Angel,
Could you provide a critique of my first interpretation so we can understand whether it applies properly? Dream sessions at the Forum are learning tools and follow up responses are how we determine if the interpretation fits or not.

As for this dream. The opening statement suggest the dream is focused on you and your now ex. The car is you, and possibly having to do with the relationship. The garage is where you store your emotions and what you likely can not find a way out of are the emotions related to your ex. The continuing language would be symbolically describing those emotions. For a time you are/were unable to function normally but that was corrected {clutch}. The reference to the 'clutch' may be more about your ability to survive and continue on in 'clutch' situations. Or a need to be able to do so {if you are still having a hard time with these emotions then it would point to a need to do so}. The references to the older man may be pointing to an actual male person and/or it could be pointing to your own wiser masculine abilities/identity. The parking of your car in a particular space may symbolize putting yourself in a place you bets fit emotionally. Strength comes from your masculine aspect and it may be you need to consult those abilities to get past the emotional conflicts having to do with your breakup.

The dormitory is also you, related to your ex.The other girl is not you, but in fact is you. She would be an aspect you do not accept, understand or repress. The general contents of the following language may suggest you preferred to be somewhere else than with him. It may be you visualized yourself in undesired confines with him if the relationship continued {in a regimented relationship you did not feel comfortable}. What this dialog may be doing is providing your true emotions about the relationship even though you still have strong emotional feelings for him. Why did you break off the relationship? Both of you are wearing clothes in the dream that could suggest a life of regimentation, a ho drum situation you do not wish to find yourself in. Dreams reflect your honest and true emotions and in this dream you state. "I must've said something to him about what I thought was true". That provoked a response about being in the Navy. Being in the Navy requires a particular structure to your life. Perhaps what he offered was not the structured you wished for in life.
Again, your true emotions.





Jerry