Recurring dreams: Hotel

Saturday 30th July

Another hotel dream. Interestingly, the hotel itself has showed up in some of my previous hotel dreams.

In this dream, I was staying in a room on the 2nd floor, and the 3rd floor was haunted. I had another dream just like this not long ago, but I don't think I remembered to write it down. In the dream, I just avoided the 3rd floor, but I eventually had to go there for something.

When I got there, I went to a particular room. There was a man there who looked a bit like Ricky Gervais, but with stubble. He wore a long black trenchcoat. He was talking to another man in the room about my girlfriend and got annoyed when I interrupted. He told me I was getting into things I didn't understand. The scene then switched to my girlfriend being out in the street somewhere, but I don't remember the details anymore unfortunately.

The dream then went back to the hotel, and I discovered that there was actually a 4th floor, but it was not for guests. It was for staff use only and was used for maintenance purposes. I was with a group of about 3 other people including a short South American woman in her 40s. She seemed to know all about the 4th floor. I think she may have been a cleaner at the hotel or something. For some reason, I wanted to see the 4th floor, so she let me. She also made a point of telling me that if any guests were caught up there, they would be thrown out, so I had to be careful. That's about all I can remember.

This was certainly unlike any of my previous 4th floor dreams as the strangeness appeared to be happening on floor 3 this time (though one of my earlier dreams did have the spookiness happening in the basement). It was also intriguing that the 4th floor in this dream was out of bounds.


POSSIBLE MEANING: The out of bounds 4th floor is easy. I've been playing a game called Last Window on the Nintendo DS which has you playing an ex detective staying at an apartment complex that was once a hotel. In this game, there are mysterious things happening on the 4th floor, too (which in itself spooked me out a little bit; after having all those dreams, I then play a game with a similar plot - WTF!?). Anyway, that part of the dream seems to have been derived from the actual game as some parts of it are similar.

The Ricky Gervais lookalike was noteworthy, too. That dream character seemed to know stuff about me and I felt that he knew me well, much like the being in the Lionheart dream, but not anywhere near as powerful (the guy in this dream was definitely human, whereas the Lionheart being had only assumed a human form). Also, unlike the Lionheart dream, this character didn't seem especially concerned with me as an individual, I felt as though he was just a messenger of sorts but had no interest in me beyond that. He was just doing his "job". The thing with my girlfriend, I felt was definitely important, especially as it comes at a time when I've been having doubts about the future of our relationship.