Pier

Dreaming about a pier with no end

What does it mean to dream a structure continues further than it should?

Reported, and it is the impossible-extent finding at sea.

The pier continues past any reasonable length. Dreamers describe walking and not arriving, with water on both sides and no visible end.

That is the endless corridor, the station with no edge and the library that outgrows its building, transposed. Space is produced where attention goes, and a dreamer who keeps walking keeps being given somewhere to walk.

The sea makes it starker than the indoor versions, because there is nothing on either side to distract from the fact that it is still going.

Where this reads well

A clean version of a well-described pattern in an unusually bare setting.

Where it is harder

Non-arrival with nothing either side is reported as isolating as well as tiring.

Worth asking yourself

Did I reach the end? Could I see one? How long did I walk?

Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.

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