recurring dream metaphor for life

Date: 7/5/2016

Sometimes i have dreams from years ago that resurface so I can finish them. This time it was a nightmare from when i was in middle school. In this dream I am always a little bit younger than in real life which makes doing things a bit harder. But since im older now than i was then i was still plenty capable. The old dream: Essentially i live in this small fishing village in a remote mountainous tundra. A large factory run entirely by mechanical beings/creatures uses up all of our resources and have redirected the rivers and lakes in order to use them to generate electricity. I beg the warriors in my village to help but theyre all frightened and complacent. So i travel there on this odd little boat that sort of glides on land and also apparently it flies. Its not a sled because you still have to row it...almost like rowing through snow. When i get there i see my childhood friend from a neighboring village is waiting for me. The factory is very beautiful and modern and built entirely out of snow and ice and it has this gorgeous backlit atmospheric lighting but i know better than to be taken in by the structure's initial beauty. We sneak inside and run into a bunch of the mechanical creatures. They attack at lightning speed and capture my friend. I barely escape with my life out of a tiny hole in the side of the factory. In the dream it seems i have the ability to foresee immediate outcomes of my actions and i weigh the possibilities of what i could do to get my friend back. I decide to go back in but my attempt fails and this time the creatures follow me out and just as in about to be captured i wake up..... The new dream: Everything is the same up until we get inside. The factory doesn't seem to be just a factory anymore and it no longer has the eerie beauty it once had. On this inside of the structure is an office setting. Cubicles and a water cooler and the mechanical creatures sitting at desks. When they see us they all begin to scramble to capture us and we fight but my friend is captured once again but for some reason this time I know not to escape out of the tiny hole and instead i escape out the way i came in...and thats it.....i still didn't rescue my friend or defeat the creatures... When i first had this dream it was very profound to me and it really spoke to me. It helped me through some stuff i was going thru at the time.....and now i feel like im feeding off of that and it feels good. I feel like ive made progress in my life.