Some background in real life: Two years ago, I moved 3000 miles away from home where my immediate family live, to take a job in WA. My wife came with reluctantly and hates it here in WA. I do too. It has all been more trouble than it is worth and has strained the relationship between me and my parents (as well as many others), which was already strained but I've begun to realize they never loved me as much as I once believed and it hurts. I still miss them though and wish everything could be happy again. I have not seen anyone in Texas in 2 years, where my wife and I have lived miserably since. So, back to the dream: I can't remember all of it but I was out at an amusement park or something with my mom and my nephew James who is 5, and some other people but I can't remember anymore who most of them were. There was also a part of the dream where I was laying in bed in some strange room by myself and the bed was surrounded by like a hospital curtain from the ceiling. Some more real life background: Do you know the roots or stolons of the plants in Texas that are all long and stringy and you pull them out and they keep on coming out and they have little knobs every few inches, maybe St Augustine? They're very thin maybe a third of an inch in diameter. In real life, I used to pull them up at my house as a child when I would work on my own garden and landscape the yard (front bushes). It was hard work and I got to deal with bugs more than I liked, but it felt rewarding. Well anyway, towards the end of the dream, I was helping James clean up something at a picnic table inside of some strange amusement park that was inside a building that was very big and had a glass ceiling. As I was cleaning up his food I decided to eat some of the scraps for some reason... Not something I would do in real life. After I did so, I don't know why but I started choking and whenever I tried to pull it out, it was those roots from those plants or bushes in Texas that I remember from gardening and they just kept coming out out my throat. Finally I decided I had enough and maybe I should just stop and they would go away, and as soon as I stopped trying to pull them out and just relax my throat, I woke up coughing
The dream may represent your current situation and your inner struggles. The amusement park symbolizes your desire for joy and entertainment, but it may also indicate that your life feels like a ride that you can't control. Your mom and nephew James may represent your longing for family and connection, and the other people in the dream might represent the new relationships you've formed since moving. However, the strange room with the hospital curtain suggests a sense of isolation and even imprisonment.
Your subconscious may be processing the resentment and frustration you feel towards the move and its impact on your relationship with your parents. The roots or stolons could represent the deep-seated problems that have arisen which you may feel like you're continually pulling at with no end in sight. Your choking on the roots might reveal a fear of being suffocated or trapped in your current situation. The glass ceiling of the building symbolizes a sense of limitation and a lack of clarity on how to move forward from this situation.
Overall, this dream may be urging you to find a way to reconcile with your past and to seek new opportunities that bring you joy. It may be a reminder of your desire for connection, both with family and with a sense of purpose in your life.