Death?
 

So I've been having the most wild dreams lately!

Last week I dreamed that one of my uncles died.

Then last night I had a dream that a second uncle died (and in the dream the other uncle was also still dead), and then my brother-in-law died in the dream!

Background: My family is totally insane and I have not seen/spoken to either uncle in YEARS...years. Very few people in the family have.

My brother-in-law though - I'm closest to him, my sister and nephew :shrug:

These death dreams are freaking me out!

I have death dreams all the time. If I know you I have probably had a death dream about you :laugh:

The worst one was when I was walking with my sister down on the beach and she wanted to go for a swim, so I held her in the water - and all of a sudden she began to sink, and I couldn't grab her - and I watched her drown on the sea floor :eek:

I also had a death dream about Stevie - I cant remember what happened, all I know is she died, and I woke up crying and couldn't get back to sleep :laugh:

One time I remember dreaming that I fell into the water off a dock and I woke up like breathing real heavy. Kinda freaked me out.:eek:

I had this dream about Stevie too and it sucked. A couple of years ago I had a dream my Mom died and she did wind up being diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of weeks later. That really freaked me out and I did not tell her about it until she was given a clean bill of health, plus I refused to let myself believe it was prophetic. I actually felt like the message was to spend some time with her cuz I'll wish I had when she is gone. Then the breast cancer just brought that message home. So I do reach out to her and see her more now. Even if she is annoying. :lol:

Stupid death sucks.

Yeah - I don't think they're prophetic or anything - most dreams aren't - they're more symbolic. All I've been able to find so far is that death of a loved one means that you're missing something in your life, like some quality, that that person embodies :shrug: I can't think of a thing I miss that either of my uncles have.

I just hate the death dreams. They freak me out.

I've been having freaky dreams lately too. Last night I was trying to find just the right dress for something. This is actually a recurring dream of mine. Everything had to be peach, I had all these peach accessories, shoes, shawl, and I could not find a peach dress. Why would I want to look like sherbet? :lol:

:laugh: Oh that's odd...maybe it means that you're currently searching for something in your life. But you know you have all these other things, but there's one component you wish you had - that in your mind would complete things!

**I'm dabbling in this dream interpretation stuff :p

I've also been having very vivid and weird dreams lately - I don't mind it - I enjoy dreaming :D

That seems to be the running theme of my life for sure. "Something's" missing.

Very cool, Freud's "On Dreams" is interesting, even though I think he was largely a kook he had a lot of insights that I think hold water.

Me too and I'd really like to begin writing them down. I don't know why I don't now, possibly fear of what is actually in my subconscious? :lol: Perhaps it is high time I swept out those cobwebs!

I always mean to write them down as well - then don't. I've actually written a couple down - I should probably write down my recent dreams. One in particular is just haunting me - it was about someone I used to date but haven't seen/thought about in YEARS...so it was so bizarre that they popped up in my dream :eek:

I dream about my ex all the time. I am usually having dinner or hanging out with his family and everyone acts as if the past 8 years never existed. It is really weird.

I also had a random dream about my first BF recently. I dreamed he murdered a whole Native American tribe. Yep. It was really strange. He definitely had some sociopathic tendencies, plus he always wanted to be a marine and that was all he wanted, and the story about the trial of those soldiers who murdered civilians in Iraq has been in the news. I think those things brought about that dream. But it was weird to me too because I also haven't thought about him for a long time.

Sadly...
 

I have been surrounded by death in my family

I have ongoing nightmares about seeing my Mom in her casket. That is the one image I would be glad to never have to have again in this lifetime, but it is one that constantly haunts me in my dreams (What is worse is the image of my murdered half-sister I have in my head from the visit at the funeral home in 1990-One I wont describe here)...And it either makes me depressed or pisses me the f**k off!

Worse is that I only dream of my own demise, never of anyone else I am close too...I dont think that is a good sign considering my families history.

wow. That's really intense, Brian! But then you've definitely had to deal with more sadness and death than any of us ever have :distress: Are your dreams very vivid?

Yeah...
 

pretty vivid is how I describe 'em...Maybe that is one reason I do not sleep all that well at night (One of the reasons my doctor put me on Lexapro awhile back), Add to that my ongoing illness (A growing arachnoid cyst in my right temporal lobe) and I rarely sleep more than 6 hours (Never sleep at all during a full-moon cycle, I can sense the lunar pull without viewing the moon.)

My dreams are always vivid and in color (I thought I read that we dream in black & white, Maybe someone could let me know if that is indeed true or just a fable) and sometimes I feel I am living what I dreamt, thus I feel like I am in a state of 'deja-vu'.

It's weird, but I can sense when something bad is about to happen and I am rarely wrong with that sense of forboding dread...Deb has seen it and it boggles her mind, and sometimes it frightens her, hell it frightens me!

That is pretty spooky!

I dream in color as well - and sometime they are SO vivid that I also wake up feeling as though I've just gone through what I've dreamed. Usually I don't mind that - lately I do.

If I had your dreams I would absolutely mind that. How horrid to basically re-live life's horrors in dreams...guess they're not enjoyable for everyone.

I dream about being chased by someone who is trying to murder me off and on. And I dream about my own army of dead family members quite often. They are frequently whispering to me or telling me stories. They always seem pretty peaceful and calm. Especially my father, and he was so not a peaceful or calm person. I used to have sad dreams about them, but that doesn't happen much anymore. I have never dreamed about being dead myself. Probably because I am not that worried about dying. As long as it isn't some kind of grisly tortured thing, I think death will be a big assed relief - finally, I will get all the sleep I need.