Thread: Interpretation of a nightmare?

Originally Posted by ElvenRamza

...I suddenly got a immense wave of terror.
...
I'm clusterphobic I fear the unknown.

Did the dream terror feel like claustrophobia? If so then both the rl fear and the dream seem to be accessing the same unconscious terror likely to have formed in (very) early childhood.

If not then I guess the same is happening - you're feeling some terror that is not normally in your awareness (consciousness). The dream symbols may give a clue to the nature of the terror or even its origins. Try and think about the source - what gender was it, how old, what power over you. Also the scream - gender, age, what power is it feeling overcome by?

Better still, talk to someone you know well or can trust about it. Somehow naming the terror in the presence of another makes it less scary. Something to do with the other person not being afraid and being with you while you are.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Did the dream terror feel like claustrophobia? If so then both the rl fear and the dream seem to be accessing the same unconscious terror likely to have formed in (very) early childhood.

If not then I guess the same is happening - you're feeling some terror that is not normally in your awareness (consciousness). The dream symbols may give a clue to the nature of the terror or even its origins. Try and think about the source - what gender was it, how old, what power over you. Also the scream - gender, age, what power is it feeling overcome by?

Better still, talk to someone you know well or can trust about it. Somehow naming the terror in the presence of another makes it less scary. Something to do with the other person not being afraid and being with you while you are.

It was male, I would say early 20s or late teens.
What do you mean by power?

I talked to a friend and all he said was it sounded like Silent Hill 4. =/
Never played that game.

Originally Posted by ElvenRamza

It was male, I would say early 20s or late teens.
What do you mean by power?

I mean what can this "creature" do to you. These are just example questions that I would ask someone face-to-face and for you to juggle with. I'm not especially leading anywhere with this.

But I have yet to have someone answer that the "creature" was female, which leads me to assume that it has its origins in our earliest encounters with significant males - for most people this will be our fathers.

That doesn't mean our fathers were evil, just that there were times we were afraid and we burried that fear deep inside (splitting it from our conscious memories) and it leaks out in dreams etc perhaps triggered by real life events.

Maybe we'll never know the origin for sure, and maybe that won't halp anyway. But I do find it helpful to accept these fears as coming from inside us and that they have no power over us other than what we want to give them. The more we come to terms that we have a "scared child" inside us the more bearable the fears are to the adult.

That's my belief anyway!

Originally Posted by ElvenRamza

I talked to a friend and all he said was it sounded like Silent Hill 4. =/
Never played that game.

LOL no neither have I. But it is likely that successful games etc resonate with our unconscious thrills and fears (makes the more real for us) so it's probably not a bad analogy!