What Do You Guys Make Of This Dream?

[SilentLoner]

Hey guys,

 

Wanted to bring this up here. Last night somehow my mom and I got on the topic of suicide. My mom says she "knows" for a fact when you kill yourself you wander the earth until your proper time of death. I rolled my eyes and asked why she thought that. Then my mom confided to me that when she was in her 20s she planned to commit suicide. She says she was determined, rented a motel room, had sleeping pills ready and took care of the business she needed to.

 

Then shortly before she planned to do it, she had a dream where she saw a mourge-like room filled with bodies that resembled her. She saw her own mother (my grandma) come in crying. She ran to her and tried to tell her she was there but her mother couldn't hear her. Then she woke and up and decided agaisnt her plan.

 

I'll admit I wasn't expecting that story, but my first reaction was that it sounded to me like a subconscious fear manifesting in the form of a dream. I suggested that to her but didn't press the issue as I could see it was a sensitive one.

 

Do you guys agree with me? I don't want to debate my mom I just want to bounce my idea around here. I've always found dreams very interesting.

 

My mom also claims psychics run in her family, like she says she's seen the ghost of one of her aunts visit in dreams. She also thinks I have the ability to some degree as we seem to think the same way, calling eath other at the exact same moment or getting a feeling when one of us is about to call. Its wierd sometimes but I don't there's anything supernatural involved.

[Overcame Faith]

I enjoy trying my hand at dream interpretation. But let me say upfront that I do not believe dreams are supernatural in any respect. They are the dreamer's subconscious mind communicating thoughts and concerns in a largely symbolic fashion.

 

Obviously, your mother was very emotionally upset at the time she had the dream since she was seriously contemplating suicide so it is small wonder that she had the dream she did. I first note that in her dream, your mother was in a morgue-like room with multiple bodies that only "resembled" her and, according to your description, she did not actually see her own body. Here, your mother was projecting onto her mother, trying to place herself into her mother's position to see how her mother would react to her suicide. She undoubtedly thought that her mother would be confused by her suicide and would be unable to accept that she would actually commit suicide and possibly be unable to accept her death at all. But this also demonstrates your mother's ambivalence about suicide because your mother also could not actually see what she knew to be herself in the morgue.

 

When your mother ran up to her mother trying to tell her that she was present and probably trying to console her crying mother, but her mother could not hear her, it was your mother realizing that if she committed suicide she would be separated from her grieving mother which was obviously something your mother did not like since your mother felt it necessary to tell her mother that she was present.

 

In short, your mother's dream was her subconscious mind telling her that suicide was not good for her family (represented by her mother) and was not what she really needed to do. In other words, it was your mother's subconscious mind talking her out of the suicide she contemplated. And, thankfully, her subconscious mind was successful.

[OpheliaGinger]

I'll admit I wasn't expecting that story, but my first reaction was that it sounded to me like a subconscious fear manifesting in the form of a dream.

 

Precisely.

[Deva]

It is a form of a fear/anxiety dream. I have had many of the sort myself, but for me they are mostly centered around my employment. I have had some doozies this past year while I was unemployed. Actually, it is the first time in my life when I have had absolutely the same image in my mind night after night -- a piece of paper with typewritten text on it (I am a paralegal). I have many anxiety related dreams relating to loss and it takes the form of misplacing something valuable, usually my car, and can't find it.

 

I know what most of my dreams mean, but sometimes it takes a while to figure them out.

[Voice]

I like stories like this.

As someone who's never really been a mystic, I try to use science and math to understand things like this. Doing so, I've found enough evidence statistically to suggest there could be something to things like this.

 

Psychics come in two forms, quacks who make money at it while wearing gypsy outfits, perfume strong enough to knock out a giant and make up so thick it crusts off, and then those who seem somewhat distant and don't talk much, are maybe a little dark, but seem to have an almost profound sense of awareness, both in the present and for some sort of "other" reality which makes them seem a little crazy. The later are the ones I'm concerned with since they're the ones who show stats in support of having a very real, advanced awareness.

 

Whether it's all in the mind, that's something I think we will be able to determine scientifically perhaps in the not so distant future. I think we will find more evidence to support the idea that some people can and do achieve a higher form of awareness.

 

As to wandering the Earth until some supposed ordained time of death, I haven't heard that before anywhere. I tend to listen more to accounts from radically different sources that repeat, are shared, reflect similar accounts from others too far removed to have been making something up. Seeing a light at the end of a tunnel shortly after dying, for example. Statistically, so many different people have described this phenomenon that the chance of it being a coincidence is literally astronomical.

[Deva]

Psychics come in two forms, quacks who make money at it while wearing gypsy outfits, perfume strong enough to knock out a giant and make up so thick it crusts off, and then those who seem somewhat distant and don't talk much, are maybe a little dark, but seem to have an almost profound sense of awareness, both in the present and for some sort of "other" reality which makes them seem a little crazy. The later are the ones I'm concerned with since they're the ones who show stats in support of having a very real, advanced awareness.

 

Interesting. The latter part of your paragraph almost describes me. I think very few people have understood me, and its not likely to happen ever. However, I don't claim advanced awareness. I will say that things have happened since I got into my 40s that did not previously (experiences, more vivid dreams, etc.) I am often misunderstood because people think I am not paying attention when they are talking to me or that I am too distant. Its far from the case, but I can see where it might be perceived that way.

 

As to wandering the Earth until some supposed ordained time of death, I haven't heard that before anywhere.

 

That is a teaching of Theosophy.

[motion]

I am weary of dream interpretation. When I was younger I was able to control what I dreamed about by thinking about whatever it was that I wanted to dream about just before going to bed.