Thread: Ghosts

I can't say that I know what it feels like to be raising a child but it seems like this dream is a subconcious manifestation of your fear of whether or not you will be able to properly care for your child and keep him safe (are there things you dread might happen to him that you would not be able to prevent?).

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Thanks!

And i thought long and hard about what you said. And I don't think I'm any more scared that something is going to happen to him than normal. I'm not uber paranoid about it. I'm fairly confident that I can properly care for him etc.

Well I'm no expert on dream symbolism, its just the impression I got from reading the dream. What is your boyfriends attitude towards raising the child? It might be that he seems to worry about it and your subconsious is picking it up. After all he is the one sitting with the baby in the room so maybe it means something that he isn't able to drive the ghost away himself?

Hmn, actuallly...He is home with him for 4 or 5 hours while I am at work and it drives me NUTS. I HATE it because I don't like the way he deals with his crying and screaming etc.

he gets frustrated with him pretty easily, too.

Just my interpretation...

Ghost means unknown part of self. Room means an aspect of self.

My opinion (only) is that you unconsciously are afraid of harm coming to your child. You are afraid that this harm may be indirectly from you.

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I was wondering are the colours significant in your dream, the black and the white. Are you a mixed race couple at all?

Or are you concerned about how you are perceived? Your boyfriend was the one protecting the child and sitting in the purity of the white light and you were the one trying to chase away the dark shadow.

So it could be interpreted as him being seen as doing no wrong. Are you receiving some sort of unfair external critism or unwanted well meant advise about how you look after your child?

You probably just think about caring for your son very much so it carried into a dream.

I really don't think you are afraid of harming your child consious or subconsious. I think you may be feeling that you can't control your present situation.

You have to go out to work and leave your child, meaning that you have to put up with a parenting style from your partner that you do not agree with and have no control over this.

It may be that you can't say anything to your partner because he is in the white light representing that he is being viewed in a good light as he is looking after your child and you feel that you should be or are being made to feel that you should grateful for that.

I feel that you are seeing two aspects of your partner in your dream, the white light the good and that he is being a hands on dad with your child, sharing the workload of looking after your child and that this is the white light that you feel grateful for and the bad the part which you can't control, his style of parenting skill which is different to your own and this is the dark shadow you are trying to shoo away.

Parents don't get a manual with their kids and most (with gladly few exceptions) try to do their best and what they feel is right for their kids, unfortunately we all have different ideas of what this is. Maybe you should make some time away from your child for the two of you to sit down and talk and come up with a mutal plan of the best way forward and discuss your concerns.

well we often worry about young children. Maybe the ghosts represent the unseen dangers and worries. It probably means nothing.

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