What does it mean when a character in your dream wakes you up to something going on around you?

Question

I have been dreaming about work almost exclusively for the last month or so. Not really bad or good dreams, just situational dreams with a few of the details changed from real life.

We were at a function of some sort, like a convention, only the reception part was held in the foyer of where I went to Jr. high. Some of the volunteers I work with were lined up like a receiving line and I was also in the receiving line. Then, one of the volunteers nudged my elbow and pointed up and said “wait, listen. Can you hear that?”

In the dream, I looked up, and eventually I became awake and found myself staring at the ceiling. I woke up to the sounds of my neighbors having s*x.

Answer 1

dreams are just your brain interpreting what information that it has gathered through the day, etc

that's normal to have that happen in a dream. happens to me all the time.

(the first time i ever slept with an alarm clock i had a dream that i was the rabbit from the turtle and rabbit race story or whatever

-the rabbit slacks off thinking he can win but the turtle ends up winning -

anyway, in my dream the turtle caught up and i kicked it to get it out of my way so i could win and it's shell had like a car alarm and starting beeping and i freaked out and couldn't figure out what to do and when i woke up it was my alarm clock going off lol)

Answer 2

It doesn't really symbolism anything, it just means that your subconscious is aware of what it going on in the waking world, possibly because you aren't sleeping well enough.