yes...what about our dreams...

[reallyME]

I figured it would be a good idea to share things that we dream about here on this list.

I had a dream last night, that I ran into the first person who ever hurt me...a pastor's wife.  In the dream, she rebuked me for telling her about how I was wounded by other people.  She told me that I must go back to all the information I know about FAITH CONFESSION and only speak POSITIVE of anyone.  I remember suddenly feeling like I was VOICELESS again in that dream...I felt like "how DARE you try to censure my speech!" 

See, I think there are two common reactions from people who have been Narcissistically abused.  One is to be silent and one is to shout from the highest rooftops! 

Those who keep their feelings and anger in, tend to become victims agian, from what I've seen.  Those who speak out become enemies of the victimizers for daring to TELL.

Just my experience

[CB123]

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[liberty]

Hi,

I found a website for dream interpretation. It gives you the meanings of the symbols in the dreams. Then you have to put it together after that.

It's http://www.dreammoods.com

Lib

[pennyplant]

Recently I had a dream with lots of giant turtles in it.  As the dream went on the turtles grew ears and the ears grew into the shape and size of wings.  Turtles can mean you are easily taken advantage of because you react too slowly.  There are other meanings but that one seems most accurate in my case. Also a symbol of inertia.  And I do feel my life is like molasses right now.  Turtles can also symbolize the hard shell a person wears as protection against a sensitive nature.  I have never dreamed of turtles before and it was interesting to see how much of the symbolism fits what is going on with me now.

The other night I dreamt of my father for the first time in many, many months.  In the dream he was very healthy as if he had never smoked and never gotten emphysema or lung cancer.  He seemed very strong and lively.  Strangely enough he knew who I was but he did not understand that we are related.  I think that subconsciously he stood for a couple of people in my life who I have cared for more than they have cared for me.  Well, I guess I mean my two emotional affairs.  Because he knew me but didn't realize we had a connection.  I'm the only one who "knew" that.  This interpretation gives me a new way to frame those two emotional affairs.  So, maybe my subconscious is working on getting over it.

I love interpreting my dreams.  When I figure out a clue, it feels like a piece of the puzzle clicks into place.

Pennyplant

[invisible]

Wow, Penny, I think that dream about the turtles is really cool. It is almost like the message is .... keep listening ... and that which you hear will be your wings to rise up higher than anything you can face as you soar up in the sky. Those wings will take you further and faster than your legs ever could. It is like breaking through into a realm when you have no limitations ... and you are free!

And it lines up so nicely with your signature!

          "Run, my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings."  Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Cool beanzzzzz!

[axa]

Usually I am not aware of my dreams.  Had one the other night.  In a restaurant with XN and his family.  They were laughing and having fun and I was completely excluded.  It felt like I did not exist, could not be seen or heard.  I was nothing to them.

Don't need Frued to figure t his one out


axa