Could someone tell me what my dream means?

Question

I was laying on my couch and a creature was on top of me, it had a cat head, a weird body and a tail like the devils tail that was moving back and forth. It was growling at me like a cat growls. I was trying to call for my son but no words would come out of my mouth. I did not watch any crazy movies and never have dreams like this.

Answer 1

There is a world we can't see. Sometimes in our sleep we can see more clearly than with our eyes open. I believe very much that what you saw was demonic.

Have you been thinking about moving closer to God? God's enemies do all they can to keep us away from Him, and sometimes God gives us a glimpse of the unseen reality so that we can have more strength to move forward and towards Him.

The biggest achievement the devil ever managed was to convince the world that he didn't exist. He isn't as strong as God, by the way.

Answer 2

I loved the part about the trying to talk and "no words would come out of my mouth". I wrote a couple stories for someone, who liked them but wouldn't use them, something about not liking scarey stuff, and I liked to use the frozen and speechless thing.

I recently read how men tend to do the right-brain, left-brain thing with things they think about. Women do to, but it isn't quite so exclusive, they tend to use a bit more of both sides of their brain when they think. Sometimes sudden actions, sudden decisions, appear to freeze them. Some have quipped it was almost like they are having a conference with themselves on what to do. My wife, and amazingly, my son, can appear to do that when something happens that they weren't expecting.

Additionally, there is a mechanism, some think it a mental fault but no one can seem to point to what part of the brain or the thinking was broken, that essentially paralyzes a person. Stories of aliens (or demons) slipping into a room while a person was sleeping and then awaken and find themselves unable to move--these lend themselves to that phenomenon. I've experienced it myself a tad bit from time to time, though fortunately not often. It can be quite scarey. Some people feel that the inner fright from this temporary paralysis is what conjures up imaginative images of space creatures or spirits who bind you for the moment. Others, of course, insist from the vividness of the sensation and otherwise clearness of mind, that these things actually take place. Sometimes the event is, as I discovered a couple of times in years past, chemically induced, such as mixing medicines. I have really bad allergies and took a tylenol and some over the counter allergy pill (that is no longer available) and it put me to sleep, but when I awoke few things would move well. Its not too bad to wake up feeling like you've been wrapped up like a mummy, if you are face up, but one time I was face down suffocating in my pillow. I had to shake and rock for all I was worth before my head fell over on one side so I could breathe again.

Again, it was very likely that you had some such numbing effect and then the imagination concocted the "creature" to personify your fears.

Still, to be yelling and screaming in the dream and not making any actual sound is an entirely different mechanism--in your dreams you imagine you doing things, you don't actually do them. I was yelling at my wife in one dream a few months ago, trying to warn her of a danger. My wife then woke me up asking what was wrong. I thought I had awaken her by my voice but she said I didn't say anything, just jerked and jumped like a fish out of water, so she figured I was dreaming something bad.

In short, you probably won't have dreams like this often, but they might indicate your mind trying to get your attention to something beyond your control, or control at that moment is partially frozen, some physical quirk that is recognized to happen but with no obvious suspect physical cause. Then again, your computer has probably frozen at sometime and you didn't know what caused it either, right? It could simply be an instructional overload in your head and your body is impatiently awaiting your mental committee to reset things or reach a decision. I wouldn't worry about it.