I had a weird atmospheric dream about someone I've never met. I'm losing my mind.

[ChickenSkin]

I frequented the online dating thread for a while, those on it might remember my stories of Mr Poorly?
Well contact fizzled out between us and I gave up on the whole dating thing and decided I was going to enjoy being single for a while longer.
Then last night, I had the most weird, atmospheric dream about this guy - despite the fact that we never actually met. In the dream, we had this lovely large (but not unrealistically large) house with lots of bedrooms (you may remember one of my concerns were we'd never live together as we'd never have enough room for all the kids). We were really close and in the dream, we were sitting on the bed. He was fastening his shoe laces and I reached over and hugged him, he turned around and we kissed like in a movie!! It was so odd but full of what felt like real emotion!! and then the dream jumped to us being out on the driveway. He had this people carrier car (in real life he has a scenic) and I was following him in my car and then he went out of sight and the dream ended.

WTF?

And then to make matters that bit stranger - he text me for the first time in days this morning after my dream.

Is it a "sign" that I should give this guy a go or am I simply going mad?

Haha dreams are so bizarre sometimes :)
I love signs! Well why not? They do say love comes when you least expect it.
Did you like him?

Dreams are emotions that have nowhere to go. In your dream the principle emotions you were experiencing were happiness, security and contentment. The 'movie' you created around those emotions is just that... pictures to make sense of the feelings. If you're looking for meaning therefore, the interpretation is that you're already happy in your skin.... not that this man is the answer to your prayers.

Mmm... I've got some reservations about what some may regard as a prophetic dream.

As I haven't read of your experiences with Mr P I may be off the mark, but it seems to me that your dream is a projection of your feelings about 'the one that got away' or 'the one that great things could have happened with 'if only' and, to that extent, I see it more as wishful thinking on your part rather than a portent or omen of things to come.

The fact that he's made contact with you today may be coincidence or temporary clairsentience on the part of either of you rather than any divinely ordained psychic link of the 'soulmates' variety.

The danger is that if you're the type that endeavours to make silk purses out of sows' ears by convincing yourself that Mr Wrongs are Mr Rights, the 'powerfulness' of the dream may, as Cogito has said, lead you to pin your faith on Mr P being the answer to your prayers and your view of him may be coloured accordingly.

There's no harm in you meeting up with Mr P if that's what you've got in mind. However, given that your dream ended when he 'disappeared' as you were following him in your car, which is the equivalent of him vanishing in a puff of exhaust smoke, it could be that he's the type that's here today and gone tomorrow

One thing I am curious about is, as it seems you haven't met Mr P in rl, what did he look like in your dream - or is it that you 'drew' him from a photo, so to speak?

FWIW, houses in dreams can represent ourselves and I would interpret your roomy dream house, again as Cogito has said, as you being comfortable in your own 'home' or 'skin' and that you're willing to share your 'home' - i.e. yourself - with a loving partner.

Thanks for the replies. I know you're right. I've had a few texts of him over the weekend - no indication of wanting to meet up, I think he just wants a texting partner. Can't be arsed with it!

I haven't read the online dating thread but a red flag for me is what you've christened him. Mr Poorly. Oh dearodearodear.

Check out page 9 of www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/1454238-The-Dating-Thread-Part-12-How-NOT-to-lose-the-will-to-live-Sense-of-humour-essential

Tollysfolly had a date yesterday with a twat mummy's boy guy who's looking for a gf before he has another an operation on his hip so she can help him dress afterwards

Could this be your Mr Poorly, Chicken?

Oh no Mr Poorly got chicken pox on the day before our first date and so cancelled on me. He's since took great delight in texting me about his symptoms and playing for sympathy. He obviously mistook me for someone who is sympathetic. I've come to the conclusion that he's after a texting partner, not a real life partner.

Do you reckon he's married and was describing one of his dcs' symptoms?

Well Izzy, I did get the impression that he wasn't telling me the whole truth. I mean, we were supposed to be meeting on the Friday night. He sent me a message Thursday saying he was off work very ill with chicken pox.
Now, I may not be qualified yet but I'm pretty sure that CP in an adult wouldn't just suddenly come on and knock you so badly that you were off work when you were absolutely fine the day before??
Anyway another thing I found odd was that despite being off work Thursday and Friday with this supposed supervirus - he still drove 10 miles to pick up his kids on the Saturday, drove another 10 miles back to his house and then took them to cinema on the evening. Would he even have his kids if he had chicken pox?? and surely nobody would go to cinema with CP!
Then he was off work with it all last week too and still managed to take his kids to cinema again last saturday night.

Something smells of bullshit!

Not so much chicken pox as too chicken to tell you the truth...

Why are men so bloody weird? I stopped texting him after the whole chicken pox thing, especially when the "Please feel sorry for me and check my symptoms" texts started but he still continued. Now he's wanting to arrange another date. He asked if I'm free this weekend or next. I said "neither - but I don't have anything planned in 3 weekend time" and he replied with "great! I would be happy to meet you then!"

He's certainly in no hurry is he.