Recurring Dreams

NefariousSaint · Post by **NefariousSaint** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:05 pm

I looked up nightmares and found them to be in paranormal but I really don't find what I have to say paranormal. Just plain horrible and I'd like it to stop.

For the past several years now I have had a dream that reoccurs often. It's a rather unpleasant one with few, sometimes zero, differences in it. I'll be sitting with someone I know very well but I can't see their face. All of the sudden I will be overcome with a panic and must race to the woods where I start digging. I'll spare the gory details but what I finally realize I'm digging for is to get rid of a body before someone else finds it. In the dream I'm not worried about the consequences of being caught but I do have an overwhelming since of guilt. Everytime the body is a stranger that I don't know and before I decide what to do with it I awaken thinking.....dammit! Again!

Have no clue what it means and I probably never will. All I know is that it keeps on coming to me to make my night a sleepless one.....Like now.

Any of you have dreams like these and wake up scratching your head.....:-3 Have another one where I keep getting stabbed by 3 short creatures chasing me down in my old school and at the end someone I care for ends up setting themself on fire. That one does have a few variations to it and I feel different emotions all the time, unlike The Body.

~NS :sneaky:

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:39 pm

NS- Have you taken your dream apart and asked yourself what each of its components might mean? In one dream book I have, to dream of a dead body, unknown to you, means prosperity and success over your adversaries.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:35 am

Geeze, Pink, you do dream interpretations, too? What DON'T you do? And what could always being under some kind of attack in my dreams be symbolic of??

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:40 am

I have lots of dreams and nightmares all the time.

As I've stated before, my dream life is much more adventurous, scary, thrilling, and dramatic than my regular life. *Thank God for that!*

I have been raped, burned, shot (could feel the bullet ripping through my flesh), beaten up, and so many other things. I've also experienced the most exciting things in every imaginable way.

I sometimes have the ability to lucidly dream, meaning I am *aware* that I'm dreaming and can wake myself up from a terrible one. It's quite a feeling of power and control.

I think they're quite fascinating.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:28 am

I do not have the same recurring dream, but I often have the same theme in many...I dream that I am wandering some where, apparently unable to find my way. It is usually set in a large hospital type building, or city. In them I always know where I want to be...but seem to always be wandering in circles trying to get there.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:35 pm

C&B said "I sometimes have the ability to lucidly dream, meaning I am *aware* that I'm dreaming and can wake myself up from a terrible one. It's quite a feeling of power and control."

RIGHT! Don Juan taught Carlos Castenada how to do this in their time together and I've managed it myself.

Dreams are the brain's attempt to purge itself, I think....or its attempts to communicate with us.

I don't know about your dream N'S, but I think it might mean whatever YOU think it means!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:09 pm

Lulu2 wrote: RIGHT! Don Juan taught Carlos Castenada how to do this in their time together

We definitely have a smart one here:-6

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:15 pm

You, too? (Read the series, I mean.)

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:16 pm

Lulu2 wrote: You, too? (Read the series, I mean.)

No, I just think you're really smart.

Really:)

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:20 pm

Oh, goodness! :yh_blush Read "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge" by Carlos Casteneda (I misspelled it up above.) Fascinating!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:23 pm

If I rub up against you, can I absorb some of your brain?

NO NOMAD!!

No lesbian fantasies!

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:28 pm

Essentially, the lesson was this--every night, just before falling asleep, you decide that, at some point in your dreams, you will consciously raise your hands and look at them--in the dream.

It can be done; not easily, but it can be done--which proves to us that our dreams are (somewhat) under our control.

N'S--you've a scientific curiousity, why don't you try doing this? Because, if you prove to yourself that you can control "that" dream, you might be able to stop it.

What do you think?

woppy71 · Post by **woppy71** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:47 pm

Have to say that I always seem to dream very vividly, and most of the time, I seem to be able to make concious (!) decisions in them about what I am doing.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:32 am

woppy71 wrote: and most of the time, I seem to be able to make concious (!) decisions in them about what I am doing.

That's lucid dreaming.

Pretty cool, huh?

jbbarker1947 · Post by **jbbarker1947** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:57 pm

NefariousSaint wrote: I looked up nightmares and found them to be in paranormal but I really don't find what I have to say paranormal. Just plain horrible and I'd like it to stop.

For the past several years now I have had a dream that reoccurs often. It's a rather unpleasant one with few, sometimes zero, differences in it. I'll be sitting with someone I know very well but I can't see their face. All of the sudden I will be overcome with a panic and must race to the woods where I start digging. I'll spare the gory details but what I finally realize I'm digging for is to get rid of a body before someone else finds it. In the dream I'm not worried about the consequences of being caught but I do have an overwhelming since of guilt. Everytime the body is a stranger that I don't know and before I decide what to do with it I awaken thinking.....dammit! Again!

Have no clue what it means and I probably never will. All I know is that it keeps on coming to me to make my night a sleepless one.....Like now.

Any of you have dreams like these and wake up scratching your head.....:-3 Have another one where I keep getting stabbed by 3 short creatures chasing me down in my old school and at the end someone I care for ends up setting themself on fire. That one does have a few variations to it and I feel different emotions all the time, unlike The Body.

~NS :sneaky:

Your reoccurring dreams will go away as you grow older. They will be replaced by new reoccurring dreams and nightmares. I stopped mine with divorce #1 from wife#1. Another way to stop these dreams is broaden your horizons. Look at hints from Mother Nature. Don’t be caught freezing in the north in the winter. You watched the birds going south in the fall. While you are cold and having bad dreams, they are happy and warm on the beach.

NefariousSaint · Post by **NefariousSaint** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:04 pm

Thanks for the interpretations and the advice. I've tried a lot of what has been said above already yet it hasn't helped. The lucid thing I've had in other dreams but never seems to happen in this one. I do find some nightmares to be cool and interesting but this one has one of my most dreaded feelings in the world to have, guilt, which is why I want it to stop so bad.

Anyway, dream on fellow humans!

~NS :sneaky:

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:10 pm

Question for Lulu2- Is there a way to make that work in reverse, say for my dreams about Johnny Depp?;)

koan · Post by **koan** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:24 pm

The first dream indicates to me that you have tried to bury a part of your past that you haven't incorporated yet. There are events and decisions which you are trying to leave behind that are meant to leave an impression on you. Guilt feelings could be what are preventing you from analysing this part of your past. If you allow yourself to think about unpleasant events that you have tried to put behind you and think about their place in who you are then the dreams might stop.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:05 pm

I had reocurring dreams until I was 12. I always thought they were nightmares. I am not sure to this day why they started but they stopped when I found a WWII pic my Uncle took in France of a fountain............ the black cloaked man chased me around. Pretty strange...........