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Nightmare last night

The nightmares last night were just absolutely relentless. Well really it was more like one reaaaally long nightmare that just continued every time i fell back asleep after waking up. Maybe someone can interpret it for me.

In it, this couple kept breaking into our apartment over and over. The same thing would always happen, the guy would hold us at gunpoint, I'd tell him that wasn't necessary and we'd cooperate to which he would open up that he didn't want to be doing this but the woman, his wife, was pregnant and they had fallen on hard times and needed money. He would be convinced they had to kill us to prevent us from snitching and him going to jail, but I would talk him out of it and eventually the couple would leave us. But the next night they would always come back and try to rob/kill us again.

Finally things escalated when we ran away through some building to get away from them and had managed to call the police. We were once again talking down the man, whose wife no longer supported him at this point and didn't want to bother us anymore. A policewoman showed up and asked if we were ok, to where I replied we were being held hostage at gunpoint. The policewoman bravely began to run away when she saw the guy had a gun and I ran away behind her basically using her as a human shield. But in my hurry I realized I had forgotten my fiance behind, and he was shot and killed. I was devastated.

The man chased me and against my better judgement I ran into a secluded area, and was trapped as he came towards me now with a large knife. Somehow I managed to talk him down from killing me again though, and finally asked about why times were so difficult for him and his wife. He explained that they had been cursed. I asked what had cursed them and he told me a certain deity had and I told him I would take care of it for him. So somehow I go to the realm of this random deity that looked like this writhing mass of muscles with no skin and a skull for a head. It was massive but I did my best to fight it, transforming into my beast form. (Why I didn't do this to defend myself from the man is beyond me) I couldn't beat the deity but I think it just got annoyed enough with me where it was like "fine I'll end their curse just leave me alone."

So the couples' curse ended and their life returned to normal and they were very grateful towards me and finally stopped coming after me. Until one day, they approached me again and told me a little girl who was a family friend had been possessed by some entity, and they wondered if I could help them again. I agreed, feeling bad for the child who was probably only around 5 or so. I immediately realized she was being possessed by a demon and went about performing an exorcism. The process was extremely long and drawn out, terrifying and exhausting. The demon would tell me to just give up, that I couldn't save the girl, but I refused to listen and remained persistent as I knew I was making progress and weakening it. Every time I'd think it was finally gone it would show itself again. In the end I never ended up successfully banishing it because I finally was able to wake up and stay awake, which I'd been struggling to do the whole time.

Anyways that was the whole nightmare! Fun times.
Ananke · 26-30, F
Here is my interpretation: The couple represents 2 things, both my paranoia and lack of feeling safe at all times & also my fiance and I. The couple continously tries to do us harm and my fiance and I have been self sabotaging by making poor decisions and spending money we don't have. The police failing to protect me again goes back to my distrust of others to be able to keep me safe.

The couple has been "cursed" by a terrible monster. I feel this represents my mental illness. I was not able to defeat the monster but came to an agreement with it to lift the curse. Recently I have learned how to work with my mental illness rather than trying to force my way over it. This has made my functioning and life way better hence the "curse" lifting.

Then comes the conflict with the child. I have been doing trauma therapy recently and I believe this portion of the dream reflects that I still feel haunted by my past, the child who was tormented by "demons" ie mental illness. However in the dream I gradually break the demon down and "heal" the little girl, ie I am working on myself in trauma therapy. The process is long and scary and difficult just like trauma therapy but I know it is worth it to save that little girl as I know it is worth it to save me and heal my inner child. However I can't quite beat the demon, representing how my work isn't yet complete.

That's my thoughts!
Allelse · 36-40, M
I dreamt I was a character from a story I wrote, the character is a hit man who kills women and children because he makes more money that way and doesn't have to work as much, so I was in his nightmare as some of the children he's murdered over the years came back to haunt him. WOW!!!! I mean, kids with these horrendous wounds in their heads and chest and the blood. Urghhhh!!

 
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