In our waking life, we go to places for a reason. We go to the cinema to watch a film (and possibly to hold hands with our date), we go to the park to take the day off and play a ballgame with friends (or ogle good-looking people), we go to the beach to dig our toes in the sand and take a dip in the waters (or again, ogle good-looking people). There is always a reason, one way or another.

In these days of busy lifestyle, few of us waste time going to places where we have no business. Which is why we should be thankful that when we dream, we have the luxury of going to places we have never been before.

And, just as in our waking life, it follows then that the places we go to in our dreams have an underlying meaning as well. Below is part two of Dream Interpretations of venues you find yourself in during your sleep.

Desert

Ordinarily, deserts are barren and lonely places. In a dream, they imply a state of being lost and wanting to arrive home or be found. But the great spaciousness and emptiness of the desert landscape can also be beneficial; it signals a silence and meditation your life may be needing.

Airplane

Airplanes symbolize flight, freedom, and escape from the mundane. So if you dream of being in an airplane, whether or not you have a fear of heights, it just means you need to face those fears of the unknown and be thankful for their possibilities. If you dream of being the pilot, then this is a good sign: it is an undertaking and journey which you have taken complete control of.

Backyard

Backyards are fenced-in spaces outside our houses which we don't want neighbors to see, or intruders to trespass. Thus, to dream of sweeping in a backyard, for instance, means you want to cleanse that part of you which you fear is laid bare to the public.

Bridge

Crossing a bridge means an inevitable transition in your life, a shift in lifestyle, belief, location, relationship, etc. Observe the sturdiness of the bridge, or if it shakes under your weight. Also, look at the water below if it's calm or treacherous, or if it is an abyss instead. All these are signs of your readiness to cross over.

Church

Church are obviously holy places, which in a dream means you are reevaluating your life and want to lead a more spiritual one. Dreams of being inside a church always is a sign of good luck. An alternative interpretation is that you are questioning authority in your life, as churches and religion in general operate on authority.

Kitchen

Kitchens in dreams evoke either hunger, not just for physical nourishment, but spiritual as well. If you dream of yourself cooking in a kitchen, filling the room with a warm, inviting aroma, it just means you are taking an active role in your life.

Hell

We all have our personal versions of hell, and it does not necessarily have to be the commonly-thought of underground place with burning sulfur and demons with spears. If you dream of being in a hellish place, you could be feeling guilt from a sin you may have committed, or else, it is a premature punishment you are imposing on yourself, even if you haven't really done anything wrong in the first place. Hell is a place of self-censorship, so take it easy on yourself.

Hospital

It depends whether you are the one confined in a hospital, or you are only visiting a sick friend. Hospitals in dreams are signs that make us aware of our mortality, and of course, our health. Also, a sense of authority and properness operates inside a hospital (uniforms, schedules, SOP's, dosages, doctor's orders, etc), and your little visit there in your dream implies a confrontation with authority you might be avoiding or looking forward to.

Field

Is it a barren field, or a lush green one? To dream of spacious fields imply a whole world of possibilities and potential for you, as if the ground is all prepared for new plantings. Then again, the saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” can also come into play here.

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Author: Neoli Marcos

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Neoli Marcos writes for PsychicGuild

There may be no stranger world than what we experience in our dreams.  It is not uncommon to wake up from a dream feeling that it was so real that it is hard to shake off the images from the dream as you move into your day.  If you start talking to people about dreams, some will think they are funny or somehow expressions of your romantic fantasies.  But not all of your dreams can be explained away so easily.

If you can understand what your dreams are telling you, that would help you cope with them particularly if the dreams you are having are disturbing and leave you feeling uneasy, anxious or full of questions when you wake up.  For many years, very educated psychologists have studied and continue to study what dreams mean to us.  Yes, some dreams don’t have meanings.  But very well regarded experts in how the mind work like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung had a lot of theories about what the subconscious was saying to us when we sleep.

What they suggest is that in a dream, we are seeing the merger of images from our memories, our imaginations, our fears and hopes as well as from input we have taken into our minds such as contents of movies or music.  But there are also common images that dominate society that almost always can be interpreted in a similar way.  These are cultural images that we just know about even if we don’t think about them.  Examples of shared cultural images and their meanings are…

.    A snake is almost always associated with fear and evil.  The cultural connection to Satan and damnation is very strong.
.    Santa Clause is an image that can represent happy childhood images, a positive adult role model or the anticipation of gifts. 
.    Clowns often can carry a good or a bad image.  If the associated emotion in the dream is happy, they can represent humor, imagination and fun.  But many fear clowns so if the associated feeling of the dream is unpleasant or fearful, the clown might represent a bad adult relationship from childhood, fear of authority or fear of what happens when the unknown merges with the commonplace.

These are just a few of the thousands of common cultural images that can appear in your dreams.  Knowing what cultural messages we may be projecting in that movie theater of the mind which is a dream can help you translate the images you see when you are asleep to understandable messages your subconscious is sending out.  That is why there are detailed dictionaries of dream images that have been compiled to help you understand your dream life. 

Many of the entries in these dictionaries come from famous psychologists like Jung and Freud.  If you have an image from your dreams that you suspect has meaning to you, consult these dictionaries to see what the cultural meaning might be.  It can be very helpful in understanding particularly bad dreams and by understanding them, resolve the fear or issue which can make the bad dreams go away.