Airport Dream

[ButterflyWoman]

I dream of airports with some regularity. I'm fairly certain they symbolise change, moving forward, "taking off", that sort of thing. It may have other meanings that I'm not aware of.

The dream I had today (while having a nap) was an airport dream and it was very frustrating.

I had tickets to go somewhere. I'm not sure where I was going, but it was a round trip ticket, I'm pretty sure, so it was probably a vacation, a holiday. Someone else had arranged the tickets for me, I think. Perhaps they were a gift of some sort.

I got in my car with some other people, friends, dream persons that I knew in the dream but not in waking life. They seemed to be young women, and they were chattering and giggly the way young women can be in a group.

We got to the airport and I pulled into a lane that I knew would take me to a particular car park (parking lot), but I realised I hadn't pre-purchased a ticket to park there. I wondered if I could buy one on the way in, as there were booths and attendants and such. However, as I was pulling forward I realised to my tremendous irritation and annoyance that I'd forgotten my passport, and I wasn't going to be able to get on the plane at all. I drove through to a lane that led onto a highway and I said something like, "Well, I'll just have to go home and get it, and I'll reschedule my flight." I wasn't happy about this, but there was no way I was going to be able to go where I was going if I didn't have my passport.

On my way home, I stopped at a sort of tavern restaurant. By this time, the gaggle of young women weren't there with me, but when I went inside, I met up with a friend I haven't seen since I was a teenager (for reference, this girl was extremely pretty, very kind to me, lots of fun to be with, and someone I loved and admired very much). I shared a meal with her, and then ended up drinking quite a lot of something the place specialised in (cider, maybe? or maybe mulled wine?). I went to the restroom and realised I was quite tipsy and thought how I shouldn't have had so much to drink, because I was going to have to drive.

Then things shifted again as dreams do, and my husband was there, and he was driving. I went home, did a few things, and the next thing I knew I was back at the airport, and I realised I had forgotten my passport AGAIN. I was furious with myself, and I woke up feel extremely frustrated with the entire situation.

Now, I'm sure some of these things will be obvious to others, but I'm having some trouble working it out. I can get that I'm delaying my own departure (to somewhere I want to go) by my inattention to detail or something along those lines. I don't get what the young women have to do with anything (all my female friends are middle aged, though I do have adult daughters about the age of the young women in the dream), nor why I would stop on my way home and get drunk with an old friend. The particular friend it was is probably significant, because that girl is really someone I admired and loved very much (I'm not kidding when I say she was pretty; she was actually a beauty pageant queen for a while in her teens, and did some modelling until it was clear she was never going to be tall enough). The feeling of frustration when I realised I'd forgotten my passport the second time is still with me, it was that strong... And that's what makes me think the dream bears deeper examination, because it's still with me pretty strongly.

So, hey, thoughts, interpretations, whatever. Throw 'em my way and maybe it'll help me get a handle on it.

[Korpo]

Airports can denote many things, from ascension over "taking a trip" to the higher "planes". Indeed, you had a roundtrip ticket, so maybe you would have had an adventure out of body of some kind, some kind of mystical experience, but something kept getting in the way. Maybe you were to reacquaint yourself with nonphysical reality.

The young girls might represent the (inner) rejuvenation such a trip would have brought. For some people such a trip is necessarily once in a while to keep the spice in life, to balance out the day-to-day struggle of being in this world.

The question is - were you really unprepared or where you thinking inside the box too much? Maybe your level of lucidity was too low and you infused too much physical-level thinking/logic into this dream situation. Instead of going along with the experience you kept battling difficulties you were expecting to happen. You expected you would get into trouble without a ticket, and that you could not leave without a passport.

Cars most of the time are "vehicles of consciousness" for myself, denoting being in an energy body or learning something about an energy body. It also represents the effortless of travel (without having to exert yourself).

Passports are about identity. In the higher planes you move closer to God/Source, and this needs to be balanced against your own identity. Identity and union need to be in balance, else fears can arise. Indeed you were afraid you could not go without your passport. Actually this is not about strength, but about how much resistance you offer.

Tickets might be about "entitlement" - when you got a ticket you got a right. You paid and are due something. But you worried about not having a ticket, and therefore not a right. This might be an issue about esteem.

Thinking about rescheduling can be hesitation. An adventure in consciousness can be a personal transformation. Maybe you hesitate because you don't know who will come out the other side.

Restaurants are about nurturing yourself. Maybe your friend, which you describe which so much adoration, was a friend from the other side, represented as beautiful and nice as can be by being associated with someone in your life you ascribe such attributes to. Indeed you nurture yourself with a meal, but you also get drunk/tipsy. Maybe you were about to lose your presence in the dream here, maybe the release of some energy (restroom) helped maintain it a bit longer.

Going to a restroom in a dream can be about "release". Maybe you would need to release some issues first before you can go on the trip - and *whoop* you are back, being driven and back at the airport.

The frustration could be about how you know, inwardly, how much relief the "trip" would have brought you. Strong emotions can quickly end the level of awareness needed to maintain such adventures.

This is just speculation, of course. I'm pretty sure other interpretations more close to your personal circumstances would be possible. It just seems that airports, cars and so on - it seems a bit archetypical for me - at least for our times.

Oliver

[CFTraveler]

I'll go with 'general'- 'ascension', anyone?

[Pneumaphor]

The second half of the dream is about awareness and attention. Beauty queens always get lots of attention. Much attention is paid to them. More here-nowness during daytime activities may lead to resolution. Eating right helps fuel daytime awareness.

[LoneCrow]

I have a lot of airplane dreams but usually I'm doing the flying or I'm a passenger. My time in the actual airport is limited.