This is a warning of current events in my life and my attitude possibly stopping me from protecting myself.

I was at work in a factory. I had my baby with me.  I loved him dearly and cuddled him.  He was maybe a week old or so. I didn’t seem to be working at the moment, or I had paused in what I was doing. I saw a fire had broken out and I needed to get myself and my baby out before we were hurt. But first I gathered up his things and put them in the diaper bag.  Then I realized he needed to be changed as his diaper was wet.  I laid him on a piece of machinery and began changing his diaper.  The fire grew bigger and wilder. I thought to myself, “I should be getting us out of here!  I could have done this after we got out!”  I already had his diaper off and had to finish.  I just hoped I hadn’t waited too long for us to safely leave. 

Significant Symbols:

Factory-regularity/predictability/hard work

Fire-Consuming conditions in one’s experiences/behavior/thinking/etc.

Baby-creative endeavor or project

Diaper-something that needs to be changed

In this dream,  I am shown that I am regular and predictable and work hard.  But there are conditions currently happening in my life that are affecting my work habits and interfering in what I need to do.  The baby represents a creative endeavor I have managed to bring forth.  It is not very old yet but I am very attached to it and very careful with it.  It, too, benefits from my hard work and regularity.  But these consuming conditions affecting my work could hurt me and my creative effort in a negative way and I must protect myself and it.  But I am driven to keep everything in order and delay what I should do to protect myself.  My logical mind recognizes I am doing things that could wait until I am safe.  Hopefully, I haven’t wasted too much time and will be okay.

Part of the problem with “consuming conditions” in one’s life is that you could find the meaning can apply anywhere because “consuming conditions” tend to effect many things-not just one.  In my case, the consuming conditions have to do with my workplace and what is currently happening because of new management.  I need to protect myself and my “creative endeavor”.  In this case, this would be my work which I have come to realize I actually enjoy.  I need to do what I must to make sure my work is “safe” (complete, done), and not worry so much about it being “cleaned up”.  Once I am safe from the “consuming conditions”, I can “clean up” as much as I need to.

Anytime you interpret a dream, you must take your ego out of the equation and apply the dream to the most obvious situation.  The dream may not mean what you would like it to, but you will gain far more from a realistic assessment of the meaning.