Disturbing dream

[Searching_For_The_Truth]

Ok, before you go farther I want to warn you that this dream is very disturbing, do not read if you can't handle disturbing things......

OK, so I had a dream the other night and it still is bugging me, I was wondering if anyone hear was good at interpiting dreams???

In my dream I am being held against my will, hancuffed and held down on my knees. The people holding me are also holding a little blonde girl. I don't know why, but they force me to watch them cut her head off. As soon as they are done, they are gone and I am no longer restrained. I jump up run to the girl and place my hand on her neck to try to stop the bleeding even though her head is not even attached, she is still screaming.

As that point i was so freaked out that I woke up. This dream was a few weeks ago and it still pops in my head and gives me the chills. There are very few dreams that I have ever remembered after waking up, and even fewer that I remember later that day and maybe 1 or 2 others that I remembered after that day, but this one will not go away.

[QuoththeRaven]

Do you feel like you're being pushed to do something in your life for someone else's benefit? That's all I can come up with.

[QuoththeRaven]

Or it could go another way. I just read your update on another thread and wonder if it could apply. You are concerned about a little girl in your life, yes?

[Bini]

Could be stress you're dealing with. Even if you don't feel stressed. Just remember that not all dreams have to mean anything. If you're still feeling uneasy about it and the dream and images continue to haunt you, no harm in praying for some relief and comfort.

[Searching_For_The_Truth]

Or it could go another way. I just read your update on another thread and wonder if it could apply. You are concerned about a little girl in your life, yes?

I will admit I am attached to a little girl and with the "relationship" her mother and I am in or not in it does get interesting as to the role I should play in her life....

So in a long winded answer, yes.....

[Gwen]

The person who had the dream will be the best at saying what it means. Though not always accurate it's often a good spring board to look at "common" meanings of things.

I like this site....

dreammoods.com

Behead

To dream that you or someone else is being beheaded signifies poor judgment or a bad decision that you have made and regretted.

[slamjet]

Sometimes a dream us just that, a dream and a nightmare is just that, a nightmare.

[rameumptom]

Dr Sigmund Freud would ask you about your relationship with your mother....

It is possible that the little girl represents your "id" or child part of your being. Someone is forcing its death, making you grow up, whether you are ready to do so or not. Often feeling restrained and experiencing a death in a dream can represent a change that one is not wanting or not quite ready for.

Then again, it could be a little bit of undigested potato (Ebenezer Scrooge).

[z_o_n_e]

My guess, would be gathered from another post you have written. You feel that you have no control over where your relationship is going to take you, and you also have formed a strong connection to the daughter. Your imagination is playing with your fears, the decapitated girl screaming for help is the daughter, and you are trying to keep her in your life if the worst case scenario occurs and you and your girlfriend break up. I imagine you are really concerned about the well being of the daughter.

Of course, this is me just trying to make sense of it with what little I know. It could be anything, but as others have said sometimes a dream is just a dream.

Edited September 20, 2011 by z_o_n_e

[Jennarator]

I'm thinking you might be concerned about the girl's feelings. (the girl from your real relationship)

Perhaps you are concerned that should your relationship with your girlfriend end, that the daughter might be a little bit devistated, since you have formed a bond....

[bcguy]

With disturbing things on tv, does not surprise me that maybe part of what we see in culture is embedded in dreams.

I have always been a vivid dreamer. In fact, if I do not dream, I have not been in a deep rem state. I just awaken with a intense dream "It is 2 am" and yes, I am a bit of a insomniac. I did head off to bed early at 2am.

Are you a pilot by chance?

[Guest mormonmusic]

I studied Freud's work on the interpretation of dreams, as well as his lectures on psychoanalysis in my undergrad program. i also analyzed dreams as part of my final project in the course.

I'll explain some basic principles about our psychology that Freud said. Then I'll follow it up by my own interpretation of your dream using these principles.

1) Our mind is made up of the id (driven by pleasure), the super-ego (the conscience) and the ego (which mediates between the id and the super-ego). So, when your impulses say "boy would I ever like to steal that", your super-ego says "you can't do that, that's dishonest". Then your ego mediates and decides to put it on yoru credit card so you can have it honestly.

2) We all have terrible unconscious desires constantly lurking in our id throughout the day. During the day, these are kept in check by our super-ego, so we rarely ever think them (make them conscious). If they became conscious, they would create overpowering anxiety. We can't live with that anxiety, so they are repressed throughout the day.

3) AS we sleep, the id grows stronger as the super-ego relaxes in our sleep. So, unconscious desires (negative ones based on death-wishes, sex, and other urges) start trying to make it into our consciousness. Rather than prevent them from becoming conscious, our ego disguises these thoughts. The ego (called the dream-work when we are sleeping) reduces the anxiety which threatenes to wake us up through substituting one less threatening object or person for another, or takign real-life situations and altering them so they are not easily recognizable.

So, that's why dreams are often strange, with unknown people (real people disguised), or situations transformed into less recognizable, bizarre events etcetera.

4) Sometimes during our sleep, the id grows so powerful that the ego is unable to disguise the negative impulses coming from the id. This creates anxiety as our base desires become more and more conscious. If these base/id desires become too conscious, then we suffer strong anxiety that wakes us up. WE call it a nightmare. Freud called it an anxiety dream.

In your case, I think it was the death side of the id that ws prevalent (called Thanatos). A part of you would rather the little girl was not part of this relationship with the woman you are involved in. Your dream solved that problem with her death. However, your ego while sleeping reduced the anxiety by making you a possible savior to the girl in at least trying to stop the blood from leaving her body. Also, someone else killed her, and you were restrained so you couldn't help. Not your fault!!!! Which is an attempt to make you feel less responsible for the wish, feel less anxiety, and keep on sleeping. However the graphic nature of her death after it happened was powerful, and the chains and your attempt to stop the blood were not successful in reducing the anxiety sufficicently.

So, you woke up to stop the anxiety == had a nightmare.

Does this mean you are a bad person? No, we have all had similar dreams. MOthers often dream about running over their children in the driveway. I've heard that one a few times. Mothers feel terrible about it, but such dreams happen when they sleep.

Anyway, that's a Freudian interpretation.

Edited September 21, 2011 by mormonmusic