A Dream of Apple

I woke up this morning around 4:30am remembering a dream…

I was in the backyard of my grandparent’s house. And I was there with two people —a man and a women—and they were both reps for Apple. I hadn’t met them before, but I was working with them—I had just joined the team. I talked for a while with the woman. At any rate, the guy was shooting off model rockets into the sky (something I used to do as a kid). The weird thing was that attached to the rocket was an Apple Cube. The guy was shooting a Cube up into the air…repeatedly. The cool thing is that the Cube would come falling down out of the sky and bounce harmlessly off the grass. It withstood the impact.

That’s all I remember. Weird, huh? Maybe it’s a sign that I’m working too hard. I figure it’s okay to dream about work though. It’s strange though how childhood memories of shooting off rockets and my grandparent’s backyard were mixed with more recent stuff like the Apple presentation I went to and the work I do with Macs. Anyone care to interpret?

Update: I consulted my friend Amy here in Washington DC who is an expert on these matters. She said that dreams come from the individual and only that individual can truly interpret the dream. But, another person can help you along in the process of discovering what a particular dream meant. Amy was willing to oblige.

What I uncovered in talking this out with Amy (while we were at Cafe Mayorga in Silver Spring, Maryland) is that the childhood memories represent a coming home for me. The shooting rocket I could clearly tell was about getting past my inhibitions. And the Mac Cube was also significant because it was about getting in touch with my creative, freer side. The fact that it bounced unharmed off of the grass was a sign of my own resilience and ability to work through adversity. And the Apple reps were representative of my new job at the School of Journalism. This dream was telling me, in short, that my job change was a good one—it has put me more in touch with those qualities in me that I want to enhance.