I have extremely vivid dreams, sometimes too real. I also have this thing I call sleep hallucinations, it's funny afterwards but I often feel an overwhelming emotion at the time like utter fear, confusion or sadness. Basically I wake up, I'm fully awake but I can see something that's not there, I know this as it's happened when I've been in bed with boyfriends before, never friends for some reason, I guess it will happen at some point. Anyway, so I see something that's there to me but no one else, and react to it, from it being something on the wall that I'm convinced is going to harm me, to a spider in my bed that I want to safe so I don't squish, I've had all sorts. They've only come about recently, but having that being said I've had weird experiences of seeing things when I was younger so maybe I just didn't comprehend what was going on, who knows.
It doesn't really effect my sleep or leave me exhausted because the occurences are so few and far between, and I've not managed to correlate what mood I am, or whether i'm under pressure or not but saying that i've not tried to. So anyway back to my point, my vivid dreams.
A lot of my dreams reflect something I'm feeling or something i'm afraid of, or something I'm happy about. I guess I can only give you a couple of examples really. I always seem to wake feeling confused or contemplative, and as weird as it sounds some of my dreams have actually helped me figure out what to do about some things, but yeah, they're not always good and merry. Sometimes they terrify me, and it's horrible. Anyway, on to the examples
It doesn't really effect my sleep or leave me exhausted because the occurences are so few and far between, and I've not managed to correlate what mood I am, or whether i'm under pressure or not but saying that i've not tried to. So anyway back to my point, my vivid dreams.
A lot of my dreams reflect something I'm feeling or something i'm afraid of, or something I'm happy about. I guess I can only give you a couple of examples really. I always seem to wake feeling confused or contemplative, and as weird as it sounds some of my dreams have actually helped me figure out what to do about some things, but yeah, they're not always good and merry. Sometimes they terrify me, and it's horrible. Anyway, on to the examples
Shark Dream
I had a dream where I was in a big round cyclindrical room that was metal plated, and my my was stood in a doorway right at the top of the room. My pet dog and sister were in the bottom with me, and out of nowhere the room started filling up with water and I was swimming with my dog and my sister in my arms desperately trying to save them. There was a weird hollowed out cabinet in the wall so I put them in that and closed the sliding metal door to keep them safe, then out of nowhere these three sharks started swimming in the water filled room and I had no way of escape from them. My mum saw this and threw me a short, rather blunt rusty blade to aid me, and I spent the next however long swimming with and decapitating these angry sharks, but not for fear of losing my own life, for fear of my sister and dog not being able to survive if I didn't come back for them. So anyway after me tracking down and killing these sharks with what seemed like an impossible blade, I went to rescue my sister and dog and threw them up to my mum, at which point the water level lowered and I remained stuck in the bottom of this strange room, yet I wasn't scared or upset, I was content as I knew they were safe. I didn't get out of the room before I woke up, nor did I attempt to.
I had a dream where I was in a big round cyclindrical room that was metal plated, and my my was stood in a doorway right at the top of the room. My pet dog and sister were in the bottom with me, and out of nowhere the room started filling up with water and I was swimming with my dog and my sister in my arms desperately trying to save them. There was a weird hollowed out cabinet in the wall so I put them in that and closed the sliding metal door to keep them safe, then out of nowhere these three sharks started swimming in the water filled room and I had no way of escape from them. My mum saw this and threw me a short, rather blunt rusty blade to aid me, and I spent the next however long swimming with and decapitating these angry sharks, but not for fear of losing my own life, for fear of my sister and dog not being able to survive if I didn't come back for them. So anyway after me tracking down and killing these sharks with what seemed like an impossible blade, I went to rescue my sister and dog and threw them up to my mum, at which point the water level lowered and I remained stuck in the bottom of this strange room, yet I wasn't scared or upset, I was content as I knew they were safe. I didn't get out of the room before I woke up, nor did I attempt to.
So, that was one which left me rather confused. I was trying to figure out if there was a threat shadowing either my sister or my dog, that I was aware of or suspicious of, but I couldn't find a link between the two. Now, in the dream meaning dictionaries I've read they all say that water can represent overwhelming emotions and your unconcious and sharks can be a representation of unpleasant emotions or difficult, painful material coming up from the unconscious. Another meaning is that sharks can mean you may be an emotional threat to yourself and others, and they can represent anger, hostility and fierceness within yourself. Now all these linked just tell me that I'm dangerous, and with my dream not only do I want people I care about away from the sharks, but also away from me. Another thing I thought is I killed the sharks, stopped them from hurting me or anyone else, but then I stayed there thinking? I don't know anyway, I just know I was confused and dumbfounded, but that's not to say I didn't enjoy it. I told my mum and her reaction was to reflect negatively on herself by saying 'I'm no help, with that rubbish blade' which I thought was strange, because she gave me something to protect myself and others with, no matter how 'rubbish' it looked, it still worked.
Anyway yeah, I've been having an increase in strange dreams recently, the past 4 nights to be precise. I won't write them down as I'd like to ponder on them a while first, I had a rather strange one i've shared with a few people at the moment, and they just looked shocked and confused, haha. It was involving a threat to my pet tarantulas and python, which I understand not many people understand how I can care and be so involved with them, but you know, I am.
I've been told by several people that dreams mean nothing, but I don't see it that way. I think some dreams mean nothing, yes. Like when I had a dream I just went for a walk around town, that didn't have any moral substance or any indepth hidden meaning (or maybe it did, haha) but then there's dreams where you take a course of action and things happen, things which directly reflect to your waking life. I don't think that people should get too hung up but I do believe that dreams are a way of your subconscious helping you to deal with and tackle difficult elements in your life, and sometimes the only time you will listen to something is when you're not listening at all. We can all be ignorant and oblivious, it's natural to be so. So perhaps it's a way for your sleeping mind to say 'hey, this needs a bit of thought' without you having to spend sleepless nights and distracted days worrying over something.
I personally enjoy my dreams, whether they leave me scared, confused or just a bit contemplative, i'd miss them if they were gone. They fill up my nights with excitement that I've not necessarily got time for in the day, and I thank my mind for helping me (sometimes).
I would find it interesting to get my dreams analysed but at the same time I think people can delve much much too deeply into things and spoil them, and I enjoy the element of mystery, it's like having to solve a puzzle in a game, except you don't have to and won't die if you don't figure it out.
So, I wonder what I'll experience tonight? :)
Anyway yeah, I've been having an increase in strange dreams recently, the past 4 nights to be precise. I won't write them down as I'd like to ponder on them a while first, I had a rather strange one i've shared with a few people at the moment, and they just looked shocked and confused, haha. It was involving a threat to my pet tarantulas and python, which I understand not many people understand how I can care and be so involved with them, but you know, I am.
I've been told by several people that dreams mean nothing, but I don't see it that way. I think some dreams mean nothing, yes. Like when I had a dream I just went for a walk around town, that didn't have any moral substance or any indepth hidden meaning (or maybe it did, haha) but then there's dreams where you take a course of action and things happen, things which directly reflect to your waking life. I don't think that people should get too hung up but I do believe that dreams are a way of your subconscious helping you to deal with and tackle difficult elements in your life, and sometimes the only time you will listen to something is when you're not listening at all. We can all be ignorant and oblivious, it's natural to be so. So perhaps it's a way for your sleeping mind to say 'hey, this needs a bit of thought' without you having to spend sleepless nights and distracted days worrying over something.
I personally enjoy my dreams, whether they leave me scared, confused or just a bit contemplative, i'd miss them if they were gone. They fill up my nights with excitement that I've not necessarily got time for in the day, and I thank my mind for helping me (sometimes).
I would find it interesting to get my dreams analysed but at the same time I think people can delve much much too deeply into things and spoil them, and I enjoy the element of mystery, it's like having to solve a puzzle in a game, except you don't have to and won't die if you don't figure it out.
So, I wonder what I'll experience tonight? :)
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