I keep having dreams about an old friend from high school. He and I were never romantically involved with each other, but we did go to prom together as friends, and we were developing a much closer friendship (at least, I thought we were) towards the end of high school. However, two things intervened to mess things up. The first was that I was going to college after high school and he wasn\u2019t (however, I wasn\u2019t going to college very far away from our home town). The second thing was that he was having a lot of problems at home, and his father threw him out of the house the night we graduated from high school.<\/p>\n
Several days after that he came by my house and gave me a phone number of the relative he was staying with. However, when I tried to call this number, it turned out to be a wrong number. I didn\u2019t think he\u2019d done it on purpose, and I figured that he\u2019d call me in a few days since he knew my phone number (which is still my parents\u2019 phone number, incidentally). However, that never happened, and I have never heard from him since. In the five years since, I have gone on with my life, gone to college, and gotten married (I got married two years ago). However, I continue to this day to have dreams about my old friend.<\/p>\n
Lately, these dreams have been happening with much more frequency. Usually, I meet up with him somewhere (at a party, on the street, at our old school, and other places) and it\u2019s like I completely forget I am dreaming…I ask him where he has been, what he\u2019s been doing, etc. He weasels out of answering my questions by getting himself lost back in the crowd or by asking me some inane question or sometimes by me waking up. I am guessing that he doesn\u2019t answer my questions because he is a product of my brain and since I don\u2019t know the answers to my questions, he can\u2019t either.<\/p>\n
However, every time I wake up from one of these dreams, I have a renewed curiousity about what happened to him, and I\u2019ve considered trying to find him and meet up with him again. I even looked for his name on the Internet, but I didn\u2019t have much success. I have this nagging doubt that perhaps he really did try to get rid of me on purpose by giving me a phony phone number (in which case, why would I want to meet up again with someone who\u2019d do something like that?)<\/p>\n
Well, last night, I had yet another dream about him. However, the details of this dream were slightly different. He was asking me the questions, and then he was angry with me because I hadn\u2019t contacted him. I shouted back that I had his phone number, I called it and it was a wrong number, so I waited for him to call my parents\u2019 number and he never did. He made no effort to contact me. Eventually, after I didn\u2019t know where he was and none of our friends knew where he was, I decided that it was time to move on. \u201cAnd guess what?\u201d I said, as I pointed to my wedding ring. \u201cI am now married – to somebody else!\u2019 I woke up soon afterwards. Well, now I am wondering if my brain is finally deciding to move on. Perhaps I don\u2019t need him to answer my questions after all. (But…I still wonder what happened). I don\u2019t think I should be so obsessed with someone whom I have not even seen for five years…maybe this latest dream spells an end to that. What do you think? Thanks for any thoughts on this.<\/p>\n
– Jill, Age 23, USA<\/p>\n
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