This is a dream I wanted to post right off the bat before I started to lose the ability to describe it accurately, considering it
's been a few weeks since I had it. Generally, for me, it's hard (well, impossible really) to truly get a sense of a dream someone else describes due to not knowing the person, and his/her life experiences or thoughts, that would give context, combined with the obvious usually other-worldly nature of dreaming. But I think this one here is pretty simple and direct and based on my interpretation of it after a few weeks thinking about it, should be a somewhat familiar concept to many...
Let me first say that the vast majority of my dreams are usually quite weird (like most peoples') and hard to describe, so this one kind of shocked me with the direct-ness (in terms of the simplicity and real-ness) of the experience. It started with a feeling of complete immobilization, and it was not a pleasant type of immobility by any stretch either. Before I even met the other entity of the dream I was already horrified by the situation, and I was struggling in a complete panic to break this strange type of paralysis (it was strange for two reasons: first, my struggling felt like an enormous mental and perhaps even emotional effort, not physical, because no matter how much effort I put into it I did not have a nanometer of control of movement over my body. The second reason is because it felt like something or someone had me suspended in some strange type of "thick" air or atmosphere of some kind. The "air" was also strangely tinted and hued).
Then the opposing entity appeared, directly across from me a few feet away, looking straight into my eyes. The best way I can describe it was it sorta had the shape of the alien from Independence Day (the creepy, vulnerable little guys, not the gross exoskeletons they wore around them) crossed with what I guess might be considered a gray... But the strangest feature of this guy was the fact that it wasn't clearly defined like you and I; instead, it was like halfway to being a shadow. It had features I could make out, especially the eyes, but it was very shadow-like and ethereal.
He said some things, well, actually I did not see a mouth moving but I did hear words in my head and I knew they were coming from him/her/it (probably an it, nothing I experienced suggested it even had a gender, except for perhaps the aggressiveness- male- this being demonstrated in "locking me up" the way it did). I don't remember all the things it told me but the important part of the lecture was at the end, when it kept repeating something along the lines of "we're coming, we're on our way, we're almost there" in a way that definitely seemed like a threat. But despite the level of implied violence, the being seemed very confident and self-assured, kinda like it wasn't experiencing any emotions other than a pure desire to control.
It was definitely weird, and I woke up terrified that they were, in fact, coming, and were, in fact, "almost" here. Even though I had no idea who "they" are or what they intended. It didn't seem too good though. He did seem to be delivering a message or representing a larger group, however.
I guess one thing I want to ask is, is it possible to actually be visited by "real" beings that reside elsewhere in the universe or in other densities/dimensions while asleep? As opposed to the more "awake" experience of abduction? I'm not pretending to be an authority on abduction experiences but I didn't think they are usually experienced in a nightmare like this, so I don't think it was an abduction per se in the traditional sense. But I can't say I can recall any other dream I've had where the other party(ies) in the dream were so well-defined in personality, purpose in existing in the dream, and seeming existence while at the same time having no basis in something I would have experienced while awake, like a close friend or family member (or dinosaur or something). And no, I haven't watched Independence Day in years and I definitely was not thinking about it before bed that night :P
Does anyone here have any perspective on what I can make of this?
's been a few weeks since I had it. Generally, for me, it's hard (well, impossible really) to truly get a sense of a dream someone else describes due to not knowing the person, and his/her life experiences or thoughts, that would give context, combined with the obvious usually other-worldly nature of dreaming. But I think this one here is pretty simple and direct and based on my interpretation of it after a few weeks thinking about it, should be a somewhat familiar concept to many...
Let me first say that the vast majority of my dreams are usually quite weird (like most peoples') and hard to describe, so this one kind of shocked me with the direct-ness (in terms of the simplicity and real-ness) of the experience. It started with a feeling of complete immobilization, and it was not a pleasant type of immobility by any stretch either. Before I even met the other entity of the dream I was already horrified by the situation, and I was struggling in a complete panic to break this strange type of paralysis (it was strange for two reasons: first, my struggling felt like an enormous mental and perhaps even emotional effort, not physical, because no matter how much effort I put into it I did not have a nanometer of control of movement over my body. The second reason is because it felt like something or someone had me suspended in some strange type of "thick" air or atmosphere of some kind. The "air" was also strangely tinted and hued).
Then the opposing entity appeared, directly across from me a few feet away, looking straight into my eyes. The best way I can describe it was it sorta had the shape of the alien from Independence Day (the creepy, vulnerable little guys, not the gross exoskeletons they wore around them) crossed with what I guess might be considered a gray... But the strangest feature of this guy was the fact that it wasn't clearly defined like you and I; instead, it was like halfway to being a shadow. It had features I could make out, especially the eyes, but it was very shadow-like and ethereal.
He said some things, well, actually I did not see a mouth moving but I did hear words in my head and I knew they were coming from him/her/it (probably an it, nothing I experienced suggested it even had a gender, except for perhaps the aggressiveness- male- this being demonstrated in "locking me up" the way it did). I don't remember all the things it told me but the important part of the lecture was at the end, when it kept repeating something along the lines of "we're coming, we're on our way, we're almost there" in a way that definitely seemed like a threat. But despite the level of implied violence, the being seemed very confident and self-assured, kinda like it wasn't experiencing any emotions other than a pure desire to control.
It was definitely weird, and I woke up terrified that they were, in fact, coming, and were, in fact, "almost" here. Even though I had no idea who "they" are or what they intended. It didn't seem too good though. He did seem to be delivering a message or representing a larger group, however.
I guess one thing I want to ask is, is it possible to actually be visited by "real" beings that reside elsewhere in the universe or in other densities/dimensions while asleep? As opposed to the more "awake" experience of abduction? I'm not pretending to be an authority on abduction experiences but I didn't think they are usually experienced in a nightmare like this, so I don't think it was an abduction per se in the traditional sense. But I can't say I can recall any other dream I've had where the other party(ies) in the dream were so well-defined in personality, purpose in existing in the dream, and seeming existence while at the same time having no basis in something I would have experienced while awake, like a close friend or family member (or dinosaur or something). And no, I haven't watched Independence Day in years and I definitely was not thinking about it before bed that night :P
Does anyone here have any perspective on what I can make of this?
