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In the last few months, I have started dreaming that I am trying to pack my suitcase to travel and that I can not locate all my belongings or I am running really behind and rushing.

The most recent one, I was on a school camp ( I left school 14 years agao), and we were leaving to return to our homes. Everyone else had their suitcase organised and packed.... I could see neatly folded towers of clothing in each of their cases, but mine was empty except for a pair of shoes (I always dream of shoes!!! Always!) and I was awaiting my laundry to be returned so that I could pack it and I was freaking out that I may not be ready or that I would delay everyone else. We were in a large log cabin in the mountains, and there was snow outside.

Which to be honest is how I feel everytime I travel, even tho I have taken between 6 - 12 trips a year for the last 8years, I still find it stressful on the day of departure.

Strange?

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- some of it sounds a bit like an anxiety dream

- a few thoughts:

- perhaps you are tired of all the travel and rush?

- such travel can be frought with uncertainties

- perhaps the 1\2 full suitcase is one that has not been fully unpacked???

- we all tote olde luggage around with us that needs to be dumped - easy to say, not so easy to do

- shoes?? to the ancients shoes symbolized liberty

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- do you do dream diary?

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

I don't keep a dream diary. I have done in the past, but when I've read them back, I just sound like a mental person as some of my dreams are epic hollywood adventures!

All my travel is for pleasure ... to visit my family who live abroad or to visit a new country. Sometimes I feel that I over do it, and no one ever comes to visit me ( I moved to the UK about 9 years ago), but it's still my choice. Travel is the one of the main reasons I choose to live here, and the thought of restricting my ability to travel (ie: moving back to my home country) makes me panic.

The shoes in my dreams are usually dirty or damaged, or I'm missing one of them. Hmmm... what would that suggest about my liberty?

Thanks for your time as always.

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- you said in part: "All my travel is for pleasure ... to visit my family who live abroad or to visit a new country. Sometimes I feel that I over do it, and no one ever comes to visit me ( I moved to the UK about 9 years ago), but it's still my choice. Travel is the one of the main reasons I choose to live here, and the thought of restricting my ability to travel (ie: moving back to my home country) makes me panic."

- to me, some of this does not sound like "pleasure"

- if not traveling leads to feelings of panic then to me this suggests some 'unhealthy' attachements to travel or pressures to travel that you might rather not have (ie, having to visit family because they do not visit you??)

- dirty or missing shoes? One way to think of this is the the travelling really isn't so "liberating" if one is sort of chained to it and that, in some ways, it is just getting olde

- the missing shoe might reflect some unconscious notions of: what if I didn't travel?? Or couldn't travel

- hope this helps in some way

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

I am kind off ticking off the countries of the world, to make sure I have seen it all. And yes, this now seems unheallthy and almost greedy. Your point has lead me to think about why am I so desperate to see everything, as it's almost like I am collecting countires and need to continue to do so.

Growing up travelling was seen as expensive, glamourous -something others would do. And stories of Europe/South America/Asia would inspire awe, facination and jealousy in me. I associate it with this???

Thank you. I think I need a therapist now.

<When I said my travelling is for "pleasure", I wanted to differenciate it from travelling for business/work.>