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I had a weird dream the other night…

In the dream I was walking. I just kept walking, and the landscapes kept changing. I was completely naked, and there was absolutely no one else around. There were mole trails and hills traipsing across the land, and I could only walk on those mole trails because if I stepped on the normal ground red ants would instantly swarm up and devour me. I don’t know how I knew this; it was just something in my head, like some past knowledge. I started out walking in a field beside an expressway or highway. Even though I was by a road, there was still no one else around. It was completely silent also, not even a bird chirping. The field landscape faded into a swampy landscape. There was marshy land, long grass, and cat-tails around me, and still I walked on. Then I came to an African Savanna landscape. The grass was brown and everything was dead and dry. At the other end of the area I was walking through, there was some kind of deep ditch. I walked up to it, for the mole trails led there, and there was a shallow river in the bottom of the ditch. On the other side of the ravine, there were woods. I wanted to go into the woods, so I leaped over the ditch and entered. There were no more mole trails here, but for some reason I didn’t need them anymore. As soon as I entered the woods I recognized them as the woods behind my grandmother’s yard. I was on one of the trails, and walked to the other side of the woods to get to the other trail. Not far from the trail the woods opened up into a field (this isn’t exactly how my grandmother’s woods is really laid out though). I hadn’t been this far back in the woods in forever, so I walked through the dress into a corn field. The corn was dead though, all of it dry and bent over onto the ground, like one might see in the fall. Satisfied after a couple minutes of standing there, and reentered the woods and got back on the path. I looked up the path, and even though I was far into the woods, I could still see out of the woods. The scene I saw was the back of my own yard. I recognized this, but yet something didn’t seem right. I stood on the path thinking about, and finally realized that this is my grandmother’s woods, I shouldn’t be seeing my back yard. I crossed back over to the other path, and from here I could see my grandma’s back yard. I started running to get out of the woods, and I found I could run super fast. In no time I was out of the woods and running into my grandma’s front yard. I was nearing the front door when I woke up.

This dream was really interesting to me. Maybe it was because it seems like it could be symbolic of something, but I’m not sure what. Could it be my life? Am I walking through life, from place to place, totally alone and vulnerable? Can I only follow my predetermined path, because if I veer from this path something horrible will happen? If this is symbolic of how my life is, or how I feel, I’m having troubling deciphering the ending. What do the woods and two houses symbolize, and how do they relate to me?

Hell, maybe the whole thing is just a collection of thoughts and images randomly thrown together by my brain. Maybe there’s nothing to be taken from it at all. Who will ever know?