please, help, dream about been held captive

[craiggaynor]

me and about 10 friends noticed a van parked outside of a old unused barn style house in my dream about a week ago in my dream, (didn't happen in real life), and randomly went down there, we were looking around and my friend urinated on this old sofa, I remember not wanting to look but there was stolen goods everywhere, desinger watches, slide up phones with their screens on a slant so you couldnt use them properly as well, I remember picking a few objects up n thinking to myself i shouldnt be getting my prints on these, but the idea of a free phone was too appealing. Just then some people came in, one was a man and one was a woman, the otheres i couldnt see, the man had a weapon of some sort, i think it was a gun which is why we didn't run away. I remember talking to the person that if they let us go we wouldn't be calling the police, and i remember my friends behind me in the other room going fuck this call the police now, after trying to baragin with these people i went back into the room where my friends were to see if i could slyly get a call to the cops in, just then the old windows blue screen of death came up on my phone screen, they had a computer guy taking the network in our area down. Then i started looking for anything around the room which i could use for an escape, but nothing was suitable really. they sat us all down on the sofa, and i remember been nice n speaking to them a little bit to try get away, they let a girl go, but the rest of us had to accept a punishment, i thought id get mine out of the way and they hit me on the ankle with a sledgehammer, i didnt hurt at all, but obviously i pretended it hurt so they wouldnt hit me again, the woman dishing out these punishments looked at me, i think she thought it might not of hurt as much as it looked and i thought was contemplating doing it again. after everyone received a punishment i looked around the room and saw another 10 or so people had joined us, everyone i knew, but wasnt there at the start. what the f? lol, anyone able to help me on this vivid dream please

[craiggaynor]

anyone able to help please?

[Clytemnestra]

Hey, I'll try and help you with this dream with a few suggestions on what it might mean. First of all, you need to take notice of the 10 friends you say were with you. Were they people you know in everyday life, or complete strangers? This could be an important element of the dream. Friends in dreams reflect inner parts of ourselves that we can learn from, or that we can integrate in ourselves. That's why it's important to look at who they were and what qualities they had. Interestingly, the number '10' signifies closure, great strength, and gains. The van is parked outside an old, abandoned barn. I feel the barn is something you've rejected about yourself - a personality trait, a quality, a view on the world? Or even, since you went into explore the barn, maybe you're going to learn more about the hidden aspects of yourself and explore parts of your unconscious. Thoughts and ideas could appear that you abandoned a long time ago. The van parked outside says to me that you're ready to go ahead with it. And that perhaps you've been waiting for a practical solution to your problems lately. Your friend urinating on an old sofa tells me that either an aspect of yourself, or someone else isn't going to aprove with what you're going to be doing in the near future. Effectively, they could try to dimoralize and demean you and tell you you're wrong. The stolen goods represent temptations that could be all around you, you are tempted but you hold back and feel unworthy since you try not to look. There are many temptations in life, sometimes you have to ask your self if it's what you really want, and if it's really as good as it looks. In the dream, you were afraid to get your prints on them, which tells me again, you feel guilty for having these thoughts. The people coming in on you with a gun is a stress indicator, a problem. You say you couldn't run away, which could mean you feel trapped by your problems when they come along. You tried to reason with the people to let you go, which tells me you try at first to deal on a surface level with the problem in a logical way. When that didn't work, trying to call for the police is asking for help in effort to solve your problems. That didn't work out in the end, as your phone broke. When no one comes to help, you seek to run away from your problems. You have to face up to your problem again, by viewing it in a light hearted way (being nice to the people), without getting too attached and deep - so as not to get hurt. When they let a girl go, it's like releasing part of the problem, solving part of the problem by technically just letting it go. They begin to punish you - which generally means you punish yourself. A sledgehammer usually breaks down things into small pieces and an ankle basically symbolises the support with have in the world. You said it didn't hurt, but you acted like it did so that you didn't get punished futher. So, when all your support goes, you 'go numb' and don't know how to express how you feel and put on a front of pain to express to others how you should be feeling. In a way, you try to live up to others expectations of yourself. The woman could be either your conscious telling yourself you're not being true to yourself, or someone else, typically a woman, can see the true you. I think the 10 new friends could be basically 10 new aspects of yourself, to replace the ones at the beginning. I feel this dream is typically trying to tell you about who you hang around with, what they can teach you, how they can transform you and what changes they can bring about in your life. It's a big dream of change, letting goes of old ways of thinking and old problems. I feel that you've basically got rid of a lot of baggage, or will begin to soon. The theme of the number ten, is about closure and gain - you let go of old aspects, and gained new fresh ones. I hope this was somewhat helpful in some points, this dream was very vivid, and since you've posted it here, I believe it has something to teach you.

[craiggaynor]

wow, thats what you call an interpretation, thanks, that is quite true! thankyou!