Stabbed and a Friend

[Lustre]

Hey, I had a dream last night and my teacher was talking about dream interpretations in English today so it got me interested in what it meant. I'm quite scared of the gang culture in England, I'm 16. I have a fear of being stabbed and I hate knife crime. I was standing at the bus stop in my dream, the bus stop I have to go to to get to school and a man was standing in front of me. Then all of a sudden another man runs towards him with a machetti, it must have been about 40cm long, he stabbed the man in front of me. As he was walking past me he saw me look at him and I started to run off, he chased me and that was the end of the dream. It panicked me all night, I didn't get much sleep. Then I had another dream. I had a best friend for 12 years, called Joe. We fell out about half a year ago, he just stopped talking to me, so I didn't get closure. I'd do anything for him to be my friend again, but it's too late. Anwyay, in the dream we were in my local town and I bumped into him. He gave me a card, like it was my birthday or something. Then he went to shake my hand and instead of shaking his hand I hugged him. Then we were friends again. That was the end of the dream. Does anyone have any ideas as to what they mean? I think I get the basics, but there might be more detail that could be useful to me. I'd really appreciate your opinions, thank you!

[quattykitty]

the two dreams are probably unrelated...however if they are then it coudl be that you just want to be friends with joe who previously 'hurt you with a knife' by cutting off your relationship (no pun inteneded) lol i really dont know... please help me w/ my dream!

[unclesirbob]

In truth its very difficult to interpret someone elses dream. Its likje trying to tell someone else why they like a certain piece of music. Its perfectly psoible to interpret your own dreams. Dreams will use some symbo from the past to express a similar feeling right now... so if you get a situation from the past where you feel great stress it maybe means that you are under stress in a similar way now. This dream mentions this old friend. Often we have pent up energy... we want to do something and in dreams we find an outlet for it... so its like you want to see your old friend but cannot do so... your dream is the way of doing this... The knife dream maybe shows how you felt about some threat in life... a terrifying fear of something... maybe even knife crime itself... its beasically just living out your own fear.. dreams can do that... Its the dreams way of saying ... it can happen and has happened to other peopel.. so it CAN happen to me... we think about worst possible secnarios in dreams. its the minds way of reinforcing the need to be aware of danger... sometimes we overreact.. ------------------------ Many dream analysers follow the recent traditions and tend to look for deep meanings within our own personality and deep feelings. They may link to eelings linked to our long term situation such as jobs, health and life in general. That approach is actually slightly flawed. Dreams are very much in the present. It is true that dreams capture some thoughts about life in general but its best to see how drams point to specific feelings and moods on a certain day and at a certain time. So really dreams are more about moods. These moods and feelings do link to long term situations and relationships but only in the sense that the dreams capture some recent situation or feeling where such long term factors have featured. That is an important point to remember. A dream is not about some general tendency to be bullied its rather about how you were bullied or nearly bullied yesterday. Its an important point to remember because part of the symbolism will be very much related to that specific situation. So if the dream is about you been bullied its about how you were bullied yesterday and how you have reacted or changed your behavior in relation to this. These pages are especially helpful in showing you how to interpret dreams http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayhowtopost.php Interpreting dreams http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayhowto.php Triggers for dreams http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessay.php Dream dictionary