Weird Dream

[cd27]

My friend told me about a dream that she says has been tormenting her for years. she had it a while back and it just, it completely baffles me. okay, here it goes: She's in a white room, no doors, no windows, just white room. she's on one side of the room, and her family is on the other side (different members, like uncles and aunts and parents and siblings). a Black ball is rolling back and forth across the room. when the ball reaches her family and turns around, everyone one there drops dead. when it comes back to her and does the same, nothing happens. any ideas? cd

[cd27]

Hello? ahem...asking for help for a reason.... cd

[citizennumber3]

I don't know how accurate any attempt at interpretation might be, as we know nothing about your friend's situation. Usually symbols hold deepest meaning to the person dreaming them--only she can really say, "yes, this must mean that," or "no, this definitely can't stand for that." But I will give it a go... I'm actually writing a paper on the connotations of black and white in Orwell's 1984 and I can tell you what you probably already know, but perhaps didn't fully consider: black, of course, is negative. White is pure, positive, good. Your friend may see this room as positive--a life full of light and happiness in which she shares with her entire family. But when negativity strikes her family like so many bowling pins, they all drop because they can't handle the strain. However, she feels that she can manage the negative forces in her life, surviving the stress and pain. Did something terrible happen in her family when these dreams started? Did she lose a relative? It might be her subconcious feeling that she can deal with the pain, but that she is extremely worried about the rest of her family's ability to cope with it. This could be completely off--but just what I happen to make of the dream.

[The Blue Meanie]

My friend told me about a dream that she says has been tormenting her for years. she had it a while back and it just, it completely baffles me. okay, here it goes: [/b] Is it a recurring dream? If so, how often does she get it, and when did it start? She's in a white room, no doors, no windows, just white room. [/b] This "feels" quite cold and clinical, sterile maybe. she's on one side of the room, and her family is on the other side (different members, like uncles and aunts and parents and siblings). [/b] She is seperated from her family. There is distance between them. Given the cold, clinical feel of the room, perhaps this indicates there is some sort of emotional distance between your friend and her family. a Black ball is rolling back and forth across the room. [/b] The ball is between her and her parents/family. Literally and figuratively. The ball is the object, event, issue, etc, that is the root of the emotional distance between your friend and her family. That she describves the ball as black is interesting. The ball also seems to have a dominant presence in this drea, when the ball reaches her family and turns around, everyone one there drops dead. when it comes back to her and does the same, nothing happens. [/b] The ball knocks over her parents/family, but not her. A number of possibilities here. Perhaps this ball, this issue, has removed your friends parents/family from her, emotionally. It has seperated her from her family. Or perhaps, the ball indicates that this issue, her parents/family cannot deal with, and thus they get knocked over, while she herself IS able deal with it, and it is this contrast that brings about the emotional distance. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but it's hard to give a specific interpretation without knowing more about the particular situation. I may be totally off the mark, but I hope not. As your friend if there's any issues which have caused her to feel emotionally distant from her family, or "shut off" in some way, isolated?

[cd27]

Well, the thing she told me, i don't know if i mentioned it above, but i probably should have, is that nearly everyone who she saw on the other side is dead now in real life. another thing that may have something to do with it is that me and her were almost related. her uncle and my mother were partners. unfortunately, he was abusive and one day he tried to kill her, my mother shot him, and he died. she said she had some idea of what the dream was about, but i haven't really had a chance to completely talk with her about it. she did say that it is a recurring dream, that she's had it four or five times in her life. i don't know when it started. i can ask her. thank you for commenting, both of you. cd