a dream like a horror movie. mutilated body parts. please help. too horrible to forget!?

Question

i was in Paris (never been there) in a rented apartment that a company that had just hired me, sent me there. a lot of unknown colleagues were talking in the living room and i went to the bathroom. there were torn bloody human members feet and hands hanging like in a butcher's shop. I was mesmerised from the atrocity. I understood the company employees were leaving there their own members to exchange them with mechanical ones. when i went out of the bathroom i wanted to flee away but the employees ganged up on me saying 'you can adapt! you will be one of us' but i went out of house with great vigour and they stayed back. i rode feeling free and relieved a small white car. i kept driving but i started losing orientation. i found myself alone in the highway leading to the airport but I was terriefied by the desert all around me that i felt like passing out. a strange anxiety, everything was free but i was feeling totally enclosed, like i had to escape but there was no place to escapefrom

Answer 1

People tend to take a situation like this and eat it up....formulating all sorts of theories for its significance ranging from deep-seated repressed anxieties to absolutely no meaning at all. In the interest of fairness, I too would like to play along so here's my two-cents' worth (complete with a disclaimer that what follows is tantamount to total BS): Possibility (1): Your dream, complete with its gory cybernetic upgrades could signify your growing fear of a loss of humanity and self to the "corporate identity"; all the symbolism suggests that you are at once both horrified and amazed at the voluntary carnage you witness around you as you resist the urge to assimilate, but secretly fear the isolation of solitude. Possibility (2): You just may well have eaten too heavily before retiring for bed. Possibility (3): It could well mean absolutely nothing at all. (But it was a fun bit of imagery; that's SOME mind you've got there!)

Answer 2

Usually dreams are from things you have seen or experienced in life. Even the most mundane things can pop up in your dreams. Have you seen any horror movies that were particularly gory? The subconscious mind catches these images and stores them away. At the time they are seen, they may not bother us, but will then in turn show up in a dream or it could be a mundane object that you've seen and your mind perceives it differently in your dream. Our dreams are also reliant on our stress levels and anxiety in life. For example, a student has a major exam, during the time before the test, the student may dream about flunking that test. It's due from the students anxiety about the test. I myself have had several dreams when I was younger that were particularly scary. Fear is another good cause of nightmares such as these. Rest assured it was just a dream, and confiding in a friend and getting it out should help you be able to start forgetting about it. You may also want to consider taking some time to yourself to just relax and do something that is fun that will put some happy thoughts into your mind. Dreams are like a screensaver for your brain. I hope this helps. Good luck!

Answer 3

Psychoanalytic (Freud's) Theory of Dreams

Dreams and Meanings

Dream interpretation requires that you ask the dreamer what he/she thinks the dream means. The first words out of their mouths are usually the most telling (significant, or important). There is no "quick reference" book available that can identify what objects in dreams symbolize. The objects undergo changes that only the individual can gain an understanding of, and the psychoanalyst can learn of through the "talking" cure.


Interpretation

There are obstacles that the patient's own unconscious throws up to keep the meanings of dreams hidden (remember, this is the function of dreams according to Freud). These obstacles can be in the form of forgetting the content of a dream, being uncooperative in analysis, censorship in what they do say about the dream, and other forms of resistance.

It is also important to realize that there are two levels to every dream. The MANIFEST and the LATENT content. The origin of the manifest content is easier to determine, and is generated by things like "day residue" (the left over remnants of the day that the mind uses as a stage to hide the deeper issues of a dream). The latent content is the one that is important for understanding the unconscious conflicts that the dreamer is experiencing. The latent or hidden part is where the greatest understanding can be uncovered.


RULES for Interpretations:


do not trouble yourself over the manifest's meaning, although the dreamer may want to, again to keep you (the interpreter) away from the more significant issue
free associate, allow the dreamer to say what ever comes to mind when they think about different parts of the dream
the hidden thoughts will appear on their own, we can not rush them along

Types of Dreams
Dreams fall into one of the following categories, and serve these particular functions: 1) the satisfaction dream, 2) the impatience dream- where the dreamer dreams about being at a party or function, that is in the near future, that they "can not wait to get to" so the dream takes you there, and 3) the comfort dream


Terminology


Dream censorship- the process by which the issues of a dream are omitted to hide the true meaning

Symbolism- the manifestation of an object, idea, or feeling, in some "concrete" form that is in the dream. Figuring out what the manifestation symbolizes is a major component of Freudian dream interpretation.

Dream Work- the way techniques that the unconscious uses to distort the reality and issues in a dream. Those "tricks" include: condensation, displacement, and symbolization

Condensation- taking large issues, or more than one issue, and representing it is a dream with only one image, i.e. fearing your new girlfriend, missing your mother and personality fixations revolving around an oral fixation may be represented in a dream with just a baby with a pacifier

Displacement- replacement of issues (conflicts) by something remote or nothing i.e. a big issue is only a small element of a dream, while a small issue seems to get all the attention (this would be displacement of accent, there is also displacement of omission where items from the dreams are just left out, displacement by modifications, and displacement by regrouping materials- again to confuse issues.
As stated, Freud would never write a "dreamers" dictionary, because you can not identify what each element of a dream is supposed to represent until you hear the patient talk and free associate. However, he did find that many times, certain "items" of the real world, were represented the same way between different people. Some of these "generalities" are listed here:


a house = the human form
if the house is flat (no balconies or things coming off the house)- it is a man if the house has balconies, awnings, etc., then it is usually a women

emperors and empresses = parents

Kings/Queens = parents

little animals/vermin = siblings

water = birth

journeys/travel = dying

the #3, umbrellas, sticks, poles, trees, (things that penetrate) knives, daggers, lances, sabers, guns, pistols, revolvers, (things form which water flow) taps, watercans, springs (objects that get longer) balloons, slide rulers, (things that defy gravity) airplanes, and (animals) snakes, etc. = the male sex organs

pits, hallows, caves (things that hold things) jars, bottles, boxes, chests, coffers, pockets, cupboards, stoves, rooms, (things that hold other things) mouths, doors, gates, (things that represent breasts) apples, peaches fruits, and (others) woods, shrubs, bushes, etc. = female sex organs

Intercourse (the act) was often found to be represented as dancing, riding, climbing, or experiencing some violent act

Answer 4

Try not to dwell on it too much,everyone has weird dreams that don't make any sense..You think that's bad,,I have dreams where I dream of going to sleep,I sleep and have a dream in my dream.I wake up from the first dream only to realize I'm dreaming the dream,wake up from my real dream and ,I don't know,,I'm just confused excited lost and happy and scared all at the same time..Mind you this has happened more than once...Its a worry....Keep a note pad near your bed and write down any dreams you have during the night,,or strange thoughts..When you wake in the morning and look at your notebook,you will find that you remember things in your dreams that you would of otherwise forgotten about..

Answer 5

Like all other dreams, this dream has no particular meaning. Once in a while probability dictates that you will have a nasty dream like this. There are no supernatural powers that can make your dreams come true or project some information into your dreams that is unknown to you. Dream are just dreams, that's all, and the less you think about it the less likely you'll have more bad dreams afterwards.

Answer 6

wow!! interesting well i always listen to the band O.A.R. (Of A Revolution) they always bring me up I could be in the worst mood ever and if i hear their music it just makes happy. I recommend listening to these songs:
That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker
Love And Memories
Lay Down
Living In The End
Something Coming Over
Risen

there are many more but start with these songs

hope this helped!!!

Answer 7

My guess is that you are being asked to comform in some way, and you are finding it hard to resist doing so. Stop and think logically about the way in which you need to conform. Is it really so horrible, or are you just overreacting? Then act accordingly.

Answer 8

i think we all experience bad dreams/nightmares they can come from anywhere just be thankful it was just a nightmare

Answer 9

booze, read freud, see a shrink, 'adapt, become one of them'

Answer 10

if you get a job proposal DONT take it