Stange dream i had

[Nikobellic1985]

Ok hear me out... i woke up in all a sudden in my bed this was very strange to me since i rarely wake up like this. i stood and briefly looked around..it was night time and i saw the color of the light in my room had changed from white to a warm feeling yellow. Then i almost unwillingly walk out the door and into the corridor that separates the rooms from the kitchen and hall in my house... it felt strange... as if time had been skipped, then all of a sudden i look in front of me... and there are a bunch of zombies... this also felt strange because it was as if i could see one of them thorough a wall... slowly walking at me. I felt really strange at first... i kind of didn't believe this for a brief moment... then i felt exited. Suddenly the door to my brothers room opens, he comes out looking as if he'd just woken up... he walked straight into my room, which he never does... i look in front of me again and the zombies are still there. I turn and run towards my room i open the door and see my brother just sitting in my bed... staring at the closet it was weird. I tell him with excitement "Hey look". He just looks at me, i tell him again "hey come and see" he just says "what". he looked as if he'd just woken up... the all of a sudden a zombie walks into the room and falls to the ground and i tell him again "look", he just stares at me. I grabbed a pencil from a table almost unwillingly... Then i stabbed the zombie in the neck with it.. the another zombie came in , i did the same, then two more came in and i did the same. it felt easy but weird and unsettling. My brother was just sitting there staring at me, just looking clueless. Strangely and suddenly i tried to explain my brother why the zombies had turned to zombies... it was as if the information just popped into my head and as i was speaking i felt as if somebody was telling me what to say... and i was just repeating after him Then all of a sudden a weird individual comes in... this felt really unsettling he seemed human... but looked like a well dressed zombie almost like skullface from Metal Gear Solid. but a never got a good look at his face, even though he came in and looked at me. He had something on his head... Something like an astronaut helmet, and he had a black suit. He came in and sat in my bed next to my brother He started speaking... words which i cant remember... looking at the closet like my brother... a short time passed in which i just stood there staring at him... he struck me as odd... a very cynical individual he also seemed very intelligent and logical. He also seemed familiar for some reason. Then i felt just like he was a danger... i felt powerless... i grabbed the pencil again and stabbed him in the back of the neck... and he didn't even twitch... i did it again he still kept on talking... so i tried to stab his neck pointing the pencil upwards towards his brain... which did nothing... i felt powerless again. For some reason the i felt something robotic about the guy... as if he where a robot... but still a human with blood and flesh. What i did next am not sure why since i was feeling very little desperation, ( Im the kind of guy that even during a hurricane he just sits there as if he didn't care, oblivious to what's going on. ) I stabbed his neck again, right in the middle and ran out the door... into the corridor and into the the didn't room close to the door that exits the house... i felt the guy stand up... so i grabbed the keys to the door off the table quickly then i ran towards the door. i felt the guy coming but i didn't see him walk the corridor. I opened the door and went out... then when i was about to put the lock back on the door i found conflicted whether i should leave the keys inside... since my brother was still in there and then a i was just standing on the road for a short time... then i just woke up. Let me explain myself... At first the dream felt VERY real... though there where a few things which felt odd in my house... but i didn't give it thought. My room felt cozy, a lot more then normal and the color of the light-bulb had changed... also the light was on... i very rarely leave the lights on in my room. About my self... im 19 years old... i live in Dominican Republic... if i where too describe myself i am very much like Dexter... except i do not kill people, neither have i thought about it... am a very quiet individual... not many friends... not so good childhood in school bla bla bla. My friend tells me im very cynical and unforgiving but i have a good sense of humor, and that i have almost no compassion since i tell people what i think the need to hear rather then a compassionate response. But i had never had a dream that felt so stupid and weird afterwards. I rarely dream too. I play a lot of videogames and im also studying software engineering in university But still zombies... seriously. I don't get why did i have a dream about zombies of all things since i haven't played a zombie video game in about a year. Another thing is i do regret just running away and leaving my brother behind... thats why i felt conflicted of leaving the house. And also even though my parents room is right beside mine my parents felt completely missing. Im posting this here to see what other people say about it since i don't usually have weird dreams like this...

[Athanor]

Generally speaking, zombies in dreams symbolize parts of ourselves that we don’t like. Everybody has certain habits or faults etc. that can be upsetting to ourselves and others but it’s best to stay aware of them so that they don’t kind of “suddenly appear out of nowhere” like the zombies do in your frightening dream. So it looks like you might have become too unaware of certain aspects of your personality (e.g. you’re asleep at first, that is, “unconscious”, in a “cozy” room or in a “comfortable way of thinking”) and the dream maybe shows that you have to wake up and look at things “in a different light” (e.g. the light is yellow, not white, perhaps also showing that you have to leave a kind of overly logical approach and trust more to your intuition). Soon you see the strange and frightening zombies which have “invaded” your house, that is, your overall personality, and this could apparently happen in some way in the future via such things as unpleasant symptoms. You go into the bedroom where your brother went and he’s almost like a zombie himself, maybe symbolizing that a growing part of yourself could be hurt if you don’t solve the problem that’s represented by the zombies, especially by the one zombie in the helmet who comes in later. The dream seems to say that trying to “kill” the zombies (that is, trying to make them “totally unconscious” so that you’re unaware of them day to day) won’t work because they’re the “living dead” anyway and will just come back, as was mentioned, through any number of unpleasant physical and/or psychological symptoms. From how you’ve described yourself and what your friend said about you, it looks as if unfortunately, you could be drifting towards becoming overly detached from your feelings and instinctive reactions too much of the time. Since you’re a quiet person, this is something that can easily happen because society in general is driven by the media etc. to accept only the strongly extroverted and “friendly” type of person. Of course, a lot of the “friendliness” turns out later on to be completely fake. Maybe in school, the other kids made fun of you for being interested in computers etc. but this is the “real you” and what you’re good at, so perhaps you generally retreated into this side of you too much because of being bullied or otherwise mistreated. The problem is that, maybe like the zombie in the helmet and black suit, you might unfortunately tend to become overly “logical”, “cynical” and “robotic” if you don’t learn to let your feelings back in again more often. Feeling compassionate in your dream about your brother and having doubts that you left him behind show that you can get back to learning how to interact in a more empathetic and sympathetic way with others. Since you’re mostly quiet and inward-looking person, you might like the book “The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World” by Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D. An additional approach could be to brush up on your assertiveness skills by reading a couple of books like “Asserting Yourself” by Bower and Bower, and “Your Perfect Right” by Alberti and Emmons. That way, you could learn how to “tell people what they need to hear” without hurting their feelings as much and this would help you to get along better with others overall. Also, maybe if your university has a counselling service, it might be a good idea to touch base with them to talk about any lingering resentments and anger etc. that you could have as a result of unpleasant events in your childhood and teen years. Anyway without knowing much about you, these ideas about your dream might not fit your personal situation very well but I hope they can help in some way.