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Q: I had a dream that I was on the beach with some of my friends. I think we had gone to like this island and they had like one of those hotel shares and if you went to certain areas you would be at the beach. So I went to the beach with some of my friends and one of them is this girl that my boyfriend and I (in real life) talk about maybe one day having a 3some with. I dreamt that I asked her if she wanted to be daring and go skinny dipping. She was like yeah. She took off and had all of her clothes off and was in the water before me. Then I came and it was so awesome. I was diving and breathing underwater and totally relaxed. Somehow it turned into a movie. When we reviewed the movie at the end of the night, everyone was so proud of my choice and how care free I was, one girl even said that she wished she could be as proud of her body as I was, and she was skinnier than me. I was very proud of my self and happy with the choice I had made. When someone asked me why I did it I said, " I'm glad I did it, I have always admired people who have been able to skinny dip. They are not worried about anything. They just take a chance and go for it". Does anyone know what this dream means? I haven't been able to find anything under skinny dipping that applies to me cause they are usually about being embarissed or something, and I was not embarissed at all.
Thank you for your input.
Dreams are very clear when we are not.
1. You ask someone else to be daring first in the dream...your confidence may be based upon seeking and gaining her approval either for the threesome, or in general, because you admire her.
2. Your experience while gratifying still is lacking something...you replay it like a movie and your peers/friends approve and praise you. You actually profess to the audience that you admire people who can dive right into something completely naked or vulnerable.
3. This dream is obviously about your desire to shed your inhibitions, your admiration of this girl, whom you hope will take the lead and finally your need for peer approval once you have risked being vulnerable. Clearly you are playing out emotionally how you hope a threesome will feel.

4. Reality Check. Dreams are pretty much under our control and in real life people are not. Examine your desires as well as your deeper needs and fears. Proceed with caution, because while fantasy is great, acting out in reality is different...not necessarily bad, but usually not what your expectations predicted. While I believe your dream is a metaphor for your desires, including sex fantasy; it is not entirely about the act of sex. Sex itself can be a metaphor for power and possession...we seek to become one with another soul whom we admire and gain something of that magic for ourselves in the chemistry of intimacy...which ironically is more often achieved in non-sexual relationships.

5. Keep listening to your dreams, your heart, your mind.

That you very much. That was some awesome advice. I am going to review that.

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