Zoo, all I usually deal with are run of the mill, symbolic dreams, the ones our normal unconscious processes put together for us to ponder: insecurities, fears, wishes, etc.
I HAVE had the "other kind"...like you...double dreams sandwhiched between tear strewn wake-ups of CJ making passionate love to an unknown blonde woman...unkown until she sent me a photo of herself via e-mail months later.
So....that said, has anything happened in the day or so before this dream that might have triggered wariness, doubt, suspicion? Even an internal event, memory etc?
I find it interesting from a standard dream interp that at the beginning of the dream you are driving your OWN car (cars represent the self, the mobile self, driving = control over life's twists and turns). BUT here your car BREAKS DOWN...
I think your idea of where the names of these strangers comes from is a solid one.
My question is what might have prompted your sleeping mind to choose THOSE particular names? What does your step mom represent to you?
She is the one "telling you" that there's been an A going of for "a while"...is she a trustworthy source?
Now Annie is her DOG? I LOVE it!! Just think of how clever the sleeping mind is. No matter if you love the critter, how often have we referred to straying men as "dogs" or women as "b!tches"?
Now...in the restaurant, you are totally focussed on H and don't even notice when "annie" disappears...
This IS interesting, isn't it...sounds an awful lot like what is said around here: the OP is NOT the problem!
Now I'm not sure about the inclusion of folks from his work...do you suspect that a potential OW might lurk there? They appeared to know her in the dream. Who is Dan?
The return from the bathroom...everyone is gone. Did you feel anxious to find your H? Feelings are real important to the interpretation. Or did you feel okay about it?
Either way it signals a disconnect, losing touch and the like. (I often dream that I need to call Cj but somehow can't get the call through)
In the final scene he denies everything and asks you not to leave, not yet.....
What is YOUR take on the dream, Zoo? Do you think it is somewhat literal, or perhaps predictive?
I know that I had a VIVID dream of CJ talking on the phone with OW several months ago...I woke up sobbing. I DID tell CJ about it, but only because he wondered why I was so "down" that day.
This one, it turned out, WAS just a vivid flashback, perhaps of the early days of doubt and shock.
I also wouldn't rule out your hypothesis about the seizure lending extra vividity to this dream...so why not try to look at it in both ways: symbolic, and premonitory?
