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Last night I had a dream that I was at a really big gathering near/on the beach. I was walking along the beach alone and I walked pass my step- grandfather (he’s been in my life from birth) , he passed away more than 12 years ago now. In the dream he was homeless, he looked rough and he had put on weight. As I walked past him I looked at him and said “Hi”. He then looked back and said quite loudly “Is that all you can say?” I carried on walking and then went to tell my mother. When she saw him she gave him a hug and she started looking for my nan who was also at the gathering. (My Nan is still alive)
I can’t really remember the rest of the dream only that he never died, he just ran away and the funeral wasn’t real, it was obviously staged all those years ago.
I’m 31 now and he died when I was a teenager.
It was strange because when I woke up that dream was the first thing I thought about. It was so clear
Please help interpret
🙂
Dear S,
Walking along the beach in the way you were is what people do to relax and reflect. As you do this you see your step-grandfather who is homeless. When you are homeless in a dream, it means that you don’t have a self, a positive self. This is how he appears in the dream, in a negative state, even criticizing you when you greeted him. It reminds you that the purpose of life is to develop positive characteristics and get close to others in a loving way.
I dreamt that plane crushed in my yard and exploded. Plane was on fire and hovered in air before that.I saw the plane with my brother and cousin.
Dear Jack248,
When a plane crashes it means that someone’s long term vision and plan crashes or dies. It being in your yard makes it seem real to you as if when you go for your own long term vision, it is going to crash. Long term plans can take off and get to their destination when there are the necessary processes (abilities) to carry out the plans. Plans crash when people lack ability to carry them out.
I dreamt that i had to get changed in a public bathroom. Some guy was needing to use the bathroom badly so I let him in. I was dressed and just needed to put my shoes on. My shoes were near the toilet. The guy had accidentally put my shoe in the toilet with his poop. I saw my shoe floating and asked him to get my shoe out. He put in there, it was his shit, he needed to take care of it. He said no. I’m in a rush, you deal with it. I was so mad. I banged his chest and he turned into an overweight woman, the woman was saying “I hate when people put my shoes in shit. It’s the worst.” I kept banging on her chest and told her, “what are you talking about? Take care of your shit. Get my shoe out of your shit”. The woman turned into a man, and he refused. The person kept changing back and forth from man to woman. The woman sympathized but wouldn’t help. The man was just like, I’m not helping because I have better things to do. I kept yelling “why did you put my shoe in your shit? Over and over again I was yelling that and pounding on his/her chest…..
Any insight on meaning would be great!
Dear Marian,
This dream show you how you get yourself stuck in shitty situations. The problem was an accident and then the guy acted poorly. Then you would not let go of your anger. It kept getting worse and never got resolved. You could have resolved the situation easily by just realizing that the guy acted poorly, and then cleaning off the shoe yourself. It shows that when people do something shitty and then act poorly, you don’t know how to let it go and move onto what you really want to do. You get stuck in a pile of your own anger and then become self-righteous. You can work on letting go of anger more easily so that you can get to what you actually want to do. Some people just act badly and do not take responsibility and no amount of anger on your part will change it. If you can just let go of the anger things will be really great for you. You will get to exactly what you want.
I keep having the same dream. It’s been the same dream for 3 years
What is the dream?
I dreamt last night that I was at a huge event with lots of people I knew.
Including the guy I like.
(I recently connected with this guy things have been good and now all of a sudden he is ignoring me)
In my dream he wouldn’t talk to me so I decided to leave.
As I was leaving I saw him we looked at each other and he turned his head and we walked opposite directions.
I then was trying to get through the line of people to my room.
When I got in my room there was a group of women going through my stuff with my clothing in their bags.
They pulled out my draws and were going through everything.
I got really angry and demanded that they stay and empty all of their bags and that I search them.
They didn’t move.
I then started folding clothes and began to fold a pair of boxers with the solvakian flag. (his home country)
It was then that I remembered him and a lady came through the door. And I asked her if he like me what was going on.
She was in a haste to leave. She looked at me and said I don’t know and left.
I then woke up.
Dear Edith,
Most of the dream is about you not being able to figure out why he is ignoring you or you just trying to cope with the fact that he is ignoring. Being ignored by someone you have feelings for is like “woman going through your things and taking them”. It is like being robbed of something you had that was so good. His ignoring you is like an intruder and thief. He came in, took your love, and then left. Now you are left with nothing fighting to get your love back. The way you can solve the dream is to remember how you connect well with others and then keep doing it with a lot of enthusiasm, while letting him go. There are a lot more great men out there for you.
I had a dream last night that my boyfriend and I were about to be intimate and he suddenly got distracted. I thought at first that he was about to pluck a hair from my lower back, which was frustrating because why would he care? But then I stood up to look in a mirror and saw that I had lumpy fungus growing all over my hip and spreading to my abdomen. It was a conglomeration of grey and white and brown. Then mushrooms started to pop up out of the lumpy fungus. Then across my stomach red and white mushrooms started to grow. I wasn’t upset but I was wondering what was going on and was calmly curious. I woke up shortly after that so there was no real conclusion.
Any insight you may have into this strange dream would be very much appreicated.
Thank you.
Dear L.pine717,
So the structure of the dream is that when you are trying to get intimate (the virtue of closeness) then fungus begins to grow in you which produces mushrooms. The important thing in the dream is that the fungus takes you away from the intimacy. The other thing is that the distraction started small and then grew to where you were only attending to it and not the intimacy. To get to intimacy, which is the goal of the dream, you have to let go of anything that is negative at that moment, and focus only on the intimacy and the positive. The experience will be heightened by focusing on the positive. Dealing with negatives in yourself can be left for a different day and fungus can be left for a different day. It is difficult often for people in general to stop focusing on negative things, but they ruin intimacy.
I had a dream where there was a governor elections and anyone can run and people were killing or shooting people and the one who survives and gets to touch something of glass is the governor. They were also shooting babies. I remember I hid inside a present box under the mud and once everyone was almost done. I got red balloons and went to the glass thing and I had won the election. Later on there were several shower drains which had gray water and people vomiting hair. Then i was at the hospital giving birth to a beautiful baby girl. Once she was a little older I went to one of my older schools and visited teachers and students and my ex and his girlfriend.
Dear Emma,
What this dream is trying to show you is that despite the craziness, bad behavior, and illness around you, you are able to maintain your positive self, get to the position of authority, and give birth to beautiful things like projects, etc.. It shows that you can be detached from the negative things that are happening around you and still manage to get to where you want to go. You do not let the conditions around you in the world affect where you are headed in life.
i have been having these bizarre dreams last night i had a dream that i was witha lady who had a strange addiction of collecting snakes and worms apprently i don’t know the lady but i was i think in her house and that’s when some people come in and they were convincing her to let go of the snakes and worms next things i see is a you know those small trucks kinda car the people took all the snakes and worms and put it in the back of the truck and hen i went out and saw the back of truck was filled with all type of snakes and this weird worm with faces on both side and they were pink and had black small eyes i was shocked the whole truck was covered with tangled snakes and worms and i’m acctually horrified and thenthe dream continued on i can’t remmeber and also like a few weeks ago i had a dream there was i hink some weird apocalypse i remember people smashing their faces on walls in slow motion and everybody was dead and the i had a sister ( i don’t have one in real life) we both survived and the whole town was empty everybody was dead until we were seeing some man hiding and taking our picture standing next to a car and i was like look there is somebody taking our pictures and i think he ran away or something these were two different dreams but i just can’t forget about them i’ll appreciate it if u can tell me what it means
Dear Mona,
Snake and worms, as you saw them in the dream, are ways of people (like the woman) to get into another person’s life, like worming their way in or using gossip that is malicious, so that they are at an advantage with other people. Their negative ways being carried away shows that after awhile people tire of gossip and worming because there is nothing mutual in the relationship. You are having the dream because you may think that people like her have a lot of power. The way to change yourself is to have relationship that are mutually beneficial and where you are doing a lot to help others. This is the true empowerment.
In the dream where everyone is dead, the question you can ask yourself is how you felt when you had the dream and what is your reaction. Dead people like that is when people are really depressed. I am guessing that it leaves you in shock and a bit hopeless. What you need to engender inside of yourself is enthusiasm for life and your own goals because enthusiasm, feeling up about life and where you are going, is the antidote for depression. When you maintain enthusiasm, it actually helps others to be that way. It is infectious in a positive way.
My dream last night felt ominous.
A friend brought me a snake as a gift. It kept trying to get out and bite me when eventually it did escape. I ran outside to see my deceased grandmother in the car. She looked as I remembered her as a child but then all of a sudden she changed. She was rotting. Half of her face and chest was gone. Then I woke up.
Dear Kassandra,
When a snake like the one in your dream is negative, it means that there is a lot of gossip that is trying to get to you so that you will side with the people doing the gossip or backbiting. It is what caused your grandmother to suffer in life. When it is present, you have to realize that you need a really strong mind and be able to investigate truth for yourself. The snake (gossip) exists because people are vulnerable to gossip. They believe whatever they hear without really taking the time search for the truth themselves.
I had a dream about this lady who was staying in the house with my family. Every time she was around us everyone became angry and very aggressive towards each other. That same night we began to realize that she was the one who was causing us to be angry so we kicked her out. Basically, she was feeding off of our negative energy which is what gave her her powers Thinking everything was good we began to move on with our lives however in that moment everyone became sad and starting crying. It turns out that she was nearby sleeping in a car right next to the house. When she heard the cries and loud screaming she began to smile and was happy. My father then became possessed, eyes white and voice change, saying “we cannot let her take over us”. Then I Awoke. What does all of this mean?
Hi Riah,
Such an interesting dream! It shows you that there are people sort of lying in wait to take advantage of other people’s weaknesses and difficulties. Instead of being compassionate and helpful, they feed off of the negative energy and try to use it to their advantage. It shows for you that you have to be a bit careful about how you process your issues and with whom you do it. Processing anger or sadness requires a lot of truthfulness, but, in the old ways as represented in the old ways, people use the energy to gossip and get their own power. Truthfulness is important, but you have to do it with yourself or with people who have really pure motives and a lot of compassion. You cannot just saying how you feel to everyone especially people who feed off the culture of gossip.
A bus driver with a bus that beautifully paints as he drives disappears, I spend the dream looking for him.
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I’m in the care of a younger boy, he’s father seems friendly and nice, I let the son go with him, later the son is with me again, he has bruises from where his father abused/beat him, I am so angry that I swear I will find the father, and I vow that this’ll never happen again.
Dear 81dais,
In the first dream you are chasing after someone else’s dream, not your own, so you never find it. It means you need to create your own beautifully painted vehicle, which is your own way of doing things and chase your own dream by living in it.
Caring for the younger boy, in terms of your own self, means taking care of the playfulness that is boy-like with in. This refers to being a lot more playful in your life. You are angry at the father, which is equivalent to the abusive father you have in you, which is the parental self that abuses you rather than supports and encourages you. You can ask yourself how you treat yourself as in how you speak to yourself, etc.. There could be a real life situation like the dream, but the important thing when you have anger, is to realize that you are doing to yourself, what is happening outwardly that makes you mad.
I had a dream that I was in my home and a stranger( women) broke into my home and pulled out a gun and aimed for my mom. But I jumped in front of the gun and grabbed it away from her, as I was in the middle of taking it I shot her. I thought she was dead but she wasn’t so I kept going at her & ended up beheading her… gross And saved my mom and myself & my brother. But I knew there was more bad people coming and we were about to leave my house but and I saw another van pull up to my house so we couldn’t leave out the front door. So we were about to jump out of the window I think & I woke up.
I broke up with my ex five months ago. I haven’t had any contact with him whatsoever! I’ve been dating here and there but nothing serious. My ex on the other hand moved about 45mins away, went back to his kids mom, quit his job here and picked up a job out there, and remarried her. Recently, he has been coming to my dreams. One that stands out he and I were hanging out and we stopped by a Target Store he said to me “I need to run in here because we need sheets we are moving into Erica’s room” which is his sister who lives at home with their parents! I asked him in the dream “so are you moving back”? He began to make reference to having to call his boss and let him know but then says “he will understand”. I told him see this why I told you you don’t make life changing decisions on impulse! The dream ended! Please interpret. Thanks
Dear Lane,
Basically this dream shows that your relationship with him was never meant to be long term. He seems to have always been planning to go back to his old life. He seems to have been using you for a kind of romantic vacation away from his responsibilities as a father. It sounds like you knew this, but went ahead anyway in the relationship. The problem you will have with this kind of issue is that it will difficult to put your heart into a relationship for fear of it being hurt again. It was, for better or worse, a good learning experience, because you are not likely to make the same mistake again. You are going to take your time to assess someone’s character before getting romantically involved. You have a lot on the line when going for a long term relationship so you have to use your mind a lot as well as your heart.
He never stopped taking care or neglecting his kids while we were together he held his father role down, I must admit. He just so adamant about how he couldn’t stand the kids mom, how ugly she was, and etc. that’s why it took me by surprise to hear he went back something his famluniant pleased with either considering their history
I am guessing it won’t last.
I made the comment about the old lady. I’m not sure you got my email address so I’m posting again.
Hi. My name is Amy and I am a registered nurse. I have had a nightmare about an old, creepy lady off and on my whole life. She never speaks. She only stares at me with these big blue eyes. She’s always a ghost and she scares me half to death.
Once, a long time ago ( 17 years ago), I was in LPN school. I had clinicals in a local nursing home. I had a nightmare of the old lady during this time. I dreamed that I was there, at the nursing home, in clinical, and I was walking down the hall. I looked to my left in one of the rooms, and the old lady was looking into a mirror at me. It was like she was standing at an angle, staring at me in the mirror, and I was looking at her. Thinking that it was a resident, I walked into the room. The room was empty and the bed was stripped. I walked back out and asked the nurse in the hall where the resident is who stays in that room. She said, “She died earlier today.” I realized I had seen a ghost and woke up terrified because it seemed so real.
The weird part is that about 10 years later, I got a job at that nursing home because my grandfather got put in it. I visited him every day before and after my shift. One day, I showed up for work and went into his room. It was empty and the bed was stripped. I walked out into the hallway, and asked the nurse on that hall, “Where’s Pappaw?” She said, “ Didn’t anyone call you? He died earlier today.” Standing there in shock, I looked to my left into the room, and noticed the mirror and seen my own reflection. I suddenly remembered the dream. I had not thought about that dream for years. The only reason I remembered it at all, is because it was a nightmare. I was devastated obviously, and went back home. So weird.
My question is, who is the old lady and is she always trying to tell me something? Am I like psychic or something? Honestly, I cannot be sure it was the same exact room because all the rooms have a mirror. But, it was on the same hall for sure, and on the same side of the hall- the left.
Dear Amy,
I am not sure why seeing the woman in the room after she died as a ghost was so terrifying. Can you explain the terror? I can probably guess, but I want to hear it from you. You can write me at dreamsforpeace@gmail.com.
I had a dream that it was foggy outside and I was getting ready for school. I would leave late with my mom because we knew Michael Myers comes walking slowly down the street and chases and kill. On one day we decided to leave early and I saw him walking slowly down the street. I told my mom in panic and instead of her driving. I told her to go in the house because it’s safe there.(for some reason Michael Myers cannot hurt you in your house). I decided to get in the car and drive to school.I was driving in a frantic motion. I could see him but he was to slow. My driving was real frantic,but I made it to school. It was still foggy. It was really quiet and the students were sitting in their seats just looking out the window from the office. I somehow made it to a back door and Michael Myers was there looking at me. I noticed i wasn’t myself, I was a small boy with blond hair.Than all of a sudden we became friends and I said that he can come inside. I only told him that so he wouldn’t get mad and kill me. Than I remembered there was students inside and went to the office.to my surprise they were all okay. Than I sat down and started looking into the fog. I didn’t know any if the students but they were familiar. And I think Michel Myers went upstairs at the end.
Dear Alivia,
Michael Myers is a comedian who tries to make people laugh and feel light about life. You are fearful that you are going to be killed by him probably because you think you have take life really seriously and work yourself to the bone. What the dream tells you is that you have to lighten up and laugh. Then everything will become much easier. You can laugh and work hard, be serious and be joking. They work together.
I had a dream that I was locked on what seemed to be a school ground. Maybe abandoned but there were walls and gates and we were trapped. It was me, a man and another girl. The man was part monster but would transform back into a normal human. It was like I was drawn to him physically and emotionally like under a spell. He pretended he could not see me but made it clear to me he could but for some reason wanted the other girl to believe he could not see me. I remember desperately wanting him to put his palm against mine but he wouldn’t. It was dark and raining and sirens were going off. We had found a place to hide out of the rain and away from people but he wouldn’t take shelter with me and the other girl. Until she eventually escaped and people tried to save me but the man turned back into this creature and would scare them away. I remember sitting in the rain on this broken stone when he came to me and placed his hand against mine and I felt warm. He went to tell me why this was all happening but I woke up. The dream was so vivid, I remember the smell and the coldness of the rain and the air. The sounds and how my heart would pound when I would try to hide from him because I’m the beginning I was terrified of him but when I found out he could see me I wasn’t scared. Which seemed odd to me and the fact I could acknowledge these feelings so well in my dream was strange. I just want some sort of understanding what it could mean? I’m at a loss but I remember the dream as if it truly happened and it keeps replaying in my head, every little detail.
Dear Mackenzi,
This is such a fascinating dream. It is a bit of a Beauty and the Beast theme. It shows that people have two aspects to themselves, one positive and the other negative. At the beginning you are fearful, but as you stay in the situation, you are gradually more drawn to the positive in him. Then you wake up. You wake up, which means that you take yourself out of the situation when you are just about to find the truth. Something pulls you out of it. There is no definitive answer of why you didn’t get the answer other than you are trapped in the school yard, which is a symbol for the world of right and wrong, good and evil, black and white. This dream shows that no one is either all good or all bad. We are all in process of becoming more light. This is why it is so important to reserve judgment so you can find the light.
I dreamed I was taking a plane trip. I boarded with others and we noticed something was wrong on plane. I reported it to the captain who decided we would travel in any case. I remember sitting between seats on the floor… panicking. Air host asked me to sit inplane… I complied. We took off…. heading for a hill…. could not rise fast enough…. sudden upwards surge…. panic…. then crashed wing first. I remember thinking either 6 or 11 people died / injured…. I then walk to the captain telling him off and walk away… I then woke up.
Dear Dieter,
A plane trip represents a long term vision. In this case you are contemplating going on a long term vision like in a company where you are not the leader (the captain). You see that something is wrong with the plane (like the company), but the captain assures you that everything is ok. You listen to the captain, despite your internal warnings, and then things go bad, the plane crashes and people die. The purpose of the dream is to show you that when you are going for a long term vision, you can trust your own mind, and not just believe what the leaders say.
Dream – 12/24/18 – In this dream I allowed this snake to bite my left wrist. After he got done biting, I put my arm/wrist near snake again as I wanted snake to bite me again, which the snake did. I knew this snake usually kills people with his bite, but I was on some medication/portion that allowed me to not die. I also did not feel any pain during the bites.
Dear Dennis,
This is actually a pretty cool dream because it explains that when you go through adversity, you actually get stronger in your life. It helps you make the changes you need to make to deal with life more fully. Venomous bites usually come from criticism and gossip which is what people often use to advance. You are not affected by the venom so it means that you can carry on relationships and turn them into really positive things by finding the positive in others and building on it. Most people hear the criticism and go dead and depressed.
I dreamt that I woke up in bed in my bedroom. There’s a shelf in front of my bed, like those you see in a grocery store.
One item stands out to me there, this plastic baggie of corn. It had an image of a happy man on it and the label is just.. CORN. Through the transparent packaging I can tell it really is just a pack full of corn. In the dream, I was eager to eat some corn so I took the pack, opened it and just started stuffing myself all bare hands style, like I’m eating potato chips.
By now I am sitting on the floor by the foot of my bed. The foot of my bed also seems to have mini shelves of its own and a wide array of stuff there catches my attention, as I eat the corn at the same time. Shampoo, milkboxes of all kinds of flavours… I wonder whether they’re expired.
It feels like all these things have been there for a long time. It feels like mom prob stashed them here more than a decade ago and forgot they existed. However as I try to check it seems the expiry date is too small for me to see and I don’t want to risk focusing too much and losing the dream.
I try to jam another fistful of corn into my mouth but I realize it’s already full of it. I try to chew faster but it seems my jaws are in slo-mo.
The shelves are now occupied with books instead of groceries. I glance through the covers and titles while eating the corn. Eventually I start realising that all the books around me have somehow turned into horror/ ghost stories. Wherever I look I see some ghastly haunting face on some book cover staring back at me.
I feel tense. I’m still eating the corn, maybe halfway done by now. I’m apparently in some kinda bookstore, maybe the horror section? I move around a bit but don’t dare to pass through any aisles in case some ghost is hiding around the corner. It feels like a good number of these books are prob haunted or cursed.
After a bit, I notice all the books have changed into some romance comics kinda genre. I’m kinda relieved that the atmosphere isn’t spooky anymore. These covers look kinda romantic and appealing it’s too bad that there’s still a lil bit more corn in my pack, and I’m more interested in eating the corn than picking up any books.
By the time ive reached the bottom of my corn pack, the books have all turned into some kind of killer clown massacre kinda genre. Oh great this is just… ugh I hate this atmosphere. If ghosts are bad enough I’m not looking forward to running into some kind of bloody clown holding a bloody machete and getting chopped to pieces.
Ofc, apparently as the book genre changes, the whole library surrounding me changes too. Everything is all bloody and gritty and idk whether there were meat hooks and rusty sharp things lying around. It’s kinda terrifying.
Well I’m all out of corn. This whole time, from the moment the books turned ghost genre, it feels like this bookstore is just me being surrounded by four shelves with no exit and entrance, and prob some smaller shelves in between. I was displeased about it but at the same time didn’t really think too much about it cos I was trying to enjoy my corn.
I try to walk around now but it seems like my legs are on slo-mo. My vision blurs and darkens, I can only see splotches of books on shelves once in a while. It kinda feels like my dad is nearby or something as I seem to be walking… somewhere. Maybe I’m in a corridor, but the walls are still shelves of books. Idk what genre they are, or where my dad is, or whether he is there at all. Everything is dark. I hope the books have shifted to something less frightening than killer clowns.
There’s this trick I learned to get out of an unfavourable dream situation, like if I’m in a shady looking place or I’m trapped in a room or if I feel theres a killer around the corner. Basically I spin around and the vertigo eventually changes the scene of the dream.
For some reason I didn’t feel like doing that right now. Maybe it’s that faint presence of my dad. I feel a sprain on my leg. I can’t move my leg. I say out “hey, my leg feels, there’s a sprain, I, I can’t walk, I’m gonna pull something if I do”. Presumably to my dad.
I lean against the bookshelves and take it slow for a bit. Eventually I notice the books have changed genre again, through whatever I can see in the darkness. Chinese fantasy historicals, of the martial arts adventure kind, not the creepy demons kind. That’s a good sign.
It’s starting to get brighter, I can see myself slowly walking through this modern looking corridor, and one wall is this transparent glass where I can see a dense forest outside. I love the view. The other wall is welll, more bookshelves.
As I continue walking I reach this clearing with tables in the library and… there’s people there! Oh god I’m not alone in this nightmarish library! They seem to be studying or doing work as if this is some normal college library.
I approach someone and start telling him all about my ordeal, like how the books shifted to ghost stories and how the entire environment literally changed with like, no im serious, the environment itself got all dark and spooky like I thought a ghost was gonna pop out.
As I recite my library experience with this person I see my dad standing by the corridor I came from. Apparently now I’m holding hands with this guy by the table and he’s kissing my hands over and over? And dad’s just watching from the corridor, and then dad just… turns around and heads back to where I, where WE came from, alone.
I felt like, if I were somehow back in that library and this dude is kissing my knuckles or holding my hand, I feel like I wouldn’t be scared no matter what the books turn into. Not like I want to be in there again but.. hypothetically.
But at the same time I just felt…. really sad about that just.. returning to that place. Alone. I felt like he’s gonna be just, so lonely and isolated back there now that I’m gone and by the time I woke up I wasn’t crying.
Dear Myx,
Basically this dream is about the need for moving forward and feeling supported in doing so in your life. When you are alone in your own mind, you have tendency to make fantasy appear as if it is part of the real when really it is just your mind. It makes it difficult to move forward in your life. As you start moving forward, you dad, who is supposed to be like a supportive person in your life is either blurry or out of reach which means you cannot get the support you need from him. If you have more support, the steps of courageously moving forward would come easier. You move in slow motion because that is what it feels like when the fantasy in your mind is high and negative and you have little support, but because you keep moving forward, eventually you run into a supportive male person and everything becomes more positive. He actually represents what happens to a person inside when they keep move forward, when they put aside the horror, etc.. It can a metaphor for how to get through difficult times, to just put one foot in front of the other moving forward to more positive things like the forest in the dream. The corn represents the internal energy to get moving. As you eat it eventually you get up and move from your stationary position.