I keep having the same nightmare but I don't know what it means...?

Question

I walk into my bedroom, go to the window to open it, and innertwined maggots are spilling out of it onto my bed, the wood beneath them is old and rotted, yet the rest of the window remains unchanged. Despite the fact that there are maggots at the head of my bed, I lay down and go to sleep anyways, laying closer to the foot of the bed. Having given up on the idea of opening the window I suppose.
I don't remember anything else between this and the next sequence.
I walk downstairs, go into my kitchen open my cupboard to get a glass. When I open the cupboard there is a single fly, crawling around in the glass... I stare at it for a bit, and close the cupboard.

This is all that I remember
However everytime I have this dream, I wake up at the foot of my bed, which I'm assuming just means I really thought there were maggots at the head of my bed during some point.

Answer 1

This is my uneducated intrepretation: The window represents a way out of whatever problem/situation you are dealing with in real life. Maybe you are unable to open the window because you're not really prepared to escape from the situation. The maggots represent your problem which you feel comfortable enough with to lay down in the bed with them but far enough away that you are able to ignore them/it for a time. For some reason, you're not quite ready to deal with this situation. The fly is a reminder that something continues to keep you from being nourished/refreshed and you give up rather than dealing with the problem/situation. Evidently the rotted wood with a portion of the window intact shows that all is not lost. You can still make things right. But deal with it, whatever it is.

Answer 2

Most images in dreams are merely associations of other things. But without knowing more about you and your personal life one can only speculate. And like many before me... Here is one such speculation:
Perhaps you've got worries about a pregnancy. Has someone recently gotten pregnant? Or are you and another considering having a child?
In your dream you want to open the window. Outside the world is open, free, where you can do what you want. The window is the access to the outside. The window frame could likely be the relationship you're in (or possibly the person with whom you have the relationship). The frame doesn't control the window, you do, all it does is hold it open or closed. In this case you leave it closed. The rotting of the frame could be the deterioration of the perfection, the construction, or the overall wholeness of your relationship brought on by the presence of the maggots, which could be interpreted as sperm (both are kinda gross in themselves but necessary for new life. that plus the amount of maggots could be the mental association because so many sperm are released making babies.)
Your going to bed is basically saying "let me sleep on it." The period between the two dream segments could signify the gestation period before birth. The fly obviously would be the child, the glass with the fly would be your wife or girlfriend. The cupboard doors could be your feelings of acceptance or rejection toward the glass and or fly, which in this case, after a bit of consideration, you reject by closing.

Perhaps this dream is telling you that you need to re-evaluate the situation and that's why you're continually haunted by it.
But again, without more knowledge of you and your life it could mean anything. You might not be in any type of relationship at all right now. Or you might be just a kid who's never even kissed a girl much less consider having a baby.
I don't know, not enough information, and I'm not a doctor, so what do I know.

Answer 3

All of what has been said before is true, but if I had this dream, I would ask myself a few questions:

1) What has been dead for a very long time?
2) Why, even though I see things clearly, am I willing to accept this situation?
3) What do I gain by giving up, or giving in?
4) Could a fear of creating the same thing again stop you from envisioning something different?

Your dream has an aged tone to it, so I'd guess this isn't new. The glass in the windows is clear even though it's aged, so I'm guessing you have some insight to what is happening...
And you seem willing to accept your limitations...

The single fly in the glass... perhaps you are blaming a single person for your position. But more likely, you are shutting the door on taking any more chances with something that can't help but end up the same way again.

I wonder... if you wiped the maggots off the bed and took your rightful spot, what life action would be the equivelant?

Answer 4

Whonose's answer is totally right from what I know, and dream interpretation, when possible, is completely personal. I think it's especially important to remember the personal aspects of dreams when investigating symbolism. While symbols can be group oriented, every person is different and assigns different meanings to things even if that meaning only slightly deviates from the 'norm.'

However, there are a few things I ask myself when I have a particularly disturbing dream or a recurring theme. I ask myself if anything in the dream can be related to a current issue (whether directly or symbolically) or if the dream is trying to show me something.

When I read about your dream I wondered if the maggots represented something bad. Maybe a bad situation, bad person, or bad choice. Is there something bad that is keeping you from opening the window (getting to freedom or escaping maybe) in real life and that you're accepting (by sleeping in your bed despite the maggots)? And you gave up on a glass because of a single fly?

I know that sounds horrible. It's just what I thought of and thought I'd share. Try not to take it to heart unless after long deliberation you deem it worthy of value. It's just something to think about while you remember what Whonose said.

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I used to have nightmares about people chasing me and tickling me so bad it hurt. I'd wake up with a dull ache on my sides where I was tickled.

I can think of some things that would be worse than waking up at the foot of the bed, but I won't mention them and give your subconscious any more ideas!

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Good luck with the nightmare and getting rid of it. I've heard people say that once the issue (if there was one) was resolved in real life their nightmares went away. I've heard others say they just passed with time.

Answer 5

Anyone with a little imagination could interpret your dreams for you, but their answer, no matter how interesting, wouldn't be true.
Here's why:

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of your dreams is simply that you are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for you, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into your mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given what seems to be going on, it's not really surprising that lots of things appear in your dreams that have nothing to do with what has been happening in your life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in your dreams that have been part of your memories as far back as you started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the jobs it was designed to do

Answer 6

It will go away in a monthes or two
Dreams tells alot about whats happening
did something bad happen lately?
are u really stressed out?
maybe seeing a conseulour may help,
i had dreams that happen the next day it's very scrary