(hello, I'm new in the sense of just registered but I have been lurking for weeks and so not an utter n00b. I couldn't help but want to answer this guy).
OK... speaking as someone roughly in your gf's situation (female, with a boyfriend I love dearly)... don't worry about this.
I know I have dreamed I have sex with another guy - to whom I had not the smallest attraction to in real life (I mean, ew, he was years younger than me. We just happened to share a job). I've also dreamed of having sex with one of my best (female) friends, and I'm very straight.
I don't think dreams are meaningless... but I don't think their meaning is straightforward. (And also that often enough their meaning is trivial. But that's getting offtopic). For example. It was clear to me when I woke up that the dreams about sex with my female friend were about more intimacy/honesty in that relationship. Dreams are entirely in metaphor, and sex is a very useful one - nakedness, lack of hiding, etc. As for the couple about the other guy, they also worked out to be something random about my job at the time.
I haven't bothered to tell my bf about them, but I doubt he would take it very seriously. I wouldn't be upset at hearing that he dreamed about sex with someone else. And from talking to my female friends, pretty much all of them have 'cheated' on their partners in dreams.
I can't promise that she's not just trying to mess with your head but it seems really unlikely. She seems to be feeling upset and guilty about this herself.
Maybe you could talk about it. Say...
... that the dreams don't mean that she isn't destined to be with you. That they're not such a big deal, and to stop stressing about them, because if anything this worrying is probably triggering them and making them more likely - people tend to dream about stuff they have an emotional investment in. You know that they're not a threat, so there's no need to feel guilty. You could try talking about what they *do* mean - if for example if it's that she longs to live happily with her extended family, (and it seems likely that that's what this guy represents in her dream) then that's not at all a bad/wrong thing for her to want, or a sign your relationship is about to end. It is a perfectly natural (and healthy) sort of desire. Can you make it happen? I don't know your life, so I can't say. At least talk about it, and sympathise with her. Find some way of fixing the real-life situation, because the dream does tell you that there is something missing. Maybe you can mend things with your family? or forge a close group of accepting friends. It's your life, you know best.
I'm sorry I rambled so long. What a first post, eh? Hope you feel better and sort it out. Please tell us all how it goes.
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