Thread: Reoccuring man

It looks like your dreams about the man who is a demon are in a way trying to show your overall situation of unfortunately being tormented by bad paranoia.

Maybe the dreams began around the time you met your current interest, showing that there might be a kind of automatic inner response that you don’t really see and which perhaps tends to undermine any growing relationship.

For example, as you probably know, paranoia causes a person to believe that others are sort of “attacking” and persecuting them. It also involves being very jealous etc.

This can become like a “demon” which makes the person overly suspicious or jealous etc. and this can take its toll over time because others become tired of being the target of questions etc. about things that have no basis in fact (e.g. in the first dream the demon “pushes everyone away”).

In the dreams of a woman, a man like your “demon” can often represent constant negative thoughts and hurtful opinions about herself which drone on but about which she’s maybe only half aware (e.g. you don’t always see the demon).

The problem is that this state of affairs can of course damage relationships (e.g. the demon injures the person you’re currently interested in).

The idea is that if a person doesn’t realize or accept at all the fact that it’s them who are actually probably “attacking” themselves, this is wrongly seen in outer people.

For instance, if your current interest happened to see an old school friend who was female and simply smiled when saying hello, an unacknowledged self-hurtful opinion about yourself like “You’re so dumb nobody could ever love you” might instead come out in the wrong opinion that he was “rejecting” you for someone else while pretending to like you.

If you “grow fond of the demon”, this suggests a “close relationship” is growing which could eventually result in “marriage”.

In a symbolic way, this could mean that you’d become “one with” the demon and “united” with it so that you might become overly caught up in seeing others as the “problem” when it’s possibly really about an unfortunate situation of very low self-esteem that’s involved.

Not having to accept that there might be an inner psychological problem (as opposed to people being the cause of everything negative) can understandably feel much more comfortable overall (e.g. the demon stops attacking everybody).

But in the end, the inner man can again sadly become a demon at any time, savagely attacking your sense of self-esteem because the ongoing inner state of affairs hasn’t really been dealt with.

Anyway, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dreams might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.

Hopefully, you’re receiving some therapy to help reduce your feelings of paranoia and also, maybe the recent dreams, although unpleasant ones, can help you to see what’s really going on which can assist you in escaping this “inner demon”.

Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dreams.