Dreams. As in You Go to Sleep and Your Imagination Runs Wild

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Alright! Now I will have to pay more attention to what I dream. I know I have reoccurring dreams sometimes that I will dream every few months.

When I was a child I had this dream that I was in a vehicle - I think a truck and I was sitting next to my brother and his head suddenly was on fire.

Also as a child I had this reoccurring dream of being weighted down on my bed by these bricks on top of me.

I am so glad you started this. I will post my dreams and nightmares here in the future for you to interpret :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Well, that's a possibility but unfortunately I can not remember anything other than dreams from that period in my life. I have a hard time separating my memories and dreams. Everything in the past seems like a dream.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Just wait until I have some new dreams to share. I will be able to remember more of what is going on in my life currently than I can from 20+ years ago and your interpretation will be relevant I'm sure :-)

[Erica]

I have been dreaming a lot about being back in highschool. I would try to strut my stuff down the main hallway, and can barely move my legs. Another dream theme is my teeth crumble and fall out.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Erica wrote: "Another dream theme is my teeth crumble and fall out."

I believe this means it's time to get some dental work done.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Erica wrote: "I have been dreaming a lot about being back in highschool. I would try to strut my stuff down the main hallway, and can barely move my legs.

What carried you before isn't going to work anymore. You're not in High School anymore. This dream means you must do something different than you've done in the past if you want to succeed and make any headway down the hallway of life.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Al wrote: "Okay. I was in a cemetery watching a coffin go into the ground. It was raining, but then it was just cloudy and I was standing on the now covered grave. I cannot recall what happened in between tho..."

This is freaky shit which I can not think about right now. I think you should watch the TV show called Six Feet Under.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Oh it definitely does :-)

[Rachel]

the teeth crumbling dream is one that many people have at some point (flying is another). i've had both of those dreams although its been a while. i've also dreamt more than once that wild animals are on the loose (lions, etc) and i'm way to close to them.

[Nora aka Diva]

Erica wrote: " Another dream theme is my teeth crumble and fall out."

Have you been "lying out your teeth" lately to anyone? cuz that's also an explanation, that your mistruths will be found out, or it can mean a loss of pride for whatever reason.

[Nora aka Diva]

My recurring dream: I am in bed next to my husband(never the same guy..lol) when I wake up to noises on a different level of the house. (sometimes my bedroom is upstairs other times it's in the basement but the noise is always on ground level.) anyway I wake up husband whoever and he doesn't believe me(none of them do.) Until we can hear this guy calling my name in a weird sing songy way, husband whoever says "he knows you" and get up out of bed. at this point I sit up and turn at the waist to face the door. Husband gets half way to door when it's kicked in & a bright light is shined at us. I see husband fall and THEN hear the gunshot. I turn so I am facing forward and feel the round enter my head, I see the blood splatter foward, the room lights up for a second but everything is black in white. I lose all muscle control and fall back onto the bed feeling my head and back thunk against pillow & mattress. I think to myself 'Well that's that.' Then I wake up.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Freaky! and that is a reoccurring dream too. I have never experienced these types of dreams like Al and Nora. This is so interesting.

[Nora aka Diva]

I have others, it's probably why I am difficult to scare. The one I posted has been ongoing randomly for about 15 years.

[Rachel]

Al, i only remember lions can't recall any others it's been awhile since i had this dream. any thoughts as to what a lion on the loose represents?

Nora, have you considered turning your recurring dream into a short story?

[Rachel]

Al, I love reading your interpretations of each dream. everyone's dreams are so interesting!

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Did you know Aslan the Lion from Narnia represents Jesus Christ too? I really love Narnia.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Rachel wrote: "Nora, have you considered turning your recurring dream into a short story?"

Maybe there is some meaning in that - Nora do you enjoy writing? Al could write her nightmare story too :-)

[Nora aka Diva]

Rachel wrote: "Nora, have you considered turning your recurring dream into a short story? ..."

Honestly, I have never thought about it.

[Nora aka Diva]

What? No one wants to try to interpret that dream of mine? Awwww. :(

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Well, the husband keeps changing. Have you had many husbands?

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Do you keep moving your bedroom to different floors in real life? like one year, you put your bedroom in the basement and then the next year you pack everything up and move to another level of the house for your bedroom?

[Nora aka Diva]

Only one husband.
eta: that oddly enough, he was never in that dream.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

You know your moving bedroom reminds me of how I broke my arm. You see, when I was about 12, I had my own room but I had a bunk bed and sometimes I would sleep on the top bunk and sometimes I would sleep on the bottom bunk well with all that changing I would sometimes forget which bed I was on. Well, actually you see my bedroom was not really a bedroom, it was a storage room and it had no windows so it was very dark and it had no carpet - it was a concrete floor. So one night, I stepped off the bed in the middle of the night to get a drink of water and I had forgotten that I was on the top bunk and I did not have a guard rail because that had fallen out of our truck on the highway while were moving one time and it had gotten run over by a semi truck a few years before. Well, this is how I broke my arm because it was very dark and I couldn't see and I was on the top bunk and I fell onto a concrete floor.

Your dream of changing bedroom locations reminds me of this.

[Nora aka Diva]

Ouch! Sounds painful.

[Nora aka Diva]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Do you keep moving your bedroom to different floors in real life? like one year, you put your bedroom in the basement and then the next year you pack everything up and move to another level of the ..."

Nope, other than here all my bedrooms have been on the second level.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Nora aka Diva wrote: "Ouch! Sounds painful."

It was. But it was kinda a lame way to break my arm. Kids would ask how I broke my arm and I would say:
"I fell out of bed"

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

I think Al needs to tackle your dream. I think there is some significance with the changing husband and changing levels of the bedroom.

[Nora aka Diva]

What I have always found most disturbing is that I think I recognize the voice but I just can't place it.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

The voice of the mysterious intruder calling your name in a sing-song way?

[Nora aka Diva]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "The voice of the mysterious intruder calling your name in a sing-song way?"

yes

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

what if it's a voice from like a tv series, a movie you watched alot, or an audiobook narrator that has narrated several different books you've listened to?

[Nora aka Diva]

I have never listened to an audio book. Shame on me, I know.
What I tell myself is that originally I didn't recognize the voice at all(true) and that I only think I recognize it because of the frequency and length of time I have had the dream(maybe true?).

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

When did you have this dream most recently?

[Nora aka Diva]

Holy shipwreck, I haven't since losing Andre.
It would have been about a month before that so Dec of 2010.

[Nora aka Diva]

I do dream interpretation as well but I could never make heads or tails of it, probably to close to the situation. I'm just glad it wasn't one of the recurring dreams that eventually happened.

[Nora aka Diva]

Here's another dream of mine. I am in the kitchen making lunch, Andre is following me around(he is about 6 years old in the dream, he did follow me around a lot at 6) when someone knocks loudly on the front door. So I go answer it(Andre still trailing behind me.) when I open the door, I see the guy standing there and say "you." slam the door, lock it. Then I remember Tristen & Trevor are out in the backyard. So I turn to my right where there is a Square spiral staircase. yes you read that right. at the top of the staircase is a long hallway. I go into the first room on the left, a bedroom. I walk up to the wall and say to myself 'this is were it will be' and go through the motions of opening a wall safe and removing something from it, my hands are empty til I turn to face a dresser, now I am holding a gun case that I set down and open, I grap the handgun and shove the clip in, go out the room and down the hallway the oposite direction that I came from, down normal stairs to the back door of the house(yes, Andre still following me). out into the yard. Oddly enough the guy from the front door and I step out into the sideyard at the same time and I shoot him, he falls over onto the ground. I turn to the kids who are sitting at a picnic table and ask "whose hungry?" Now standing at the picnic table I start handing lunch out from a wicker picnic basket. I look over to where that guy had been shot and there is a lump covered completely by leaves, I shrug and start eating lunch while the kids chatter about what they want to do that day.

[Nora aka Diva]

The square spiral staircase for starters. I mean other than in my weird mind, whose ever even heard of one, ya know? The gun as well since I would never have a gun in my house again not after Baby tried to shoot me that one time. One more thing that sticks out is how Andre(aka Baby) was who I was protecting first by slamming the door and locking it, only then remembering his siblings were outside.

[Nora aka Diva]

Al,
if you can figure out something for the first one that would be great, the other can wait.
ty
:)

[Nora aka Diva]

Well it's not just the husband that gets killed, I do too in that dream. I don't think I've had any "bad" relationships per say even at the end of my marriage is more meh than anything, if that makes sense.

[Nora aka Diva]

How long does a transitional period of life last because this dream popped up for about a decade and a half of my life.
I promise I'm not trying to be difficult.

[Becca]

I've read in some dream books, that being inside a house (in your dream), the house may be a representation of yourself. The basement being your subconcious, the bedrooms depending on whats in them can represent different things that are going on in your life at that time. The closing or opening of doors can mean you're ignoring certains issues, or becoming more open to new opportunities or relationships.

[Nora aka Diva]

Al wrote: "Spiral staircases mean change, but a square one....being afraid of change maybe since the shape was off. Locked doors-missing out on something, holding your emotions in. Try to think of things that..."

Now what you have said about this dream makes a lot of sense. Andre struggled with mental illness starting at a very early age. Change in our house was Never good, even when it was a good change, it set him off violently at times. I am certain this was around the time I stopped talking about the "issues" with anyone not medically certified because so many friends & relatives kept comparing him to psychopaths and dammit he was my baby. I never gave up on the idea that someday, somehow we would get his mental illness under control and be able to have a more normal life.

[Nora aka Diva]

Al wrote: "Being afraid of commitment and confrontation comes to mind due to your husband dying, but possibly the fear of losing someone you love...."
In the dream it doesn't seem to bother me that the husband gets shot and dies but it really irritates me that he didn't believe me that someone was in the house until after intruder starts calling my name. As twisted as this is the feeling is more a 'told ya!' and from my dying thought in the dream being 'well that's that' it would seem that me being killed doesn't bother my subconscious either.

[Nora aka Diva]

thank you. Honestly when his meds were working he was the nicest, giving, caring person anyone could meet.
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Well, let me know when you hear anything. I've been trying to figure it out a long time, what's a little longer, eh? lol

[Nora aka Diva]

Manic depressive or more recently referred to as bipolar disorder has 5 types.
1. Bipolar I

2. Biplar II

3. Cylcothymic disorder

4. Mixed

5. Rapid Cycling

[Nora aka Diva]

Al wrote: "No, no, no. Bipolar is the old term. The more recent term is manic depression. Lol, spell corrector on my kindle. I meant manic depressive in my last post. Last time I use my kindle to go on GR aga..."

Lol, actually you got that backwards.

http://bipolarworld.net/Bipolar%20Dis...

Why did Manic depression become bipolar?
http://bipolar.about.com/od/definingb...

[Nora aka Diva]

Yes, it is wrong. If you don't want to believe me or the reliable sources I have already provided are you willing to believe the NIMH?
Here's the link to show were I got this info...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/he...
here's the info ..
under health topics
Manic-Depressive Illness see Bipolar Disorder

Why? because it hasn't been referred to as manic depression in at least a decade. Did you read any of the info I gave you?

Sorry it happens from time to time when textbooks do get things wrong. Print out the info from the sources given and take it to your professor.

also feel free to move this discussion to it's own post since we have derailed this one. You could call it debate the terminology. lol

[Erica]

Had a nightmare last night that I was trapped in a beach house with my whole extended family. Yes, it was a nightmare.

[Nora aka Diva]

Erica wrote: "Had a nightmare last night that I was trapped in a beach house with my whole extended family. Yes, it was a nightmare."

Sounds like a nightmare to me!

[Rachel]

Erica wrote: "Had a nightmare last night that I was trapped in a beach house with my whole extended family. Yes, it was a nightmare."

scary!