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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsInterpret my dream.
I often have dreams where I am someone else. Like an actor in someone else's dream. That's how it was last night. This time I was a food vendor handing out food through a window. As I passed something out, the customer breezed my hand. I hardly noticed, but later I looked down and noticed my skin had ruptured. I touched it and it opened up and began oozing.
It came out as a long, clear, gelatinous tube. I began moving up the arm and pushing down to the opening and the tube just kept oozing. Finally I reached up, high on my arm and found a lump which must have been the top of the gelatinous tube and worked it out.
I thought I had successfully removed the foreign substance, but realized that it had been spreading on the other side of the arm. I panicked and asked for help, but realized that the mass was high in the arm, and about to penetrate the rest of the body. Yet, we all tried anyway to remove the substance, pushing it out of the arm, until finally bits of a decayed organic material finally surfaced.
So, what does the dream mean? I am healthy, not worried about health issues, but I do have friends that are not doing so well. Could that be the source of the dream? Or is it metaphorical for the issues we deal with here in DU everyday?
Orrex
(63,215 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)Here is what I learned: ALL dreams are about YOU and all the characters in the dream represent parts of YOU.
Going with that premise I will take a shot at your dream - the woman and the others that helped are parts of you, trying to bring attention to something inside of you, that you have not previously acknowledged. Whatever it is, it needs to be brought into the light of day so that you can begin to heal. Resentment? Harboring a grudge? Jealousy? Do you owe someone an apology?
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)society's sickness. In other words, don't take on the guilt that others want to assign to you.
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)This sounds like a dream you might have if your arm "fell asleep".
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Either a secret or an ugly emotion from your soul. I have had similar dreams. I'm not an expert, but I think it has to do with getting rid of something inside you that is toxic - probably not physical, but emotional or mental.
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)But if it was a purge, it began with someone's touch, which symbolically means that I want to get rid of a burden that someone else put on me.
LeftInTX
(25,372 posts)It was the strangest dream.
I wasn't close with my uncle.
He lived in another state and didn't see him very often.
About 30 years after that dream, my uncle died at the age of 88. He was fairly healthy until the last years of his life.
I still don't know what that dream was about.
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The next one is a common one. It is is the bizarre pregnancy dream:
I am about 7 months pregnant.
I go to the vending machine to buy a soda.
I put the money in and out comes my baby.
It is a monkey.
I wake up.
I am relieved.
2 months later, I give birth to a human.
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My daughter-in-law also had a bizarre pregnancy dream:
Her baby is born
On the delivery table, newborn baby starts cussing at her in an adult voice.
She wakes up.
She is relieved.
A few months later, her newborn comes out crying, not cussing.
A year later, we're waiting for her first words............................
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)LeftInTX
(25,372 posts)I was glad when I woke up and realized that I had only dreamed about my uncle turning into vomit. Maybe during the dream I felt I had done something that caused my uncle to turn into vomit.
(I was 25 when I had that dream, so it really had nothing to do with a relationship or lack of relationship with my uncle. It could have been about Mr. Magoo or anyone - for some reason it was about my uncle)
It was so bizarre because the vomit was actually talking and jumping around.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)infected by the Trump administration! Don't despair, we're working to find a cure.
Seriously, I am ALWAYS me in my dreams. Feeling like I'm somebody else is a completely foreign concept.
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)I do dream as other characters. One of my very earliest dreams, when I was perhaps seven, I was a male warrior. Even fought to protect the princess. Enjoyed every part of the battle and the end was a picture perfect movie ending. I was there on top of the hill with the princess at my side and like a Boris Vallejo figure, I had my sword in the air with the troops below us acknowledging the success of the battle.
Then I look down at the princess, and like all movies, I realize that the dream was supposed to end with a kiss. She is looking longing and ready and my full conscience steps in. "What am I supposed to do with this?" I am a full hetero dreaming of male battle, but little else. Awkward. So I woke up and the conflict was over.