I cant figure this out but I feel as if its important

[ChrisE]

Hi everyone, I hope someone here can shed some light on the meaning of this dream.
Ok I live in Arizona but I believe this dream is in OHIO as the landscape was much greener than Arizona and I was with my brother in law. OK . So my brother in law and I are driving around in a rural area. The road is curvy and thick with woods. Very green and lightly raining. As we are going around a curve I see a house just off the road and I wanted to look at it as Im a Real estate investor and I thought it would be a great property to buy. We turn around and turn off onto this dirt road that leads to this outdated two story house. We park a good distance from it and begin the walk towards it. About halfway there we hear a loud motor of a 4 wheel drive truck coming over this little mountain of what looks like cinders (red). As they get close they get stuck because the rear tires stop working and their front tires are the only ones turning. There is a woman driving and a man in the passenger seat and someone sitting between them. I say to them that thats odd that the rear isnt turning but the front wheels are as usualy its the oposite that happens.
Next thing my brother in law (Johnny) and I are in the house looking around. Its empty vacant and run down...then the people from the stuck truck are inside with us and we are standing around the kitchen talking about the potential for flipping this house for a profit. I feel anoyed that these people are here with us ...so i walk away from the group and wander upstairs. I enter this rather large room and head for the windows to check the view, I like it. This house has posibillities. As Im crossing the room to leave i notice some soft spots in the floor so as Im walking im not jumping up and down but i am testing the floor with my weight. BAM! thru the floor I go. Im upstairs away from view of the others. Im relieved nobody saw this, then I relalize im really stuck under my arm pitts. Imstruggling to get some kind of leverage to pull myself out but with no luck. Panick is stating to set in! I calmly call for Johnny hoping hell come up by himself and help me back up but he dosnt hear me. I can hear them so I call a bvit louder as my panic grows...nothing again I call Louder and more panicked finally someone is coming but just then Im throwing my weight around trying everything to free myself an as I lean all the way back Im able to get my arms to a position to push myself up. Yea! I did it I freed myself! then everyone shows up laughing...hahahah very funny I say!
Now the next morning I awoke very refreshed and happy knowing I was able to free myself. This has not been a reocurring dream Ive only had it once but its one of those dreams that mean something because its been atleast a week and its at the front of my mind everyday. I think about this dream and what its telling me thruout my workday everyday.
If someone out can shed some light on the meaning of this dream I would really thank you!
God Bless
ChrisE

[shadowofwind]

Hi. I had a dream a few months ago about a woman falling through a second story floor in a rural house in Ohio and becoming trapped between the floors. My dream was a little weirder than yours; the woman was sort of melded or fused into the floor, and I was worrying about how to get her out and to a hospital before she died. Other people seemed to be more concerned about money and keeping face than helping her. Afterward I seem to recall thinking that the first floor represented the subconscious and the second floor represented the conscious part of the mind. I think one reason the dream stood out to me is that I didn't fully understand what it was about, even though there were clear tie-ins with my family situation back in Ohio, and probably with my sister who is an emergency room doctor.

I think the bit with the truck in your dream is important to understanding the situation in the house. I'm short of time now and may not have time to get back to this until Monday or so, but maybe Athanor or Mazinua or someone will be kind enough to interpret both of our dreams. My first reaction is that the woman driving the truck is limited or imbalanced in her mindset somehow, and that this is causing the stuck on lava problem which is represented in another way by the scene in the house. Maybe she's too fixated on managing outcomes or only considering the needs of half her family or something. She might represent an either actual woman or a domestic/feeling aspect of a man.

OK, following is the dream from an e-mail I sent on February 28. Hopefully my dream will help you understand your dream, because I think its about a similar kind of thing but from a slightly different vantage point. By the way, my house is in southern Ohio, but the house in my dream feels further north.

A Caucasian man is trying to get me to sign an ambiguously worded
document which will ostensibly gain me several thousand dollars that I
have coming from previous employment. I don't trust him, and do not
sign, though I have apparently been tricked by him to a certain
extent. Other people in my environment, Chinese mostly, have been
more thoroughly tricked and lost everything.

I'm on the second floor of the house of one such woman. I try to
explain to her what I understand about the con artist man, but she
moves her attention to other concerns. A Chinese woman's scalp is
protruding slightly from the wood floor, as if she had fallen
ghost-like through the floor and become caught most of the way through
it. A few people are stepping around the scalp not paying it much
attention. I go down to the first floor, and the woman is hanging
unconscious with the top inch or so of her head welded into the floor
above. Her feet and maybe her hands are attached also, though those
weren't visible from the top.

I convince the house owner to call the hospital to get help. She is
reluctant, as if she doesn't want the loss of face of calling to say
someone fell out of physical reality for a moment and become fused
with her house. She seems to think that if we just leave the woman
alone the situation will resolve the same way it came about. I think
that if we don't help the woman quickly she will die.

She gives me the phone, and I talk to the lady at the hospital, trying
to convince her of the seriousness of the situation. She says there
are no sweet potatoes [at] the hospital, which seems to be some kind of
euphemism for a concern about whether the unconscious woman has
adequate insurance/finances. I react strongly that we need to do
something about the dying woman. She doesn't think that she should
have to put up with talking to someone who is being so rude.

There seem to me to be multiple elements blended in the dream. It
describes the money/education/career scam that everyone is caught in,
particularly [San Francisco] Bay Area Asians. The woman who feel through the floor
might be someone who became psychologically overwhelmed by difficult
circumstances and tried to continue without getting adequate help or
giving the necessary attention to the deeper part of themselves 'under
the floor'. That might refer to [name removed], and to people in my environment
overwhelmed and hypnotized by the stress of the collective way of
living. I think there's an actual coma patient involved also, and
being caught in the middle floor is like being not quite dead.
Finally, I think the woman is probably also you in some way. The
comatose woman reminds me a bit of my Chinese coworker named [name removed],
and I think the name equivalence is intentional in the dream.

[Point of possible clarification: that last paragraph is still from my e-mail to my sister,
so the "you" I refer to is her, not you.]

[shadowofwind]

An additional thought: fear of falling into the floor seems to me to be like fear mental illness, or becoming overwhelmed by difficult life circumstances.