Dreams

[Ihateyoumike]

I hate to say it, but for months now, I've gone to bed hoping not to dream.
Usually, my dreams have to do with falling madly in love, and then losing her, all in the course of a night. Being single for a year now probably has something to do with that. Also, the fact that I'm one of those (possibly rare) guys who is a hopeless romantic doesn't help. But, to say waking up depressed from a dream every night doesn't affect my daily life would be an outright lie. Those are the vast majority of my dreams, but sometimes, I'll also have dreams that I'm suddenly living in a warzone and constantly having to run and fight for my life. Oddly enough, I don't feel as bad after those dreams then the other ones.
Luckily, I'm usually able to shake it off fairly quickly.

In keeping with the emerging theme I'm seeing in this thread, and to lighten my post up a bit, does this mean I'm gay?  

[curiosityandthecat]

I'll also have dreams that I'm suddenly living in a warzone and constantly having to run and fight for my life. ... does this mean I'm gay?  

[Ihateyoumike]

I'll also have dreams that I'm suddenly living in a warzone and constantly having to run and fight for my life. ... does this mean I'm gay?  

Well done, sir. Well done.  roflol

[VanReal]

I hate to say it, but for months now, I've gone to bed hoping not to dream.
Usually, my dreams have to do with falling madly in love, and then losing her, all in the course of a night. Being single for a year now probably has something to do with that. Also, the fact that I'm one of those (possibly rare) guys who is a hopeless romantic doesn't help. But, to say waking up depressed from a dream every night doesn't affect my daily life would be an outright lie. Those are the vast majority of my dreams, but sometimes, I'll also have dreams that I'm suddenly living in a warzone and constantly having to run and fight for my life. Oddly enough, I don't feel as bad after those dreams then the other ones.

Makes perfect sense, after waking from the warzone you are happy to be at home in your bed, the other is just a potential let down for later.  Hang in there!

[Miss Anthrope]

Fascinating, Gwyn. In my early twenties, I had a dream which contained two themes for the first time which would become ongoing, and both of those are in the dream you describe.

I was at a pool, and a large, featureless black "shadow character" started chasing me away from the pool and down a street in my hometown. I turned at one point to look behind me, and my POV turned to third person, so that i could see myself from behind when I turned, and i wasn't myself but rather a girl, a high school friend to be specific. This was the first dream I can remember 1)being a girl and 2)the mysterious shadow man pursued me.

It's interesting that you had a dream with both of these themes, being a girl and a black bear chasing you. Since every dream I've had since then with the shadow character has also involved the theme of ambiguity of "self", I can only imagine that there's some connection. I've read that "blackness" represents "everything" and has been related to themes involving the "oneness" of everything.

yeah, i love dreams, I think they're about as close as I get to "spirituality", though its kid of a scary version, as it makes me wonder if when we die we dream for eternity. Sounds all beautiful in an esoteric way, but if one actually retained their conscious, thinking mind, it could be kind of hellish. Better than burning in fire or floating around the clouds forever, though, i suppose. More of a mixed blessing than ultimately good or bad. On that note, I've often found when discussing dreams that many people describe their dream worlds as having a Tim Burton flavor, myself included, which kind of makes sense, because I could use the same phrase to describe both: whimsically frightening.

[gwyn428]

Fascinating, Gwyn. In my early twenties, I had a dream which contained two themes for the first time which would become ongoing, and both of those are in the dream you describe.

I was at a pool, and a large, featureless black "shadow character" started chasing me away from the pool and down a street in my hometown. I turned at one point to look behind me, and my POV turned to third person, so that i could see myself from behind when I turned, and i wasn't myself but rather a girl, a high school friend to be specific. This was the first dream I can remember 1)being a girl and 2)the mysterious shadow man pursued me.

It's interesting that you had a dream with both of these themes, being a girl and a black bear chasing you. Since every dream I've had since then with the shadow character has also involved the theme of ambiguity of "self", I can only imagine that there's some connection. I've read that "blackness" represents "everything" and has been related to themes involving the "oneness" of everything.

yeah, i love dreams, I think they're about as close as I get to "spirituality", though its kid of a scary version, as it makes me wonder if when we die we dream for eternity. Sounds all beautiful in an esoteric way, but if one actually retained their conscious, thinking mind, it could be kind of hellish. Better than burning in fire or floating around the clouds forever, though, i suppose. More of a mixed blessing than ultimately good or bad. On that note, I've often found when discussing dreams that many people describe their dream worlds as having a Tim Burton flavor, myself included, which kind of makes sense, because I could use the same phrase to describe both: whimsically frightening.

This is very interesting!

On the Qabalistic tree of life, black is the color of the sphere of the primordial mother. It corresponds to Yang of the Taiji. In other words, it is femininity itself personified as a color. I think the entity that chases us has to be black colored and frightening because (1) it is the very female gender and (2) we are not willing to fully embrace and fully identify as the female gender because we know we just cannot.

In your dream you were your regular self and then suddenly you are a woman. In my dream I was already a woman and with me was a younger woman. My first dream of being a woman was pretty interesting; I was a woman but I had my male sex organs instead of female organs.. and I was making love to a regular woman. Perhaps our dreams may reveal which gender is dominant for both of us?

[Godless]

I'm a gamer and I find that a lot of my dreams reflect the games that I play at the time. Since I've been playing a lot of Gears of War 2, I've had several dreams where I would literally turn people into a bloody pulp with a varying assortment of weapons. I also remember when I was around eight or nine years old and I would watch my older brother play Resident Evil. One night I had a dream where the last boss from one of the games was chasing me and some other people through the jungle. It managed to rip apart one of the guys who was with me, an Australian guy (I don't know why he was Australian). I ran up a platform onto some sort of structure and the boss busted through the ground and was standing in front of me... then I woke up sweating.

Here's what the boss that I'm talking about looks like: