Old Friends, Lost Boots, Groceries, Mother, Child, and a Dream Interpreted

Have you ever had one of those dreams that just will not leave your mind when you wake in the morning? I had one recently and I just had to find out what it all meant. I have a book that interprets dreams by Pamela Ball called “10,000 Dreams Interpreted”. So this is how my dream went:

I spent time walking around a shopping centre or mall of some sort. I was with an old friend (one I had not seen in ages). After a time the one old friend turned into two (oh well, what can I say–strange things happen in dreams). Wearing a coat and boots and walking without any walking aides (this I have not done in ages either) shopping for food apparently because I had a cart full of groceries.

Somehow during the dream I lost the coat and boots but eventually found the coat. A coat room clerk tried giving me boots that belonged to someone else but for some reason that did not work. Eventually the store broke down and bought me a new pair of boots and I started on my way.

I did not know the mall or shopping centre I was in, it was gigantic, and as I walked around I discovered I was lost. Looking around I realized that I had walked out of the grocery store with the cart full of groceries without paying for them. I detected this because none of the food items were in bags or boxes. Having to go back to the grocery store to pay for the groceries was difficult because I could not find my way back. I kept going into the same door only to find it did not lead to the grocery store (It was at this time that I got the new boots). As I was trying to find my way back the store to pay for the groceries I realized that I was alone, somehow or other I had lost my old friends as well.

When it was time to go home I suddenly had my mother, her walker, and a young child with me along with bags of groceries and no ride home. The three of us had to take a bus. I struggled to find enough change for bus fare for us. After some time and considerable trouble juggling the bags I had and trying to keep my eye on the young child, I finally found enough money for the bus just before it was getting ready to leave. We got on the bus and I believe my mom and the small child that were with me got settled in ok. It was at this point that I discovered that I had to run around the bus, a triple decker, to find the bus driver to pay for the bus trip. Surprising enough one of the deckers on the bus was sleeping quarters.