The Flood

[gottadream]

I had a vivid, strange dream and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on what it may have meant. My roommate/best friend and I were packing to go leave for spring break (which is actually happening, she just left today.) Her parents were there waiting for her to finish and I was still gathering up all of my things. For some reason I had a big, fluffy pink chair and felt the need to take it with me, though it doesn't have any part in the rest of the dream. My on-campus apartment doesn't look like it does in real life - it's all white and there are several tiny rooms that look like dressing rooms. At some point I hear that there is some flooding happening, but we aren't worried because my roommate and I live on the third floor. While we're finishing up with our packing, however, I hear a loud scream from outside. I look out the window to see the sky illuminated in purple by the lightning, and a massive wave about to crash against the glass. My friend's mom tells us to run, and I turn to sprint away just as the glass shatters and the water explodes into the room. I can feel it cold on my feet and rising fast as I run and I almost forget how to unlock the door. But we aren't getting out fast enough, so I run to my friend and grab hold of her and her parents as tightly as I can, fighting to hold onto them while the water rages around us and rises and we scream. Suddenly we're outside, and we've somehow survived. I can't swim in real life but apparently I can in the dream. I follow them and see a young boy tied to his parents with a rope, and I suggest we try that, but my friend's mom says there isn't time. Suddenly it's much later. We're safe in the car and it doesn't even look like there was any flooding. While we're driving, I look out the window and see the mall, far below us, submerged in the dark water. There are cars floating and I comment that things must be chaotic at the hospital. We drive to my friends house and are surprised to see beautiful, huge glowing blue lanterns floating down from the sky. My friend's mom says they're a memorial for the people who passed in the flood. I try to take pictures of them with my surprisingly undamaged cell phone, and then my parents come and find me, along with my sister, who lives far away in real life. I go with my parents and my sister to Wal-Mart so we can stock up on food. While we're there a giant dog leaves his owner to follow me around. He's very sweet and he keeps trying to lick my face. When we get to the checkout my sister and mom start fighting, and my mom says that my sister is being selfish trying to buy herself a sandwich, meanwhile there are starving people who've lost their homes in the flood. Meanwhile my mom has purchased an expensive pack of gum. I get mad at her for being mean to my sister and threaten to throw the gum into the street, but I never do. The owner of the giant dog finally finds me and thanks me for taking care of him. We leave the store. Much later on I'm talking to some superstitious Mexican lady and she tells me that I am part of some big prophecy and that the flood is the first sign of it coming true. That's all I remember. Feelings about the dream: My feelings about the dream events were fairly realistic. I was terrified when the floodwaters broke through my window and did not think I would survive since I can't swim. I knew, however, that if I held onto my friend and didn't let go of her I would be okay. I was still afraid as we swam together and I tried to hold onto them. Later on I felt remorseful for the people who had died, and yet the blue lanterns were indescribably beautiful and touching to me. The fight with my mom made me angry. I didn't believe the woman when she told me I was part of the prophecy, but I was secretly scared that she was right. Background: I've been dealing with a lot of stress lately. My health has been not-so-good lately. I've also been sorting through some feelings about my emotionally abusive mother. I read a post recently that shook me up about how people like me who dare to complain about abusive parents are really just entitled, whiny brats who are pissed off because they didn't get what they wanted, and it upset me more than it should have. In real life my mother was more overtly abusive to my sister, calling her selfish and saying the nastiest things to her on a regular basis. I've relapsed into self-injuring. So there's that. And I've also just been stressed because of midterms. As for my relationship with my roommate/friend, we're very close but she doesn't know about how things are with my mother. We've known each other for almost 10 years now. I'll admit that I sometimes envy her because she has a very normal, happy family. Her mother is the sweetest woman and I admire her a lot. I don't know who the strange Mexican lady was. My father and my friend's father were present in the dream but they didn't play an active role. I hope that's enough information. It was one of the more vivid and intense dreams I've had lately, and it frightened me because it was so realistic. It lacked the usual weirdness that's in my dreams, and everything happened in a fairly realistic sequence of events that were related to each other (hearing about the flood, being in the flood, getting away from the flood, going shopping to stock up). Normally my dreams are kind of all over the place, elements don't appear to have any relationship, and there isn't a definite timeline like that. So yeah, if anyone knows what this dream could've meant that would be good.

[JoannaB]

I tend to have flood dreams when I am stressed or depressed, and just overwhelmed, flooded with issues or emotions. Also when I have sinus issues. Holding on to other people to survive a crisis makes sense, we need eachother to get through crisis. Prophecy of flood could be apocalyptic or something like that. Anyway prophecies of natural disasters are common in culture and often when disaster strikes people say that it was prophecied. For you personally it could be your mind asking yourself the questions: is this stress something I could have predicted?