Conference hydra::dejavu

1058.0. "Trapped in Nightmares" by UBOHUB::HOOD_S () Fri May 26 1989 12:07

    
    
    
    Hello,
    
    I'm sorry to add yet another 'help me with my dreams' request
    but this is really causing me some grief and any help/advice
    anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.
    
    For several months now I have had the same dream almost
    EVERY night without relent and it's wearing me down.  I am
    sitting in a dark room on a single wooden chair in the centre.
    I seem to be younger than I am in real life and am dressed
    scruffily with tatty hair and bare feet.  There is a dim
    glow in the room around me and the chair but apart from that
    it is total darkness.  I can't see anyone but all around me
    there are voices shouting angrily or sort of lashing spitefully
    at me.  They start of as a sort of rumbling and I'm looking
    wildly around me to peer through the dark and try to see who it
    is then they get louder and louder until I can bear it no longer.
    I then cover my face with my hands and scream loudly as I stand
    up from the chair - as this happens I wake suddenly in a sweat
    with my heart banging in my chest and I am usually actually
    sitting bolt upright as I wake.
    
    This is very disturbing as you can imagine and I have great 
    difficulty in getting up the courage to go back to sleep
    and the dreadful feelings I have on waking sometimes don't
    really fade away until lunchtime at work.  
    
    Does anyone else have similar experiences?
    
    Thanks a lot for listening,
    
    SANDY.
    

    Sandy, 
    
    Sounds like a stress related dream: alone in the dark, angry voices
    etc. I have a trick I use to stop reoccuring nightmares which you
    may want to try. I look at myself in the mirror (right in the eye)
    and repeat the words "I will not dream that dream tonight" .. works
    
    for me anyway . 
    
                          

    
    Hi Sandy,
    
    That dream sounds like a real bummer. I dont think I have had any
    reoccuring nightmares but I have had dreams in which I could interact
    in. If you have any control in the dreams perhaps you can ask out
    loud during the dream "who is there!". It may provide you with an
    answer and from there you will have something to work with.
    
    Good luck.
    

    Sometimes recurring dreams/nightmares are simply repeating messages
    that we need to understand.  Have you tried interpreting the dream?