This dream dictionary uses a bank of hundreds of real dreams to show how dream symbols translate into real life thoughts and feelings.

THE DREAM I am in some sort of factory-turned-prison. I seem to be some sort of prisoner. There are a lot of people, all dressed in a gray uniform, and with no particular leader. Most everything is gray except for some countertops which have red tile running along the edge. Something to do with coffee. Maybe this was a coffee roasting plant in the past. I have a friend who is my guard. He is trying to find a way to set me free without getting himself in trouble. He manages to "lose me" in some sort of hallway, but to keep from getting in trouble he eventually has to alert the others and a chase ensues. He captures me and everyone is very proud of him. Next we (everyone - me, my friend, all the people in gray) go into a flooded part of the facility, where some sort of punishment is planned for me. My friend the guard manages to "lose" me again, in the water. I dive under, and he dives in after me. Apparently everyone else is either afraid of me or afraid of the water, because no one else jumps in to chase me. My friend tries to direct me to a safe spot, but is worried about air. He goes up for a breath, while I remain underwater. I swim through a gate, and start to get a little worried that I won't be able to stay underwater much longer. I am a smoker, so I know my lung capacity is not that good. But somehow I stay underwater for quite a long time, swimming away from the crowd and toward my freedom. Then I realize that I am breathing underwater, that I don't need to come up for air because I can breathe underwater. Then I wake up to the sound of my own breathing. This is the second time I have dreamed that I could breathe under water.

GUESSWORK The dreamer woke up after a Saturday afternoon nap. She had been suffering great stress at work and felt that this could easily be the cause of the dream.

ASSOCIATIONS AND DREAM SYMBOLISM The dreamer made the following associations with the dream.
1. The dreamer woke up with a strange pressurized feeling like she was screaming inside. She associated this with the pressure she had been feeling at work.
2. The dreamer also felt the need to do the right thing during the dream. This reminded her of her own need to do the right thing at work.
3. The dreamer associated the need to escape in the dream with her own need to escape stress at work.
4. Symbolically prisons can relate to real life situations where we feel trapped. Work restricts us and traps as we have to do certain things.
5. Breathing underwater shows great control. So perhaps this connects to the dreamers wish to gain control over something. To overcome her feelings of stress perhaps.

THE ANALYSIS Using the guesswork the dream seems to deal with the following themes.
- Prison. The dreamer felt unable to escape some situation.
- Breathing: A need to gain control and relax.
- An overwhelming sense of stress.

If you weave together these different themes and relate them to this key issue of work stress then we find the dream captures the following thought - "I really cannot unwind. The work stress is really getting to me. I really have to learn to deal with this much better." ----------------------------------------
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