Back in Time and Searching for Our Roots

CR Writes:

I went back in time to early 1900’s . Gravel dirt roads farm houses. I was on a plastic toy type bike didnt fit with the times but it also didnt draw attention either. I was looking for my great great grandma cause I knew my great grandma wasnt born. I went off the road to a farm my bike slide all the way to a pasture fence there were a bunch of cows one licked my hand I could feel the it’s wet tounge it was gross. I got my bike and headed back to the road there was a line of trees at the base of them were different crystals I picked a smoky quartz and took it. I started down the road again and a like more modern truck started following me but I woke up before they could reach me and I never got to my great great grandma.

Our interpretation:

This dream unfolds like a journey rather than a story with a clear ending, and that is important. From the beginning, it places you in the early 1900s, surrounded by gravel roads, farmhouses, and open land. These details ground the dream in ancestry, origins, and a way of life that predates you. Dreams often use the past when the mind is thinking about where something began, not just historically, but emotionally or personally.

You are not fully part of that time, though. You are riding a plastic toy-like bike that does not belong in the setting. Even so, it does not draw attention. This suggests you are aware that you do not truly belong to that era, yet you move through it without resistance. This often reflects a feeling of being connected to the past without being trapped by it. You are visiting, not living there.

Your purpose in the dream is clear. You are looking for your great great grandmother, knowing your great grandmother has not yet been born. This shows a precise awareness of generational distance. You are not searching for a vague ancestor. You are looking for the point before everything you know began. That kind of search often appears when someone is thinking about inherited patterns, family history, or parts of themselves that feel older than their own lifetime.

The moment with the cows shifts the dream into the body. Sliding into the pasture fence and having a cow lick your hand is uncomfortable and vivid. You can feel it. Physical sensations like this in dreams often pull the dreamer out of abstraction. It is grounding, even if unpleasant. This moment can reflect contact with something raw or earthy, something real and unfiltered. It suggests that engaging with origins is not always neat or romantic. It can feel awkward or unsettling.

After that, you return to the road, but the dream gives you something to take with you. At the base of the trees are crystals, and you choose one, smoky quartz. The act of choosing matters more than the object itself. Trees often appear in dreams connected to lineage and continuity. Finding something at their base suggests selecting meaning from what has grown over time. Smoky quartz, as a symbol, often appears in dreams linked to grounding or protection, but even without symbolic reading, the key point is that you do not take everything. You take one thing that feels right.

This is a common pattern in dreams about searching the past. The dream does not reward the search with a meeting or an answer. Instead, it offers something portable. Something you can carry forward.

The final shift is toward the present. A more modern truck begins following you. This moment introduces urgency, but not danger. You wake before it reaches you. Dreams often end like this when the mind is transitioning back to waking awareness. The modern truck suggests the present catching up with the exploration. You cannot stay in the past indefinitely. You have taken what you needed.

It is significant that you never reach your great great grandmother. This is not a failure. Dreams that involve ancestral searching rarely end with a meeting. The point is not contact. It is orientation. The dream allows you to explore where you came from, notice what feels strange or uncomfortable, choose something meaningful, and then return.

Taken as a whole, this dream reflects a thoughtful search for roots rather than a desire to live in the past. It suggests curiosity about origin, identity, and continuity, combined with an understanding that you still belong in the present. You move between times without panic. You take something with you. Then you wake.

A useful question to sit with after a dream like this is not “Who was I meant to find?” but “What was I meant to carry forward?”