Can someone help me analyze this dream?
A little background first.
Typically, I have a repeating dream in which I am trying to drive from the backseat of a car, or the passenger seat of a car. Once I realize I’m driving it then becomes extremely difficult because I can’t reach the gas pedal or I can’t get control of the steering wheel. I usually then panic.
When I am dreaming, if a situation arises in a dream where I either start to panic or become paranoid, the dream has a greater chance of going lucid, which I think is due to the intensity of the moment. Either way, just because I have a chance of going lucid doesn’t mean I always do, about 95% of the time I don’t.
So the dream I had the other night is by far one of my most memorable dreams of my life, but I don’t know what it means!
It starts out I’m in the backseat of the car, I look at the clock, it’s 2:03. I notice I’m in a car and that the car is in motion. Then I start to acknowledge the familiarity of the emotions, the feeling of helplessness that usually forces me to attempt to steer this car and operate the pedals from the back. But, at one critical moment before the panic takes over and the dream hits repeat, I become aware that there is a person driving the car. Even with this realization, the helplessness and panic are still invading my dream. But, I turn and take a look at who’s driving the car. This is when everything goes bonkers. The person that I see driving the car is Me. In my thoughts I am sure I am in the backseat and all of a sudden I realize that I have to be in the backseat, but I still see Me driving. But I’m not sure if it’s really me, so I shout, ‘Holy crap, that’s me in the front, but I can’t be in the front because I’m back here!’ and lean forward to check and see if it’s really me. I’m not joking, but as I was shouting those things I could see the mouth moving on this person in the front who is ME!!!! There was only one voice, too. Something in the back of my mind made me really want to see the face of myself in the front seat but as I leaned more and more forward they kept turning their head so all I could see was the back of the head like the hair. Then I woke up (or so I thought) and was in the hotel room with my girlfriend (where we actually were spending the night) and relayed to her the entire dream in full detail… Only to wake up, this time for real, and sit in my bed confused as to whether or not I actually told her the dream.
So I asked her if I told her a dream, she then tells me no, that I didn’t. After that I told her my dream, but I still don’t know what to think about it. It was sooo unreal, and gives me goosebumps just to recall