Disturbing Dreams - Need Help Interpreting

[ryuken]

I'm searching a lot of forums lately to understand these type of dreams. I can't call it nightmare or a form of lucid dream because it seems that I'm connecting real life with my imagination. I don't know how many things are mixed up here - movies, anime, real life, frustration and something that is bugging me. I somehow remember this particular dream even after a long time. So here's my dream ... "I'm inside a apartment (ground floor flat) with a lot of friends. I don't remember a single face in lot and most of them seems to be my minds creation, they're laughing, playing snooker or cards on table and i'm enjoying whatever they're doing. Suddenly I'm walking out of that building in a lane where there are lots of apartments and small row houses. I choose to walk in dark lane out of nowhere and I see "burned bees" are falling out from the sky. In the same lane there is honey flowing in both sides. There are some pigs feeding on that honey and they didn't noticed me. These pigs are much different than what we see in real life. I mean they've much different physical structure. These look more violent like bees. I'm walking past one group of those pigs without them noticing me. I look back and see that they're talking to each other and slowly following me. I take right turn from this lane and suddenly i'm near a house (much bigger than any other house in that lane but it wasn't there before while i walked in that lane. I saw one horse eating grass and i move further towards backyard of that house. I don't see any dogs over there but there is big chain attached to that animal...I reach the backyard of that house and see that there is another dog, not looking at me but is also attached to this big chain...I get past that house by crossing the fence and there seems to be one lane towards a garden. I see one middle-aged women walking towards the road....I can't see her face" and something in mind made me uneasy and I wake up from dream." Last few weeks I am seeing these types of weird dreams and I don't know how to interpret them. I have been on emotional ride for few weeks and one part of my mind holds me off from being depressed and another comes up with yet another point of being depressed. I choose to go with not being depressed but still I can't separate the thoughts in dream, it just plays like unstoppable record. How am I supposed to interpret dreams like these ? (Hope You get my problem through broken English).

[Naiya]

First of all, When you have disturbing dreams, it's often because your mind is trying to tell you something important. What interests me most about your dream is all the creatures. Do you normally dream of so many different animals? I think that might be a major clue here. How do you feel about each of these animals in waking life? What do you associate them with? For example, personally I'm afraid of bees IRL, so in my dreams, they represent anxiety and worries.

[ryuken]

Hi Naiya, I usually don't get dreams with creatures in it (unless of course if i'm not dreaming after video games or anime). I do have some strong attraction towards phoenix and dragon but for some off reasons I never saw these two in my dreams. The reason this dream surprises me a lot is because - bee, horse and pig are not something I often see in real life. Take case of horse, it's been 2-3 years I've seen any horse nearby, same is the case with pig. As for bees, they appear often during summer time. That's all, not much I'm interested in these animals, so not sure why mind projected them in my dream. I'm finding it hard to associate anything in real life with this dream or creatures.

[Naiya]

Hmm, okay. I think that information helps. Again, keep thinking about what each creature means to you, or what thoughts or feelings come up when you think of one. That's a good start. To give some general ideas, it might have to do with animal instincts, your own wild side, or even a general fear or apprehension of what the creatures represent -- the forces of nature, the uncontrollable, the uncivilized, the savage.