Dream: Tyrannosaurus Rex "Apartment"

You may have found the dream with D&D symbolism weird enough, but too bad for all of us my dreams do not stop being weird.

Not one bit.

Sometimes there are nice ones. Sometimes there are ones that might make sense to people. Some are short and simple.

Not this one.

This dream is from January 8, 2024, and it was after the Lightning Storm one.

So a man with black hair in a black suit (and white or light gray shirt/tie? Maybe with a blue tinge?) was forced by other people to go climb up (think there was a ladder) to the open jaws of a big dinosaur and live inside its mouth. He didn’t like that, but he went along with it. It may have been an all out threat to his life and not mere social pressure to make him do it. He got a black umbrella to hold over him so the dinosaur’s spit wouldn’t get on him, and he had servants or aides arrive to help him and they moved in furniture or stuff, it wasn’t super clear.

They even set up this little elevator within the mouth, that went from the lower part of the back of the mouth up to a higher hole that led to the throat. There was some kind of small shelf with stuff or a maybe a computer display up there, with a pale blue light. It was setup like that because the tall dinosaur was standing with its head lowered, so the angles made sense. The dinosaur was green.

When I thought about it after waking up, I concluded it must be a tyrannosaurus rex, a Tyrant King. It seemed that in order to gain power and privileges this man had to live in the jaws of a Tyrant, and things were made as comfortable as could be in such a surrounding (servants) but it was inherently gross (it’s a mouth…). And every time he was “elevated” (ladder, elevator) it may have gained him some form of power in society, but it also put him closer to the throat, he could be devoured by the monster at any time. And he was not allowed to leave.

While it’s not very clear to me now, I do think there was a display or monitor by the throat, and seems like he would use it as a means to monitor his situation/power levels or the world.

 The setting of the area was vague since it was dark, felt like night, but I'm not sure if it was indoors or outdoors, the dinosaur may have stood beside an outdoor seating area on a tiled patio with dim, warm light lanterns around for ambience and the other sides of the area were all a dark yard or street.  It was as though this group of people were by a fancy restaurant, hotel, or somewhere you would host dignitaries.  But they forced the man to enter the dinosaur's mouth and then moved slightly away, able to enjoy their fancy socializing while the man remained in peril.

It felt like Washington D.C. or some other significant seat of power.  Everyone was dressed in suits or suit dresses, they all seemed to work in government or influential, high status jobs.  In short, it seems like the powers that be forcing any newbies that enter their ranks into a precarious position to maintain control.  You want power?  You must live in the jaws of the Tyrant King, and endure disgusting surroundings (corruption).