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What does it mean when I dream about the guy my friend likes?

Asked by paramour (72points) October 27th, 2010

So there’s this guy, and I dreamt that he was flirting with me, quite openly. He’s who my friend likes right now. In my dream, he’s literally close to me for most of the time. He looks at me as if he were REAAAALLY interested in me. But then in that dream, he was going out with another friend of mine (aside from the one who likes him), and people kept mistaking me for her. And he doesn’t do anythign about it, and smiles whenever it happens.

Anyway, I’ve only thought he was something around two months ago, and I’m not really that seriously into him, but I still think he’s cool. And now it makes me feel a bit guilty because my friend likes him, and I don’t want to seem as if I was being a whore, because I’m pretty sure I’m the prettiest in our group, and I don’t want them to think that I’m rubbing it in their face by stealing this guy.

I feel screwed, I like someone else. After this dream, I feel like I’m starting to think about this other guy, like I’m so shallow. D:

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Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

This is just one opinion: the guy was in your dream because you have been listening to your friend talk about him. There is no reason to take a dream for anything more than the mental scrambling of stored data that gets put together in a dream state.

I once had a dream that Tom Cruise and I were enamored with each other and were sitting on a rock on top of a hill with our arms around each other’s waists. The love and happiness we shared felt strong and peaceful, even after awakening. I am not a fan of Tom Cruise. It most likely was caused by watching about 3 minutes of Minority Report the night before.

Let the dream go. Do not let it control your thoughts and feelings, and most importantly, do not mention it to any of your friends.

paramour's avatar

@Pied_Pfeffer Thanks. I had an idea of being open to my friends about it (since both girls are in my group of friends), but I guess that would just give the wrong impression, and not give any good outcome whatsoever.

Also, are you a dream interpreter or something? Just asking, cos I haven’t seen this friend nor thought about them for two weeks now since I’m on vacation, so that dream popping up from somewhere may reflect something about whatnot. (idk, maybe this is is irrelevant too, but I’m curious anyway when reasons are available.) :>

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Trust me on this one; there will be no good outcome from mentioning it to your friends. At best, they would brush it off. Just imagine the worst that could happen. For example, how would you feel if your friend told you that she had a dream about being in a romantic relationship with the guy you liked?

Earlier this year, I had a dream where a woman named Susannah was in love with my SO, and she was much better suited for him than me. I woke up in tears, despite never seeing this woman in my life. There are no worries about my relationship and know that it was just a dream. I still hate ‘Susannah’ though.

And no, lol, I’m not a dream interpreter…just someone who has remembered enough of them to realize that they are nothing more than a mix of memories, imagination and emotion.

wundayatta's avatar

You have to think of the characters in dreams as being like orange rinds and eggshells in your compost heap. They are your own stuff, not stuff you show to anyone else. They are only pale reminders of real thoughts and real images.

Nighttime is garbage pick-up time for the soul. You’ve got all these thoughts from the day running around. Literally running. If we didn’t have this chemical that paralyzes us released in our brain while we dream, we would be running around and getting hurt or hurting others or both. Our brains are tidying up the nonsense.

The way it does that, is it takes our thoughts and places faces on them. A dream, then, is all about you, and not about anyone else, no matter what the dream looks like. The faces you see in your dreams represent different aspects of yourself. It is not the kind of thing you want to share with anyone other than strangers. Or, if it’s funny enough and innocent enough, with others.

So what’s interesting is the mistaken identity stuff. The boy represents a part of yourself that you like, or that you might like to develop. This part of you is generally associated with some other part of you, in your mind, but it is mistaken to be with some other thing.

I.e., perhaps you have some interest in life, and you want to pursue that interest for one reason, but everyone else thinks you want to pursue it for a different reason, and you don’t know if you should correct that perception or not.

So don’t worry about being a whore or really liking this guy or being pretty or all that kind of shallow stuff. That’s you messing around with your day time mind. What you should be thinking about is this thing you are really interested in, whatever it is, and why other people think you are doing it for different reasons than you think you are doing it. Think about the consequences of that misperception.

I don’t know how old you are, but a more concrete example would be say you want to go to college. You want to go to a four year college and study biology (I’m making this up), but your parents think you want to go to community college to study to be a health aide or something. Your problem would be whether and how to tell them what you really want.

How’s that sound? This could be utter nonsense, of course.

MilkyWay's avatar

it might be just because your friend talks about him so much or if you wanna get deep it might be a sign that hes not a good guy, maybe a player.
i dont know, i could be wrong ofcourse. you know him better than me.

Megaperceptiva's avatar

If she’s really friend, she’ll understand about your crush.

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