Strange dream I had

[Talon]

So anyway I was puttering around my harddrive and happened to find a log of a dream I once had. Call me a digital packrat. Anyway this is what I wrote, lets see you amateur psycologists decrypt this one:

I was in some huge sprawling metropolitan shopping center. I made a wrong turn and found myself inside the back hallways for staff only. Door's locked behind me, and there's no staff around. I start running through identical doors, stairways, halls, getting myself lost. Then all of a sudden I'm attacked by a lion of all things. Finally some staff show up, but they're like "Welcome to nightmare mall, how can I help you?" Then seeing my predicament they immediately say "Thank you for shopping at nightmare mall, have a nice day," and they run off. Thanks for the help guys... Anyway the aforementioned lion's got both my wrists in its mouth. Instead of trying to pull them, out I shoved my arms down its throat. Somehow I got on top the beast and planted my knees in its chest and suffocated it. Ok obviously my dream-lions aren't as though as the real ones… anyway I got the hell out of there. Finally found my way out of the maze and complained to some suit. His attitude was "I'm soooo sorry to hear you had a bad experience at nightmare mall, perhaps some free coupons would convince you to shop here again?" He even offered a "discount" on replacing my lion-chewed gloves. Real Stepford-Wives stuff.

Okay so I added some embelishments. Obviously the imaginary staff didn't actually call the place "nightmare mall", and I'm pretty sure I didn't actually think of the Stepford Wives until after I woke up.

As for what it means, I'm pretty sure it has to do with how we're supposed to placate an angry customer who calls in with a big problem. We're to apologise without actually admitting the company's done anything wrong. That dream was a bit of role-reversal, think I was starting to feel like the "mall suit" in the dream.

Either that or after Chronicles of Narnia I'm secretly an Evil Queen fan, or something

[Becks]

I seldom remember my dreams.

Was it in color?

[Department stores *sigh*]

actully i can post about a dream i had just last night in fact O.o couse it actualy DOES relate to my job!
from what i can recall the world was facing certain doom armaggedon style from a large asteroid....for some reason my department store assembles a crack team of idiots (me included) o take this thing down and save the human race O.o lon story short i am the onl survivor and my dream ends with my supervisor saying tht if i tell anyone im fired (???) and m saying to a customer 'hi welceom to ***** how may i help you today

1. i must lay off the chinese food before bed and 2. i need to work less i think haha

[powerboy]

One I had a couple of nights ago. Here I am walking to work, instead of driving. When I had gotten to my work, G.W. Bush is in there working, and I think nothing of it. When all of a sudden, Zombies come in, and G.W. just runs and hides, and leaves me to kill them all

[SuperDan]

When all of a sudden, Zombies come in, and G.W. just runs and hides, and leaves me to kill them all

Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.

Hail to the king, baby.

[Talon]

I seldom remember my dreams.

Was it in color?

I hardly ever remember them either, but every now and then one comes along that's very vivid and I just have to write it down. And the number of entries I actually have? Just this one naturally. Don't remember if it was in colour.

Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.

Hail to the king, baby.

Lady I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store. Name's Ash... housewares.

[Binky]

I rarely have dreams about work...but I did have one the other day....
No lions in mine..

I was on a break from work, in my old K-Mart clothes...I was at the ATM getting some money out, and I'm going to put in my pin when this lady wearing a Muslim (I have NOTHING wrong with Muslims by the way they were just in my dream for some odd reason) head dress comes up next to me, juts her hand in front of me and starts randomly entering a pin..I bat her away..and go to enter my pin again..she juts her hand in again and starts hitting random numbers....I bat her away again..but say nothing...then another lady comes up and rams me in the back with he baby’s pram...and starts yelling at me in a different language....and shoves me again, while the other lady tries to enter in another pin! I gently push the pram away from me because it's starting to hurt me, and turn to bat the ladies hand away from the keypad again, when I hear screaming! I turn and the lady behind me smiles, then pushes the baby pram hard to one side, and lets go! She starts screaming that I've just hit her, and now I've pushed her babies pram down the ramp...she screams "someone get my baby! Save her!"...another lady runs and grabs the pram..storms up to me and the three ladies gather around me screaming at me for pushing the pram down the ramp, and screaming for security, I ignore them, turn and try to enter in my pin...DECLINED! They lady put the wrong pin in too many times and now I cant' get my money! A security guard comes up to see what’s going on...he listens to what the ladies are saying, I turn around, ready to cry but say nothing, I look around me and there are people staring at me....the security guard tells me to come with him and we go to my works office. The show me the surveillance tape, and tell me that they know I didn't do anything wrong and the ladies are crazy....I woke up when the ladies start filing in, screaming and pointing at me....that’s all

sorry to didn't mean to high jack the post...I thought it was better to post here rather than start a whole new one that was the same

[thegiraffe]

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but here's the skinny on dreams (I'll have my psych degree in December):

There are several hypotheses why we dream, yet they only have mild support. The reason for this is because it's very difficult to study a subconscious process (subconscious = Freudian term that basically means it's barely within our awareness, yet we can't control it). The best idea that psychologists have is that dreams are a way of compiling and sorting away information we get throughout the day. For instance - we are exposed to a LOT of information in one day. Most of it we don't need or pay attention to it, yet we're exposed to it anyhow. Attention is the key word here - our brains primarily steer towards what we're attending to (attention = attending), yet it also absorbs/retains information that we're not attending to. Dreaming seems to be the brain's way of sorting through the random information and purging what's not necessary and filing away what is necessary. That's a basic definition without getting too complicated and technical.

My best guess is that your dream was a compilation of a few random experiences that your brain was trying to make sense of and see if it's worthwhile or not. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you learned something about cognitive psychology!