Feel free to skip this one, really
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 5:52AM A dream:
I am, secretly, part-owner of a spa salon. Keeping it a secret makes me feel like a super hero, but it's hard to make the staff listen to you.
I am trying to book a manicure, but the receptionist doesn't feel I should get it for free if SHE doesn't. I tell her she can have one free one a month. She turns up her nose.
Two, I say, two. And a waxing. I'm conscious that she's good at her job and we should probably keep her around.
Who ARE you, anyway? she demands.
The spa is decorated in an 'aquatic' theme. I rearrange the crabs that are part of the decor, but they are still alive and won't stay put. I feel like they are ungrateful - I brought them from my old job at Red Lobster.
(I've never worked at Red Lobster).
My manicure peels. It is too hot in the aquatic-themed spa, the boiler is working too hard. I try to take it up with the maintenance man, but he is hiding in the basement playing with dolls.
Quickly! He shouts. Don't let them in!
I throw myself at the front door just in time to stop them from entering. It's the What Not to Wear crew. I actually really want them to accost me, but in the dream I'm painfully fashionable and it would be admitting defeat.
It doesn't matter, because they're here for the ugly girls next door anyway.
Yeah, I don't get me, either. Interpret. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Reader Comments (29)
Dude. I had a dream I was dating a guy 15 years older and had to hide him from my parents. We also had to go to prom, but it was held in a parking lot and I caught my parents smoking a blunt. Just woke up from that. Fucked up.
I'm not even sure what to say except; "First"
Profound, huh?
Okay, almost first.
Oh to be in your head just for one day...I bet it would be CRAZY but fun! ;)
I can't get past the idea of owning a spa (even secretly). I would love a manicure.
I feel your frustration over the moving crabs. Seriously, why can't they just stay where you put them for once!
I never worked at Red Lobster either, in real life or dreams (that I can remember).
What a relief you saved the crabs from Red Lobster!
Here you go, keywords from your dream, straight from www.thedreamzone.com:
Basement/Cellar: Place where you store memories, attitudes, behaviors, etc. that you would like to forget about, that you keep below the surface. Can sometimes symbolize the past.
Door/Doorway/Entry: An opportunity. A locked door symbolizes your inability to get through to somebody or an inability to progress. An open door is telling you to move forward.
Girl/Girls: Usually symbolizes your childlike carefree self. Could also be your immature, naive self. Unknown young children in dreams often symbolize a project, idea, relationship or something else in your life that is not yet fully developed. An unknown girl can represent your sensitivity and/or your nurturing ability.
Hiding/Hide/Hid: A good indication you are avoiding an issue, you are afraid of confrontation. or perhaps you are hiding a secret? What is it you don't want to be "found" out?
Jar/Container/Can: You are holding things in, keeping things bottled up. Perhaps you should open up!
Man/Men/Guy: Your masculine self, the part of your personality that is assertive, takes action, makes decisions and makes money. If an unknown man is attacking you it is because you are ignoring your assertive male self. If an unknown man is attracted to you then you are beginning to recognize and unite your male qualities into your life.
Old: Is something in your life starting to get "old?"
An old person in your dream may point to your own wisdom you have gained through age and experience.
May be referring to old, out dated attitudes and beliefs.
Red: Often means stop or beware. A red flag or warning. Can also mean anger or passion.
Secret/Secrecy: Something that is secret, or any sort of secrecy in a dream is directly related to something in waking life you don't want others to know OR that you feel someone may be hiding from you. The dream came to you to let you know it is either time to open up and be honest, put an end to what you are hiding OR try to get to the bottom of what you think someone is keeping from you.
Book/Bookstore/Books: Knowledge, wisdom, information that you need to access right now. Are you using your stored knowledge and wisdom right now? Do you need to pay attention to a lesson life is teaching you?
Have you or has someone around you been "an open book" lately? Or are you or someone around you been hard to "read" lately?
Are you judging a book by its cover? In other words, are you being too judgemental before you know the facts? Or is someone being that way around you?
Heat/Hot: to feel heat in a dream could be a direct reaction from being hot in real life due to the room temperature, too many covers on the bed, etc. If this is not the case, the heat you feel in the dream most likely refers to pressure, "the heat is on" so to speak.
Doll/Dolls: Is someone toying with you or manipulating or belittling you? Or are you doing this to someone else? If you are cuddling a doll in your dream then your dream may be telling you that you are acting childish OR you may be giving your love to someone or something that can not reciprocate it. A doll can also refer to someone you think is "a doll" someone who is very sweet.
ooh - go green jello! The only thing I was thinking was to ask how hot your room was? Or if you're having hot flashes at night? You are under some major pressure obviously. And seem to be perhaps feeling like a fraud or worried to much that others think you are.
That's my nickle - the dr. is out
Um, um. I'm wearing my Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat and so I will attempt to interpret your dream, oh great Pharaoh woman.
The receptionist is mother nature, but she turned up your nose at "once a month" visit you want to give her.
You then try to negotiate with mother nature, but she will have none of that.
The aquatic theme is reference to, dare I say it, is your uterus.
The crabs that won't be still could represent a whole lot of things. Trying to control what you can't. Your eggs. Just crabs.
Red Lobster is the past. The word red might be a clue.
The boiler and it's getting way too hot are hot flashes.
The maintenance man, hmm? He might be your honey. Of course he is in a cool basement while you're sweating your ass off. Oooh, and he's playing with "dolls."
The What Not to Wear crowd is pre-menopause coming to the door. Luckily they went somewhere else. At least for now. You'll get your "make over" much later.
There. Now gather seven years worth of grain.
I am so putting live crabs in a spa. I don't care if I am part owner or not. I have to do it now. Just to make people jump.
This is a side effect of the cleanse, right? And maybe, just maybe, you were changing your nail color just before bed and breathed in a fumes a little long?
I had a dream last night with a heavily guy-linered Johnny Depp and three lifelike but mechanical babies I had to keep from drowning. Who am I to analyze?
Are you kidding? They NEVER make over ugly girls on WNTW.
And I thought my dreams were weird! You got me beat!
Hmmm, the receptionist has attitude, the crabs are uncooperative and the nailpolish chips anyway? This is a dream? Not a nightmare?
at least you're not having hot, passionate sex dreams about your husband's friends! yeah, welcome to my world. try looking them in the face next time you hang out, after you have seen what your dreams think they look like all up close and personal! pregnancy fucks you all up, lemme just tell you!
I love crazy dreams.
They're the best.
I'm into it. Especially the live crabs used as decoration.
Nice work, Keely's Unconscious!
I think you need a girl's night out and you need a mani/pedi in advance. Don't try to walk out of there without paying though.
Eh... Yeah. I think your salon might be located on the same Utopian streets I was roaming in MY dream the other night. That's only place I can think of where you can have live decorative crabs AND customers.
-G
That was funny.
I see that Green Jello did some dream analysis for you.
Which was very nice of her, because all I was going to say was "What. The. Hell?"
So can I have a free manicure/pedicure a month too? I am a hard worker...will do you proud.
Ok the dream is pretty amazing but what is truly amazing is the response you got from Green Jello. Now that is a whole lot of information to digest.
If it makes you feel any better, last night in my dream i was in a talent show. Even in my dreams...I have no talent. It was brutal.