Dream: Becoming a ghost, and getting my head chopped off and putting it back on

**Carrot** · 12-22-2011 06:41 PM

I can't remember where the dream exactly started but I started feeling tremendous feelings when I was next in line to get my head chopped off and putting it back on again. There was no blood and I feel a little drifted off from reality so I assumed I became a ghost after a series of things that had happened.

The story's like this.

Today was my turn for my head to get chopped off and put back on (glued back on perhaps). The ghost who was doing so was taking turns to do it, a different person everyday. Our fingers were chopped off and put back on previously so now it's the head turn.

I leaned my forehead on the table and told the ghost to get on with it. I did not struggle, neither do I hate the ghost, all I knew was this has to happen so I just want it to be done quickly. I feel a numb sensation as though I'm on anesthetic and after a short while, it's done. My head felt the same as before, just a little looser.

Afterwards the people who previously had their heads chopped off and put back on told me that I could no longer do drastic movements with it like looking up at the sky or cracking my neck (cracking meant something like you can crack your fingers too). So I was very fearful with what I am doing with my neck.

Although my fingers were chopped off and put back on too but they are functioning perfectly normal with no symptoms of them coming off.

It also seems that if our head just suddenly dropped off we will be noticed by other people and that will make our identity known, so I am assuming that's the part which leads me to believe that I am already a ghost. The dream is set at a small hotel.

However, I found a chance to talk to the ghost who chopped my head off. She told me that she was killed by us and she wants revenge. Previously when we were all alive, there was a shortage of food but she snatched all of it. In a moment of fury, we killed her. I said "I'm sorry" to her afterwards.

I still recalled when I woke up, I was worried whether is my head intact.

And I did a search on a dream dictionary on ghost and it said, "Try to figure out what the ghost [in my dream] wants or what it is looking for." So I am thinking the ghost wants revenge and is looking for people to understand her plight.

I would really appreciate if someone can give me a more detailed explanation on this dream because the keywords for this dream is really hard to search up on the dream dictionary. Thanks a lot and thanks for reading.

**Darkmatters** · 12-22-2011 07:03 PM

Here's my quick thoughts on it -

I'd say having your head chopped off relates to thoughts or ideas. Fingers chopped off seems to relate to the physical - fingers are the things with which we manipulate matter and objects - the head is what we think with.

The ghost most likely represents some part of yourself. It "took all the food" - so it must be some part that got greedy and took over, not allowing other parts to get the attention they need. Then you killed it - you supressed or repressed or tried to destroy that part of yourself, and in revenge it somehow tried to deprive you of the ability to think properly.

Gluing the head back on - sounds like afterwards you're able to still think, but in 'lite' fashion now - as if your thoughts are less than they were - like you now need to censor them or repress some of them or something, and you need to be careful so people don't catch you doing it.

I'm not a 'real' dream interpetor, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night...

**Carrot** · 12-22-2011 07:46 PM

I guess it's making sense now.

Whenever certain parts of my feelings are dominating me, I suppressed it and try to forget it. But it always comes back, like my mood swings.

**Darkmatters** · 12-22-2011 07:48 PM

My first instinct is to say the dream is warning you not to suppress your emotions - you should probably express them instead or they'll turn you into a living thoughtless zombie.

**Carrot** · 12-22-2011 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

My first instinct is to say the dream is warning you not to suppress your emotions - you should probably express them instead or they'll turn you into a living thoughtless zombie.

I burst out with rants to my friend but it's not helping much either. It could be because I'm too nice with people who are around me, to the extent that I couldn't bring myself to say "Shut Up" to people who are pissing me off.

Does not confessing to the one you love classifies under suppressed emotions too?