's and you can even have fun there on a bad day. And also they have weapons you can (but maybe shouldn't) play with.

Either that or maybe Cabela's is the place to go in the event of an apocalypse.

Did you fall asleep watching a video on the downfall of Cabala corporate take over, or something on Mexico, specifically Acapulco. Thinking about these to could trigger A weird dream. You subconscious mind will fill in the rest.

I try not to fall asleep with the TV on. For me it triggers dreams.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

There has been only 1 dream I have ever interpreted through the years and it was my own. Actually, the interpretation came to me 35 years after I experienced the dream.
As I said in another thread, if I could interpret dreams I would be adviser to the president.

Sounds like a 'Prepper' dream.

Bass Pro Shops meets Dukes of Hazard in a movie called The Gods Must Be Crazy.


Thats all I got...

Well, the Caribbean Slot machine is at the Casinos here, and if you go out of the casino to town it could be considered resembling a third world country by some city slickers. You must have got tricked into a casino vacation in the U.P.

Better do more investigating when booking a vacation in dreams.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

1). "Island Location", "Trapped in Store", "Insulated from reality".
Seems a lot like Quarantine.

2). "Trip more than several days", "Ran out of meds"
Be prepared! Have enough meds to last through
a quarantine!

3)."Assistant in Training pharmacist"
This is your immune system learning to fight a
new virus.

4). "Local mob begging"
The cells of your body begging. Basically, Your
whole body begging for help due to virus.

5). "Female Pharmacist rant".
Immune system not particularly friendly this
time. Over-reaction.

6). "City Ruins /rubble"
Damage done to your body by virus.

7).

After a while, I realized we weren't really going anyplace in particular; the whole point of this 'fun' was just the speeding around part

Your assistant pharmacist /"friend"/immune system isn't being much
help with this virus . You need to be fighting not joy riding.

8). "The secret place", "Surface to Air Missile" "Unable to
assemble missile properly" "Missile explodes"
This again, I think refers to immune system malfunction
or overreaction due to the virus.
From what I have read ,this is what caused so many
to die from the Spanish flu . The immune system
over-reacted .

You may want to do some research on "Royal Rife".
I have also heard that some types of mushrooms
can aid the immune system.

I think it just means you want to go somewhere nice and blow # up for the fun of it.

Island = YOU
Cabela's/Hotel = Sanctuary/ready access to weapons/protection/Home
You & Wife in Cabela's/Hotel = (see above)
3rd world desolation outside of Hotel = Outside Your Security/Comfort Zone
Ran out of meds/dependence on outside pharmacy = assessing your vulnerabilities
Trustworthy Guide w/old car = Younger version of you
Secret/dysfunctional SAM = apprehension about your current level of security

a reply to: IAMTAT

Well done, Tat!

Cheers

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Sounds like a 'Prepper' dream.

yes the dream was showing your own lack of proper preparedness... the uncovering of built-in flaws of corrupted Systems to access resources... the presentation of over-kill and the willingness to use overkill by your supposed Protectors (the SAM warhead secreted by the resort honchos (aka: elites)

perhaps your symbolic dream is pointing out that the prepper underground is not so much a good-thing after all ?

Your 'dream' follows very well the intricate, cover all-bases behavior which you have projected about yourself to the ATS community...

ETA ->> your built-in fail-safe (subconscious) is giving alert that your Total Situational Awareness is in need of updating

What kind of prescription are you on that it causes dreams like that to happen? Maybe your heartrate was going to low and you had a weird dream to keep your Blood pressure up.

a reply to: St Udio

This must explain why I woke up chuckling and shaking my head.

There is one school of thought that says you are all the people in your dreams.

To me this sounds like you are a responsible adult with people who depend on you. Your first priority is always fulfilling your obligations, even when it is extremely difficult to do so. However, there is also a part of you that longs to be free and just "Let it all hang out" once in a while. You crave something exhilarating, something perhaps even a bit dangerous, but not over the top. Just enough to feel alive and even a bit daredevil if you will. You aren't going to take foolish reckless chances with your life like playing Russian roulette. But you do feel a need to really put yourself out there. Maybe sky diving or something akin to that will suffice.

Good luck and have fun!

I am going with it is a twisted version of what is happening China.