Deciphering Dreams

I have been having some rather strange dreams in the last few days (er, nights I mean...) and when I try to "interpret" them they sort of get even weirder and weirder. 

To wit: Last night I had a rather long one involving none other than my former boss, Real Simple editor, and fellow Simply Stated blogger Kristin Van Ogtrop — wherein I was at her house during an explosive thunderstorm and spent most of my time asking her how she managed to keep such a well-stocked kitchen. There was literally a wheelbarrow FULL of perfectly ripe pears in her pantry (Btw: I've never actually been to Kristin's house.)

The Dream Moods site interprets the pears as representative of new opportunities. The fact that I was with a (former) boss, they contend, was more about my own "assertive", "bossy" side than anything involving her directly. The thunderstorm: Anger and aggression. Yikes. (Note to KVO: In my dream, your home was very, very neat, and decorated so fabulously.)

Over at The Curious Dreamer site, it says that any sort of fruit in a dream is related to creativity, production, harvesting, and, not surprisingly, fertility and children.

And speaking of workplace superiors, the previous night I had a dream about a current boss, wherein one of my daily duties was to snap a digital photograph her outfit in some strange fashion cataloging capacity. (We had a good giggle when I mentioned the dream to her in a meeting yesterday; she noted that it was FAR from the strangest dream an employee had ever admitted to. That one, she noted, came from a former (male) intern who admitted he'd had a dream about her that involved a bathtub. If I were him, I would NOT have shared that.)

My two cents: We need fruit at home and I have work on the mind lately—jobs past, present, and future.

Quick: What did you dream of last night? Do you keep track of them? Do you believe in or practice dream interpretation?