Hi,

I had 2 dreams which I didn't really like. I hope you can tell me what they mean.

1:

It was Christmas time. I was in a house together with my father, his new wife and my sister. It was snowing outside, and everything was white. I was younger in this dream than I am now. I think I was 7-8 in my dream. My father was making me cry at the table, as we were eating. (In reality he also made me cry a lot. He would say a lot of mean things for hours until I started crying). Everybody was laughing at me and I felt really alone. I believe they were joking about forgetting about my presents again (another reflection of reality; my father often forgot my birhtday). Next to the house I was in, there was my grandmothers house. I ran away from the table, (crying), and I ran to my grandmothers house. On my naked feet I believe. I rang the door, and she opened. She was very emotional seeing me again and I was emotional too. I suddenly saw me and my grandmother from a corner of the hall; Suddenly see hugged me and there was something something sexual about it. I was at 2 places at the same time at this point: I could feel she hugged me, but I saw everything from a certain corner of the house. I didn't feel anything weird, but I saw that the hug had something sexual over it. And I felt like I was 5 again, I didn't say a word about anything. Nobody came looking for me, like nobody cared. I sat on the couch and talked to my grandmother for a while. She convinced me to call my mother and tell her I wasn't coming home no more. So I did that. I felt horrible in my dream... Abandoned and abused in more ways. I was just looking for someone to take care of me and I just wanted to have a nice Christmas.

EDIT: I also remembered that I got a lot of presents from my Grandmother after I called my mother in that dream.

2. This is another animal dream. There were a lot of animals that lived in the sea, and I could talk to them. I had to bring them back to the sea, so that's what I did. I brought them to some sort of ice-raft. The water was very dark, and I was afraid that sharks would pull me down, into the dark water. It was very cold water. I think I lost some of the animals. I had to take care of so many of them I just couldn't! After a while I decided to go on the raft aswel and join some of the seals. Other animals were some ducks and fishes.

It looks like to me that you are anxious about the holidays. You have had some negative experiences with family but probably feel obligated to have Christmas dinner with them and spend the day with them and you are not looking forward to it.

Animals sometimes represent our habits (creatures of habit). Maybe you need to get out of the habit of feeling the need to spend time with certain family members if it causes emotional pain (hence, the dark water).

I agree with SS, but remember that Rick is only 15 and may not be able to control which relatives he sees on Christmas, so he should just relax and remember that it will be over in a short time.

I went back and reread the original post. I missread the first sentence about the wife. I thought it read "my wife" and not his dad's new wife. That's why I assumed he could escape the family holiday madness.