very old dream... maybe youll have more luck than me?

Question

This is one of the first dreams i can remember having, and ive tried to figure out the significance of it for a long time, but havent come up with anything solid yet. im now 23 and i had the dream when i was about 6 or 7 so only the potent imagry has stuck around this long, but its one of those things you just dont forget. i think some people call these "epic dreams".

so it starts off with me walking through a park in what seems to be night time. im walking down a path which curves off around a hill and the hill is right ahead of me and to the right of the path. i see a family walking further down the path with a stroller and a mother (possibly a father there too, but thats hazy). all of a sudden a light from the sky shines a very intense spotlight on the stroller and the mother and like a tractor beam, starts to bring them up toward it. There is a sense of fear in the atmosphere, and i begin to run down the path toward a small shack opposite the hill next to the path. cont...

i dart into the shack and find a bunch of clay pots with lids. three large ones are arranged center and left right among the other smaller pots. raising the lids, and out of the three large pots come these rodent like creatures with large eyes and they begin speaking in a tounge i cant understand. i only become more frightened of these creatures (which kinda remind me of grays, but they were distinctly very large rodents), so i run outside the shack only to find the spotlight on me, and i begin to be pulled up toward it. then i wake up.....

any thoughts?

Answer 1

If I only knew what you think you were thinking in those scenes. Great dream though. Reminds me of my own very vivid dreams (all in color :) btw). Anyway, you obviously watched a lot of television as a child or saw movies involving aliens. And it's natural to fear them. Your dream took your fear of Greys a step further, however.

Let's start with them then. The abduction part is important. While you never really saw the Greys, there is a certain fear you claim without even seeing. It's because you didn't so much as fear them as what they can do. Plainly, you feared being abducted. The mother and child was more than likely representative of your own family. In a way, that was your mother; in a way, that was you in the stroller. This basic family unit may represent some stability in your life. Maybe you family was going through some turmoil. The fact that your "father" wasn't there suggests you had more connection with your mother, which is understandable. Regardless, something was changing at that time your life, and you didn't like it.

And every child fears abduction--being taken away from all that they've ever known. So to dream of actually seeing one rather than being abducted oneself seems to be another key in this dream. This suggests that whatever change was occurring in your life was actually happening to someone else. It is even possible that the abduction could be directly respresentative of your mother doing something as innocent as getting a job and spending more time away from home. Or perhaps you going to school and spending less time with your mother. Whatever it was, I get the feeling it involves you and your relationship with your mother.

I remember when my baby brother was born, I was outright jealous of him. I saw him as an obstacle between me and my own mother. This is natural among siblings, and it is possible something similar may have occurred with you. When you saw them get abducted, what you were really seeing was your own relationship dissovling with your mother.

When you ran into the shack, you ran into some place you thought was safe. The shack could represent anything, but it seems minor to the interpretation of the dream. What is striking though is that you saw 3 clay pots. I think the number 3 is important. I cannot claim to know what was in your life, but the fact that you remember exactly how many clay pots seems to point to some significant number in your life. Rats are generally thought to be symbolic of something one is disgusted with in life. The act of them coming out of the pots is almost like being hatched--or being born? Going again on the sibling rivalry theory, the rats could be representative of a newborn baby brother. This notion is reinforced by your fear of Greys, who have big eyes: Thus, Greys are reminiscent of a human fetus. In your mind, you may have already made the connection with Greys and babies! Rats are small creatures, and I assume in your dream that they were similar in size to a small child. As such, the rats were simply a reinforcement of your fear/disgust being born.

So you ran back out and were yourself abducted. In the first abduction with the mother and child, there is a sense of some force pulling them away. In this case, you are being pulled away. Therefore, there must have been two different causes for the break in the relationship you had with your mother in real life.

Following the sibling interpretation, the hill could have been representative of fertility--much like a swollen belly of a pregnant woman.

I hope this helped somewhat. At the very least, it was entertaining for the both of us!

Answer 2

Dreams by there very nature work on your feelings, not mans symbolism. So your ability to understand precisely the way it made you feel (FAR BEYOND JUST SCARED!!!!!) to the point that you can interpret it IS the only way to decipher your dream. In dry, its your world in that dream, chances are this was a resident feeling left over from a day that you felt in fear of an outside "the family unit" such as society, government, just people outside your family in general, and this was the way your sub was forcing your consciousness to come to terms with that. Fear is a natural reaction to something we don't understand. Not understanding something is counterproductive to survival. Your young mind is hot wired with this, so you'll typically dream about things that give you fear in an attempt to force your waking self to come to terms with a "hyper-real" representation of that fear. Now weather its a mental plane being influenced by you or if its a reciprocal thing would be the only thing to complicate this, that aside it is your self effecting the dream, so you know the motivations, you feel it..... even if you can't think it.....