How to interpret a dream, and what it means?

Welcome to fluther.

It’s a dream, nothing more. In reall ife, you wouldn’t care what your ex wife thinks. That’s how you know it is dream and nothing more.

A few of the main things I have learned about dream interpretation are:

1) Dreams are personal and their interpretation is ultimately up to the dreamer.

2) Nevertheless, one of the most effective ways to get what a dream may be about, can be to listen to what others have to say about what they might think and feel if they had had a similar dream. Not to provide the dreamer with a direct answer, but to suggest ways of looking at them that cause the dreamer to look past their first thought and find some other perspectives that resonate for them.

3) Dreams are often largely symbolic and about feelings more than they are about the specific literal story in the dream.

If I had multiple exes with kids and I had your dream, I might wonder if this dream were showing me my concerns about my responsibilities and lack of view and control over what is going on with all those young people whom I often cannot see, as well as my worries about how my exes and others judge me for what I do and don’t do.

would try just sitting with those feelings, so they get some attention.

Then I would observe that as in the dream, it’s not really physically possible to be fully responsible for all those people at once, particularly when I am not in a position to see them.

I would also compare with my real-life situation whether I can (and want to) give them more time & attention, and how realistic what I’ve said I will be responsible for is, and how fairly I am judging myself about it, and whether or not I am worrying overmuch about what others may be thinking about me.

Dreams occur as the subconscious mind sorts out the things it wants to remember.
I’ve found that dreams cannot be taken literally, but reading between the lines helps understand them.
In a nut shell. you care a great deal about children and you care what happens to them.

According to Dream Moods: “To dream of a car accident symbolizes your emotional state. You may be harboring deep anxieties and fears. Are you “driving” yourself too hard? Perhaps you need to slow down before you hit disaster. You need to rethink or re-plan your course of actions and set yourself on a better path. Dreaming that someone is injured in a car accident means that you cannot control the action of others. They have to live with the consequences of their own decisions.”

I would guess that your dream is telling you to get closure with you ex.

Welcome to Fluther.

Your dream is your subconscious telling you that you should have paid more attention to the English teachers in junior high school when they attempted to correct your tendency to write run-on sentences, avoid pronoun hell and to use punctuation somewhat more liberally – and correctly.

The kids are going to be fine. You’re going to be fine. It was just a dream.

You are uncomfortable with your ability to multitask, to keep several things going smoothly at once.
You are afraid that you will overlook something, and disaster will result.
Find yourself a good, healthy way to relax. If you stay keyed up all the time, that is when bad things happen. You need to let yourself unwind, on a regular basis.

I’m of the opinion that only the dreamer can “interpret” their own dream. Dreams come from our own subconscious, no one else’s. If you think it’s a significant dream, write it down, sit with it for however long it takes. If you forget about it, that probably speaks for itself.