Dream Prophesy

Below is a recently submitted dream:

This has been recurring dream for many years, I’m not sure when it started. My dream always begins with me in the process of hiding or burying a dead body. Never have i killed someone, or do I know how they were killed. Everytime I am very frantic and panicked about not getting caught and doing it fast. I hide the body in different ways everytime I have the dream. I am also in a different setting, yet unfamiliar and a little eerie. This time the house was mine in the dream, but in real life I have never seen it. I have seen a similar house in a different dream though. Also everytime either the police, or the neighbors are right on my tail. This time the neighbors were really suspicious and poking around, and went as far as taking the trash before I could get to it. I was just about to run out and dispose of it. I don’t know for certain what was in the trash, whether it was a weapon or something else. Last time I hid the body under a walkway under bricks and watched as the police walked right over it. Everytime it is a very close call. I don’t recognize anyone in the dream and don’t remember colors specifically. This time however, I think my boyfriend was in it and maybe I was helping him, but that’s foggy. A swamp or a polluted body of water appears somewhere in the dream.

When I wake up I am scared, panicked, then relieved that it was a dream. My heart always races and takes me a few moments to recoop.

Oh, yeah, I am a female.

Generally, when we dream of “narrow escapes” like the ones you described, we’re having undealt with anxiety of some sort in our daily life.

Some people jump to the conclusion that a dream like this means that the dreamer is actually afraid of being caught or found out in some regard. While that can certainly be true - more often than not, the dreamer’s anxieties stem from one area, however: Unconfronted, hidden anger.

Most of the time, the anger the dreamer feels in his/her waking world is justified - someone may have done something to them and they never really let all of their steam out!  

Very often, the anger CAN’T be let out because it’s a result of something that happened.  For example, the loss of a loved one can cause someone to have dreams such as this for months and months, even years, because of undealt with anger.  Not at the person who died, necessarily, but at the fact that they did, in fact, die. 

One final example of unfaced anger is the kind we have toward ourselves.  That’s one of the worst kinds!  Sometimes we get angry at ourselves because we overspend, overeat, under-exercise, procrastinate, say something we shouldn’t have, etc. 

When we realize where the undealt with anger is stemming from, we have the opportunity to just let it go.  Then we can get on with our lives and the dreams will have no choice but to get on with their’s!

I hope your crazy dreams end very, very soon.  Thanks for sharing your dream, you probably helped others by doing so!

ABDUCTION. To dream of being abducted or being forcibly taken away is a sign that success in any field of activity - business, love, social, professional, political, or artistic - will come to the dreamer.  See also Captive, Kidnapping.

ABSENCE. Dreaming of the absence of a member of your own family or of an old friend means that you will soon hear pleasant news of a personal nature.

ABSTAINING. To dream that you refuse to drink any kind of alcoholic beverage is a forecast of excellent health.

ABUNDANCE. To dream of having a great deal of everything, more than he could possibly use, is a sign to the dreamer to think of and to save for a rainy day, when he may have little - or nothing.

ABYSS. An abyss or pit into which the dreamer has fallen means that conditions are working against you and that you should allow some period of time to pass before making any change in your address or your work.  See also Ditch.

ACCIDENT. Accidents in an automobile, a plane, a boat, or a train are signs for the dreamer to avoid using temporarily these means of transportation; by extension, it is wise for the person to avoid, as much as possible, the thing or object that is part of the dream:  if one dreams of cutting himself, of being struck with a blunt instrument, or of falling, he should take great care in using knives or any sharp instrument, any hammer-like device or mechanism.

What do we dream about?

In waking life, one can think of anything or almost anything under the sun, and the same is certainly true of dreams and dream activity, which are not subject to any of the restrictions that are familiar to us in the objective world. Dreams may be as ordinary, as common, as plain as are our daily lives or they may be strange, fantastic, or impossible. Perhaps one should say that impossibility does not exist in and has no meaning for dreams.

They may be sad or happy, beautiful or ugly, trivial or significant, noble or sordid. They may deal with anything from a to z , and they do. One may dream of things as prosaic and unexciting as the simple acts that we automatically perform every day of our lives, such as dressing, undressing, shaving, eating, or walking, or one may dream of being engaged in dangerous, thrilling, romantic adventures with strange peoples in strange lands, or with inhabitants of other worlds than ours. One can dream of doing things that one may or may not be able to accomplish in actual life.

Is there a best time to dream?

Are dreams realized; do they come true? Is there a "good time" for dreaming that favors the hopes of the dreamer? "Yes" seems to be the answer of poets and singers, and "no" the answer of the scientific student. "After midnight, dreams come true," writes the delightful Horace, in his Satires , and "those dreams are true which we chance to have in the morning," says the amorous poet, Ovid, in his Epistles . This idea is repeated in almost the same words by many poets and dramatists, both major and minor.

Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams.

The modern and scientific study of dreams and their psychological interpretation is associated with the name of the Austrian physician, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder and father of psychoanalysis . Early in his work, Freud became impressed by the conflict between the conscious and the unconscious in the mind of the individual. The conscious part of the mind acts or tries to act - it is not always the easiest thing in the world - in such a way as to meet the approved standards of polite, refined, "civilized" society. The unconscious part is struggling to find an outlet, some outlet, for tendencies - natural, but not civilized - that must be, because of social pressures and our bringing up, either entirely repressed, partially controlled, or hidden, or disguised. Denied satisfaction, these tendencies or desires, take refuge in the unconscious part of the mind, and are, or are supposed to be, "forgotten." According to Freud’s theory, these repressed desires often express themselves in dreams.

General Remarks.

Using this dream book, the reader should keep the following points in mind:

Several dreams may have the same interpretation. It will also be noticed that interpretations may supplement or complement each other, and it is even possible that interpretations may appear to be contradictory.

Most dreams tend to concern themselves with the fundamentals of life and with the considerations that occupy our conscious daytime thoughts, although occasionally they are fantastic or bizarre.

It will be noticed that many dreams are regarded as signs of good luck or bad, as pleasant or unpleasant, as fortunate or unfortunate. The dreamer will be happy at the pleasing dreams, but he need not worry over-much at the bad ones, in view of the rule that dreams often go by contaries.

The interpretations given in the pages that follow are not intended to exclude the dreamer’s own interpretation of his dream. There are countless details and fringes of the dream which are known to the dreamer and to the dreamer alone, and these may add to or modify the interpretation here presented. However, the interpretations given in this book follow the historical and traditional explanations of the subject-matter of individual dreams, and in most instances will be as complete as the reader is likely to desire.

For the reader’s convenience, the subjects most often encountered in dreams are presented in this book in alphabetical order. Each topic or situation found in dreams is listed in its alphabetical place, accompanied by its interpretation. The key word chosen for listing is, of course, not the only word which would describe the particular dream subject matter, and the reader should therefore turn to other words of similar meaning, if he does not find an entry corresponding to the key word which he happens to look up first.