Horrible Nightmare I keep having.

[CrazyHelloDeli]

The dream starts off with me sitting in some sort of tree house high up an embankment. Its very cold and foggy, and I cant see very far. As I look down the embankment, there is a freeway below that has a steady flow of traffic.

Some other entity is on the platform with me, and can see an outline of what looks to be a male figure roughly the same build as me. "He" has no face and seems to be made up of shadow and im unable to focus on him clearly. "He" is just watching me expectantly.

I can feel dread, fear, despair, and hopelessness. Something urges me to jump, so I comply. I land on the hill breaking both my legs from the fall. I tumble and tumble, picking up speed and breaking more bones, as I roll.

I eventually roll onto the freeway into traffic being run over multiple times by passing cars. I feel the pain from each tire that rolls over my shattered body. Still alive, I am able to see an ambulance pull up, and being surrounded by people who have stopped their cars and gotten out to help me. I cant move or see clearly, and people keep talking to me and asking me questions, but im unable to answer.

The dream abruptly ends at this point.

 

[melly]

Is your father deceased, and/or are you following the path he wants you to? If he's still living, do you get along with him; does he make you feel as though you are worthless?

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: melly
Is your father deceased, and/or are you following the path he wants you to? If he's still living, do you get along with him; does he make you feel as though you are worthless?

No, No, Sorta, No.

 

[melly]

The shadow I thought represented your father in a dark manner, you having a feeling of despair and ultimately jumping...it seemed to fit

 

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[her209]

Holy crap! Do you get urges to kill people?

 

[Dacalo]

Whenever you have this dream, do you say to yourself, "Here we go again!" and know this is a dream?

Or do you passively comply and "play out" the dream? Have you tried challenging the dream? i.e. doing something different, out of sequence, try to go to the figure and attempt to talk

 

[jjones]

I wish I still had nightmares; I always thought they were like free movies. Unfortunately, it is very, very rare that I will have one anymore.

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: jjones
I wish I still had nightmares; I always thought they were like free movies. Unfortunately, it is very, very rare that I will have one anymore.

Hahaha!! I know what you mean.

They say there is something in cheese that releases the chemical in your brain that makes you dream. I don't know how true it is, but I wonder what would happen if one went to bed with a Stephen King novel and a hunk of edam.

 

[eldorado99]

It's weird, generally all of my nightmares occur in my backyard, doesn't matter what they are about, always in the backyard.

 

[Savij]

Uncertain of the future? Got some big decision you've been worrying about or are not sure of?

My take on the dream:

You're pushing yourself (the shadow of you) on some path that you're uncertain of. You are worried that you're going to make yourself take a path that's going to hurt you and once you're hurt the world is going to pass you by (run over you).

If i'm correct, send me $5 and join the savij psychic friends network, if i'm wrong i'm just another person neffing on atot.

 

[thomsbrain]

read up on your Carl Jung, as this is one of the most basic types of dreams you can have. don't rely on the internet though, as i've seen some pretty confusing or downright bogus paraphrasing of jung out there. just go to your local barnes and noble and look for Carl Jung books. i think there's an entire book devoted to the shadow, but "man and his symbols" is a good starter book for his theories in general.

simply put, the man in your dream represents the traits of your inner self that you are denying in your conscious mind. you don't want to recognize those things in yourself, and that's why you feel that dread. the best thing you could do in your dream is shake the guy's hand, find out what he wants, and stop being afraid of him or the situation. but chances are he won't be able to tell you what he wants. he might even hurt you in the dream because you're not incorporating him into your "real" life. but when you run away, your unconscious mind is punishing you for it by making you get hurt.

the best thing you could do to make them stop is find the type of person who pisses you off the most just on principle of who they are (like they just rub you the wrong way), find the traits that make you hate them, and then look deep inside yourself. you'll find you have those traits in yourself. i.e: if you think emotional people are pansies, you're probably needy yourself. or if you hate cruel people, there's probably an aspect of your personality that is cruel. if you can accept that fact, you'll probably stop having the dreams. if not, you're gonna continue to have them.

incidentally, the mention of your father by other posters was probably well-intentioned but off-base. one's father has little psychological signifigance for males unless he embodied the traits you repress in yourself (see above). for girls, the father is very important and symbolizes a lot of important things, as does the mother for males.

 

[jagec]

I see that most of your subscribe to a Jungian dream theory, rather than the activation-synthesis theory.

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
Whenever you have this dream, do you say to yourself, "Here we go again!" and know this is a dream?

Or do you passively comply and "play out" the dream? Have you tried challenging the dream? i.e. doing something different, out of sequence, try to go to the figure and attempt to talk

Hmmm. Id have to say I view the dream from a first person perspective. I am an active willing participent in this particular dream.

I know what you mean about a "Here we go again!" perspective, almost like your watching a movie. This is more real as I can "feel" the pain.