RE: Dreams, do they have an impact on our lives?
I love dreams. I think you can learn a lot from them. Journeys usually represent the "journey through life" (in my opinion). School means you're learning something. If you miss transport, it generally means you're concerned that you're missing out on something in life, or you're worried that life might be passing you by in some way. This is just my interpretation, based on dreams I've had. If I'm concerned that an aspect of my life isn't working out as well or as quickly as it should, I sometimes dream that I'm missing a bus or train. Or I'm on a train, but going in the wrong direction. And it might not be that things aren't actually working out - just that I'm worrying too much about it.
Who knows whether our lives are "reality" anyway? I sometimes wonder if, when we die, we instantly "wake up" somewhere else and think - "That was a weird, scary dream! I was just about to be run over by a truck!"
I have just started a new job and am learning lots again, is that a factor I wonder?
I had a book about dreams and their interpretations when I was a teenager, no idea what happened to it or whether the content was all made up?
Maybe it will happen. If this isn't real and is a dream that last years, we may all 'wake up' sometime.
I think the new job is probably a factor. Change is unsettling, even when it's good change, and it often triggers vivid dreams. I did my first ever solo wild camp a few days ago. I slept quite well, but I had a really weird dream that I opened my tent and a small animal rushed in and started biting me!
I went through a phase of reading dream interpretation books. Then I realised that the interpretations always varied wildly from book to book. Maybe the authors believe they are true. I don't know.
Haha, yes this is the problem. Anyone can write anything but there's no facts to back up any of this. When I was a teen, I was drawn to this kind of stuff.