Hmm. You're not working on finishing a deadline for some project, are you? :)

My first thought is whether you are having trouble moving on from something, or feel people are holding you back in some way. The dream doesn't necessarily mean these things would be your wife or parents etc, they can just be representative.

(I love interpretting dreams!)

Okay the two of you have me thinking.

Andy,
I don't think I am under any deadlines that are too heavy, but I see where you're going with that line of thought. The odd thing is that I had my latest dream when I was on Christmas vacation and had been away from all things work related for more than a week and a half. Maybe I was ready to get back to some work I had left off and I was ready to get back to it.

Daniel,
I can see there are a few areas in my life where I feel I am being held back. You might be on to something. I am also curious by the thought that I might be having a hard time moving on from something.

I guess my next question is: Do you think that all dreams have meanings or are some of them just random garbage just circulating around in your cranium?

Hmm, I think it's both. But then I place lots of value on dreams, so I'm possibly biased. Though, I think it's easy to tell most of the time if you're just having random dreams or if they carry more meaning. Dreams communicate your gut feelings more clearly than your conscious mind can, and with no rationalization or filter. So you're getting imagery of exactly how you feel. I think that particular dream touches on a feeling we've all had, and I was sorta joking about the deadline thing, because I have my own, heh.

So you're getting imagery of exactly how you feel.

Not that it is all related but your statement above kind of reminded me of an article I read the other day about the father of lsd turning 100.

In the article is said that his hopes for lsd were:

"Hofmann and his scientific colleagues hoped LSD would make an important contribution to psychiatric research. The drug exaggerated inner problems and conflicts, and they hoped it might be used to recognize and treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia."

Hmm, Did you return all the keys? Or at least get rid of them? Hey old buddy! You're looking good. I'm so impressed every time I check out your site.

Garrick,

Man it is so good to hear from you. I hope life is treating you well. I have tried to track you down on the net a bunch of times. I did manage to track your name down in some PDF document for some company in Dallas. I think it was the company's earnings report or something, and it just had you as an employee or something. That was several years back. I heard from tom a few weeks back. You can see some of his comments on the very bottom of this post.

What are you up to? You still in the Dallas area?

Did you return all the keys? Or at least get rid of them?

I just got this and just about started laughing out loud in my cube. Are you ever going to let me live that one down? :-)

My first impression is that there are things in your life that you feal like you should be in control of and you want to freak out about them, but you know that is not the best way to handle it.

Okay Jeannie, you probably are more right on than any of the other ideas. I just about busted out laughing when I read you comment.