Hello young fella and welcome to dreamviews! the place were dreams are part of reality
I would like to share my experience and views regarding war dreams.
first of all, I live in Israel, and as some of you know or don't know, we are at constant war. may it be hamas who suicide bombing us and launching missiles at our cities (during the last operation conducted in gaza missiles were bombared over my house), and then hizzballah, who wants part of the action, kidnap bodies of soldiers they killed so that they could trade them for their prisoners in Israel and also firing missiles (they have missiles that cover all Israels territory) at Israeli population.
there are constant threats of infiltrations around the country (especially borders with the Palestinian regions) in the north and the south are also constantly watched for any terror activity.
when I was 11, maybe 12, I had dreams that my country was over run with enemies and a large portion of the population that couldn't escape were slaughtered, in the dream I was 16 and I managed to escape and join an underground group operating to save as many people as possible, this dream was the first of that I had growing up in this chaotic place. I remember clearly that I felt cold, horrific cold, and it made my dreams vivid to the point of reality, they were so realistic that when I woke up I thanked any divine power that it was only a dream.
along the way I became interested in wars, not because it was something I saw on tv and thought :"hey, this is cool, people are blowing up, ha ha ha" but in their horrific nature. my aunt served in the Russian army during the first war in Chechnya, and what she told me that she went through ( she saw people she knew cut to pieces, probably while they were alive, torture victims on both sides, she herself almost died several times, i'm sorry for the image but it was to show some color to what she experienced ). when she got to Israel she served 7 years in the national security forces, and seen a lot of blood, lost people that were dear to her and other war related shit (here also she almost died several times and also got shot in the leg).
all this images ran almost every single day in my head, making nightmares almost frequent, but most of these "nightmares" weren't about getting killed or tortured or whatever, but about me trying to save people from the horrors of war, fighting in every possible way to secure freedom.
when I was 16 I decided not to become an engineer (I love science!!!! hi-ha) as I intended but recruit to the military special forces, and after a few years to become a warrior ( it sounds so glorified) in the special police and border control unit called YAMAM (its basically SWAT, but they conduct operations often over the borders of Israel, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism and taking down large criminal organizations). if your'e asking, i, unfortunately, didn't made it because of family related issues and other topics.
What I want to summarize is that when you feel an over the edge emotion such as fear of war, it can manifest it self into your subconscious, making nightmares so vivid and intense, that it can shock you even when you wake up, you can feel your head pounding like a machine gun and a cold chill (rigor) going down your spine. these are natural phenomenons accuring when people think or hear something that scares the s!#$@ out of them, literaly.
What I did was to embrace the fact that these things happen, war and related subjects, and when I have a dream like this, I usually fight back and make every bit of effort to keep my friends alive.
I'm a science guy, I want proof and facts, and when I studied dreams and lucid dreams I understood that emotion, especially in your subconscious, is raw figment of your dream realm, what you feel is what you would see (yes, I sound so sciency right now, i'll probably go after this to watch some nature channels and read articles on how to make home-made psychedelic drugs).
my English is terrible so please excuse me kind people.
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