Last night I dreamt that I killed my cousin's grandmother. My cousin and I are pretty close and I haven't seen his grandmother in about 10 yrs or so, and I would NEVER even consider that. What could it mean?
2007-03-02 05:17:38 · 4 answers · asked by marisol_bravo713 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If you are killing someone in your dreams, you are probably expressing hostile feelings. Consider this an opportunity to look at your negative feelings and decide what would be the best and the least destructive way to address them
2007-03-02 05:20:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dreams, like life, are detail specfic. How and why and who and what (all the big newspaper questions) need to be examined in a dream in order for it to be truly understood.
For instance, shooting your cousin's grandmother might make you feel differently than if you stabbed her or drowned her in a bathtub. Why did you 'choose' the method you did, what was the motivation, what did you think about before going to bed, what were you thinking/feeling all throughout the day? If you were missing, thinking about your cousin, it could have been the grandmother was a metaphor for you not being able to talk: killing someone close to someone will bring them to you. A child will break something to get attention, even if its not what it really wants to do, because it doesn't know how to reach the person another way. Your dream could have simply meant that.
2007-03-02 18:10:17 · answer #2 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To understand a dream, it’s helpful to keep in mind why and how we dream. When we sleep, the body and perception systems are shut down, but the brain stem continues to fire and the cortex remains active. The thoughts that have been most active during waking hours—perceptions, experiences, thoughts and feelings, processed consciously or unconsciously—are still “peaked” and they associate with other images already linked in your cortex. In other words, the brain references this content, but not in a rational way, not using input from the external real world as in waking hours. So the story connectedness isn’t like everyday experience, but rather a strange flow from one image to the next. Therefore, dreams aren’t magical messages to guide our life, but sequences of associated images taken from everyday experiences - thoughts and feelings that matter a lot to us during our waking life. So it’s a mistake to apply one-size-fits-all symbols, such as Freudian meanings or standard “dreammoods” formulas. All you need to do is think about what kind of imagery it is and how it relates to your daily life.
Just because you killed your cousin's grandmother in the dream, doesn't mean that you have hostile feelings against her..or that you would ever murder anyone, far from it. The event in the dream is an acting out of anger in an aggressive way. So very likely you have been wronged by someone recently and have been stewing on some angry feelings. These active feelings continued as you went to sleep and associated with imagery to create your dream sequence. Very likely when you resolve the issue or if the feelings recede into the past, you won't have that kind of dream again. Not to worry...
2007-03-02 13:30:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably nothing, since you don't know her that well. Just a character in a dream, that's all.
2007-03-02 14:24:07 · answer #4 · answered by Tori M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋