Yay! Analyze me please...🙂
Okay, here we go. I'm just going to write down some associations I get. You will have to tell me if I'm digging in the right direction ^^
The train is, *obviously*, some part of you that's been with you for a long time. It's old and rusty which, and it stops and you leave it. This might indicate that you either have to leave it (because it doesn't belong with you anymore) or that you already left it. Since the train (that particular part of you) scares you and it is going nowhere, it's a good thing to leave.
However, when you leave the train, there are parts of it (your stuff, and, more importantly, the kittens) you don't want to leave behind. So you take them with you.
Then you're walking in the wilderness. You've left something old and now you are somewhere new. It scares you, but you have the kittens, so you're not alone. Some try to leave you, but you get them back (because they belong with you).
Just when you are getting tired, you come to a clearing. I don't know how you felt there, but I guess it was a relieve to be out of the woods?
The woman knows you, and wants to tell you something. I think the woman (how old was she?) is your subconsciousness, trying to make something clear to you. It scares you, because you don't understand it. But you listen and engage in a sort of conversation. You are prepared to listen to her.
The woman tells you to go to church. Churches are safe places. Your family is there, which makes it an even nicer place to be. You've never been to church, or at least, not as far as you know. But the woman has seen you there. You are not really interested in what she says, or at least, so it seems.
You have to take care of the kittens. You want to keep them with you, but one wants to stay with the woman. It trusts her. You don't mind leaving it with her. With your kittens safe and close to you, you go back to where you came from. Do the woods still scare you? Do you
want to go back to the train? How do you feel about going back? Are you actually going back to the train? Or do you just really want to leave the woman?
It is important to think about how you felt about all this, your feelings and everything are very important, since it's the way your subconsciousness usually communicates with you. If you were happy to go back, it means that you have made peace with your "train", for example.
All this could indicate that you want to (or should) leave something, a part of yourself. But you don't want to leave it completely, hence the kittens. Leaving it is scary, but you're not alone. Another part of you wants to help, it tells you to go somewhere safe. You feel like you have never been there, but apparently, you have. Because you have seen yourself there. Maybe you didn't realise it was safe. You leave some of your old things behind, but not completely cos there's part of you watching over it, and you go back. (Now I'm completely guessing, but it wouldn't surprise me that, if you'd come back to the train, it'd have changed. Maybe it would be working again, or your family is there.)
It is important to remember, that dreams don't predict, or give advice. Everything in your dream is part of
you, it has nothing to do with anyone else. The fact that you dream in images is because your consciousness wants to stick images on your feelings. What those images are can be important (like I already said in my other post) but they don't have to be. It's more important how you feel about them and what you do with them. Dreaming simply allows you to access feelings you don't have time for, ignore, or repress when you're awake (the best example of these dreams are the ones where you are all alone. No-one likes to be left alone, but we don't care about it because when we are awake we're usually not alone, however, after a fight with a loved one, for example, we subconsciously fear to be left alone, and we dream dreams like that. Or at least, I do, sometimes). Or, alternatively, it's a way to deal with stuff some more than you usually do (for example, if you're under loads of stress you might have stressy dreams. But since you already know about the stress, it's just a continuation of the stress you experience during the day.) If you suspect it is the former, you might want to talk with someone about your situation, like a friend or a psychotherapist, or write it down (the old letter to yourself-trick is apparently a good one, and much cheaper than the therapist. Just write about your feelings, things that seem relevant to your situation, how you feel about it, etc. Let off some steam.)
(That last bit is some free advice for everyone
😛)
Also, not all dreams are suitable for explanation like this one. Some are just feelings you had during the day, things you experienced, revisited. Like watching a scary movie and then dreaming about it. (although, those could have a meaning. That you dream those after watching the movie, can be because your subconsciousness finally found a nice image to use)
Anyway, I'm developing RSI, so I'll call it quits. Good night, and sweet dreams ^^
