This crazy dream I had must mean something?

Question

I know that there is alot here please bear with me lol. This dream has to mean something I just dont know what...

I woke in a HUGE bed with a fluffy comforter and sat up. My boyfriend sat up at the other end then some guy sat up in the iddle of the bed and we looked at him and we said "who are you?" Evidently we had partied a little to much the night before. (I forgot a little bit of the next part) but we were drinking and stuff again then my bf and I were in an abandoned factory with desks and we were making out on one of the desks. Then somehow I was with my friend Tracy in a store and it was like a back alley store connected to a big building and it had lots of junk like purses, shoes, and jewlry. I dont know why but I was looking through some ladys purse trying to steal from her but the owner of the store kept giving me weird looks so Tracy and I went over and we each took 2 pairs of shoes and stole them. The shoes I took were flat shoes like ballerina slippers.

Answer 1

Anomalies of this kind are sometimes used by the dream to draw attention to particular  wishes or anxieties, to unlock hidden memories, or to prompt a fresh approach to some kind of problem. The purse sometimes represents the female power to give or withhold favors.  Women's shoes can sometimes stand for dominant female sexuality, which may come from the infant's experience of his or her mother's feet. These anxiety dreams are not there to torment the dreamer, but to draw attention to the urgency of identifying and dealing with the sources of anxiety, which may wreak havoc in the unconscious if left to themselves.  

Answer 2

Are you sure this was all happening in the same dream?  People can have many dreams while sleeping. From what you've described, it seems as if the first one ended in the abandoned factory and the second one started in the back alley with your friend.

They both have similar themes. The  bed, your boyfriend and your friend represent comfort. The stranger, abandoned factory, back-alley,blown up building,stealing represent an adventurous, thrill seeking streak. Maybe you're a little bored with your current situation and feel you need some crazy excitement in your life. The close call is probably an alarm bell by the rational part of you warning about the dangers of  getting too carried away by your whims.

  

Answer 3

You woke up in a huge bed with a fluffy comforter: your life seemed to

be going along fine, but you weren't paying attention to where it was

taking you (you had been asleep).  The drinking and partying also

suggest not taking stock of your life and being prepared to make

changes.  The extra guy in the middle of the bed represents something

coming between you and your boyfriend, which you have just "woken up"

to.

A factory is a place where important work gets done and things get

made.  You and your boyfriend are in an abandoned factory, i.e. you're

not getting things done.  Maybe you're telling yourself it's time for

marriage or a baby, or simply that your life together isn't moving

forward as much as you'd like.

The big building represents yourself, and the back alley store

represents a little niche in your subconscious.  In there is stuff

that you yourself called "junk": purses, shoes and jewelry.  These

are, therefore, things that other people think are precious but you do

not.  Maybe you have worked hard to live someone else's idea of a good

life, only to find you have other ideas.

Shoes in dreams represent beliefs.  If you have to "steal" a set of

beliefs, that might mean that you don't feel it's ok to change your

life the way you want.  The shoes you chose are flat (you're not

trying to be more than you are -- no high heels) and feminine and

graceful.  They are also dancers' shoes, suggesting you want freedom

to move through life as you wish.

When you took the shoes out, they turned out to have heels.  That

might mean that it will be more effort than you thought to take on

these new beliefs.  However, the flowers indicate that there will be a

reward.  The color yellow can go either way in dreams.  In this case,

it seems positive.

You then become scared that you'll be pulled over.  That's your fear

that people you care about won't accept you if you change your life

and/or adopt this new set of beliefs.  You would like to escape this

scrutiny (avoiding the cop in the dream) but you can't (you are forced

to go right by the cop after all).  The big smile for the cop

symbolizes the way you will present yourself to the world after you

change on the inside.  You'll feel strange because other people might

not understand and you don't want a confrontation.

Eventually the road (path through life) becomes too congested for car

travel (getting where you're going straightforwardly), so you get out

and walk (move more slowly through life, taking more time to think

about what you're doing, and perhaps also enjoying the journey more).

Once again, the building represents the self, so a blown-up building

represents your perceived destruction of your former self.  The use of

fire to do it suggests purification and truly starting all over.  When

you realize you were just in that building, that's your

acknowledgement that you can't go back.  The changes you have made

have permanent consequences.  Your life will be better, but you still

lose something familiar.  It's "your fault" in the dream because you

decided to change yourself, albeit for the better.

The feeling that you got out just in time means you are telling

yourself you want to take affirmative steps to change your life right

now, not wait around.  Incidentally, your friend Tracy who is your

companion for much of the dream represents the part of yourself that

has already accepted your new beliefs and is already comfortable with

your life the way you hope to make it.