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
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
