Shoot Up

Here's to another dream post. I wonder how many total I have of these anyways.

I had what felt like a really long dream with multiple themes, some of which may have left my mind by now. I did wake up a handful of times this morning which is usually when I remember my dreams and have a lot. I had another unpleasant dream about my mom, which I no longer remember. But let's get to what I do remember.

The setting is a large art college, mind you, it's one that looks nothing like a traditional college. The point is that it is centered around art and it is quite large and filled with tons of people. It is also night time. I'm looking for something, there seems to either be a film or photo shoot going on in one of the large rooms. There are a lot of people around, this dream is just about always crowded with people. I end up finding a man. A very short man who most closely resembles a character from a show I've been watching lately. He looks just like Manny from Black Books played by Bill Bailey. However the man in my dream was much shorter than me and had thicker red hair. I'll call this man Manny for convenience.

Manny was a professor or something of a higher scale than just us students, he at least was an artist and was doing the film/photographing. I was dating him. Not sure if it was secretive, but it was to some minor extent. Once I finally found him, everyone left the room and things got a little heated. I will say that he was a very strong man for being nearly half my height. The next events are more blurry. Him and I may have been going around the place doing various work. I do know that at some point I lost him and spent a great majority, if not the rest of the dream, trying to find him. I haven't had a dream like this in awhile; this theme of finding something lost. I had these dreams a lot, particularly when I dated one of my ex-boyfriends. I was constantly losing him in a crowd and would be panicked and searching for him. This definitely could be interpreted that I could never get close to him, could never really grasp him, because sometimes I wouldn't find him. Anyways, I do believe I found Manny at some point, but got separated from him again.

I remember walking around with a couple friends out of a building or even a house. It appeared to be a party and there were three guys hanging outside the place. As we walked by them, all the sudden I felt a pinch on the inside of my elbow. I look down and find a small but swollen purple bump there. I had been shot up by a syringe from one of those guys. This instantly pisses me off. I will say he only shot me up with either air or water. Granted in reality if it were air, I would be dead, but I was not dead. I turn around and see the guy waving around a syringe and I start yelling at him furiously. I don't remember what was said now, but guy was obviously a douchebag. I quickly went to some room and a girl stopped me. She somehow knew what happened to me and knew how to help. She took me into a classroom where all the desks had clay sculptures on them, all the same shape but with unique etchings and paint. There were about 3 guys in there at their own desk working on their sculptures. I remember being intrigued by one of them, the girl may have also told me he's a genius or something. She had a tray of some medicine and syringes. She was a really nice girl and pretty too. She takes my arm and is preparing to shot me up with something that will reverse or clean out whatever that guy did to me. As she was doing that, I was losing my balance for some reason. I started to slowly fall because my legs weren't much good at that point. She just held on to me and we had no difficulties. I don't remember if the dream ended there but I do not remember anything past that.

Now to the interpretations from dreammoods:
To dream that you are searching for something signifies the need to find something that is missing or needed in your life. The dream may be analogous to your search for love, spiritual enlightenment, peace or even a solution to a problem.


To dream that you cannot find a friend suggests that you have lost or rejected certain qualities in yourself that are depicted by your friend. Alternatively, you may be feeling lonely and are seeking companionship.


To dream that you are being injected for medical reasons indicates that you need to develop yourself on a mental and spiritual level. You are looking for an emotional uplift or need some time to heal. Alternatively, the dream may be a metaphor that you need to "inject" more energy into your walking life.
To dream that someone is forcibly injecting you represents your negative attitudes about a particular situation/person. It also indicates the influence of peer pressure working against you. You are recognizing that someone is forcing their negative and unwelcome views/values on you.


To see a syringe in your dream symbolizes health issues, illness, or drug use. Alternatively, the dream may be a metaphor that you need to inject more enthusiasm, fun, or determination into your life. Consider also the contents of the syringe and how it would affect you. 
From a Freudian perspective, the needle and its contents represent the penis and sexual intercourse.

While some of the injection/syringe interpretations can be possible, I want to add a good clue as to why I probably dreamt about that. Last night I was talking to a friend about my brother and his overdose. Over the weekend my other friend and I had a good and extremely emotional conversation with my brother, the term "needle" was used in a way that literally feels like I'm being stabbed by a needle of the pain of that memory every time I hear it. Thus the image is strong in my mind, and the conversation last night brought about that image again. Then it went into my dream. Also! In a more humorous fashion, yesterday I bought another Halloween style syringe pen. I bought these a couple years ago and now every Halloween I get more. So indeed syringes were part of the day.