A Dream of a Road

Last night's dream was about a road in the country. It was a road I knew in waking life, near the farm where I grew up. I was driving on this road and I had to stop because a construction crew was turning it into a freeway. I parked my car and asked the foreman whether there was a detour so I could drive around. He said I wouldn't be able to move my car because they were working all around it now. Then he warned me they were about to pour concrete. Suddenly the road was like a river and concrete was flowing like water and the concrete covered my car, burying it under the new freeway. The foreman and his crew laughed while I stood speechless. Before I was awake I was already speculating on the meaning of this dream. My first worry was that it meant I was becoming hard and inflexible like concrete. First impressions are often the wrong ones. One way of understanding a dream is to find the opposite meaning of your first impression. There was a road - the road that I'm traveling on, my life-path. There was a flood of concrete burying my car - and if it was water (as it appeared to be) I'd think it symbolized an overwhelming realization from the Unconscious. That's all I got! I'll have to mull it over a while longer.