Thread: Horrifying Recurrent Nightmare......

Wow! That is some heavy stuff! It may be relevant that you witnessed 9/11 because it was so surprising and that may be part of it, total surprise. If so the important questions might be how was your life going at THAT time and how is it going NOW?
As for possible meaning, it could be the shocking and total destruction of your old social life with a blinding awareness followed by nothing. And the fact that you feel fear means it hasn't happened yet but you fear it could terribly.
I don't think 9/11 is relevant. It's most likely the dreaded terror of something threatening to hit your life like a bomb of unimaginable scale. The mass destruction is made great by its closeness to the beholder (it resembles a mass scale explosion because it would so closely affect yourself.) That is my mundane little guess.

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I understand you, nuclear weapons are frightful because of their extreme power and because running away is useless when they are used.
Have you ever been stressed about possiblity of nuclear attack (e.g. during The Cold War)?
There's nothing to be afraid of. Now none of coutry owning weapons of mass destruction is crazy enought to use it (I hope).

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Well I am certain that this dream is linked to you having viewed the fateful effects of the terror attacks. Dreams are about many things but some nightmareish dreams are symbolic of your own worst possible scenario.

In many ways one nigtmare is liike another. A stabbing is the same as a wolf dream. A nuclear attack is the same as spider. they all refer to our own nightmare emotions. Try to think back to the day beforer the dream. Was there some tricky situation you were in that day? Was there something that COULD have gone dreadfully wrong? Were you particularly worried about terror attacks that day ? did you read something that really made you more aware of the terror threats?

To be honest though the best comparison I can make is with the soldiers from world war one. Some(a very few ) are still alive today having lived life in a living hell with having to walk across no mans land and face almost certain death. When you have witnessed something that is beyond belief you can never totally unlearn that. Those soldiers came back from that war. In the same way troops are coming back from down town fallujah today and they can never truly unlearn the effects of that particular situation. So I gues this is partly post traumatic stress. You never really forget after having winessed this up close. And dreams are more about your fears. So the dream is true. You TRULY do FEAR a nuclear attack. It truly is a possibility.

Precisely what the cause is of your dream is difficult to say. I do believe in premonitions in that I have had these myself. But often a dream will be quite difficult to interpret. A dream does not really distinguish between a a disaster that is personal and one that is affecting the whole of society. So this may very well be about a nuclear explosion that you fear within your own life - loss of a job ? a devastating end to some relationship?

Hmmm...

I doubt that this is a premenatory dream, because lots of people would be experiencing it. What are you doing in the dream prior to the explosion, and how were you feeling? This could be the expression of a fear of your personal world coming apart suddenly, or a personal tragedy arising out of nowhere. Have you felt anxiety over the possibility of another terrorist attack since 9/11?

I know that life can take sudden, dramatic twists and turns - my life fell apart a few months back. Maybe you should start looking at how you would manage if your lifestyle were threatened by a catastrophic event. If there is a broader meaning to this dream, it could well be that sudden changes are headed our way. Global warming and the chaotic climate changes it is bringing might cause this civilization to collapse, and sooner than we think possible.

Happy New Year!

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