My dream - what could it mean?

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A couple of nights ago I had this strange dream, I'm trying to figure out where it came from. It contains some violence, I apologise in advance.

First of all, there was a guy in the dream. It's someone I knew in school a loong time ago. We were in school together from the age of 7 to 15. He was a bit of a bad boy from day one, always getting in trouble. Nothing big, but never listening to the teacher, fighting with other boys, that sort of thing. He also had a soft spot for me from day one throughout school. And since I took dancing lessons, he did, too. Jumping over tables and the sort to get to me to ask me to dance before any of the other boys. He was always sweet to me and I liked him, but it was all innocent. Not even a little kiss (hey, I was a very good girl). I haven't seen him in  maybe 15 years, nor have I thought about him in a really long time.

In this dream, he came to my house and knocked on the door. The house in my dream looked nothing like where I actually live in real life. Somehow I knew he wanted to harm me, so I opened the door with a huge knife in my hand and just stabbed him in the stomach  

Then I ran to down a corridor to get away. It turned out to be a dead end, so I quickly ran the other way, passing him in the doorway while running. Again I reached a dead end. So I turned and ran out the door, passing him hunched over clutching his stomach.

My feelings in this dream were not terror or anguish, as one might think. I was actually feeling confident, calm and strong.

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So I'm trying to figure out why my brain picked this man (who I knew when he was a boy, really).

And what could be the meaning of this?

I have a theory, but would like to hear your thoughts openly and candidly without painting them with my ideas beforehand.

[Scarlet Phoenix]

A couple of nights ago I had this strange dream, I'm trying to figure out where it came from. It contains some violence, I apologise in advance.

First of all, there was a guy in the dream. It's someone I knew in school a loong time ago. We were in school together from the age of 7 to 15. He was a bit of a bad boy from day one, always getting in trouble. Nothing big, but never listening to the teacher, fighting with other boys, that sort of thing. He also had a soft spot for me from day one throughout school. And since I took dancing lessons, he did, too. Jumping over tables and the sort to get to me to ask me to dance before any of the other boys. He was always sweet to me and I liked him, but it was all innocent. Not even a little kiss (hey, I was a very good girl). I haven't seen him in  maybe 15 years, nor have I thought about him in a really long time.

In this dream, he came to my house and knocked on the door. The house in my dream looked nothing like where I actually live in real life. Somehow I knew he wanted to harm me, so I opened the door with a huge knife in my hand and just stabbed him in the stomach  

Then I ran to down a corridor to get away. It turned out to be a dead end, so I quickly ran the other way, passing him in the doorway while running. Again I reached a dead end. So I turned and ran out the door, passing him hunched over clutching his stomach.

My feelings in this dream were not terror or anguish, as one might think. I was actually feeling confident, calm and strong.

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So I'm trying to figure out why my brain picked this man (who I knew when he was a boy, really).

And what could be the meaning of this?

I have a theory, but would like to hear your thoughts openly and candidly without painting them with my ideas beforehand.

[DesertChild]

I need details on the house so I can tell you a bit more.

However, your attraction to bad boys seems to have taken a death turn in a real way.

The house, especially if you have details is usually a representation of you--your house is your home and self. There are exceptions such as if it's a specific home that you can recall.

If someone crosses your threshold or you're afraid in a dream, that mostly means your boundaries are being crossed in a real way.

The fact that you got lost inside of your home shows you got lost inside of yourself too. Even after you stabbed him, you got lost. Happy about getting lost in yourself is something else. That's withdrawing.

Now the feelings in the dream. Confidence... . probably felt good to kill the representative bad boy in your life. Is he the first bad boy you liked?

Any recent circumstances that could have triggered the dream or any elements you recognize from fiction/your recent life?

If you cognitive dream (lucid dream) ever and you get something, try consciously not opening the door at all and calling the cops. Keep your boundaries... .

[eeyore]

fascinating.  I can't wait to see your theory.

[Scarlet Phoenix]

Hi, thanks for your interpretation. Interesting!

The house was actually just the corridor and and entrance, in a T-shape. A long corridor, with a small entrance hallway in the middle, sort of like this:

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__________|      |__________

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|____________________|

There were no windows. The colour of the walls was dark mustard. And I didn't get lost so much as it wasn't possible to continue down the corridor because I reached the end of it. First on the left side, then on the right side. There was no other way out except through the front door.

He is the first "bad boy", although it was all very innocent and he wasn't that "bad". I have never been in a relationship with a so-called bad-boy, although I did like them in my youth. It's not something I go for these days, it's been a long time since that was my preference.

He never got into the corridor, he stayed in the hallway.

[Rose Tiger]

Running away, not wanting to deal with something?  Realizing there was no work around, must face the thing.  Facing it, working through to the other side?  Feeling confident because you knew you could handle the thing all along.  Tried to kill it dead to avoid it.  The thing is the past FOO stuff?

There you go a whole bunch of guesses for you!

[eeyore]

ok can you tell me what my dream from last night meant?   I was at a home I lived in.  On the left was a detached garage, there was a gate that looked to the pool. on the right was the house.  I was walking through a covered patio entrance.  The pool was being filled with a hose but it was overflowing above ground level by about a foot.  (Not even realistic, but that was the dream) 

[DesertChild]

Hi, thanks for your interpretation. Interesting!

The house was actually just the corridor and and entrance, in a T-shape. A long corridor, with a small entrance hallway in the middle, sort of like this:

                   |

__________|      |__________

                                     

|____________________|

There were no windows. The colour of the walls was dark mustard. And I didn't get lost so much as it wasn't possible to continue down the corridor because I reached the end of it. First on the left side, then on the right side. There was no other way out except through the front door.

He is the first "bad boy", although it was all very innocent and he wasn't that "bad". I have never been in a relationship with a so-called bad-boy, although I did like them in my youth. It's not something I go for these days, it's been a long time since that was my preference.

He never got into the corridor, he stayed in the hallway.

Psychology, if I remember (no license here, so take it with a grain of salt, or a heaping... . ) usually says that it's very telling if it's unfurnished.

As a point of reference, there is this game you go through and it asks you various questions about your "house" but it's really about you. The trick is that often people don't picture other people in their house... .

The fact you had no furnishings inside says quite a bit. Did you feel like you didn't need it? Also, I agree with the retreating bit. Escaping from reality. I'm still not sure of the trigger. You'd have to explore the triggers to the dream to figure out the levels of it.

ok can you tell me what my dream from last night meant?   I was at a home I lived in.  On the left was a detached garage, there was a gate that looked to the pool. on the right was the house.  I was walking through a covered patio entrance.  The pool was being filled with a hose but it was overflowing above ground level by about a foot.  (Not even realistic, but that was the dream) 

House, again, is yourself. In the case of a family home, it's usually reflective of your family. Yours is well furnished and complete, I'm thinking.

Anyone live with you in your house?

If your house is flooding something is not making you happy, clearly.

I'll demonstrate a little... .

I used to have dreams of my house where my family was being "wrong" or falling apart. So with my magical powers I would fix it. (codependence!)

When I stopped trying to fix it, my family literally fell apart and so I had dreams of my family home having things like a broken foundation. Unsafe structures on my family home that my parents half-made and then just magically left (which they kinda did in real life).

Once I dreamed of a house where it was dark and I couldn't see, but it turned out that I needed to change the light bulb in my apartment... . (My subconscious has a sense of humor, clearly) When I changed the light bulb the dreams stopped.

If your house is flooding I would think that feels like a loss of control, for me. But how do you react to floods in real life?

Also, I think it's important to sort out real life triggers to separate them from symbols in your dreams. So seeing Rambo 10 times in a row and dreaming of a gun, it just might because you saw Rambo 10 times in a row... .

[eeyore]

I used to leave a pad of paper and pencil by my bed so I could remember my dreams.  I recall waking slightly and saying to myself, I need to be writing this down because I'm going to forget hit, hit_, hit_... . and of course when I really work up I knew I had forgotten the rest of the details.  My dream was so bizarre like flooding a foot over the pool from a hose into the house when there's the whole back yard did wake me slightly.  So Yes I am feeling a sense of loss of control and unhappiness at the moment so the dream must be working out my real life "stuff".  I've never actually experienced any real flooding.  Just things like a washer being connected incorrectly so the water flowed onto my floor.  Or leaving the hose on to the pool and wasting a lot of water (not done by me).  And I haven't watched any tv or movies with flooding.  

I do recall there were other people at the house of my most recent ex bf were in my dream.  Oddly not the my most recent ex bf that I lived with in that particular home.  However, my only ex husband from my 20's and some of his friends. 

Just wondering but does the dark mustard yellow mean anything?  SP described that as the color in her dream.  In real life the outside color of the house I lived in from my dream was a goldie yellow almost mustard.  And my home now is also a goldie yellow but for the inside color.  The outside is Taupe.  

Very interesting Thank You SP for bringing up your dream.  Fascinating stuff how our minds work while we sleep.

[eeyore]

If you cognitive dream (lucid dream) ever and you get something, try consciously not opening the door at all and calling the cops. Keep your boundaries... .

Sorry I don't understand what you mean?  Would you explain?

[DesertChild]

If you cognitive dream (lucid dream) ever and you get something, try consciously not opening the door at all and calling the cops. Keep your boundaries... .

Sorry I don't understand what you mean?  Would you explain?

If you get lucid dreams, where you can control events sometimes it's a good way to "practice" with your subconscious on what you would like to happen.

She opened the door to her house. (i.e. herself) and then killed him. Rather than keeping the door shut and watching him suffer outside of the house. This caused her to run away because she never shut the door (if I understand correctly). Her boundary was compromised and rather than face the problem created, she ran away into herself, but came to a dead end within herself.

The better approach is to keep the boundary of the front door. Not kill the man, lock it, secure the fort, and then only let people in you recognize, because your house is yourself. (People also say if you're depressed, you're more likely to have a messy house... . and sometimes cleaning it up yourself helps relieve some of the emotions. I have to admit it's therapy I avoid... . )

Of course there are points when your subconscious won't cooperate, or at least mine won't because it's making a point. But paying attention to that too is also good. ('cause it feels like a slap upside the head when you wake up)

The mustard, I'd need more context for... . such as associations she personally has with the color. Or if she's seen it recently.

I've had colors show up in dreams symbolically and also where it's just the last color I happened to see. But my personal associations might be different from someone else's.

Mine with mustard is food, particularly Hamburgers and hotdogs, but maybe she saw it on a house recently and she just has to shuffle for it. (Sorry for talking around the OP)

I get lucid dreams, but since I've been kinda keeping track since I was little, (and my subconscious trying to outsmart the lucid dreaming... . I know it's odd) I've gotten faster at guessing the dreams. If it doesn't resolve and the theme repeats, I know it's a real issue I need to face.

[eeyore]

So very interesting!  Scarlet Phoenix, what do you think?  Does that accurately describe your dream?  And the meanings?

[Suzn]

I found some interesting info on your dream Scarlet... Stabbing someone in the stomach, after reading this, may be pointing to vulnerability of someone else. Not necessarily this boy you knew, he could just be representative, someone who cares about you or that you think cares in the same way or has the same characteristics. Is there someone similar in your life now?  Also, your house looks different, you look different.

Almost half the dreams on file that mention abdomen, belly or stomach, show the dreamer being shot, as in the example below. This is obviously to do with a particular type of hurt. When human beings learned to stand up, they exposed their vulnerable underbelly. If we are hurt or threatened we tense the pelvic and abdominal area. The sort of hurt referred to is that related to when we might be deeply criticized, feel badly wronged or slandered. This area often feels the pain of a broken relationship too.

So this might point to vulnerability, or the sort of hurt that results from being deeply criticized, badly wronged or slandered. This area often feels the pain of a broken relationship too.

We link the abdomen with ‘gut feelings’ or intuition; feeling reactions in a relationship. For instance we use such phrases as ‘you make me sick’ – ‘I can’t stomach what you’re doing’ – ‘you haven’t got the guts’ – ‘like being hit in the guts’ – ‘I’m really hungry for you’. See: solar plexus.

Stomach or abdominal dreams may refer to some dis-ease in the actual organs. We might not be able to stomach something we have met in the everyday world. We may not be integrating our experience.

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To dream of knives symbolizes emotional conflict, division, and separation. There are issues with loss or change that you are struggling with in your waking life. An emotional hurt or threat.

Alternatively, you may feel threatened by a possible loss or change.

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If you are the one that is stabbing someone else in the dream, this could be because you have been recalling malicious thoughts about them recently. A dream like this should serve as a warning to control your temper in the future. There are other dream interpretations of this action though, such as the idea that stabbing recalls your competitive streak. If the person that you are stabbing in your dream is someone you recognize, then you may be seeing yourself stabbing them because of how competitive you feel towards them. Noticing dream symbols such as this is a great way of making sure to keep your competitive streak in check in the waking world.

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To escape from someone or somewhere is often indicative of needing to uncover new potential in the self, or to drop bad habits of the past. This new potential comes from incorporating the next order of archetype into the conscious.

Escape can also reveal either a birth experience metaphor, or that one is discovering self-imposed limitations and is seeking to overcome them.

Whom you escape from, how much violence or argument it requires, and the reaction to your escape all contribute to determining the meaning of this type of dream.

To dream that you escape from jail or some place of confinement signifies your need to escape from a restrictive situation or attitude. Alternatively, it suggests that you are refusing to face your problems. You are avoiding the situation, instead of confronting them.

Ringing any bells?

[Suzn]

ok can you tell me what my dream from last night meant?   I was at a home I lived in.  On the left was a detached garage, there was a gate that looked to the pool. on the right was the house.  I was walking through a covered patio entrance.  The pool was being filled with a hose but it was overflowing above ground level by about a foot.  (Not even realistic, but that was the dream) 

To see a swimming pool in your dream symbolizes relaxation, calmness, luxury and ease. You need to take a break. Alternatively, a swimming pool suggests that you need to acknowledge and understand your feelings. It is time to dive in and deal with those emotions. You need to cleanse yourself and wash away past hurts. Consider the depth of the pool. If you were swimming on the deep end, then it means that those emotions are deeply seeded and may be harder to confront... You will need to work through it, no more matter how difficult. If you are swimming on the shallow end, then it implies that you should be able to easily deal with your feelings.

To see an empty swimming pool in your dream suggests that you are literally feeling empty and devoid of emotions. So the opposite might be an overflowing pool would be overwhelming emotions.