Be Careful What You Believe To Be True

Dreamer:  In this dream, I’ve returned to Jersey City, my home town after a long absence.

Dreamer:  In one dream, I am in a liquor store in a seedy area.  Outside, vagrants are loitering around the store.  I can’t decide what to buy, and the clerk, a lanky guy with a close cropped hair-cut is making various suggestions.  I name a beer and he gives me the price. We do this over and over, but I am not coming to a decision.  I say: man, that’s high; things have gone up, since I was here.  The patrons around me agree.  The place smells like vomit, a stench hangs in the air, and shifty-eye people are milling about aimlessly.  I finally pick Amaretto. He says the price is $10.10.  I say okay, he bags it, and comes around the counter to take the bag outside, I don’t notice that this is strange, and follow him out. 

Crystal's interpretation on this part of the dream:  The first part of your dream suggest that bad habits could lead you down a dark road.  Your returning to Jersey City suggest you fear it is the under belly of society.  Look for the good and positive things in your community and strive to become a part of the positive and not the negative.  In the dream where your in the seedy area of town, in an alcohol store.  This part of the dream suggests that you could find yourself struggling with an addiction.  Also, this part of the dream suggest that it may remind you of someone in the family that also has an addiction.  The stench and smell suggest that you are under achieving or wallowing in the filth of an addiction that is beneath you.  This also suggest that you feel that a part of your life stinks.  There is a warning here, if you feel your life stinks, clean it up and live it well.  This could be future tense, that your addiction could get out of control and much worse than what it is now.   The fact that the cashier walks you out of the store with your bag suggests that you may use various means to feed your alcohol addiction that ties in with public acceptance ... ordering alcohol in prestigious clubs, restaurants or having it delivered to you ... it all still leads towards your life becoming a slum of alcohol addiction or abuse.  This part of the dream is a warning that your heading in the wrong direction.

Dreamer:   I am fishing in my wallet to get the money as we pass, dangerous looking types: winos drinking together, addicts lying in alleys, and groups of men whispering conspiratorially.  It now dawns on me, that he could’ve handed me the bottle in the store. The fact that he accompanied me out is suspicious.  Is he going to rob me when I hand him the money?  He has two or three dimes ready in his hand, as I try, with difficulty to get the ten-dollar bill out of my wallet.  I can’t separate the bills that are new and crisp.  I file through several five dollar bills and even a 50 dollar one, before finally extracting a 10.  I’m sure all the criminal elements on this street have noticed.  He takes the 10 and hands me 2 dimes and waves his hands indicating I don’t have to bother with the 10-cent change. 

Crystal's Interpretation:  As you struggle to come up with your money, pulling it out of your pocket ... this part of the dream suggests that you will find alcohol will cause you to mismanage your money, making you careless and you will find that you will fear your alcoholic friends stealing from you.  As you pass men passed out lying in alleys and criminals, this part of the dream suggest that this is where your drinking could lead you if you don't bring it under control ... you will waste your life by over indulging in alcohol.  This part of the dreams suggest that alcohol will interfere with your ability to reason, adding to fear, depression and paranoia.  This too is a warning to bring your drinking under control before it destroys you.

Dreamer:  He beats a hasty retreat to the store.  I am left alone.  Now, I can feel imminent attack is likely.  I start walking toward where my home is, but I’m weak and tired. As I stride each step takes such effort, my right leg is dragging.  I have the bag in my left arm cradled like a football.  I am getting slower and slower, until I am lying down, crawling along, dragging myself with my right arm.  I look to my right and see a group of men, talking and eyeing me, seeming to be waiting for the right moment to strike.  In the next second, I wake up.

Crystal's Interpretation:  This part of the dream suggest that your love of alcohol could cause you to have a lonely life, as it will interfere with relationships.  It is alcohol, that is the demon that is stalking you in the dream which causes you to fear an imminent attack is likely.  In the dream, your weak and tired, the dream suggest that alcohol is destroying your health and breaking you down.  In the dream where you say, "As I stride each step takes such effort, my right leg is dragging."  This part of the dream suggest that consumption of alcohol could lead towards your having a stroke or heart attack, thus crippling you.  This part of the dream is also a warning.  As you grip and hold on to the alcohol like a football, you move slower and slower until you are literally crawling in the street, like the bums outside of the alcohol store, the alcohol has brought you down.  This too is a warning.  You see men watching you, waiting to strike.  Yet, it is the alcohol that is the wickedness that brings you down, to your knees, where your crawling in the street.  The message of the dream is this:  Your drinking is out of control.  Stop it now, or it will destroy your life, leaving you alone, lonely and sick and ill and unable to protect yourself from the dangers around you.

Dreamer:  What is always strange about a dream is the difference in dream state perceptions, and those of your conscious mind.  In the dream it seems perfectly understandable at first, when the clerk lead me out of the store, that he was doing this to protect me from the patrons in the store.  He didn’t want them to witness our transaction and me with all that money. 

Crystal's Interpretation:  This part of the dream talks of your right to privacy.  Your privately drinking will be the death of you.  The alcohol says you have the right to drink privately and it will kill you, privately. 

Be warned, get into treatment and bring your drinking under control before it destroys your life.  Your angels are telling you where your drinking will lead you if you don't stop.  STOP NOW!