Dream a Little Dream

Dreams can be meaningful and powerful. The interpretation of dreams - especially the significance of events, symbols, and people within dreams - is essential to understanding the self. Dreams can unlock deep secrets and emotions, subconscious desires and fears, or personal strengths and weaknesses.

I place a lot of value in the interpretation of my dreams and enjoy analyzing them. Allow me to share a recent one with you:

Somebody stole my scooter. That’s right, a scooter. It was pink. And Pink Scooter Theft 2006 was rather inconvenient. I was going somewhere and decided to stop (probably to buy beer or Peanut M&Ms). I parked, went inside, came out, and yep no scooter.

So, ok, you might be wondering, do I own a pink Vespa-like scooter? Do I long to own one? The answer to these questions is no. No scooter. No secret desire.

But I believe this is a better question: Is there any meaning in a scooter, or, more specifically, someone stealing my pink scooter? Here are some possible meanings:

1. A scooter represents my inner child, and I feel it is being taken from me. (“Pink scooter” in a Freud-inspired dream interpretation book always symbolizes the inner child.)

2. I am still madly in love with the singer Pink and haven’t moved on since our breakup.

3. I am a really bad driver and shouldn’t be driving anything, especially a wobbly pink scooter with no airbags, seatbelts, or external frame.

4. I am indulging myself too much. Stopping to buying beer or M&Ms would have been a bad idea because (a) pink scooters don’t have insulated beverage holders, and (b) any M&Ms dropped while driving a pink scooter are gone for good.

Or maybe there is no significance. So yeah somebody stole my scooter. Well whoopiteedo! Stupid meaningless pink scooter. I know it cost $700 (a steal if you ask me) because I was very upset about this. But so what? Now that I think about it I didn’t even lock up said $700 scooter. It sounds like I deserved to have it stolen!

So what is there to learn from this? Maybe it is prophetic, and one day somebody will steal my pink scooter (note to self: purchase pink scooter to test hypothesis). Or I’ll soon find $700 to compensate for my imaginary scooter loss. Or maybe I’m just cheap. Or maybe I should take more public transportation. Or maybe … I don’t know. I'm beginnning to think this whole dream thing is hogwash.

If anyone has some ideas I would love to hear them. Pink scooter, you mean nothing to me.