Thread: Zombie / Gang dreams

It’s great that you’ve provided background information because this always help in giving a better dream interpretation.

A gang that’s chasing a person in a dream can symbolize, for example, some frightening facts and unpleasant realities about his or her overall situation.

We all prefer not to look at such problems most of the time, but if ignored, they can become very painful outer events (being shot) that can “hurt badly” (bullets). Or a person can develop unpleasant physical symptoms such as having a lot of headaches etc., or they can tend to feel anxious too often etc.

For instance, on the outer side, you had a falling out with a good friend and now, angry and dangerous flare-ups happen every time you meet him or her.

It’s a touchy subject, but often when we get really angry with another person, it’s because they somehow reflect back to us something we have inside ourselves and which we don’t really like being there.

While it can be very hard for us to accept such a fact, it’s best to do so in the long run because this can help to prevent blow-up’s with anyone at all who “ruffles our feathers” in the same way, from friends to bosses.

So you can carefully and slowly try to figure out what it is about your friend that makes you so mad.

The car parks and schools in your dream probably mean something like how you’re gradually learning to “fit in” and get along with those around you in the working and friendship worlds.

It looks like certain upsetting and “violent” emotions sometimes could tend to disrupt this process, coming from “behind” you like the gang, that is, from your unconscious mind.

From the dream’s point of view, taking the one big step to just “evade” and repress any such emotions (jump down the centre of the stairwell) isn’t the way to go.

It’s the “easiest” way instead of the more dangerous, “step-by-step” method of getting down from being “too high up” (way up in the car park) by gradually working at why the gang is so “murderous”.

The way the dream ended is probably saying something like “You really have to wake up to this deadly way of handling certain problems”.

The next dream where you’re shown at first as asleep in the camper might be hinting that you tend to be too unaware (asleep) and relaxed about a situation (on holidays in a camper) which could get worse over time (the zombies attack, just like they’re appearing in your dreams more often).

The young boy annoyingly opens the door a little, allowing the zombies to tear it off.

Symbolically, the ten year old boy wants you to “face the zombies” who can represent a kind of “anaesthetized state of mind” where emotions are mostly kept out because some of them might hurt too much for whatever reason.

Maybe unfortunately something happened around the age of ten which was very painful in some way and this has eventually led to a situation where your feelings are kept out of the scene too much.

It’s understandable that you again want to “escape” having to look at any very painful emotions (jump to the other camper).

Emotions are “earthy”, so being high up in the car park of the other dream and later in this one could mean that you are too far away from this side of you.

Similarly, a guy’s feeling life is usually symbolized by a woman in his dreams, so because you are black, the white woman could represent that you might not be close enough to your own natural, inborn feelings.

Another very important image in the dream also involves a woman, that is, when you feel really bad about stamping on the zombie woman’s fingers.

This inner part of you is trying to “reach” you through feelings and stamping on her hand could mean that trying to live without enough emotions might “damage” your relationships with others in the long run since a hand usually symbolizes a connection with others and the outside world.

Maybe feeling bad in the dream shows that you should encourage a growing acceptance of the role of emotions more fully in your life and this is the bar which you grab onto later.

Pulling yourself up instead of falling to the bottom where total “unconsciousness” about the situation lies (e.g. being dead) can allow you to keep running until you can learn to turn to face the zombies who will probably then become friendly and non-threatening.

It’s not easy being 20 in an uncertain economy when you’ve had a row with a good friend as well as being in a distant relationship with your father who you probably wish would be providing some moral and practical support as you move further into adulthood.

But you currently have a decent job along with a good relationship with friends and other family members, so there’s a lot to build on as you move forward.

If this interpretation, which centers mostly on your feeling life, seems to click in some way, you might like the books “Nothing’s Wrong” by David Kundtz, and “Emotion: A Very Short Introduction” by Dylan Evans.

To help express your feelings in a way that won’t ruffle the feathers of others, you could bolster your assertiveness skills by reading such books as “Asserting Yourself” by Bower and Bower” and “Your Perfect Right” by Alberti and Eammons.

And maybe to let off stress in an ongoing way, you could try some regular physical activity which suits you best in either team or individual sports, along with doing some hobby etc. which you really enjoy.

Putting a package together like this will help you to deal with the various challenges and stresses that come along.

If you mull over this interpretation and it seems to fit, while also maybe trying out a few of the suggestions above, then these very upsetting dreams should stop or only appear much less often when something especially difficult to handle comes along.

I hope that these ideas can be helpful in some way.

Wow thanks for the reply. Didnt expect it to be so detailed and in depth.

Your interpretation definitely "clicked". Thank you very much.