Disturbing dreams.......?

Question

I've always had the same nightmare ever since i was little. I am playing hide and seek with my friends, I'm counting while they go off to hide. As i'm counting a stranger approaches me. I cant see his face as he is wearing a long coat with his hood up. I run to my friends house and my mum opens the door and tells me to go away. I tell her about the stranger, but she just says the samr thing again and tells me my friends arent hiding in that house. As i turn to run, the stranger is getting closer......I knock on the door again, but my mum just tells me to stop mucking about. As she closes the door, my friends are staring out of the window laughing and the stranger creeps up behind me.

I always wake up before he gets me.....

It still freaks me out to this day.

Do any of you have a recurring nightmare?

PrinZuko- havent been abused or have any concerns about my past, happy childhood, loving family, lots of friends, loved school.....now in loving relationship, have one child, have great job.....just weird dream!!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The dream seems to be about deep-rooted anxieties and fears you have had either continuously, or on and off, since childhood.

If you came from a happy. loving family, then it may be about your own thoughts or actions which you are feeling guilty about.

You may have had a strict or religious upbringing, and from time to time you think or do things which you know your family and friends don't approve of. You consider it 'play' and feel it is innocent, but your guilt or shame is playing on your subconcious.

The anxiety perhaps centres around religion or morals, because of the stranger with the hood, who resembles a monk. You may also feel that you are a 'hood' or a criminal, because of your actions.

Family members usually represent themselves. Mothers also signify tradition and origins or roots. The house signifies security, comfort and shelter.

Being outside the house and not being admitted indicates that you cannot bring yourself to confide in your family, and feel like an outsider.

Your mother sending you away means you sense they do not want to listen to you anyway. Although your mother speaks the words, it is you who think your actions are "mucking about".

Your friends at the window laughing at you means that you feel people know about your deeds and are ridiculing you. In the end, nobody wants to help you and you have to face your fears alone.

The stranger coming closer represents your guilt and shame trying to catch you out. Waking up before actually getting caught means that you are always able to escape detection somehow.

However, because of the deep anxieties symbolised in the dream, you need to examine which part of yourself is the reason for these issues. Perhaps you need to accept yourself as you are and not be so hard on yourself. We shouldn't try to live up to other people's standards or expectations. Learn to forgive yourself. You are only human after all.
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Answer 3

Have you ever tried controlling things in your dreams. It takes practice but since this is a recurring nightmare you might be able to change it. First you have to realize you're dreaming. Then you have to make a conscious decision to change it. Have a change in mind before you go to bed for the next time it happens. It can be a small change like deciding to play ball instead of hide and go seek or a bigger change like ripping the hood off the stranger or shoving past your mom into the house. Pull a gun out of the flower bed and shoot him. My dad always told me when I have a dream like that to picture myself strong like superman or fly away. If you take control it will probably stop happening. If you have a problem of waking up and falling right back into the dream as soon as you fall asleep, walk around get a drink or something comforting to break the cycle.
I used to dream about a pack of rabid golden retrievers attacking me and eating me alive, starting at my feet and working toward my face. (after watching Old Yeller Disney was EVIL!!!) I would wake up before they ate my face. When I woke up my legs and arms would tingle like they had been bitten. I yelled at them to back off and flew away. To this day if I have a dream I don't like I yell out NOOO!! I close my eyes envisioning something new that I like, and when I open its changed.

Answer 4

I've got plenty of recurring dreams. A lot of them I can't really pinpoint their meaning. Like whenever I am sick with a fever I always have a horrible nightmare about huge boxes that I have to keep moving and that keep changing colors. It always freaks me out.

I've also had one where I am in a movie theater and a bunch of hands (like the one from the Addams family) run/walk in and try to creepy crawl all over me.

Recurring dreams are weird and just make you think that they MUST have a point.

Answer 5

this is very much on the line of some hidden abuse that is recurring in your subconscience, you say you have never been abused, but how do you know that? if that is not the case, then again we return to your subconscience and look at how you see others in your life, look at how your mother turns you away, how your friends laugh at you, this signals insecurity in yourself, and some hidden thought that you never fully met your mothers dreams of what you would turn out to be. You are conscious of yourself and your goals in life, as much as you are conscious of your mistakes, the stranger is no-one other than yourself attempting to change/improve you, he is an invention that you alone can destroy, purely by accepting yourself, and not by trying to impress others, when you accept that, your dream will end, and your friends will accept you for you, not some imaginary person.

Answer 6

I sense issues of "mistrust" and "fear."

The stranger could be someone that you know who makes you uncomfortable, but you are not willing to confront the person and address the reason (s) via a face to face confrontation. You have made several attempts to approach your mother about the delicate subject matter however, she is not willing to admit that the problem even exist. You are fearful to talk about the problem with anyone else for fear that you will not be taken seriously.

Answer 7

I have had disturbing dreams about my previous professional occupation - I relive the problems faced with over many years. Do you think I could sue my ex employers for Post Traumatic Stress ?

Answer 8

yeah i have a dream since i was about 3.. it starts off with me doing something random then people approaching me and saying something is inside the cave. then i go to the cave and i hear demon noises then i wake up and i can still hear the noises =(

Answer 9

i don't have nightmares like these but, your's are probably a repressed memory of abuse trying to resurface. Or abondonment issues that you have

Answer 10

Are you making up a story to entertain us? or if it is really true you better speak to your GP. IF you leave it as it is it will develop in to another form of thinking pattern in the long run.