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Post by gemma on Nov 22, 2005 15:42:31 GMT -5
Since two years, every night I have nightmares. I learned to live with them, but it is not always easy. Sometimes I don't remember them but in the day when I make or read something or see something, I have a so-called "flashback" and I remember that there was some bad thing about which I dreamt. I usually dream about
1.swimming pools with a lots of waters 2. about thunders above our village 3. about hard winter days in our village 4. about travelling on train and/or being in an un/known town 5. about an existing lake, near to us
1. I never go into the water, neither has it to do anything with the feeling of drowning. It is about coldness and nakedness (I have swimming-dress on me, but I feel cold and naked all the time)
2. the worst nightmares. Either I am in our garden (on the outern fields) and then there is wind or U.F.O.-s, or I am before our house and I see red and black thunders coming. The wind is howling and it is so strong.
3. (The snow buries our village in every winter. When I was a child, I always hoped that I wouldn't need to go into school, because there wasn't any bus able to come inside the village) So i usually dream that it is AFTERNOON and I need to go into school. In the afternoon. And when I am there, there is always dark in the school, because it is evening, late evening.
4. I like to travel, even on trains but when I travel on them in dreams, I often feel that in the next moment I'll fall. It is a most strange feeling - I am sitting on a very-very fast train, I hardly can hold myself. And the towns are almost unknown for me, they have high hills, on the high hills are dark and big churches, and stairs. All the stores and libraries are dark and dull, almost without any light, and the people in them are like dead.
5. This lake is always green in my dreams, full of reed and sludge, it is shallow and the sun shines so angry. It is warm and everything there is sultry. Almost every time a tragedy happens in which a storm deals with everything. Last time when I dreamt about the storm, it came with lots of thunderbolts, and there was tidal wave.
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Post by djgirlcherise on Nov 22, 2005 23:36:48 GMT -5
Hi Gemma,
Your dream made me think of swamps where lotus flowers bloom.
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Post by gemma on Nov 23, 2005 3:43:54 GMT -5
Hmmm, I never saw anybody drowning and I had never the feeling of drowning, but I am afraid of water and fire. I feel myself best on the Earth ;D
Do you have also nightmares? If yes, then what kind of them?
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Post by radaeron on Nov 23, 2005 7:56:30 GMT -5
That's the only thing I noticed, was the water.. Hmm..
I don't have any useful additions to this though.. My nightmares were typically about being strapped to something, tied down and being lost. Haven't had a nightmare I can remember in a while though.. Hmm..
Honestly I have no helpful input though...
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Post by gemma on Nov 23, 2005 10:27:30 GMT -5
Oh, no need to help, I am just curious if all of you do have any nightmares and if yes, then what are the nightmares about, that's all. I can deal with mines. It can be pretty tiring, but if I would paint them, they would be interesting paintings, I'm sure.
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Post by CrystalMaiden on Nov 23, 2005 12:59:06 GMT -5
I have nightmares sometimes, not too often, maybe once a week, usually they have to do with zombies or other dead things chasing me, or some unknown force hunting me down where I have to run and run but it never seems to be enough.
In your dreams, something that I noticed other than the water symbology was solitude. Do you feel isolated a lot, like there is no one around you who is like you? And are you worried about what may be happening in the future, and that a lot of change might have to take place in your life soon? Or if not soon, just some day? I don't know, but I think you can see what I'm getting at, in some of the dreams it seems like you are dreading/anticipating something on the horizon, or you find yourself in a place where it is empty and hostile. A lot of times when we dream, it releases emotional stress that we experience during the day. Those are just my thoughts on what you described. =)
Actually, I had a nightmare just last night, I don't remember what it was except that I was screaming in the end and then I woke up with that horrible jolting feeling in my chest. Don't you just hate it when that happens? =P
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Post by Sáille on Nov 23, 2005 13:22:40 GMT -5
I haven't got nightmares often but if I do I always dream about long corridors with all sorts of doors that won't open... and the door at the end always opens up when I reach it but inside there's just total blackness... and when I try to run from it, my feet won't do as they're told so I'm stuck and have no choice but to face that darkness. I often say that the corridor is my soul and that I should deal with the darkness hiding in it first before I can open the other doors. Problem is that I'm afraid of this darkness (though I'm not scared of the dark in real life... I actually love it) and so I don't dare to face it. Anyways, back to your nightmares. I just want to ask you if you often feel like you're struggling with yourself or if you're feeling overwhelmed by your own power. And I also want to ask if you feel out of control in any way or if you often feel vulnerable. Lastly, I just want to ask you if you want to grow in any way and feel that you can't see the possibilities for that clearly. I checked an online dream dictionary for elements you described and I derived the above from that. Tell me if there's anything in there which applies to you.
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Post by gemma on Nov 23, 2005 17:25:27 GMT -5
I am always alone.
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Post by radaeron on Nov 23, 2005 17:34:54 GMT -5
No one is ever alone. At least not by my definitions ^_^
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Post by djgirlcherise on Nov 23, 2005 23:35:07 GMT -5
My nightmare is pretty consistent.
It's going from the highest sleeping radiowave I can get to, and then falling down into R.E.M. sleep.
The journey going down from that higher vibration, which leads to this crashing back into the body, is always jolting and subtly violent. I know there's been travel, and the place I just came from was much better.
When I land back in the body, or sometimes hover over the body, it seems very quick. Like, I'm not in charge of the process, but if I only wake up, I will control it. I'm briefly awake, and then my brain composes that astral experience into a nightmare.
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Post by gemma on Nov 24, 2005 4:49:03 GMT -5
This doesn't sound comfortable... And how often does this happen?
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Post by djgirlcherise on Nov 24, 2005 23:14:34 GMT -5
Hi Gemma,
It happens almost every night. You're right, it's not comfortable, which is probably why my brain almost always converts this experience into a nightmare.
I like that you shared your dream, Gemma. It helped me put into words what my own nightmares are about. Thank-you.
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Post by djgirlcherise on Nov 24, 2005 23:16:49 GMT -5
I re-read your first post in this topic, Gemma.
The first thing you kinda mentioned are the colours. Red stood out to me. Red is a very meaningful colour. I know you said you don't like numerology, but I do think you understand the meaning of colours.
Maybe this will resonate with you, maybe not. But, I'm glad we talk about it.
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Post by radaeron on Nov 25, 2005 4:05:56 GMT -5
Kind of strange. I had a nightmare last night. .. I didn't force myself to actively remember all of it though.. Can't really remember any of it. All I knew is I woke up with a proper jump .. Hm.. Need to try and make myself remember dreams and nightmares alike.
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Post by gemma on Nov 25, 2005 6:19:15 GMT -5
Indigirl: helping for you is my pleasure, dear I think, that remembering our dreams is very important. It helps us a lot, to understand our un-conscious self. Dreams are like a channel into the subconscious. That's why it is a good point to have a dream-diary. I had it once, there were a lot of strange dreams in it The meaning of colours (just as Indigirl said, red is a meaningful colour) is very important, and the more important is your opinion about these colours! As for me, I hate red. Indigirl: I read somewhere that the astral-body's returning causes a shock in that case, if someone or something wakes you.
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Post by gemma on Nov 25, 2005 13:58:26 GMT -5
It represents death for me.
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Post by gemma on Nov 25, 2005 13:59:31 GMT -5
I often dream of sunsets and a sunset has the colours of red. In my nightmares sunset is always there.
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Post by cherise on Nov 25, 2005 14:11:54 GMT -5
Hi Gemma,
I can't say I hate red, because it is one of the colours in the rainbow. But, I don't wear it or pick it for anything in my life, except fruit and vegetables. I kinda feel the same way about orange. I'm so much happier in the green, yellow, and purple (indigo).
I saw a double rainbow yesterday. It was right in front of my work. I sent so much love and wishes into that rainbow.
Perhaps, I don't like red because very little light can pass through it. Yellow and green allow a lot greater brightness. Red does have a lot of stigma attached to it.
There's no doubt that when I return to my body, I usually end up thumping back into the gravity field. I like it only when I'm able to float back in. This usually means I will experience flying in my dreams.
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Post by gemma on Nov 25, 2005 15:29:45 GMT -5
Hi Gemma, I can't say I hate red, because it is one of the colours in the rainbow. But, I don't wear it or pick it for anything in my life, except fruit and vegetables. I kinda feel the same way about orange. I'm so much happier in the green, yellow, and purple (indigo). I saw a double rainbow yesterday. It was right in front of my work. I sent so much love and wishes into that rainbow. Perhaps, I don't like red because very little light can pass through it. Yellow and green allow a lot greater brightness. Red does have a lot of stigma attached to it. There's no doubt that when I return to my body, I usually end up thumping back into the gravity field. I like it only when I'm able to float back in. This usually means I will experience flying in my dreams. Red is an angry colour. It is burning, it makes me feel thirsty and I feel like I'd have some inflammation, so I always wanna have some soothing ointment. As for orange, I never liked orange, I don't like it even now but my bed-clothes, my carpet-on-the-wall and my curtains are red-yellow-orange coloured. I feel well among them, though I don't know why. You know, my mother and I never had a normal mother-daughter relationship and when I am in my bed, surrounded by these colours, I feel like I'd be in a womb.
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Post by gemma on Nov 25, 2005 15:46:07 GMT -5
Speaking of double rainbows, I have a gift for you:
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Post by gemma on Nov 25, 2005 17:04:37 GMT -5
I have nonetheless some vivid nightmares like this one where my mother was trying to kill me in the bathtub This sounds creepy!
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Post by gemma on Nov 26, 2005 5:28:38 GMT -5
I truly cannot say anything... I never had a dream such like this..
Long ago I had a nightmare and I am sure that this nightmare showed me how my past life ended.
I was lying on a pile. I was going to be burned alive. I remember that I was lying on the pile, the woodsticks hard under me, my face towards the nightly sky, and my hands reached up into the flames. I felt the fire eating me. It was cold, and burning at the same time, like great nettle. I saw the stars through the smoke. I could easily breathe, but I know that I died there.
I am still afraid of fire, in my whole life I was afraid of it.
And I would like to see another dream about another past life, because I constantly have problems with my wrists. Both of them often cause me pain.
I saw a film about past lives: there was a woman, she also had constantly pain in her wrists. When she was put into hypnosis, she remembered that she was tormented and executed. Maybe I have the same problem? Can it be that I was tormented in a past life and condemned to fire-death?... Who knows..
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Post by gemma on Nov 26, 2005 14:57:47 GMT -5
It is very good that you got the meaning of your nightmare. If we understand our dreams, it makes certain things easier. One would guess, that it is hard to say "no" if you don't like somebody but it is even harder if you like that somebody. I have another opinion. If you dislike somebody (just like I dislike my mother), it is much harder to stand up against this person. By the way: I bought gift for my mother. (I never bought anything for my parents for Christmas, they told me they didn't need any gifts.) I am suffering from the loss of motherly love. No wonder I call my bed a womb. Though I am 24, I still hope somewhere that I'll gain somehow her love. I have a plush-dog in my bed. Her name is Roxy. My father bought her for me 2 years ago. When I am sad, I hug Roxy. Sometimes, when I wake up from a nightmare, Roxy comforts me. I will write again a dream-diary. I will build a channel to myself, so to say. Is there anyone who also wants to write one?
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