Dream Analysis

[edarrin]

^^Yeah I have had a lot of people die that I was friends with in the last year, including family as well, and my best friend about a year and a half ago

Had that happen to two best friends when I was a teenager/young adult in the 70's. Both directly drug related.

Weirdest dream I ever had was shortly after the second one died, I dreamed his 'presence' was in my room. So I said 'OK , if you're really here push me to the bottom of the bed'. And in my dream I had the sensation of being pushed to the bottom of the bed. I jolted up in the usual position so it was a dream but did that seem real at the time.

 

[xyther4523]

when i do sleep, i always get very lucid dreams..here is one of them:

i snort some substance at my house, and i go absolutely insane. Im thrown in what looks like a military bunker but its really a fucked up mental instituation. All the time this is going on, i am always under the influence of this PCP-like drug. I feel no pain, no emotions, nothing. Everything looks black and white, and my vision is very bouncy.

The mental institute im in has blood all over the walls, and i am chained to a wall with another person in the room eating their arm (blood is going everywhere) and they immediatly pull out some sharp object and stab me in the chest. I can feel the coldness of whatever im getting stabbed with, but no pain or anything. There seems to be no doctors around, and when they are there they just perform "scientific experments" on the people. Everybody around me is somehow bleeding profusely and doing something wrong.

After getting stabbed my rommate leaves the room and my chain is somehow gone. I walk into the hallway and see police officers shooting some of the people in the institute with machine guns for fun. They laugh about it then shoot somebody else. Just hammer the body of the 'victim' with hundreds of shots. Brain matter etc is always on the floor, along with piss and shit.

After staring at the police officers they turn around and ask wtf im staring at, i am unable to reply (because of this 'drug') and then they shoot me a few times but i feel no pain, just again something cold go in my body.

After all this shit, i somehow manage to grab one of their guns and get out of the place..i am outside trying to fun but i keep fallin and have a bad loss of motor control, so im not moving fast. There are huge barbwired fences, rain, and spotlights on huge towers all over the place. I find a hole in the barbwired fence and go thru, i start getting shot at and i somehow manage to kill one of the shooters with the gun i had. I end up losing a lot of blood and getting shot to death and die.

-Well thats the dream, i wake up when i die. That was the latest one, but it reoccurs all the time, sometimes a little different, sometimes like that. I can play it all thru my head now..but somehow its a 8 hour dream, or compacted into 2 hours..but thats how it happens. Any ideas of what that means? It doesnt scare me, not when i wake up, not when i think about it. Its just wierd..and horribly disgusting to think of. Some insight would really be appreciated cause it happens so often and it HAS to mean something.

lasthurrah19- my dreams seem like yours. IRL, i havent gone thru trauma, but i have been shot and am in chronic pain.

 

[izzy66]

i've been interested in lucid dreaming, etc., for a long time. i always keep pen and paper close by so i can scribble when i wake up.
i often have dreams where i am partly awake but still in sleep paralysis. i am aware of a presence in my room and feel that it is a physical threat to me. often i feel this presence touch me and even though i'm aware it's a dream, i am in a state of total terror. i try to wake up, struggle out of the paralysis, and usually end up making some kind of noise to "break" the dream. occasionally these dreams happen 5 or 6 times a night and it's very difficult to actually get restful sleep when this happens. even though i know these are "just" dreams and i am safe, i am still terrified while caught in the web of these night terrors. for what it's worth, i often wake from these dreams at 3:14 a.m.

one positive- i have gotten some really good bits of writing from these experiences and have actually had two poems published that had roots in these dreams.

 

[**hAyzzZZ**]

Have you being trying to heal yourself in the last couple of years? It seems like you have been!!

Kind of, I mean... I know the cause of the nightmares but what can I do. I can't exactly change what's happened.

I can't offer much advice other than talk it out and find the root of the problem if you don't already know. I feel bad for you though, those dreams are probably very horrifying.


-dp

They are. I'm sick of them, but I don't know how to change the root of the problem, they're memories I can't exactly erase, I'm trying to just move on, but clearly my mind wants to haunt me in my sleep....?

 

[lasthurrah19]

A few people posted their dreams and I just wanted to say I will go back asap - probably tomorrow night - and give you any insight I can muster. Right now I'm on 40mg ambien and not fit for such analysis. And help with any of the other questions if possible.

 

[lasthurrah19]

I also had an INSANE dream about 2 months ago that was so insane I wrote it down (3 pages front and back, college ruled), very detailed and very strange to me, brought it to my therapist's and she had some ideas but nothing I really felt clicked. If I can find that paper I will post it.

Wow I'm high, but anyway I want to express how happy I am to have this place, you guys are just like me and no one's judged me so far. Thanks everyone! Most message boards are dicksizing/boobsizing competitions and not real down to earth people talking about real down to earth things.

 

[LivingInTheMoment]

Kind of, I mean... I know the cause of the nightmares but what can I do. I can't exactly change what's happened.









Have you tried regression therapy=neurolinguistic (NLP) therapy=or hypnotherapy by a good psychotherapist ???

They owe to be able to get to the bottom of it!!!

 

[samb834]

Doubt this mean anything of any significance but I've been have some really bizzare dreams lately but this is one I had last night and the only one I can really remember but the details are still kinda fuzzy...

I was walking to a house that is just around the corner to my parents house and I ended up buying three of those really wrinkly japanese dogs as a present for my dad, from a guy called Jesus... The most vivid part of the dream that I remember is seeing myself in a photograph that was taken of me and the three dogs sat on my parents sofa...

Like I said, probably meant nothing of significance but thought I'd share it...

Over the last few nights I know I have had some really strange dreams but cannot remember them in any detail. I always wake up immediately following the dream so I'm going to take the advise of keeping a notebook on my bedside table and jotting down the main points, will hopefully jog my memory the next day...

 

[samb834]

Also, when I wake up in the morning to my alarm, and I snooze it, I get nice 10 minute spurts of dreams almost every time.

I get that also, usually when my dreams are at their most intense and bizzare but again I immediately forget the details... Definitely going to try the notebook...

Unfortunately I have absolutely no knowledge on dream analysis so cannot contribute anything of much relevance to this thread, apart from my ramblings about wrinkly dogs etc...

 

[xyther4523]

i guess nobody wants to try at my deam

also, im paralyzed during the whole thing. I can wake up and see my room, yet still be dreaming, and ill start shaking trying to get out of the paralysis. thats not a seizure..is it?

 

[lasthurrah19]

xyther, that is sleep paralysis, and is definitely not a seizure. I get it very often. Part of your brain is awake and part is asleep. It's terrifying until you realize it's NOT permanent (and never can be) and you WILL wake up soon. Try wiki search for sleep paralysis, or google it. Also common with people who have experienced trauma at night (usually sexual), but seen in the general public as well.

 

[lasthurrah19]

when i do sleep, i always get very lucid dreams..here is one of them:

i snort some substance at my house, and i go absolutely insane. Im thrown in what looks like a military bunker but its really a fucked up mental instituation. All the time this is going on, i am always under the influence of this PCP-like drug. I feel no pain, no emotions, nothing. Everything looks black and white, and my vision is very bouncy.

The mental institute im in has blood all over the walls, and i am chained to a wall with another person in the room eating their arm (blood is going everywhere) and they immediatly pull out some sharp object and stab me in the chest. I can feel the coldness of whatever im getting stabbed with, but no pain or anything. There seems to be no doctors around, and when they are there they just perform "scientific experments" on the people. Everybody around me is somehow bleeding profusely and doing something wrong.

After getting stabbed my rommate leaves the room and my chain is somehow gone. I walk into the hallway and see police officers shooting some of the people in the institute with machine guns for fun. They laugh about it then shoot somebody else. Just hammer the body of the 'victim' with hundreds of shots. Brain matter etc is always on the floor, along with piss and shit.

After staring at the police officers they turn around and ask wtf im staring at, i am unable to reply (because of this 'drug') and then they shoot me a few times but i feel no pain, just again something cold go in my body.

After all this shit, i somehow manage to grab one of their guns and get out of the place..i am outside trying to fun but i keep fallin and have a bad loss of motor control, so im not moving fast. There are huge barbwired fences, rain, and spotlights on huge towers all over the place. I find a hole in the barbwired fence and go thru, i start getting shot at and i somehow manage to kill one of the shooters with the gun i had. I end up losing a lot of blood and getting shot to death and die.

-Well thats the dream, i wake up when i die. That was the latest one, but it reoccurs all the time, sometimes a little different, sometimes like that. I can play it all thru my head now..but somehow its a 8 hour dream, or compacted into 2 hours..but thats how it happens. Any ideas of what that means? It doesnt scare me, not when i wake up, not when i think about it. Its just wierd..and horribly disgusting to think of. Some insight would really be appreciated cause it happens so often and it HAS to mean something.

lasthurrah19- my dreams seem like yours. IRL, i havent gone thru trauma, but i have been shot and am in chronic pain.

I somehow missed this one the first time. Okay, this seems like a very very symbolic dream. There are lots of different gruesome things going on - stabbings, shootings, people eating themselves etc... and this is your peer group in the dream! Sounds like you have trust issues with other people, big trust issues, especially with people you see as like yourself. In the dream you try hard to get out of the situation you're in, ultimately to fail and die. Are you afraid your past will catch up with you? Afraid that when you're ready to put it all away it will just be impossible? I don't know you at all, these are just some guesses.
Another thing, if you take the approach that ever person in the dream is an aspect or representation of yourself, I would say it looks like you self sabotage yourself a lot, and keep yourself at a high level of distress.
You mention being stabbed and shot repeatedly, but not feeling any pain. Maybe you have issues, serious life and death stuff (maybe from childhood?), that you realize are big issues (you feel the knife/bullets going in) but have not emotionally dealt with yet (you don't feel the immense pain such an injury would sustain).

Just some ideas. Again I am no professional and I feel like I am missing a big part of this dream.

 

[lasthurrah19]

Doubt this mean anything of any significance but I've been have some really bizzare dreams lately but this is one I had last night and the only one I can really remember but the details are still kinda fuzzy...

I was walking to a house that is just around the corner to my parents house and I ended up buying three of those really wrinkly japanese dogs as a present for my dad, from a guy called Jesus... The most vivid part of the dream that I remember is seeing myself in a photograph that was taken of me and the three dogs sat on my parents sofa...

Like I said, probably meant nothing of significance but thought I'd share it...

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This dream seems like it's missing an important piece, like you said, it's fuzzy. However, I would put out some food for thought - perhaps you are feeling guilty for not spending the time you used to with your father (maybe you do spend lots of time with him, I have no idea), and are trying to give him new companionship. Also, maybe you attribute three of your main attributes to your father and in this symbolic dream you are acknowledging that. Sorry, other than that you've got me stumped. Dogs are cute though

 

[Teknique]

what does it mean if you get reoccurring dreams for weeks/months on end?

 

[lasthurrah19]

That some issue is weighing heavily on your unconscious and is not being resolved. Could also be consciously on your mind... but on the backburner, just simmering.

 

[sushii]

My dreams usually have a somewhat silly element to them, even if they're frightening. Last night, I dreamed that a guy I've been sleeping with was travelling around with me to these nature parks at the top of a mountain, trying to get to a particular one (I can't remember why, but there were about four different ones and we kept getting lost). To get from one to the other we had to take a chairlift down to the bottom then back up again, which was basically just a chair with a couple of ropes and no safety bar. It was a long way from the ground.

I was really scared but he kept mucking around and poking me, while I was trying to explain that I was worried about slipping off. He moves too quickly, slips, and ends up holding on just with his hands, dangling hundreds of meters above the ground.

He never fell - for some reason my dream then changed to a very elaborate one about making a beaded necklace.

Also xyther, last hurrah is right - sleep paralysis is common, especially if you're having lucid dreams. Are you taking any medications at the moment? I find when I'm antidepressants (and sometimes benzos) I get it often, but not at all when I'm sober. I actually enjoy it, but then my dreams aren't anywhere near as full-on as yours.

 

[panic in paradise]

that sounds fairly self explanatory.... but beaded necklaces?!?

maybe you switched from that serious out of control situation, to a simple, playful, organized, one where you have complete control, over what youre doing and youre mind. sounds like you have doubts about his stability or relationships in general, and you feel you need more control over things or maybe youre just happier having your home and time to yourself.

 

[sushii]

I think that's spot on. I don't have doubts about relationships in general but I definitely do with him - it's a situation I feel he has a lot more control over, and that's going to leave me hurt in the end.

I like your interpretation of the necklace bit. I'm not that into dream analysis (as a serious pursuit, anyway) and I tend to write off the stupid things that creep into my dreams as not worth thinking about - but your interpretation of that fits perfectly with the situation.

Funnily enough I wasn't making the necklace in my home like I normally would - and I live with this guy, so maybe that's telling me something as well?

 

[panic in paradise]

where were you making the necklace, did any certain colors or shapes stand out?

 

[lasthurrah19]

You know, I think I have lucid dreams almost constantly. It's so normal I don't even realize it anymore. That would also make sense in the fact that I get sleep paralysis almost every single night, usually about 5-10 times a night.