Update 9/10/2012: My original interpretations of the dream below were all inaccurate. The real life event occurred on 8/1/2012. I was holding up a heavy piece of "tan" T11 plywood with a heavy wood grain on one side of it. I was trying to position the piece of wood to mark where to cut it to match the roof pitch. The step ladder I was on buckled from the weight of the plywood and myself. I was sent flying head first from 12 feet up on the step ladder and hit the ground with my right elbow. My Humerus bone took a "sharp right turn" and snapped in two. I stood up, "my physical body is totally disoriented" because I was is an state of shock. The bottom portion of my right arm fell forward and I had to hold in place to avoid having the bone poke through the skin. Needless to say there are multiple key words and phrases in this real life experience that matched my dream below. It is easy to try and interpret what a dream means but in reality it is very difficult because you don't have any real understanding of the context the dream's words and phrases will be in when the real life event happens unitl it happens! I still believe that if I try to think to much about why we are here it would drive me crazy though! :-)
Original Dream Text:
It was too hot last night so I stayed up late and watched a documentary about a guy that goes around the world asking gurus, psychiatrists, preachers and even kids "Why do we exist?" "Do you believe in God?"...really deep, thought provoking questions. So just before I wake up on 7/14/2012 I have the following dream:
I come into what I think is my living room and all these late twenty early thirties people start arriving. I don't know any of them. I look at one of them and say "This isn't my house is it?" They answer back with a puzzled expression "I don't think so."
So I walk out of the house and start walking down a paved road. I look up and there is this massive mountain. It is so large I can't see all of it even by craning my neck back and looking way up into the sky. Someone walks by and smiles at me as if to say "Isn't it beautiful!" I keep walking down the paved road. I come to a stop sign. I look up again into the sky. The stop sign seems to stretch high into the air. It appears to be holding a massively huge disk in the sky from falling on me. It is a tan colored disk with strange unintelligible phrases, etched in stone circling the massive disk. My logical mind tells me it looks like a "Rosetta Stone". Another person walks by and I ask them what it is.
They tell me it is a reflection in a lake and something about how it should be taken out of the lake at some point.
By then my physical body is totally disoriented. I don't know up from down. I feel like I am falling into what I thought was the sky but is really a lake.
My brain can't handle it.
I look at the road and hesitate to go further. The road is no longer paved and appears to be in a wilderness area. It turns sharply to the right.
I wake up. My body is reeling. It is the feeling you get when you don't know up from down in your mind. Your body goes into a panic mode because it is afraid you have no control of what is up and what is down. Your brain thinks it is going to fall into what you thought was the sky but turned out really to be a reflection in a lake. It is an awful feeling of losing control of your senses.
I think the dream is a warning.
If I ever try to pursue the question "Why do we exist?" I will become stark raving mad.
My physical mind and body were not built to handle the immensity and totally foreign concepts revealed down that road.
I am not physically prepared to handle such massive and foreign topics.
It made me feel like I am no more capable of tackling "the meaning of life" than a vunerable snail in a three dimensional shell.
Note added 7/15/2012 - Another interpretation might be if we want to continue down the road of enlightenment about the meaning of life we need to find a big, tan disk in a lake near a very large mountain and fish it out! My logical brain tells me that is too literal of an interpretation of the dream but we are treading on new ground here so who knows.
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