Dream about rescuing girl over and over again

[andi]

Hy guys, I need some input with a reoccurring dream. It got so insistent and happens so often that now I'm worried; happens probably 2-3 times a week almost every week, and it is ongoing for some time now. Last night I had another one.

The dream, through always different, fallows the same plot. There is a catastrophe, be it a plane crush, alien invasion or being trapped in a building that is invaded by bad guys that want to kill me; it always ends with me rescuing a young girl my age for witch I feel a big bond. It is never the same girl, nor is it someone I know in real life. She plays no role in the dream except at the end where I end up doing everything in my power to save her and me and get away.

It's as if she happens to be there ''in the line of fire'' sort to say, and I kind of just grab her along -however, I fight alone and she doesn't seem to be around for the fight but only for the escape(the running part).

So, all this dreams have something in commune: catastrophe, bad guys trying to kill me, me fighting and ending up escaping with this girl for witch I have a bond -as if she were the only reason I was there in the first place.


Now, I'm thinking --Oh, she is my feminine side and all that; you know, the nurturing part and so on ...but even if that were to be true, I would still not understand what it would really mean.
So what could this girl mean? Can't think of what it could symbolize.

Anyways, if you gays have anything similar happening, advice on things I can go read, or your own interpretation - would be great.




Edit: I tried to only put the most obvious and striking things, no to deviate from the point; if you have any questions -go ahead.
Also notice my persistent use of words like : very, only, never, always.. the all or nothing, as described in The Narcissistic Family.

 

[theos]

Maybe it's related to something that happened in a past life? Maybe you saved someone before --or failed to save someone before and you're reliving it in your dreams?

 

[andi]

Maybe it's related to something that happened in a past life? Maybe you saved someone before --or failed to save someone before and you're reliving it in your dreams?

That is a possibility; the only way to know if that is the case is to just wait for more clues.

 

[Ellipse]

I've often kind of similar. A lot with guys who want to kill me, a lot of battles, but I do not really save the other person. She/he is just here an run with me. Very often elevator are in the scenario. I often weak-up due to my heart beating to fast.

This girl, can't she be someone you know before ?

 

[andi]

This girl, can't she be someone you know before ?

I do not recognize her at all but if feels as if we are similar. We usually, in dreams, even if we do not recognize someone, still know who that person is, but in my case, she is just a girl.
You said that you do not really save the other person and now that I think, - me neither. Because all the bad guys are after me and not her; but somehow she gets involved and we escape together.

 

[andi]

Maybe it's related to something that happened in a past life? Maybe you saved someone before --or failed to save someone before and you're reliving it in your dreams?

The one thing that makes me think it isn't a past life is that the girl, except for what I feel for her after going through those fights witch inevitably creates a bond, is never the same. She is not someone I feel I now or new.
The funny thing is that the dreams, although different, give the same exact feelings in me. Like the message is the same but with different imagery.

 

[Aiming]

Fwiw, I do tend to think that she could represent your feminine side.
You're involved in on-going battles and danger (the work), the bad guys are after you (entropic forces?) and in the end she appears (even though in different forms) and you're getting out of the situation together. IOW, you can only get ouf it (here) together with her (the feminine part in yourself).

Does that resonate with anything in your current internal situation? Is there a theme you urgently need to look into, or look into it from another angle?
Or what about your creative side? Do you live/materialize it?

 

[andi]

Fwiw, I do tend to think that she could represent your feminine side.

I do too, just don't know what conclusions can be drawn from it.

Does that resonate with anything in your current internal situation? Is there a theme you urgently need to look into, or look into it from another angle?
Or what about your creative side? Do you live/materialize it?

Yes I think, I am trying to be more external-considerate and less internal-considerate. Lately, the struggle between yes and no has augmented and more and more I see the 2 persons living inside me. It is hard because there seems to be little control as of yet. Self importance plays a good role in oppressing my creative side.

Maybe you're right, and it has to do with the current situation. Food for thought.

Or what about your creative side? Do you live/materialize it?

Hamm.., I don't know to answer this question. I'll keep it in mind, I have to think about it.

 

[Laurentien2]

It's as if she happens to be there ''in the line of fire'' sort to say, and I kind of just grab her along -however, I fight alone and she doesn't seem to be around for the fight but only for the escape(the running part).

Why would she fight! Why do you fight and who do you fight. Why don't you follow her lead once and see where she lead you.

Citation de: Enaid le Aujourd'hui à 07:26:29
Fwiw, I do tend to think that she could represent your feminine side.


I do too, just don't know what conclusions can be drawn from it.

The dream are repetitive, they may represent lesson that will repeat and repeat until you lessen up your resistance to your creative side. Still you take the lead after each fight and still find yourself in the same situation. You are turning in circle it seem, not advancing Andi.

Yes I think, I am trying to be more external-considerate and less internal-considerate. Lately, the struggle between yes and no has augmented and more and more I see the 2 persons living inside me. It is hard because there seems to be little control as of yet. Self importance plays a good role in oppressing my creative side.

You have identify the cause, you have been show where it lead you. Is the exterior, the ephemeral so important Andi.

Just my two cent.

 

[andi]

Thanks Laurentien, it helps. I find this most true:

The dream are repetitive, they may represent lesson that will repeat and repeat until you lessen up your resistance to your creative side. Still you take the lead after each fight and still find yourself in the same situation. You are turning in circle it seem, not advancing Andi.

 

[Seamus]

Hi Andi,

Thanks Laurentien, it helps. I find this most true:

The dream are repetitive, they may represent lesson that will repeat and repeat until you lessen up your resistance to your creative side. Still you take the lead after each fight and still find yourself in the same situation. You are turning in circle it seem, not advancing Andi.

This seems like a good point. The details of the dream may change depending on whatever is happening in your waking life, your subconscious could be using whatever material is available.

Trevrizent has a really good questionnaire that he posts about interpreting dreams that you can find here. I'm going to pull out a couple that might be helpful.

When you re-experience the experiences in the dream, do they remind you of anything in life?

If you think the girl could represent your creative side, try to think about her character. What is she like? How does she behave? What is your relationship with her like in the dream? What kind of personality does she have? Does she resemble a part of you?

What does the action in the dream remind you of in your waking life? Do you feel like you are constantly fighting and running for your life? Do you try to be the hero for your friends and loved ones?

FWIW, I posted about a similar recurring theme that I was having in my dreams back in July:

Hi everyone,

I initially planned to simply share a dream I had two nights ago, but I realized last night that it seems related to a theme that seems to constantly recur in my dreams. The theme is that I am fighting "monsters" to protect a woman I am in love with, my family, friends, a group of children, etc. The people I fight to protect are often unaware of the danger they are in.

From two nights ago I dreamed that I was the only adult living with a group of children (like Mad Max) in an abandoned city setting. The children were being pursued by three angry, ugly and vicious giants. One had long, black hair, pock-mark scars on his face and an evil grin. One was a bald, white, goateed and heavily tattooed, prison inmate looking guy. The third was dumb and ugly and had stretched features. They were strong and twice as tall as me, but they were slow, overconfident and stupid. In my dream I helped the children evade them and hide from them, then I went to fight them singlehandedly. I woke up in the middle of the fight.

I thought of a couple of other dreams with a similar theme, so I looked back through my journal where I sporadically write down vivid dreams and found several more. Here are some examples:

I once dreamed that I was an armored knight, with wings like an angel. I could fly, had a flaming sword, and I was battling demons (I was playing lots of Diablo II, a computer game like World of Warcraft, at this time, so I wonder if this whole theme comes from that). I was protecting a village from the demons, but they captured a woman I was in love with and killed my mentor. I had just rescued the woman when I woke up.

I dreamed that I was in a church with everyone I know and it was surrounded by zombies or ghosts. We were safe as long as we stayed in the church, but only I could see the zombies and everyone else kept trying to leave. I ran around closing doors and narrowly saving people from being bitten/attacked.

I dreamed that my sister and my dog and I were hiding in our house and a dinosaur was outside the house trying to eat us. My sister and my dog were oblivious to the danger and I narrowly saved them several times.

In an entry from my journal (I remember the dream after reading the entry) from about a year ago I wrote about being on a spaceship with a woman, and the spaceship was attacked by some kind of reptilian aliens. They had red/orange eyes, nasty teeth, ridges on their heads and claws. They swept through the ship under a shroud of darkness while we tried to hide from them. Eventually they found us and dragged us out, at which point my fear changed to anger and I began to fight them with a knife/sword that appeared in my hand.

In most of these dreams I wake up in the middle of fighting my enemies. I don't wake up in a cold sweat, or screaming, or afraid, or angry or anything like that, even though I sometimes feel anger or fear in the dreams.

Has anyone else had similar dreams? Any thoughts on what this sort of thing might mean?

Seamas

Do you, or did you play role playing or first person shooter video games at some point? I think that this had something to do with these dreams when I was having them. I want to be the hero all of the time in real life (several friends have commented on my "hero complex") and fix everyone's problems. This is the way that I treat myself as well. I am always trying to "fix" all of my "problems". I think this attitude squashes my creativity because I'm always trying to find the "right" or "perfect" way to act, think, etc.

Recently I realized that I was/am trying to do everything on my own, and I had/have trouble accepting help from people. My attitude in this regard is/was that adults, and especially men, need to be strong, and a sign of this strength is the ability to handle everything on one's own. I think this relates to my dreams because I am usually fighting or running from overwhelming odds by myself, and even if other people are around I am the only one who sees the danger.

I don't want to hijack your thread, these are just a couple of realizations/thoughts that have come up for me from a similar recurring dream theme. They might help, or maybe not. :)

 

[andi]

Thansk Seamas, there is a lot of info to consider in the link you posted; a lot of questions to be asked, trough I feel I must leave the boiling water to cool a little.
Right now, I am considering the events that happened the days before to see if the is any similarity with the other days and try to make a connection.

I think Trevrizent has put it well and clear. If there is anything I would add, from personal observation, is that dreams are easier to discover when you have someone seeing it from an outside perspective -as we, our self, tend to be too involved and miss the obvious and/or mud the waters.
This rings as true to me:

The dream symbols may be both literal and symbolic interpretations – be curious and naïve in your interpretation.

Your dreams described above seem to have the same tone even if I am no hero in the dream -these kind of dreams are not so much about others, they seem to reflect a situation I'm in without too much detail of others.

I'm just now reminded of another sequence of reoccurring dreams that have the same theme. Everything is similar, only that instead of a girl, I was fighting to protect a crystal. Black shadow figures were chasing me trying to take away this crystal from me. It was almost impossible to run away without them catching to me, so often I was hiding it somewhere under the ground. But that didn't work either. Finally this series of dreams finished when I frighted this dark figure and he almost seceded in taking away the crystal but I managed to push him out of a balcony.



Just last night I had another one, but this time no girl. I was fighting an alligator- yes, I took him by the mouth and threw him away. He came in the place I was after a skyscraper just fell in front of as. Big winds started to blow and I new I had to protect those around who were so naive about the hole thing. In the dream I was aware it was an alien descent. It was an invasion coupled with catastrophic weather. I have many like this lately.