couple of recurring dreams - running, falling, and L.Blair!

[klump55]

Hi! I was discussing dreams with my friend today, because I had a particularly vivid dream last night that keeps recurring, albeit with slight variations. So I felt compelled to post it on a dream interpretation forum and see what other people make it of, and others that I keep having! Ok, first one is pretty straightforward and I get this atleast a couple of times a year. I dream that I am running but not actually moving. My legs move, but I cant actually go forward, I grasp with my arms at thin air but it's like a conveyor belt is under my legs and won't let me get anywhere. It's a very frustrating dream. I figure this one is pretty straight forward: it means I am trying hard in life without actually getting anywhere and am subconsiously quite frustrated at my progress. Second recurring dream is more of a nightmare. I dream that I walk up a darkly lit spiral staircase, slowly going round in circles til I reach the top. At the top is a door. I always open it, and see a witch sitting there spinning thread or something. And she sits there for a couple of seconds with her back to me, then slowly turns around, and she is hideous, not some sort of caracture witch but the genuine article Then she cackles at me, and begins to run at me. I run down the stairs as fast I can but know that at every step she is only one behind me. I daren't look back. I never seem to reach the bottom of the staircase, just keep on running, and it seems to never end. I've had this dream atleast 5 times, and yet in the dream I always walk up the staircase, knowing full well what awaits me at the top, and open the door. I'm actually conscious of knowing the outcome even in the dream... I know what will happen but keep walking up and opening the door. Strange stuff. Third dream, and the one I had last night, involves falling from a very high building, though the building varies between dreams. I have this the most regularly. These dreams are particularly vivid, I can feel the wind on my face as I fall... it is a genuine sensation within the dream. I heard somewhere that dreams about falling are the evolutionary reaction to our distant ancestors falling from trees, though maybe that's a load of rubbish. Anyway, last night I dreamt that the building was a kind of 'Lord of the Rings' tower, like a massive bell tower, with a hollow inside, so that the falling was within the tower itself and not outside of it. I dreamt that me and my friend (in real life) and three girls that were entirely fictious from what I can remember were at the top of the tower, and had reached the very top, and were looking down at the drop. And my friend dares me to jump across the gap inside the tower, from one side to the other, basically over a thousand foot drop. Firstly, he does it, and he just about make it, but in real life he is 6 foot 5 and I am 5 foot 11, so he was always going to do better than I would! But I decide to jump across, and do it, and I make it, just about. So we keep doing it, the girls seemed to just watch on, kind of impressed. But after a couple of gos, I just miss, and have to grab onto the ledge with my arms. I slowly lose grip and begin to fall. I feel the wind on my face, just as usual, and can feel the speed at which I fall begin to get a bit faster as the fall goes on. The drop seems to go on for a couple of seconds, then I hit the bottom, feel nothing apart from a tiny crunch sensation, and suddently get TRANSPORTED back up to the top, all intact and all ok. So I do it again, and every so often the fall happens, but the same again; I get transported back in one piece. This transporting never usually happens in the 'fall' dreams. And by the end of the dream me and my friend are both jumping across, deliberatley missing the other side and falling thousands of feet for the sensation and the comedy value! We are laughing as we fall, safe in the knowledge that we will be ok. It turns from a terrifying situation into a kind of theme park rollercoaster one. So those are my three dreams, which I tend to have again and again, although the details of the third one do vary and the transport thing is a first. Any interpretations would be great! Oh, one more dream that I almost forgot to mention. It's not a recurring one but a very disturbing one and one which I will remember for a long time. I think it might be what you would call a 'lucid dream' though I wasn't even sure what they meant until 5 minutes ago It was so vivid and I was aware of lying on the bed experiencing this really intense reality of sounds and... well... Linda Blair.... Here goes. In real life, my brother was playing on a computer in the room with the volume turned low, and I was laying on the bed, feeling sleepy, but not intent on sleeping. I think I just kind of fell to sleep gradually. But in the dream, I was conscious of actually lying there on my bed, being awake, and seeing my brother playing on the comp, so it all seemed very real and quite weird. Basically, I am lying there, tooing and frowing, half asleep, when I hear very loud and very clear tribal music. Terrifying drumming, sounds quite devilish. And then chanting. And I look at my brother (he would have been about 10 at the time, so quite young) and I asked him where the sound was coming from, but he ignores me totally, as though he doesnt know that I am there. And then the chanting continues and Linda Blair, from the friggin Exorcist, turns up and leans over my face, in full Exorcist makeup. And just kind of stays there, really close up, as the chanting continues. I am aware of being half asleep and half awake, on my bed. I try to move from the bed and get away from her, but I cannot move a muscle. I'm in a paralysed state whilst looking this representation of evil in the face, whilst my brother sits there unaware. And I remember trying to open my eyes in real life, to get away from this evil face and see the ceiling above me, but my eyes in reality wouldn't open and seemed glued shut, because in the dream they were already open and looking Linda Blair in the eye. Eventually I come around, dazed and confused, my brother is still sitting there playing, and Linda and the chanting have disappeared. But it seemed SO real, for a couple of seconds after waking I actually thought it was. In reality, I couldn't have been asleep for more than 15 minutes. Any thoughts on this? I hadn't seem the film in well over a year before, and I didn't find it particularly scary anyway.... though I must admit, I did find it pretty sinister as films go... Thanks for reading, Kris

[irishcream]

[ Second recurring dream is more of a nightmare. I dream that I walk up a darkly lit spiral staircase, slowly going round in circles til I reach the top. At the top is a door. I always open it, and see a witch sitting there spinning thread or something. And she sits there for a couple of seconds with her back to me, then slowly turns around, and she is hideous, not some sort of caracture witch but the genuine article *Then she cackles at me, and begins to run at me. I run down the stairs as fast I can but know that at every step she is only one behind me. I daren't look back. I never seem to reach the bottom of the staircase, just keep on running, and it seems to never end. I've had this dream atleast 5 times, and yet in the dream I always walk up the staircase, knowing full well what awaits me at the top, and open the door. I'm actually conscious of *knowing the outcome even in the dream... I know what will happen but keep walking up and opening the door. Strange stuff.[/b] I think i can help you with this...the hideous old woman could be your Wise Old Woman Archetype. In dreams, she offers guidance like the Wise Old Man does, but is often more cryptic, and can be very cruel if you don't pay attention to her. sounds to me like you are trying to acheive something, and the Wise Old Woman is trying to give you a hint, but you aren't letting her. The thing to do, next time you meet her, is to not run away. She obviously wants to tell you something, which would explain why the dream recurs... dreams with Archetypes will recur, until you decipher the messages within. I hope this helps, if you need anything more, then just let me know! Good dream though!

[Yume]

Originally posted by klump55 Third dream, and the one I had last night, involves falling from a very high building, though the building varies between dreams. I have this the most regularly. These dreams are particularly vivid, I can feel the wind on my face as I fall... it is a genuine sensation within the dream. I heard somewhere that dreams about falling are the evolutionary reaction to our distant ancestors falling from trees, though maybe that's a load of rubbish. Anyway, last night I dreamt that the building was a kind of 'Lord of the Rings' tower, like a massive bell tower, with a hollow inside, so that the falling was within the tower itself and not outside of it. I dreamt that me and my friend (in real life) and three girls that were entirely fictious from what I can remember were at the top of the tower, and had reached the very top, and were looking down at the drop. And my friend dares me to jump across the gap inside the tower, from one side to the other, basically over a thousand foot drop. Firstly, he does it, and he just about make it, but in real life he is 6 foot 5 and I am 5 foot 11, so he was always going to do better than I would! But I decide to jump across, and do it, and I make it, just about. So we keep doing it, the girls seemed to just watch on, kind of impressed. But after a couple of gos, I just miss, and have to grab onto the ledge with my arms. I slowly lose grip and begin to fall. I feel the wind on my face, just as usual, and can feel the speed at which I fall begin to get a bit faster as the fall goes on. The drop seems to go on for a couple of seconds, then I hit the bottom, feel nothing apart from a tiny crunch sensation, and suddently get TRANSPORTED back up to the top, all intact and all ok. So I do it again, and every so often the fall happens, but the same again; I get transported back in one piece. This transporting never usually happens in the 'fall' dreams. And by the end of the dream me and my friend are both jumping across, deliberatley missing the other side and falling thousands of feet for the sensation and the comedy value! We are laughing as we fall, safe in the knowledge that we will be ok. It turns from a terrifying situation into a kind of theme park rollercoaster one. I'm gonna give this one a try. I think that you will be doing some gambling (not necissarily casino) and every time that you lose you fall down, but you get back up and go again. You don't feel much because you are doing so well. You and your friend will do very well. Don't think this means you should bet someone a lot of money. Just a stab.