Can someone help interpret these dreams?

I’m going to tick off a lot of people and say it doesn’t mean anything. A few dreams obviously mean something about your mental state, such as anxiety dreams (showing up for school naked, etc.) but I think that mostly dreams are just your brain shifting information around and it is unwise to read to much into them. You can dream all sorts of things (some of them very disturbing) and it doesn’t say anything about you or your mental state.

I personally read a lot into my dreams (even though im sure everyone is right and they’re just mushed up thought). Dreaming about a gym/exercising has to do with notion that you need to exercise your rights and power in some situation.So read that in anyway significant to you. Maybe you want to talk with/straighten things out with your ex and your mind is telling you that you should.

Although it probably doesn’t mean anything, I will put my psychology hat on and take a shot at it.

The first dream probably means that you want him to talk to you and straighten things out because you didn’t get closure.

The second dream could mean that you are trying to exclude him from your life…or that your a lesbian.

but don’t take my word for it.

There’s one theory of dream interpretation that suggests that all the characters in a dream are based on different aspects of yourself. I’m not sure what your associations with physical activity are in your life, but I’d think about that. It could be a part of you that is trying to remind you that it shouldn’t be an ex. Like you’ve been ignoring or neglecting it. Maybe you’ve been very sedentary lately?

Following this theory, the second dream suggests that there is a part of you that you won’t let play, or be physically active. For some reason, you get ready to do something, but don’t actually do it.

This could be related to actual physical activity, but it also could be metaphorical. Perhaps there is something you have been thinking about doing, but you have a complicated relationship with that thing, so you haven’t been doing it. You’ve been preparing, but never actually do it. The dream might be saying it’s time to stop preparing, and time to start the doing.

Is there a part of you that you have neglected, lately? Is there something you’ve stopped doing, but wish you hadn’t stopped, or are kind of anxious to start again? Is there some part of you that you have been neglecting or ignoring because you’ve been so busy with this new relationship? Did you neglect yourself in the relationship with your ex?

There are many theories on dreams that all basically go to the question on whether they mean something or not.

If you’re one of the people that believes you have certain dreams for a reason I would look at what the people mean to you and the significance of the role they played in your dream. Does the gym mean anything to you for some reason? If your ex is possibly a dominating or directive individual, that could be the reason why he was an instructive figure in your dream. I would agree with you on the need for closure to manifest itself in your dream.

Freud and others believe that your dreams is your subconciousness trying to warn you of things ahead or feelings/thoughts not able to get out any other way.

Another theory is that your dreams are simply your brains neurons firing off while you sleep, similar to deleting files and putting them in the recycling bin or trash can on your computer.

I’ve kept dream journals before (tied to a daily journal-it helps) and they’ve helped me figure out what was going on in my head to cause the dreams or to realize it was just a strange episode in my head.

If you are wanting a guide to help you interpret these dreams there are a lot of “manuals” that can give you guidelines but ultimately, I believe the objects and people can only be interpreted by what they mean to you