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

[Awakening]

I was going to take a break from posting my dreams here, but I had a shocking nightmare last night.

I sometimes have woken up with the bad feeling but not remembered the dream.

In day to day life I have the bad feeling. The bad feeling is a phrase I use to describe this mesh of emotions feelings thoughts, and this is the only way I can think to describe.

I often get the bad feeling during therapy and almost always after it.

So in the dream I had the bad feeling. I was trying to see my therapist which I did but then she had other clients. I had ran out of time, but my bad feeling hadn't. I was panicked as I knew if I got into the bad feeling it would be too powerful for me.

Except in my dream this therapy session was in a house. It was multifaceted with lots of different small odd rooms leading off one big room. It was brand new, exceptionally clean, white, stark but really a bit clinical. In each little room was like a white ladder or clothes airer to hang your wet clothes on.

My whole dream is the bad feeling. It's inescapable. I cry & scream and then my husband holds me but my pain is too much and he can't hold me. I'm moving around from room to room.

I bump into my therapist again who is still busy but can't believe the pain is still going on, she tells me it's now 7pm.

I try to distract myself by wondering from room to room. I find a bundle of wet clothes ready to be hung out. So I decide to do that. I see a pair of my favourite red underwear, they are so comfortable and familiar, but then I see the identical pair of underwear except they are in hot pink & this disturbs and has me screaming in pain again.

I wake up, and I really do have pelvic pain. And that horrible bad feeling is with me. Now today I feel quite awful and I have neck pain & a headache.

 

[Grama-Herc]

Hey Wt

Just realized you had asked me a question. I felt absolutely nothing in regard to the death of the woman. It was just a passing statement. I was concentrating on my man with the eyes. I did not question him when he said "we killed her". The only emotion involved with the second part of this dream was the pain of finding out he was married and the feeling I get every time I dream he has me in his arms. And of course the affect his eyes have on me

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Awakening, I'm pretty sure I know that "bad feeling" your speaking of. I have it too. I can't say for certain if mine is exactly like yours. But I can say I know of an uneasy feeling that doesn't seem to have a name or a label.

I think if you have that feeling any dream even if it is meant to be a good dream will have a negative connotation to it. Just think of it this way; if we were to see a beautiful sunset but feel sick and uneasy while looking at it, then that beautiful sunset could resemble the end of the world. It's our perception that is distorted when we have those uneasy/bad feelings. (I hope I'm making sense here)

I need to think about the dream more because there is a lot going on in it. Or possibly there is just a lot of chaos going on in your mind because of the uneasy/bad feelings?

Take it easy and hang in there.
Tammy

 

[WorkingThruIt]

I gave some thought to the shackles and I am coming up with nothing. When I read the dream the first couple of times, I just thought it went along with the jail cell.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hand cuffs and jail cells do go together but they also have some different meanings and at the same rate they could be one in the same.

 

[WorkingThruIt]

Tammy,
I was wondering what you think about dreams that come true. I always thought that it was my subconscious figuring out the direction of things before I did. It is kind of creepy when it happens. Most recently, I was pregnant but very worried about miscarriage because the pregnancy symptoms were getting better instead of worse. I had a dream that I had a miscarriage and had one (start) within a few hours of waking from that dream.
What do you think? I think that if I had any kind of faith (in fate or anything), it might be less creepy.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

I believe your subconscious knew what was going on within your body and that is why you dreamed that.
I had a dream that I started my period and when I woke up I had started. Our body gives our mind cues that we can pick up on consciously as well as subconsciously.

Prophetic dreams are another topic that is to difficult to discuss here. I have some groups that I belong to that would be able to help you with it. You can share your thoughts about those dreams and other people with similar happenings will respond to your questions.

[email protected]. I am one of the moderators there.

You will have to set up a Yahoo account to join I believe?

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Mary,
One other thing I forgot to mention. I had a long dream about 4-6 months ago with disease and immune system failing etc. About 2 months after that dream I developed Acid Reflux and went to the doctor after over the counter Pepcid AC didn't work, and he did some blood tests and found out I have an under active thyroid and one of the enzymes in my liver is elevated along with diagnosing me with Acid Reflux.

I believe I dreamed this because my body was feeling off balance and my body chemicals send messages to my mind. Since I didn't have time to really think about it while awake my subconscious seemed to pick up on it. That is why some people think these dreams tell of the future, but it's just a mind and body connection. IMHO. The body telling the mind something is off (not right), and vice versa. Hope this makes since. I've seen it with other people too. But if you think it is a prophetic dream then it very well could be.

Tammy

 

[WorkingThruIt]

Thanks Tammy. I don't really see them as prophetic, just weird. I'm sure it was the combination of my body feeling it and my worries. It is not the first time this has happened to me. I would probably have given it less thought if it were something less emotional.

Thanks again!

 

[morgan]

Hi Tammy. Sorry I am so late in responding.

I just want to say that I thought the interpretation of my dream was right on. I've been able to write what my traumas were but, not how I felt about them. I just can't feel that emotional connection that I have to my traumas. It's been very frustrating really. Thus I cannot find my voice.

Here's another dream for you.
I'm at this restaurant with some of my family members. Cousins, mom and dad, brother, etc. We sit down to order only to discover it's a strip restaurant. My cousins become pretty offended and then when the waitress takes off her smock they become disgusted too and move to another table. While the waitress is taking orders I discuss with my family why we think it's ok for this girl to make her living in the nude. Meanwhile the negative vibes coming from my cousins table are intense.

So while we're waiting for our meals my brother puts his feet on the table and kicks back. He has one shoe on, and the other one with just a sock on. I tell him to get his feet off the table and he says it gives him energy as he takes his feet down. I say "no it doesn't it makes you more tired." Then me and my mom decide to go and have a cigarette. She wants to go outside but I say "you're in the south now, we have smoking sections!" So we head to the smoking section then I follow my mom through a door and all of a sudden we're in the back of a truck and it's moving. It starts going faster and further away from the restaurant and we start banging on the window. No matter how hard we bang, it always comes out too soft and the driver can't hear us. I try to shout but nothing much comes out. Finally we got so far away that I told myself to "wake up, this is just a dream!" So I woke up feeling anxious and drained.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Morgan,
Being in a restaurant is a social atmosphere unlike being in your home. There are different thoughts and moods here. This is about judgment and outer forms that don't directly affect just you.

In part the waitress is how you feel about yourself or maybe your mom? Part of you feel that woman are suppose to wait on the men, feed them, and then have sex.

The cousins are aspects of your personality too, and in part you feel offended by the role woman are suppose to play with respect to being a waitress/sex object.

Your brother most likely posses this way of thinking based on how he kicks back and puts his feet on the table, basically stating, "This gives me what I need". One shoe on and one off could be that maybe your ambivalent about your standing in life with the way you are treated by your family and their values toward woman.

When situations get upsetting for you, maybe leaving the situation and using some type of substance to cope is best instead of getting angry.

The debate over the smoking issue is another factor that bothers you. "Going South" or being in the South could be a pun on words, which is why the dream takes a turn for the worse.

Vehicles usually represent our journey in life, or are bodies. When you’re not driving your not feeling in control of the situation. In this case it's about communication again. No matter how hard you hit and scream to break the silence, it just doesn’t want to come out.

Your working on it though!

 

[Shoshin]

Warning: There are a couple disturbing images, but nothing too graphic.

Last Wednesday I had to take care of a situation in which a 13 year-old girl attempted suicide, from my discovery of it through the rush to the hospital, and I had to write a police report. That shook me up, and that night I had this dream:

I was the guest of a wealthy family in rural Mexico, and I was staying in the second story of their hacienda, a room with a walk-out balcony. It was a gorgeous, warm summer night full of stars and the scent of flowers, and the curtains were billowing in gently. I walked out onto the balcony and leaned on the wrought iron railing, enjoying the night sky. Below me in the courtyard the family had a bull ring, and there I saw a lone bull, a magnificent black beast with powerful horns. He walked slowly around the ring.

Suddenly off to the southeast (I am almost always aware of compass directions in my dreams) I spotted headlights weaving along the winding dirt road that bordered the ranch, and a car came careening through the darkness. I got a very bad, tight feeling in my stomach that comes with my hypervigilance. My "dog sense" told me this would be bad.

Bursts of flickering light erupted in little patches along the car's path, and I soon realized it was a car full of drunken teens tossing lit bottles of gasoline (Molotov cocktails) from the car into the night and laughing. As the car passed close to the ranch house, they lobbed one very high through the air, and it arced over the wall and into the bull ring, shattering on the packed sand and igniting so that little tongues of flame appeared on the the haunches of the bull. I was overcome with shock and compassion for the bull, and ran downstairs, finding my way into the ring. It was just me and the bull.

I wanted to help the poor bull so badly as it kicked and thrashed, unable to extinguish the flames, and I struggled with whether to approach it, knowing it was suffering and scared, and therefore dangerous. It spotted me and, even in its agony it immediately assumed a defensive posture, lowering its horns, folding its ears back and facing me as if to charge.

I knew I would likely be hurt, but I could not watch the animal suffer, and so I rushed the bull, dodging its horns as it turned, and I threw myself across its back, swatting out the flames with my bare hands.

That's where the dream ended. The next day I was exhausted, numb, discouraged, very down...but that evening I had a therapy session that went very well and now I am on my fourth day in a row of feeling good, the longest streak of feeling good I've had in three months.

I would be very interested in how you all view this dream. Thanks for reading. I apologize profusely if any part of the dream was disturbing to anyone.