Lauri in HelloGiggles: What Dreams About Being Lost Mean

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What Lauri told HelloGiggles

HelloGiggles asked Lauri about the common dream of being lost, or of being somewhere your dreaming mind insists is familiar but that looks completely different. She explained that the setting of a dream is rarely a real place. It stands for an area of your life, like a relationship, a job or your health, so a school can relate to learning, a hospital to healing and a parking garage to something on hold.

Feeling lost, then, usually reflects being in unfamiliar territory in some part of your life. A classic version is your childhood home looking different: the house can stand for the child you were, while the changes reflect how you have changed since. Lauri suggests noting what is different and how it makes you feel, since that should mirror how that area of your life feels right now.

She added that we usually can’t control dream settings, but if you become lucid, you can ask the dream questions, such as why you are there. After an upsetting dream, she recommends reminding yourself that the dream is trying to help, and journaling before bed.

This is our own summary. The original HelloGiggles page is no longer online, so the link opens an archived copy.