I rarely remember my dreams but when I do they are nearly always…

I'd expect that the 5 nights in a row dreams are all about the same subject matter. So if you can find out what one of them is all about, then you can apply that triggering aspect or dream theme, problem statement or quest for an answer to the other dreams to find out if they will also help translate what appears to be entirely different landscape, plot and symbolism in any of the other dreams.

The nose-lungs dream seems to be one-pointed. Does any clichee or strong phrase, even a metaphoric saying combine lungs, nose and grapevine?

Just a small response for now, before I go cook for my 22 yr old daughter. I'm in Florida, and like my wife, my approach to dreams is depth-analytic, Jungian. I approach dreams as potentially wise&naturally-scary videomessages from higher power, and potentially Compensating for waking attitudes, such as you have shared in great profusion. Thank you for your openness, you clearly want and deserve a good effort at bringing themes out for elaboration and possibly opening up new input being shown to you. It is also quite likely that your dreams do embody your genetic-familial tendency toward depressed moods. And you've also joined yourself with the existentialist response to depression, as exemplified by Camus' interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus, which I have made into a 3 verse song: How can Sisyphus stand to roll his big stone up the hill toward the top down there in Hades kingdom, even tho he knows after several thousand years of trying this that his stone is always going to get away from him and come rolling right back down again? Sisyphus chooses to roll a stone/effort that is meaningful enough to him that even if he fails continually to get it up to the top, he knows that what he is doing is worthwhile, because somehow it will help humanity to improve itself, or achieve harmony, or achieve something that he and some others profoundly value.

Or as I've put it in my own evolutionary theory of depression--why would human nature be endowed with the capability of experiencing depression? Obviously depression is normally meant to stop us from doing what we've been doing and make us question why we do anything at all. And it's meant to kill us off if we've been defeated by life or by a more warlike tribe than our own (like the Europeans who slaughtered the Native Americans and led the rest of them to get depressed & alcoholic so they'd die off even more). Or if we've just had a baby and we're not going to succeed at nurturing it if we have to do that alone, so we badly need help. So the cure for depression is that same as what Freud suggested: Meaningful Work, work that contributes to the well being of others in your tribe.

Compensation for waking attitudes doesn't mean that the dream holds the opposite story to the waking truth, but rather that the dream reveals the other side of waking attitudes, when it takes both sides to make you a whole person, so acknowledging both sides gets you more ready to change what's going on by integrating what you're already thinking you feel with some sort of opposite and thus motivating a more effective response in the future.

Now I'm not going to start trying to interpret any of the dreams you've added to in your response, because then I'd never get to cooking for my daughter. I'll be back later, perhaps not till tomorrow, and perhaps today, after I go see an in person client at 7pm.

OK, he's not coming. But I never saw a dream that matched what you wrote at some length in your recent response:

Lots of animals arrive and some try and bite me.

The central theme is that we are there for a christening; how I know this I am not sure. There is no baby in sight!

Then dream moves on and I realise that I am in a cramp bedroom with lots of people and old bibles.

One person is persuaded after much argument to give something away that he got as part of a box of junk. Much more argument. But once he has given it away, he is very happy he has done it.

Party carries on.

Now I am over hearing a discussion of someone talking about having to buy a house because of a job move. Paid a lot for it, but done now. He says.

Is this a continuation of the Range Rover dream. By-the-way, I misread the RR dream. In fact you lost none of the other parts of your personality in the fast RR ride, EXCEPT your identity. So can you identify any life circumstance around the end of March in which you gave in to an unplanned transition that didn't appear to change anything, but did in fact leave your own identity in the lurch? Perhaps you still have all of your former capabilities, but you've temporarily lost your central purpose in life? Your reason for willingly rolling your stone despite its apparent futility like Sisyphus.

If we start to find the underlying themes of your 5-day dream binge, more side-symbols will begin to emerge in meaning.

I'm glad you put the dreams in order, and you also got an uptodate dream probably triggered by writing to a dream interpreter. It has been my experience that "Freudian patients have Freudian dreams and Jungian patients have Jungian dreams," but not because the therapists always interpret them the way they want to, or the dreamers want to please their intended audience, like the false memory syndrome. It's because our unconscious mind is really quite capable of relating to people outside of ourselves. The "prognostication dream" is very well known among psychodynamic therapists--a small minority now in my backward country, because surface behavioral & thought conditioning therapies are cheaper and quicker, and better for the simpler problems. When a person knows he is going to see a dream-interpreting therapist soon, he often has a dream shortly before the first session that maps out the initial situation the dreamer needs to explore in therapy, the attitude towards therapy, and even some key milestones the work needs to seek out. Of course you and I are not doing therapy, but you are trying it on for the fun of it. I like that.

So your prognosticator dream? There are past events coming after you to shoot down your plans that you need to investigate, and you can definitely thwart their intentions. That's just a preliminary pass at that dream. What are the opposing forces in your life as a war zone?

I asked if you entered a new challenge around the end of March, so we might start to find the triggering situation(s). For the waking life comparison does a lot for deciphering what your dreams show you about how you react when you're not monitoring your ego, and they open the doors to much good psychological guidance, as well as often embarrassing you by their uncannily perceptive way of depicting your identified self from within or behind.

So, dream 1. Train station, driver falls out, you jump in in your best suit & bring about a halt. A train is a collective means of transport that takes everybody to the same string of places, and even the driver only has some control over the speed, not the direction or the schedule. How would the first surprise feel different if the driver had JUMPED out instead of falling? Does it seem like he's Incompetent, Sick, Clumsy, Unconscious or Dead? Or did he just "fall asleep at the wheel" like a long-haul lorry driver might? The outstanding aspect of a train compared to a car or a bus, besides the fact that all passengers are equally out of touch with the control over where they're going is that it has tremendous momentum and zero maneuverability (even a lot less than a ship). If most transportation dreams are commenting on the dreamer's current relation to "Captain of my soul" is that he has no impact on his inevitable arrival at the place everybody else goes too, except to jump off, or in a spate of recent runaway train movies to jump ON and wrestle the whole mechanized life-cycle to a halt. You're "falling off the wagon?"--could be relapsing into an uncontrollably & endlessly compulsive action. But your conscious self jumps into save the inevitably crash-bound juggernaut from self-destruction (like bringing your father's business to a gradual halt). Are you bringing down some unwieldy business cycle, without considering first that you're not dressed for that part--you're performing two courageous acts in one: 1. taking the social-industrial cycle's momentum into your own hands, and 2. exposing your high status public personality to potential damaging reputation. Heroically bringing something normally unstoppable to a gentlle halt. Does you best suit represent success in sales too, so not helpful when seeking to bring a huge unchanging industry slowly to a halt?

Then the lung dream, very puzzling, but there are some structural comparisons & contrasts. Both grape vines and lung-breath-apparatus are branching.The lung-vine draws its sustenance from the sky or air; a grape vine draws its from the earth. That's a reversal: Nurture from heaven vs nourishment from earth. Spirit vs matter. Grapes are the source-capsules for continuing the species & also raw sugar for fermentation into life-celebrating wine. But there is no accumulation and storage of heaven's gifts inside your human energy fuel-transformer. You live but do not celebrate or enjoy your life, because the grapes have all been stripped off. If energy's as free as air, you haven't been gathering and saving it for enjoyment, fruition or spiritual fermentation.

Now the long Black journey between muddy camp and reclaiming a slightly damaged returning ship to "Captain." No thanks, That's all I can stay awake to do tonight. You can provide more payment for my work very easily. Instead of relisting more questions for more deposits, you can just let us communicate over these dreams in this one question, but then click on Bonus when we're finished. I don't know if you have to do something to make sure the system doesn't "time you out," so you have to relist and start over. But you can call customer service to find that out. I get 50% of a bonus & only 25% of a deposit. So bonuses are preferable. Tho I'm already a "top rung expert" in Relationships, for a 75% & 50% pay rate, I've only been doing dreams for 2 weeks, and far too many dreamers are scared off when they discover how much their dreams reveal, so they just let their deposits rot and never reconnect. I've opened up my own website this week to start doing this with no middleman, even while continuing on here. But I'm going to educate the public about what they can expect from dream-reflections & -guidance by giving a free dream interpretation course 5 or 6 days each week.

These dreams of yours have lots of unfamiliar symbols, so we could use a targeted questioning comparison method to draw your personal connections. Or just settle for you responding with your associated thoughts to what I say when shooting from the hip, as I've been doing.