What are border dreams about?

Hello everyone!

Yesterday night I had an interesting dream. Before giving my own interpretation, let me narrate it.

As the title suggests, I dreamt of a map of a continent resembling North America. The boundaries between sea and land were clear and so were the borders between regions and countries.

There were many exotic names of all the various cities (I also remember reading "Oregon" and "Seattle, although I never visited these places and have never been in the US or Canada).

And now my comment on this dream.
I interpret the map with all of its details as a representation of who I am. A distinction here is to be made between land and sea/ocean. Land would represent the surface, i.e. the conscious life with all of its different aspects, in this case the cities. The sea, on the other had, is the subsconscious.

The dream indicates that I have explored myself on the surface and that there is now order. I now have a clear idea of my conscious life.

What do you think about it?

I’m not quite sure how this happened or why but, in the dream I just had, I wasn’t myself. I was of Chinese, Japanese or Korean descent (forgive me for being so uncultured and not 100% knowing 😭💔). The dream wasn’t even in English, yet I understood what was going on? You may think, “oh, it’s like you were watching a movie then.” Not exactly, because I was the person in the dream. It started out being separated at a border, all kinds of different races. Saw kids taken from their parents. Some drowned trying to escape...I/whoever I was made it across with 2 others I apparently knew. After that, myself, or whoever I was, and others were being led into this building. Around each corner there was a stop where we/they were checked and given a drink and/or pills. Whoever I was caught on that the drink shouldn’t be swallowed and only pretend to take the pills. Made it to a third stop with 2 pills, one black and one white, and had to fake taking them (they were huge) and whoever had gone ahead first managed to disarm some guards I guess. So they told us/them to run. Then I woke up. Just so strange to me that I wasn’t myself and the dream wasn’t even in English. The only other language I can kind of speak is Spanish and this was not Spanish.

So a little bit of background, I graduated college and acquired my Bachelor’s in Nursing around August of 2020, so right now maybe I have been practicing Nursing for about 7-8 months now. Work has been fine, stressful but I would say worth it, this is because I started when the Covid Pandemic is hot and each place I work at has been really really stressful due to high workloads and short staff. So along the way, my girlfriend got pregnant with our first child (she’s in her 26th week now.), I was a little scared at first because we were planning to have our first one at 30 years old (we’re both 23 btw); mind you we were scared not because of the financial burden, but because this is something new to us.

I usually work, kind of like leaving all the work bullshit at work and try my hardest to not bring that at home. Life is good pretty much, never had to struggle financially now, especially due to me not having minimum wage anymore, so pretty much no worries, just waiting for our kid at this point :)

So this is where the dream part comes in.

I like to have a beer once in a while to help me sleep; especially when work is stressful, trust me, being a Charge Nurse on graveyard shift, lots of issues do come such as: patients having issues, coding and all, then add on top of that the staff that are always bickering about some random bullshit and you are expected to deal with it, acting like they are not adults and most of them are as old as your parents.

So after my shift one day, I slept around 8am and dreamt of me being at work, then something like this happened, I guess two patients pissed me off and I went off the rails and grabbed a metal pain and suddenly jabbed one patient in the neck, in which he bled profusely. I guess this patient was not even 100lbs because i managed to carry him and hide him in the bathroom, and then I went to the other patient and did the same thing, and sure enough this time I was caught by one of the CNAs I talk to all the time since we’re both from the same country in Asia. What happened after that is I dashed to my desk, grab my keys, and ran to my car, I even had this sequence where one of my coworkers tried to grabbed me and I juked her, then waiting by my car were a bunch of staff barring me to prevent me to go hop in my car, I somehow managed to overpower 4 people and got inside my car. But in the car i think 3-4 people were waiting inside, but they did not do anything, they just stared, one of them was the CNA i just mentioned. My first thought was driving to Mexico (guess which state is this) and kind of go from there, my mind was scattered at this point, I was crying, and then I arrived at the border and military was involved, I wasn’t busted or anything, and like I said the people i was with did not say anything. It fast forwarded a lil bit, and the CNA i mentioned, talked to me,on why I fucked up, why I ruined my future, in which I responded “Because of those two fucks I am ruined, and I will never see my wife and child ever again”. I then started crying and contemplating suicide, it fast forwarded again and this time I am on a cliff, thinking of jumping, then everything flashed in my mind, every experience I had..... I then closed my eyes, I think I died in that dream.

I woke up then around 1230 p.m. sweating and crying. What consoled me is that my pregnant wife is with me, first thing I wanted to touch was her belly. I told her what happened and she just told me to pray.

That dream was yesterday, I am still bothered by it.

Feel free to ask and to answer what the does this mean

Edit: tired as hell, wrote this at work, phone is acting really slow too, disregard any errors, for you grammar nazis here; I will edit it and make it look prettier. And please feel free to ask me more details as not everything is here, and if you have any ideas what the hell this means, any interpretations are welcome!

In my dream I wanted to go to sleep. I entered my bedroom, everything was gloomy and the furniture was misplaced. I take pride in having a beautiful home so this distressed me. It gave me creepy vibes and I didn’t feel comfortable sleeping in my bed room.

There was self portrait of myself that stood out. It was bright and vivid unlike the other furniture in my room. The border in the picture was bright white. My portrait was black and white. I looked very put together, makeup, etc. I had a cute little smile on.

I didn’t think much of my portrait, just that it was much brighter than everything else. I did end up sleeping in my bed.

Apparently could mean something tragic will happen to me in real life? I’m not sure tho because the portrait was a happy one.

Any thoughts ?

So I had this really bizarre dream least night, bordering on a nightmare. I don't remember the exact start, but I was walking along a riverbank in a desert or mesa sort of area. The water was clear and calm and I could see fish in the river. They were all metallic silver with specks of other colors, mostly red and orange. Then I noticed a dead one, buried in the sand underwater. When I saw the dead one, everything got dark as night. I think it actually became night in the dream. so I followed the river upstream and uphill to a sort of precipice which seemed to be the origin of the of the river. At the top were some bushes, all dry but still having leaves. Then a black, 4-legged figure steps out of the water. At first I thought it was a panther. It ignored me. It walked down the other side of the bank, away from me. Then it took off running. As it ran, everything shifted: the river was gone, the desert bushes turned into the lilacs I have in my back yard. The creature stopped running. I could see now it was a huge dog, think something the size of a Great Dane with the build of a Doberman. It also had no tail. Realizing I was at home and potentially in danger, I stood up, and the dog turned to look at me. I was only maybe 10 feet from my door and the dog was easily 30 feet away from me, and downhill. So I ran towards my door but the dog shot like lightning, teeth-bared towards me. I reached the door, opened it and shouted to let my parents (whom I live with) know that there was a big black hound outside. But I couldn't finish the sentence. I think I managed to close the door before the dog got me, but everything that had happened seemed to fade into nothing and i couldn't finish yelling my sentence because i had nothing to say. then the dream just dissolved away. i have no idea what this dream means. if someone could tell me, I'd really appreciate it.