Help with interpreting a long dream, really interesting.?

A visit to the dentist is an uncomfortable thing you have to go through, but which is tolerable and good for you. It sounds like that's how your dreaming mind is describing this dating atmosphere.

Three boys total, and three girls, hanging out at your home. So you're "at home," comfortable, doing this. And although there's nothing sexual in the dream, the overnight and coed nature of what's happening touches on sex. But the emphasis is on the social nature of sex -- about how dating and being sexually mature allows you to relate to a new crowd.

Now, there's no resistance to this (personified by Mom), although you expect it. Regardless of your actual Mom, this is about your inner sense of what you're allowed to do. So you're a little surprised that you have permission to do this.

Now, although there's no inner resistance, there's still some pushback, in the form of screams, cries, and a UFO visitation. I don't know what this business with grabbing your nose is, partly because I don't know what you mean by RC. But it seems to be something you do to test your safety, and it reassures you:

The screams and cries are probably the lingering remains of you that aren't ready for the adult dating social world. But this is outside and away -- alien, even. Grabbing your nose is something you do when something "stinks," and grabbing your nose and not breathing is the kind of thing you do if, for example, you had to walk past some crap.

The dream ends with closure -- that is, the hot girls recognize you as someone-who-dates by taking the picture. Dream people represent processes of emotion or thinking in your dreaming mind -- people you know represent processes you're aware of, people you don't represent processes you're not aware of.

Think of it as a process who is "acted by" a person. Your dreaming mind selects an appropriate actor for the process. It'll be someone you don't like if it's a process you don't like, and so on. We're in the realm of emotional subjective truth here.

So, your desire and readiness to date socially is known to you, well enough that it's represented as your cousin. So the discomfort you talk about is probably not because of the fact that she's your cousin, so much as your cousin was selected because as your cousin there's just enough of a feeling of doesn't-much-matter forbiddenness to represent something just a little uncomfortable (that same discomfort we saw in the screams and the dentist office intro).

In every case, the discomfort doesn't prevent you from taking action; so the dream represents the successful resolution and integration of the new material with the rest of your Self.

Conrad.

ps - How can you learn dream interpretation? Well... You can get a good sense of how I myself look at dream interpretation by going through my past answers. Likewise, you can find any dream interpreter on here whose interpretations make sense to you and check out the answers on their bio.

The dream dictionaries are almost entirely useless; and the problem with that is that they can really stymie you. (Which is better -- a map of the wrong town, or no map?)

The person to read is Carl Jung, who made the big breakthrough in dream interpretation, but who is crazy determined to find mystical significance everywhere.

The single best place to start is with the Cube Game (url below); there are other conversational games like that which you can find by talking to people -- people think of them as party games -- or, I imagine, online. You want to get to the point where you can make them up on the fly; but that's a long term goal.

There's a book called _The Thematic Apperception Test: The Theory and Technique of Interpretation_, by Silvan S. Tomkins, which is kinda dry, and will be difficult to find, but very powerful in terms of the skill you'll get from it.

Those three source -- Jung, the Cube Game, and the book by Tomkins -- have three radically different approaches and therefore compliment each other *very* well. True symbolic literacy takes years to develop and there is no one source to learn it -- but once you get the ball rolling, you can find new source material everywhere: advertisements, Hitchcock movies, Shakespearean poetry, fairy tales -- fairy tales are really good -- manga -- it's a *lot* of fun!

Once you learn symbolic literacy, then dream interpretation is just a special application of that.

Take care,

Conrad.

To see a UFO in your dream, signifies your desires to find your spiritual purpose in life. Alternatively, it indicates that you are feeling alienated from those around you. The dream may also be a metaphor suggesting that you are a little "spacey" or have "spaced out" attitude. You need to be more grounded and come back to reality.

To dream that you cannot breathe, indicates that you are feeling exhausted.

To dream that you are taking a picture, suggests that you need to get a good understanding and gain more information on some issue. You need to focus more attention to some situation or relationship. Perhaps you feel that you need to recapture some past moments in a relationship.

I am assuming you are a teenager, not sure. This dream seems to focus on school pressures and dating or relationships and how scary it can be sometimes. I wouldn't worry too much about this dream. It really represents your subconscious mind trying to work out your fears, insecurities, and hopes.