I had my first dream about you. I was at a party, in a neighborhood that felt like the Cove I guess. I was at a house party and only kind of wanted to be there. You touched me and i turned around and immediately planted a wet one right on my lips and held it there for what felt like a pretty long time. Long enough for anyone at that party to notice. We talked for maybe a minute or two and then you immediately asked if i wanted to ‘go somewhere’ so i said sure. Of course, given your dramatic introduction.
We walk around the neighborhood. I can’t remember if we were holding hands but it felt romantic. We found a grove on a hill that abutted peoples’ backyards. We sat by a tree. You walked away, presumably to pee or something, and came back after a couple of minutes. There was a large bed in one of the adjacent backyards and you recommended we lay down, insisting the homeowners wouldn’t notice or care. We lay down for a minute or two but we don’t sleep together there or anything. This whole dream the only time we do anything is just that first kiss, actually.
Next you insist the homeowners aren’t home, so we go inside. It’s a really big house. i remember it’s kind of messy, just things thrown about here and there. I ask if you’re sure this is a good idea and you say you live there, but for some reason i don’t really believe you. Sandwich is with me. I take his harness off. He roams around. We’re not there long and then your phone, something happens. So you leave without warning, leaving me there. I stay there waiting for you to come back, kind of nervous because I know I shouldn’t be there, but you said you’d come back.
I get a text from you, and I realize you’re already in my phone though now that I’m awake, I can’t remember your name. Even in the dream, when i go back to check my phone, your name has changed. Throughout the dream, I can’t remember your name except whomever I had it first saved under. Well guess what, you never come back and then a woman walks in the door. She’s startled but not alarmed. I go run towards the dog to put him on the harness, and as I make the excuse that I didn’t want to pee in her yard so i was just in there to use the bathroom but I’d be leaving. But upon leaving i explain that I was with this girl, and she said she lived here, but she left me there alone and I’d be leaving. She lets me leave.
Next I’m at a different kind of fancy house, I must have been invited. I think you texted me to meet you there. You also texted me what i thought was the funniest response to my predicament from the breaking and entering experience earlier in the day, but throughout the dream, my phone and my ability to read it and remember things from it is very unreliable.
Dan from Da Legna is in the kitchen, there’s some kind of grandiose experiment going on in there. I say hi to him first, even though i see you in the room, I give him a pat on the back and ask for some reason if Bun is around. He says no, and I’m relieved. You walk up and we embrace but not kiss for what feels like a pretty long time. It’s the first time really holding the shape of you, and in my dream i get the feeling that it just feels right. I tell people in the room the story about the break-in earlier in the day. Then you tell me the woman that i met who came into the house is your mom, and you do actually live there, and you think it’s funny that i didn’t believe you.
You’re still doing this flighty thing where you seem preoccupied and frequently leave the room, wondering if I’ll chase you or follow you or whatever, which of course I will. You leave to go swimming and i walk past and see you in the pool. I casually walk to my car. Not sure where Sandwich is at this point, he’s probably in the house with Dan, who is still cooking. At my car, i get ready to go swimming. I empty my pockets. I have more cash in my wallet than i remember. I find a lot of things in my pockets. I’m sorting through all of this stuff, trying to hurry up so i can get to the pool and join you. There’s something i want to tell you, but i can’t remember it now that I’m awake.
That’s just where it ends. But there are some themes here. Throughout the dream, whenever i find you, immediately you warmly greet me with passion; and then you walk away. It intrigues me, so i follow but I won’t chase you, and things get in my way. But you’re still really new, even though you’re already in my phone, i can’t remember you from before; but i must know you from somewhere.
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1. The Setting: The Party, the Cove, and the Houses
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The Party: You “only kind of wanted to be there.” This points to a sense of disconnection from social scenes — you’re present, but not fully invested. The kiss here arrives as a disruptive force: sudden intimacy in a setting where you weren’t engaged, suggesting a desire for something real in an environment that feels shallow.
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The Cove / Neighborhood: Familiar but slightly uncanny. This liminal backdrop frames the whole encounter — you’re not in alien territory, but not fully at home either. It’s about crossing thresholds.
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The Messy Big House: This is her — her life, her world. The mess represents complexity, lived-in chaos. You’re invited in but don’t quite believe you belong. That tension (is this hers? do I trust her?) echoes throughout.
2. The Kiss and Its Echo
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The first kiss is bold, prolonged, and very public. It sets the tone: passion, intensity, a spark that doesn’t need buildup. But it’s also the only kiss in the dream. After that, intimacy is withheld, exchanged for embraces and fleeting touches.
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This creates a push-pull dynamic: immediate connection followed by distance. The subconscious is reflecting a pattern of attraction where the other person is magnetic but elusive, sparking warmth and then leaving you in suspension.
3. Sandwich the Dog
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Dogs in dreams are symbols of loyalty and grounding. Sandwich’s presence is a stabilizing force — a tether to reality and responsibility. You remove his harness, giving him freedom, but every time tension rises, you return to him. It’s as though he is your anchor when the dream edges toward disorientation.
4. The Phone and the Changing Name
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Phones represent communication and connection — but here, yours is unreliable. Her name keeps shifting, unreadable, ungraspable. This screams of a subconscious wrestling with memory, identity, and uncertainty. You know she exists, she’s “already in your phone,” but you can’t pin her down. This is archetypal dream language for someone who feels both familiar and mysterious.
5. The Mother Revelation
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When you tell the startled homeowner the story, it turns out she’s the girl’s mother. This flips suspicion into belonging — you were in the right place after all. This could symbolize the subconscious craving reassurance: the need for confirmation that the attraction is not just fantasy, that you’re not trespassing emotionally.
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Mothers in dreams often symbolize authority or legitimacy — the dream saying: “Yes, this is real; yes, you belong here.”
6. The Flighty Behavior
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She greets you warmly, then disappears. Over and over. This is the heart of the dream: the rhythm of connection and withdrawal. It reflects your attraction to someone who is magnetic but inconsistent — or the idea of someone who cannot be fully possessed.
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Your refusal to chase, but willingness to follow, suggests self-respect in balance with curiosity. You won’t debase yourself to chase, but you’ll stay intrigued, drawn forward.
7. The Pool and the Pockets
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Pools are about immersion — emotions, the subconscious, vulnerability. She dives in while you are stuck at your car, emptying your pockets, sifting through what you carry. This is classic dream imagery: you want to join her, but you’re slowed down by the weight of what you bring with you (cash, items, baggage).
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The sense that you had more money than you remembered could point to undiscovered resources — potential in yourself you haven’t fully tapped. You’re “sorting” through what matters, but while you’re doing that, she’s already in the water, beckoning you.
8. The Unremembered Message
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The thing you wanted to tell her, but can’t remember, is powerful. It’s your subconscious holding back something important — perhaps the real key to what she represents. This is a classic dream trick: leaving you with the ache of the unsaid.
9. The Core Themes
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Magnetic Connection, Elusive Presence: She appears with warmth, then disappears, over and over.
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Trust vs. Suspicion: Is this her house? Does she live here? Do you belong?
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Belonging vs. Trespass: You’re welcomed, but you never feel fully entitled to be there.
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Anchoring vs. Disorientation: Sandwich keeps you tethered while phones, names, and directions blur.
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Readiness vs. Delay: She swims while you’re still sorting pockets. You want to join, but life’s clutter slows you down.
Interpretation
This dream reflects your longing for a connection that feels fated, magnetic, and right — but also your fear that the person (or the idea of the person) may remain elusive, flighty, beyond reach. She is your type, she’s already “in your phone” (in your life, somehow), but she slips away, leaving you chasing fragments of memory and sorting through your own baggage before you can fully join her.
It’s the subconscious staging the paradox of intimacy: the allure of someone both deeply familiar and yet perpetually just out of grasp.
✨ If I were to condense this into one line:
You’re dreaming of a love that arrives with blazing clarity, then drifts into mystery, forcing you to decide whether to trust, to follow, or to let go.