Tell me what this dream is about?

Question

I was walking down the street where I grew up as a child/teenager towards the little market that used to sit on the corner of the street. As I was walking I noticed a gentlemen calling out to me by a building of flats with a little boy. I guess instructing the boy to go with me. I’m in the market with the little boy and he’s talking about tonic water with me so I find myself explaining the different kinds of tonic water to him. Then, the little boy gets upset about something and takes off out of the market. I end up going after him and chasing him down so he doesn’t get hurt. The little boy ends up in a really bad part of town. When I catch up to him he’s in the center of these flats and I convince him to come back with me so he doesn’t get hurt , just then this gang of hooligans start walking down the center of the courtyard where the flats are. I know there’s going to be trouble so I get the boy and get on this small motorcycle and we rush right by the gang and pass them by in the nick of time. …………………….

Now, second part of the dream I’m in this flat building and earlier on someone had warned me that bad people live there and not to go in, but I had to go talk to this man about something. Knowing that my life is on the line I go to this flat to talk to this man who seems a bit older and something is just not right about him. Can’t quite put my finger on it but I know he’s bad. He starts talking to me and the whole time I keep my distance. I finally gather the information I went get from him and start my exit, but just as I exit he starts smiling a sinister smile and starts asking me if I want to stay longer. There’s something he needs from me and tries to beckon to stay. I tell him no and out the door I go! As I’m in the hallway of the building I pass an older man with grey hair and he notices me and has a look of bad intent as he watches me leave the building but I manage to leave unscathed. Phew!

What's this about?

Answer 1

In each part of your dream, you are narrowly escaping danger.  In the first part, the little boy could very well represent you (even if he doesn't look like you did as a kid).  

The first setting comes from your childhood...so you are subconsciously pulling your inner child into your dream.  There is even the part where you are explaining something about tonic water to him which symbolizes your thirst for knowledge as a kid and how you may wish that you knew then what you know today.  You may have narrowly escaped danger in your youth a time or two...and subconsciously you may be considering that you could have avoided such experiences if you'd had someone you could trust to protect you (or at least give you guidance that didn't sound like a lecture).  Even the motorcycle plays into this theme because it's a rather dangerous vehicle (even when you're wearing a helmet...a safety precaution in which you and the boy may not have had time for in your dream since you were fleeing a dangerous scene).  Often times, vehicles in dreams represent the dreamer's body.  You may see yourself as able to quickly leave a dangerous scene...but you can be just as dangerous to yourself.  

In the second part, your mind seems to be relaying the same message...only showing you that you're virtually the same now as you were when you were younger (as far as putting yourself into dangerous situations that you've been warned about).

Maybe an event that happened recently in your life has triggered this message.  It may not have even been something overly dangerous that you got yourself into...but probably something you knew you should have avoided and yet something (maybe curiosity?  maybe a desperate need to trust people...hoping that despite your uneasy feelings about someone or something, just to jump in and try will prove to work out for you).

Another side of this may be that you've been protected all of your life and haven't actually met real danger.  In that case, I hope that it continues, for your sake.  But my intuition stears me back toward my first instincts on the dream interpretation.  Either way, you're probably quite adept at keeping out of harm's way...even if it's too close for comfort.

Answer 2

this dream is about your overly paranoid disposition. These people that you think are "bad" people are probably too lazy to even want to harm you.

AHHHH I'm getting attacked by street hoodlums!

why the ____ would they even attack you?

Answer 3

Maybe, subconsciously you felt threatened by someone or situation recently in your waking life and freed yourself of them/it. It's manifesting its self in a dream. The child represents naiveness/innocence and paternal instincts you want to protect.