Hi, last night i had the most disturbing dream, i was a scottish soldier (i am female but was a male in my dream) and i had been captured by england and was in a cell waiting to be hanged. i remeber watching other soldiers - friends of mine in my dream - being hanged and i was dreading the pain especially if my neck didn't break straight away. so i started eating as much food as i could find in the cell and food from other prisoners who didn't want it, i hoped if i maked myself heavier there was more chance of my neck breaking quicker. when i stood up to be hanged i felt my feet hang there and then the most warmest and comforting feeling came over me when i realised i had died. it felt so warm.
i tried to rationalise my dream but i have watched tv, magazine looked at anything which could have influenced me to dream this!! it was soo realistic and when i realised what ihad dreamt i feel a little disturbed.
what could this have meant?
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it meant to say i haven't watched tv or anythign to influence this
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Hiya lum
it's sound to me like a dramitic experince that you've lived through in a past life is being replayed in your subconsious...perhaps reminding you that when you're faced with things that you really really don't want to face the outcome could be very rewarding to you & you needn't worry as much as you do...or have been
The dream omen of hanging is good...unless you're the hangman which you weren't
Love
Amy
xx
RE: Disturbing Dreams!!!
It's hard to know the meaning of a dream without knowing your associations and feedback to particular symbolism, but I'm thinking several things. Firstly the dream disturbed you. This means it disturbs your usual identity, or in other words a lesser known part of yourself is disturbing your primary identity. This lesser known part of you is a male soldier-like quality, also scottish, so this may be a cultural process in you which is in conflict with your english-ness? (I would be interest in your cultural identity or your cultural style here). So I guess this scottish process is captured by your english process, but is able to transcend the experience by welcoming or aiding death. Dying to something leads you to a real sense of warmth. My suspicion is that the Scottish quality finds a way to live on through surrendering itself.
RE: Disturbing Dreams!!!
Dreams are the mind's way of filing your daily experiences. You have several dream cycles per night. As the night progresses, the dreams typically become more 'wild' in subsequent dream cycles, and more imaginative, pulling deeper and deeper from your memories and imagination, and less from the dry factual details of your actual day.
Can you remember what you had for lunch last Tuesday? Probably not. Your mind made the decision Tuesday night that such information was trivia, and discarded it. Did you have a fight with your husband last Tuesday? You can probably remember that in vivid detail, and it may be replicated in dreams for years to come.
Can you remember your first-grade teacher, and how you felt about that teacher, and how you felt about first grade? You probably can, in pretty rich detail, if you give it a moment, because, at the time, it was a very important change in your life.
Do you see the pattern? The dreams we remember are the dreams that strike our emotions.
During the day, you may have had only the most fleeting of glimpses of a TV show of war, or a hanging, but that was enough to strike something in your mind that bubbled up later in a dreamm stage.
Do dreams have meaning? Yes, in that the dreams that disturb us disturb us for very real reasons. The common dream about being in high school, and being surprised by a test usually is related to stress, and not having a enough time or preparation for something in your life, usually your job.
Are the symbols in your dream a metaphor for something else? Think about how you FEEL about the events, people and things in your dream. Are there any events in your own life that are triggering similar emotions?
You can decode your own dreams.
What is the "war" in your life?