I am posting this dream a day later, so I hope that I have not forgotten much of it.  The dream was the first dream in a series that I have had and been able to remember so well.

It’s hard to pin point exactly how it started, but I was over by a close friend’s house on my bike and somehow I ended up inside.  I heard someone coming and knew that I wasn’t supposed to be there, so I hid in this room that seemed more like a pantry stacked full of random items.  My friend’s partner came in the room and found me.  I felt like I was hiding like a scared mouse.  I was confused as to why I was in their house, but he seemed less than surprised.

I stood near the door way talking to him.  The topic of conversation escapes me but it was a calm and casual conversation.  She sat behind me shaking her head ‘no’ as if she didn’t want me to say something, but there was nothing controversial being said.  I came to and left from the house a few times.  The house was debilitates and the best way that I can describe it is it was like a rundown drug house.  The front room was made out of a school bus that was falling apart and had been painted white.  There seemed to be way too many people living there and I found out that she was sleeping on a pull out couch with several other people, so I urged her to leave with me.  She never seemed willing to leave.

The area seemed like a war zone, I had to stay alert as I rode my bike over to her house each time.  Once I was passing her house as I heard the car approaching, it sputtered and broke down right out side the house and I was attempting to help him fix it.

In one of the times that I was coming or going, I starting talking to this girl, she introduced herself with the same name as my friend.  I didn’t think much of it but later I told my friend and she gave me a concerned look and told me that this girl’s name was Ophelia and she has no idea why she would lie and tell me otherwise.  She suggested that I stay away from her because she was bad news.

Throughout the dream, I was trying to convince my friend that she should leave with me and that she deserved better than this.  She continuously refused, but I could see in her eyes that she wanted to go.

At some point in my dream, I had had my bike right there with me and the next thing I knew, it was missing.  I searched for it frantically for a moment and then suddenly gave up and just walked off.

After I told someone about my dream and started to think about it more, more details came back to me.  I looked up a few things and I was surprised as to what I found.

The name Ophelia is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Ophelia is: Help.

Bicycle

To dream that you are riding a bicycle signifies your desires to attain a balance in your life. You need to balance work and pleasure in order to succeed in your current undertakings. If you have difficulties riding the bicycle, then it suggests that you are experiencing anxieties about making it on your own. If you are riding a push bike, then it means that you want to move forward at your own pace and by your own power.

Shack

To see a shack in your dream represents your undeveloped self. You need to expand your Self. Alternatively, the dream may also be a pun on “shacking up”.

Car

To dream that your car won’t start indicates that you are feeling powerless in some situation.

Hiding

To dream that you are hiding suggests that you are keeping some secret or withholding some information. You may not be facing up to a situation or dealing with some issue. However, you may be getting ready to reveal something and confess before somebody finds out. In particular, to dream that you are hiding from some authority figure (police, parent, teacher…), implies feelings of guilt.

War

To dream of a war signifies disorder and chaos in your waking life You are experiencing some internal conflict or emotional struggle which is tearing you up inside. Alternatively, the dream indicates that you are either being overly aggressive or that you are not being assertive enough. Perhaps you need to be prepared to put up a fight in some area of your life.

Edit from 2025: I still remember this dream and thought about it when Taylor Swift came out with a song referencing the name this year but I have been hesitant to listen to it because I am a bit afraid for some reason. I was in Shreveport staying at the hotel when I had this dream. The next day at work, I was playing Spotify for the agents and I heard the following song for the first time and just froze. I believe that I mentioned some part of it to M but likely not very much. Probably the part about meeting the girl in the street and her telling he the wrong name. I didn’t reread the above today because for some reason its one of those things that gets to me a bit.

Upon checking, it was released in February 2016.

Honey, I love you
That’s all she wrote