First and foremost, ZOO I don't care HOW good your memory is start keeping a dream journal!! Today, right now!
Seriously we lose an amazing % of the dreams and or details if we don't record them asap. There are times when all I'll have is a suggestion of a dream about such and such and I have to PRINT OUT what I wrote that morning to remember the details!
Also, it's a great habit to add a "thoughts" section at the bottom of each dream (date them of course!). In this section I note any connections, interpretations, any parallels to the FEELINGS or THEMES in the dream and what's going on in my waking life.
Also look for plays on words, images which make puns
There's an infamous dream of a woman who dreamed she was in a swimming pool with her 8 year old on her shoulders. Her H was supposed to be taking a photo, but the woman kept going under the water sputtering and gasping.
What came to her as interpretation was, well simple and succinct...she was "drowning" under child care responsibilities and her H wasn't "getting the picture"!
I LOVE that one!
Falling dreams are fairly common...but pteradactyls???
Land of the lost...how old are you? That was my era!
You see, if you kept a journal, you could look back to when you had these falling dreams and be able to link them up with what spurred them in your waking life.
Feeling "preyed upon"..."feeding others"..."being pecked to death"...etc.
Falling usually means being out of control, fear of failure, but in your dream, it's pretty much an ESCAPE isn't it.
And an escape from a NEST (Hmmm...lots of possible associations there, huh?) with hostile inhabitants.
Have you ever turned the fall into flying, Zoo? My first flying dream involved me trying to escape a witch in my headboard (mom?), becoming LUCID (aware) in the dream and realizing that If I jumped out the window I would fly, not fall...so I did!
