Originally Posted by
Athanor
Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events just before this frightening dream), a few ideas can be tried out to see if they might fit your personal situation in some way.
For example, while it’s true that a physical position or other physical factors can affect a dream, the question should always be: why did the dream choose the specific images and action that are shown in the dream instead of something else?
Also, an unconscious attitude, anxiety or situation etc. can cause a certain physical position of the body etc. to appear in the first place during sleep as the body moves around before, or in response to, a dream.
In addition, it’s important to mention that there are generally no rigidly fixed interpretations for a given image in a dream, and it’s always best to have the spontaneous memories, thoughts and feelings of the dreamer as related to each image and event in a dream.
That way, a better analysis is more likely, but having said that, there are some general symbolic motifs that appear in dreams which can serve as a basic starting point for discovering its meaning.
It’s important to say as well that the language of dreams is one based on often complex analogies and metaphors which can often be hard to understand.
For example, the context in which a symbol appears is crucial because every symbol can have a positive or negative meaning to it, depending on the overall scene in which it appears and as well on the actual life of the dreamer at the time of the dream.
Additionally, dreams are the broad equivalent to those processes which keep our physical bodies in an equilibrium.
For example, automatic adjustments are continually made to keep a person’s temperature, blood sugar level, water content etc. etc. at appropriate levels.
In an equivalent way, dreams try to maintain an overall psychological balance which will allow for the gradual all-round self-development of the dreamer.
In your dream, you’re outside (i.e. maybe psychologically “lacking shelter”) while dark rain clouds are forming, even unusually coming down from the sky until they are touching and suffocating you.
It’s safe to say that the presence of animals in dreams usually points to the issue of the dreamer’s overall attitude toward natural instinctive reactions, strong emotions, values, vague feelings, intuitions and similar inborn earthy traits.
In this case, your instincts are apparently trying to warn you of the danger as the clouds approach.
The danger shown in the dream is “suffocation” which of course means the stopping of air flowing to the lungs.
From a symbolic point of view, “air” is usually the same as “spirit”.
So the idea could unfortunately be that some problem might be starting to grow at this time (i.e. as symbolized by the dark cloud and rain) which could tend to “take your spirit away” if appropriate action isn’t taken in a timely way. I’m not sure, though, how far back this dream appeared.
The clouds and rain in this context could represent some feelings of depression and feeling low too often (e.g. the rainclouds come very “low” to the ground).
If so, as mentioned, any such situation could already be causing certain physical postures etc. during sleep which then in turn are “illustrated” further by the dream.
As a very general example to support this idea, it’s known that certain psychological conditions can cause a person to unconsciously breathe in a very unnaturally shallow way, the physical result eventually being that they can more easily contract various serious illnesses of the lungs.
So in this case, it’s possible that certain physical postures during the night that happened before, or in response to the dream itself, caused you to have difficulty breathing.
If so, this led to an “anxiety” type dream which forced you to hopefully “wake up” to some potentially dangerous attitude or state of mind etc.
Another important idea is that it’s almost always better to have a series of dreams in order to analyze a given dream that has appeared.
In your case, at least we do have one other dream which you posted on August 8.
In that dream, Death has literally come to take you away. I’m not sure if this dream appeared before or after the rain and clouds dream.
A big contrast is that, contrary to the recent dream, there’s no real emotion in it. You wrote that you only felt neutral (“Neither anxiety or willingness to accept death”) about how Death clearly was “taking your life” at the end.
If you dreamt about the clouds and rain dream after the Death dream, the idea would be that, because you naturally wouldn’t really have any way of understanding the importance of the earlier dream, a more frightening dream has followed, again with the idea of “waking you up to” an apparently serious problem.
Not feeling anything in the earlier dream can be called a “lack of spirit”, that is, maybe an early sign of depression.
In this context, “Death” succeeding at “taking your life” could unfortunately mean a full blown depression might possibly be the result if some appropriate action isn’t taken.
This doesn’t mean at all that this will happen, only that there could be a possibility of its happening.
Dreams often exaggerate things in order to shock a dreamer into starting to change something right away. This is similar to taking action early on if an unpleasant physical symptom doesn’t go away in order that a condition won’t get worse if it’s ignored.
In the earlier dream, you got only a glimpse of the real Death because he appeared to be a normal guy most of the time.
This could mean that you don’t yet really “recognize” certain little hints about your mood etc. that maybe is getting too “dark” sometimes.
Death also bites you in the dream. A bite usually symbolizes that there’s a danger of some kind of unpleasant physical and/or psychological symptom appearing later.
Although you panicked about the bite, you don’t really stop being around Death, maybe showing that instead, you have to take a firmer stand about rejecting the “attractive lure” (e.g. Death swims so powerfully) that’s leading you away from symbolically being a part of everyday life (i.e. by becoming instead “dead” regarding emotions and outer activity etc.).
Maybe the basic cause of the problem being shown in the dreams is that your more personal and warm emotions and values might be “turned off” a little too often in favour of “cold material likes”.
This state of affairs could possibly be symbolized by the various poker games in the earlier dream where you’re making money, but where the dream ends by you being really close to Death.
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dreams might not fit your personal circumstances very well if at all, but I hope that these ideas can be helpful in some way.
In any case, all your comments or questions about this interpretation are very welcome.
