[DDG] Dream Discussion General

[tetradicTendencies]

I've noticed quite a few threads about specific dreams, what they mean, how to lucid dream, OOB, etc, but i'm surprised that there isn't a general thread for everyone to post miscellaneous examples of occult/magical symbolism in their dreams that wouldn't warrant a full thread.

So here is that thread!
Feel free to share any odd snippets of dreams you have with us here if:
- your memories are too vague for an individual thread to be meaningfully useful
- if you just want to share something without necessarily having any questions about it

(this is my first thread please be kind to eachother)

Post automatically merged: Saturday at 12:03 PM

I'll start:

Last night in my dreams, i had to find 4 skeletons of some people of vague import.
I needed their bones.... something to do with my divination work????

For the past few months i've been looking into getting some raw offcuts of synthetic gemstones for me to cut and shape into precision dice for my work, and in my dreams last night, i did just that, but the bones of these people were involved.

I don't know what it means but i assume it's metaphorical or refers to some nonphysical component i should likely employ when i get around to crafting my dice.... i think i'm gonna do that

 

[Mh4419]

Oh man, I like to read but because of colour I can not focus on words, so I will miss your comment.

 

[tetradicTendencies]

Oh man, I like to read but because of colour I can not focus on words, so I will miss your comment.

that's okay

do you have any weird vague symbols/situations in dreams that you wanna share?

 

[Mh4419]

that's okay

do you have any weird vague symbols/situations in dreams that you wanna share?

Most of the time I dream that vampires catch me and bite me which I can feel pain, but recently they catch me, but they do not bite.

 

[tetradicTendencies]

Most of the time I dream that vampires catch me and bite me which I can feel pain, but recently they catch me, but they do not bite.

sounds like an improvement

Post automatically merged: Saturday at 6:02 PM

i look forward to reading interesting dream goings on from other forum users

 

[Ohana]

Okay I'll start. I had a dream involving the spiderman and spider people. I changed who I was in the dream a couple times.

I was sometimes the spiderpeople from the new spiderman into the spiderverse. I think I was trying to save people but I was also mad at them for some reason? The dream was a while ago.

Then I meet something. At the time I brushed it off as having recent bad expierences. I did that a lot with my dreams.

It was a spider weaver. I think they were a weaver of people and could control others on my dream. It was weird to be in. So all the characters in my dream I didn't fully trust. I saw their eyes and it was pure red and could light up a room but faintly.

Then I feel as if I should share another dream. I was asleep and then woke up feverish so I thought it was a fever dream. But there was something a man, a person, someone that was a shadow of themselves.

I felt deep sadness for this person but they just stared at me. In judgement. I was trying to relate it to some personal trauma for the longest time but now it might have been spiritual. They just stared at me in combination of judgement and grief. It was the saddest, scariest, and pretty emotional expierence.

Then I also have dreams involving ghosts. Those are my favorite dreams. I thought they were born out of loneliness since none of the spirits I met were one I actually knew.

I feel as if I am helping someone in those dreams. One that stuck out was a dream involving a coal mine. The ghosts had gone through something very traumatic with a horrible coal mine collapse. I tried to help them. I don't know if I could do much good or help them at that point.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Oh man, I like to read but because of colour I can not focus on words, so I will miss your comment.

I've always had this problem, and not just here. Just select the whole thing & it's highlighted.

Post automatically merged: Today at 1:19 AM

I've noticed quite a few threads about specific dreams, what they mean, how to lucid dream, OOB, etc, but i'm surprised that there isn't a general thread for everyone to post miscellaneous examples of occult/magical symbolism in their dreams that wouldn't warrant a full thread.

Great idea! I posted this a long time ago on another forum, but it fits.

I was at most five. I know because we moved when I was six. Probably younger.

I don't know the beginning. It was just like normal life. I was fully conscious, fully aware.
The setting was my grandmother's house (a real creepy old place) for some kind of family gathering.
Things seemed pretty normal, I never talked much (still don't, autism) but I observe pretty well.
Things were just... off. Like, what was the occasion? How did I get here?
More things piled up. While all my relatives were there, they were all adults, no children.
I tended to avoid adults, they did adult things. Only, they didn't. Do adult things.
They didn't talk to each other, tho the rooms seemed loud. They wandered around like they were looking busy.
And the way they moved. They just, moved. Not really walking, just moved around.

At this point, I started to freak out a bit. More than usual I mean.
Why was everything looking like an old photograph? All yellow tinted?
(now I know this called sepia toned)
At some point I realized this was not real. Freaked out a bit more inside.
I think the adults changed then. They seemed to focus on me when I got close to them.
Told me to do something or go somewhere or something I knew I better NOT do.

It was at this point I realized that these were NOT my family, but demons.
HOW THE HELL does a five year old know what demons are? IDK, but I did.
I also KNEW instinctively I could not reveal that I knew.

What it became was like a game of cat & mouse. No, more like... ever play pac-man? Running from the ghosts.
By this time it seemed like hours had passed. It seemed to never end, have no end but my capture.
I knew I couldn't keep refusing, keep avoiding, there's too many of them.
I also began to suspect they realized I saw thru their disguises.

At some point, I had to change my strategy. I announced I had to go to the bathroom, to no one in particular.
RAN RAN to the bathroom, and locked the door. I was cornered, but safe?

I could hear them all on the other side. Demanding. Threatening. Pounding.
To be fair, it WAS the only bathroom in that old house. But I didn't care.
What to do. No escape, no escape. Earlier that year, I had gotten ahold of my dad's razor.
Double-edge razor, somehow got it open, took out the blade and cut myself deep. It didn't hurt. Mom was FURIOUS.
Now I was going to the medicine cabinet, to find a razor. Kill myself.
HOW THE HELL does a five year old decide to kill themselves with a razor blade?
Only, I stopped at the mirror. I had no reflection in the mirror.
The pounding and threatening and cursing and demanding intensified!

This was the first time it occurred to me that this was a dream.
But, you're not awake in a dream, this can't be! POUNDING POUNDING...

What to do? How to awaken? Slash water on my face? Oh, the water won't come out! What to do? POUNDING YELLING THREATENING...

What else might work? Open your eyes. Open you eyes open your eyes
I squeezed my eyes tight REALLY tight. Opened them. My room The curses where there still, but getting quieter,
more distant sounding, with each beat of my heart that seemed to pound out of my chest...

I never did dream again. At least nothing I could remember.
Until I was adult and questioned why. But never forgot. Never.

Someone there commented that:
"This reminds me of a description of 'the lid of Pastos' being slammed shut, which supposedly is a magickal means of making sure that the target cannot get above Tipharet."
But didn't elaborate.

Post automatically merged: Today at 1:24 AM

(I did try to post this with the way I thought back then, as I remember being 4? if it sounds a bit juvenile that's why)

Post automatically merged: Today at 1:39 AM

Actually, now that I'm looking at it, this post could have benefited from color text. The original post began with " I was at most five... and ended with ...Never."

 

[Ohana]

I also had an expierence of getting trapped in a dream. I was with my family accept we were on water and apparently the world was just covered with water. The dream itself felt watery.

I realized it was a dream but when I told the people that they were hurt. I tried to escape the dream by jumping through water but each time I landed right where I started.

But the situation had changed a bit each time like my memory couldn't fully remember what it was like before. It felt like I was struggling in water without a way out. Then I woke up.

In that dream with the figure I got the sense they were judging the current relationship I was in. So I ended it after conflict arised but I regret doing so. I miss them. They were nice and most relationships probably have conflict. Its how people deal with that conflict that decide that.

But I think its totally okay to stop a relationship if its not for you. But I feel like either an entity might have or maybe it was my subconscious interfered with my own personal relationships. I wanted to have ones on my own. I didn't ask for that. I never asked for that.

I wanted to grow and develop on my own but either trauma or now I'm open to the possibility it was an entity interfered with that. But its hard because even it was just trauma and I'm wrong and entity did not visit me then I still have to work through all that and thars hard. Its so difficult.

 

[Sedim Haba]

I also had an expierence of getting trapped in a dream. I was with my family accept we were on water and apparently the world was just covered with water. The dream itself felt watery.

I realized it was a dream but when I told the people that they were hurt.

I've heard this, that you should never tell people in dreams that you know it's a dream, or that they are not real, or anything along those lines.
But, I'm no expert on dreams. I never had a lucid-type dream again, until I was on an SSRI two-three years ago. Maybe it was a partial lucid dream?
I knew I was dreaming, but could not control any aspect of it. I won't be going into that because of the entities that showed up.

(an adult version of my dream above, but I wasn't four, so I dealt with it. I still was turned into a demon myself at the end, so you see why don't want to talk about it)

 

[Ohana]

I think I heard that too from somewhere. My expierence the reason is the people start hating you. Or even more terrifying the characters in the dream try to convince you that what you said is crazy and that this is reality. Its really terrifying. I'm glad I got out with sanity somewhat still in tact.

Because I think it could mess with someone's perception of reality if done enough. I'm guessing though since I didn't do it again. I wasn't lucid dreaming when saying this either or I was but I didn't try to. It kind of just happened and then the bad expierences must have made my brain not want to do it again.

I don't think I lucid dream often because I take the dream at face value then do the emotional story of it. I kind of hesitate to even try again because of my already bad expierences maybe one day when I'm in less of a chaotic state.

 

[Sedim Haba]

My Familiar won't allow me to Lucid Dream or Astral Project without them accompanying me. Curating the whole experience, controlling who I meet or don't meet.

I whole heartedly agree. If I never go off into the Astral alone again, I'm GOOD with that. After what I've been thru. Never EVER taking SSRI's again.