Analyzing Dreams and Uncovering the Subconscious Mind : Analyzing Dreams and Uncovering the Subconsc

[anthony]

Tammy, excellent group model you have established here.... well done. I admire your opening statement, very honest and to the point. People need to be open to many ways, then find the one that best suits them or works for them. Great group...

 

[mightsurvive]

You are never going to believe this - part of my dream actually came true!!!

In real life i have been struggling to get seen by a counsellor on the NHS. I have had to fight tooth and nail to overcome their lack of eficiency as they have lost letters etc. I went to see them earlier this week about it. On Wednesday night I had a dream that i was assigned n nhs counsellor and that he was male. when i talked to the nhs earlier in theweek they had suggested a male and i had said that i would not talk to a male because i would just lock up. They suggested that maybe talking to a male would be a good idea and something i should try to get used to. I can see their point but no way. Im a bit hazy about the dream becasue it happened twice in one night.

The first time I was assigned a counsellor and went with somone i know (dont know who) at a train station and we chatted and i felt totally comfortable with him. He was tall, slender and had dark hair - i can still remember his face. We got along great. We shook hands and all 3 of us sat and had tea and cake and then the person who had gone with me just seemed to dissappear without me knowing it. I went for a long walk with this new counsellor who also told me a lot of stuff about himself. I thought that he really understood me and i felt so very safe. Cant remember much more detail thatn that apart from just chatting (cant remember what about) and feeling close to him. I think I also thought he was quite good looking in the dream. In reality I still dont think I could ever talk to a man about my trauma.

In the second dream i met this counsellor but he looked totally different and was much younger. This one was shorter with lighter hair, possibly ginger or maybe blonde. he was gorgeous and we flirted a lot. I knew he was a counsellor but im not sure if he did becasue we never talked about anything to do with my trauma. We went to his house where there was a van in the garage and his dad was loading the van with stuff - not sure what - gardening tools, building stuff, boixes packed with things from the house, home improvement stuff etc i think. So we helped out and his dad dissappeared but i couldnt keep my hands off him. I wonder if this has something to do with my hubby as we have been doing the house up for a year and a half now and his dad is a builder with a van. However my hubby looks nothing like this second counsellor I dreamt about.

Anyway, back to reality. I stayed off work the next day as i had a migraine but around lunch time i got a phone call from the NHS and talked to the nhs mental health team and they put me on to the county psychiatric nurse they were assigning me to make an appointment. I cant believe that i dreamt i was assigned someone and that the very next day i acutally was. Bizarre. She is a she by the way so the bit in the dreams about them being a man was wrong. I am just so astounded that it actually came true in part. Was i looking into the near future? Or is that just a weird thing to think?

 

[cookie]

ok, tammy. here's a weird one. just a dumb dream, but i had it almost the same over 2 nights in a row. nothing i can figure out, lol.
in the dream, i was struggling to put on my socks, and i suddenly realized i had my shoes on already, felt stupid, and woke.

the next night was the same, except after i realized i already had my shoes on, i was still trying to pull up my socks. when i looked down at my legs, they were huge, like the size around of a tree, lol. woke.
i looked when i got up, to see if my ankles were swollen, or something, but they weren't.
not that i really think all dreams mean a lot. maybe just means not to eat whatever i had for dinner.
cathy

 

[mightsurvive]

Went to bed 4 am. Its 5.20 am and im back up. Nightmares again. Please dont feel you have to answer my dreams - will be good to just get them written down.

All I can remember is that I was chatting on the computer in my dream completely absorbed and I notice a screaming but it has always been there - it's just that I have only just noticed now. I look up to find out what it is and it is my niece as a baby. My brother and his ex are trying their very best to stop her from screaming but they cant. The screaming is intolerable and it hurts me so badly emotionally that I feel the screaming. I feel like I did and felt during my trauma. A complete feeling of uselessness and failure and just sheer hell. Somehow it lessens a bit so my brother and his ex take her upstairs and the screaming drifts away. My brother is sad and is trying desperately to stop his daughter from feeling like this but cant. I tell him I will always be there for him to try and help.

Then everything changes like its a new dream. Suddenly the dog is barking and we are in a four wheel drive. I am in the rear laft had seat with my brother driving. There is such an intense heat coming off the dog that it feels like it is burning me even though it isnt. I cant breathe. My brother asks me for help and I suggest lots of things that we try and dont work. I feel useless. Then I suggest that we go into a car park. I start to fly and fly out of the window. And somehow whilst not being on the ground I swing the car round with the help of my brother's driving in doughnuts. The air goes into the car at all different angles and starts to cool the dog down. But the moment we stop the car from going round in circles the dog heats up again. Again while this is happening I feel the same dread, scaredness, patheticness and just hell again. Then I wake up.

Background info: I often have dreams where some aspect is based in a chat room. I do have a niece who is now 8 and whom neither my brother or I have seen since she was 3 years old. he is no longer with his ex girlfriend and she went off to Spain with her new boyfriend. I am getting a lot of these screaming dreams recently. Sometimes its me and sometimes not but I always feel the screaming in the dream almost like it is me doing the screaming and having such awful feelings but the sound isnt coming from me. I dont have a 4 wheel drive or a dog.

I feel better and calmer for just having got this down but i wont be sleeping again. Not tonight.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Thanks Anthony, I was concerned about starting a dream group due to the members having nightmares. I'm glad it worked for me and I hope it helps others, but I do realize it's not the only way to enlightenment and truth. I want to be as honest with everyone (including myself) as possible, otherwise it's pointless to even do this.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Mightsurvive, Hi I don't believe in coincidences but I'm not going to discuss prophetic dreams or fortune telling in dreams here (You're welcome to mention it if you like, but I won't interpret it).

It's not that I don't believe, it's that I need to cut out some of the material that is irrelevant to healing or enlightenment. Also, most of society doesn't like/agree with it and it would run potential members off that could really use some insight from their dreams.

I have to take a lot of things into consideration when dealing with a touchy subject (such as dreams) to achieve the best results for the group. I hope you understand?

I will read your dreams in a separate post.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi mightsurvive, Sorry to hear about the nightmares.
Here is the first one. I'm not sure how old you are but my guess is that when your niece was the same age as she was screaming in the dream, it would be in the time frame your trauma happened. Also, the fact that the ex and your brother are together in the dream but no longer together now, would represent history of your trauma.

It appears you stuffed your memories and that is why the screaming lessoned. But now that your working on it you might start hearing the screaming more often. But keep working on it and the nightmares will eventually lesson too.

Second dream: I will take this on as my own dream so that it doesn't feel to intense for you.
If this were my dream the dog barking is me getting things off of my chest. My brother is in control and I take the back seat in his life. maybe he isn't listening to me vent or doesn't care what I have to say. Also, we could be arguing and that makes me and him angry (intense heat)

When I suggest we park the car that would represent taking a break from what ever heated issue is going on.

Flying sets me fee for awhile and I'm able to make good suggestions and stop battling with him. Once we stop the car from going in circles the dog heats up again.

This seems like the two of you keep going in vicious circles which is not getting you anywhere but more heated and mad. Maybe he isn't the one to confide in at this point.

I want to mention that your brother might be a representation of another person, or yourself. If you don't see or talk to your brother ask yourself 'who am I having problems with that fit this above description of the dream interp'? If this doesn't resonate with you I can look at it again from another angle.

Also, I will read the other two dreams you posted earlier.

Take care.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Cathy,
As a general rule our feet represent our standing in life. If you are putting socks on your feet your trying to insulate your standing or position, but one great thing is that you already have your shoes on so your a "step" ahead of where you think you are in life. You might not acknowledge this now, but you will soon. Some times dreams don't make sense right away and it takes us awhile for them to come into consciousness.

I assume your feeling much better? I want to point out that dreams have a lot of puns on words. I put the word STEP in parenthesis to let you know it's related to standing and walking etc.

The second dream is the same but you might notice that you will be walking with a bigger step. Meaning your getting stronger.

Hope this helped. Not all dreams have meanings but a lot do.

Take care
Tammy

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Mightsurvive, I will read the other two dreams tomorrow. It's 2:00 am here and I'm off to bed.

I hope you get some sleep or at least get some rest.

 

[mightsurvive]

Hiya Tammy

First of a a big thank you for them time you are spending on this. I see what you are saying about the other dream and point taken. I do understand but just didnt realise the implications. But thank you for letting me know.

Got caught up on a bit of sleep today. Thank you. please dont feel you have to answer all my dreams as I know it is very time consuming. My niece whas not the same age in my dream as when the trauma happened but the rest does make a lot of sense. I'm not looking forward to more screaming dreams but at least I know i is a sign that I'm trying to move forward. I get on well with my borther but dont see him very often anymore buyt I'm now beginning to wonder if he was meant to represent either myself or someone else, as you pointed out. I think I need some time to think about this a bit more and work out what to do to stop myself from getting mad.

Again Thank you ever so much for your time. it really is appreciated but remember to look after yourself.

Take care

 

[Andre]

I am kind of late with responding but I did want to thank you for doing this. Its hard for me to identify things in dreams since they move so quickly for me. Its not like normal life, everything is like the 8x fast forward on a DVD, it skips a lot. There isn't much I can add about the old dreams.

I have been having a different sort of dream lately, one with a pretty common theme I think. In the first one I was in a jungle or someplace and there was a rope bridge like the one in that Indiana Jones movie in India. I crossed from one end and a beautiful girl crossed from the other, midway as we met the bridge collapsed. Somehow caught her hand and managed to fall to the ground without injury. A lot of that incomprehensible things after that, then somehow I slept with the girl. I don't normally have sex dreams though so that is pretty strange for me. Hesitant about putting this out there but no real reason not to. Another dream had it this morning, met those cats again but this time one came over to me and acted like a kitten, she let me scratch under her chin and behind her ears. Like my old cat Charlie used to love having done.

Again, no reason not to post. Thanks again, don't worry about doing these immediately, I don't want to bother you so much. Didn't expect you to respond so fast in the thread before.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi mightsurvive,

I like to read dreams and find it to be a hobby as well as a healing devise. I don’t mind reading all of your dreams at all so don't worry about that :-) It just might take me a day or two to get to them.


There are such things called “wish” dreams. This is when we want something so bad we dream of it repeatedly.

The first dream;
I feel the counselor is a representation of yourself. Since you are trying to heal yourself by coming to the forum this could be a reflection on how you see yourself, which is the counselor within you. I will take this dream as mine now.

I’m being introduced to a new aspect of myself that is growing within me. I like this new aspect and feel comfortable with it. The other person is an aspect of me as well, but doesn’t identify its purpose here.

Train stations generally represent taking us from one place to the next. In this case it appears to be about my healing. When we heal we start from one place and then go to the next level.

The long walk represents my journey in life. I'm walking with this new aspect of myself to get more in touch with it.

Second Dream:
This dream in the beginning is somewhat the same as the first. If this were my dream houses generally represent my psyche. I am getting ready for transformation to take place on my body and mind. I am getting very comfortable with myself and I want to explore parts of my body and mind that I haven’t had the opportunity to explore before.

Gardening represents new growth within, building supplies is for renovation of self, and boxes packed with things could mean; unpacking boxed up issues from my past in order to deal with them so this transformation can take place.

These are two very good dreams. It shows progress in your healing from my point of view.

Hope this was helpful
Tammy