Vivid dreaming...

[FirstLight]

Has anyone else had really vivid dreams the past week or so...or longer?

Last night I had a dream about something that should have had me awake and screaming, but instead I was just creeped out.
It was like people were infested with bugs, I could see them crawling under their skin, etc...and they were definately trying to "get me." They were contagious, so the only way to beat them was to heal them. I don;t remember what that was.
But they were like posessed, and the setting was in two different places, in the florida keys (? never been there, but I think that's what it was) and the nevada desert....I had a guide with me, so i was not alone. and there was a detached nature to this as well, so that kept the fear from overwhelming me...but still, bugs! EWWWW!
weird stuff, anyone got any input?

[Shallah Kali]

1. I stared about a month ago having unusually vivid dreams

normally I don't remember dreaming at all. The dreams were getting creepier and creepier heading into horror movie terrortory when they stopped. Now the unusually vivid and detailed dreams are starting again but this time no horror so far. Well except for the one where my sister moves back home, remodleds the house, gives away my stuff, and has her friends move into what had been my room plus sold several of my cats while letting the rest run into the woods. Scary but not horror movie scary and for once it just had me waking up more POed instead of afraid.

Last night all I can remember is I was told by some doctor that I was allergic to onions and needed to stop eating them. I was very upset as I have had to give up a lot of my favorite foods and not just junk foods due to food allergies and I put onions in just about everything. I love to fry them up in just a bit of olive oil for a snack. So again I woke up mad. Actully more irritated and knowing that I really wasn't allergic for some reason.

I hope your dreams go to something far far away from horror movie type tompics tonight! Fpr me it times, not always just sometimes, helps to instruct my subconscious that I don't need to have horrrible things happen in dreams for me to learn a lesson and that any time anything the least bit creepy starts to happen I am to instantly change it to something harmless.

[crikkett]

3. Sister moving into your house/taking over

Houses symbolize the self... the dream of your sister could symbolize a loss of sovereignty or control over your body and mind.

Having to give up onions for your health when you know you're not allergic to THEM but to other foods you've had to give up... more loss of sovereignty and control.

But consider: many people consider doctors to be authorities in their lives. Maybe you're being warned away from pesticides in the onions you eat... or maybe something else is wrong with them... and that's why a doctor is warning you, because it's that important?

Can you switch to organic or grow your own (yeah right; it takes a couple seasons to grow bulb onions, but you may have the time and space for it).

To take these two dreams together, it could be that you're fed up with other people knowing what's best for you. Stress dreams usually stop when you've resolved the irritation.

So perhaps they will stop when you decide to keep control that someone is trying to wrest from you.

I'm sorry for your allergies (giving up junk food is just good health but I know how satisfying it can be) and I hope you can beef up your immune system so they fade.

[Shallah Kali]

4. how's this dream - last night I got married

I only remember bits but this one I go visit a relative in the hospital, not sure who. One of my uncles is there and dressed in a bright patchwork jacket of satin and velvet something he would be revolted by in real life. He is very very upset and at a loss almost childlike, so maybe the person in the hospital is his wife. I hug him and the person with me (my Mom?) hugs him and we try to comfort him. I go in and one of my cousins the one whom I am closest too is at the bed side. She asks how things are going and when is the wedding. I instantly say I got married that day. She enthusasitcally congratulates me, genuinely joyful for me, and asks about him. I tell her he is wonderful and that he is a fix it guy and that later he was coming to my house where i live with my Mom to repair the house. I am so happy in the dream knowing that everything is going to be just fine in my life and that I have a trustworthy man for my husband with the bonus of him being able to fix things. Then I wake up.

BTW in real life I am not dating and don't even have anyone in mind that I wish I could date right now much less marry.

[crikkett]

9. Now you have a Mr. Shallah fixing you!

My first reaction to the hospital setting, visiting sick relative on your wedding day was 'circle of life' or continuity of life. You showed yourself two marriages, one at the end and one at the beginning. Sadness and Joy in equal measures.

For a minute I wondered if the elder relative was YOU and if that was your bereft husband in the waiting room, but you said you recognized your uncle.

The description of his jacket makes me think of a memory quilt.

I think you told your cousin that your dream husband is someone you can count on to fix your problem....

...where your sister and your doctor couldn't in the previous two dreams?

Maybe you're telling yourself that you finally have a handle on the problem you've been dreaming about. How did you sleep last night?

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FWIW I had some continuity between my dream this morning and yesterday morning too... see below

[Shallah Kali]

11. The dream jacket I think is the Fool of the Tarot

My Uncle is often foolish making very unwise decisions and then asks others to save his bacon from the fire. In the dream he was acting very child-like, like a little kid lost in a mall looking for his mother. Maybe he represents the part of me that wants others to fix everything for me and prefers being a small child?

My cousin in the dream is one I am closest to as a friend in real life as well as closest in age of all my family. I am not sure what she represents other than a healthy family relationship of which I do not have many.

I am thinking finding my mr. Shallah represents both my future Mr. Shallah and my own 'male' part of the psyche. My yin and yang are finally getting into balance as represented by the marriage. Instead of going to someone outside of me to fix things I have my other half on hand ready to fix the stuff I can't. A couple years ago a psychic friend told me that my twin flame was incarnate at this time and we will have the chance to meet and have a relationship in this life. according to some we can have many soul mates, people we are close to from lifetime to lifetime, but only have one twin flame as they are literally the other half of our soul who was split off from us at the beginning of creation. D on't know for sure if this is true but if that prediction comes true that would be very interesting!

I did dream last night but I can't remember a thing now :shrug: guess this one wasn't significant.

[crikkett]

2. florida keys and nevada desert...

UFO/CIA/black ops territories.

You can't defeat the infested so you must heal them. Sounds reasonable, and proactive. I've heard that strategy on different occasions and heartily endorse it.

Infested with bugs... does it resonate with something like toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that infects most of humanity, spread by cats, that actually changes human behavior (almost like mind control)?

from http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2006/01/17/the_return_of_the_puppet_masters.php

Some scientists believe that Toxoplasma changes the personality of its human hosts, bringing different shifts to men and women. Parasitologist Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague administered psychological questionnaires to people infected with Toxoplasma and controls. Those infected, he found, show a small, but statistically significant, tendency to be more self-reproaching and insecure. Paradoxically, infected women, on average, tend to be more outgoing and warmhearted than controls, while infected men tend to be more jealous and suspicious.

It's controversial work, disputed by many. But it attracted the attention of E. Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Torrey and his colleagues had noticed some intriguing links between Toxoplasma and schizophrenia. Infection with the parasite has been associated with damage to a certain class of neurons (astrocytes). So has schizophrenia. Pregnant women with high levels of Toxoplasma antibodies in their blood were more likely to give birth to children who would later develop schizophrenia. Torrey lays out more links in this 2003 paper. While none is a smoking gun, they are certainly food for thought. It's conceivable that exposure to Toxoplasma causes subtle changes in most people's personality, but in a small minority, it has more devastating effects.

More symbolically the infestation could also be poisoning of the mind by local news in those areas...

FWIW my dream this morning was of going down to a river to bathe/cleanse. Not the same, but similar overtones. There were others, but we were minding our own business if you know what I mean. We had cloths (not clothes but wraps) but I went into the water naked, and got a chance to see what I looked like - and I was very pleased; my bedroom mirror does me no justice. But that wasn't the lesson: I think I'm supposed to learn the symbolism behind the act. I've had the spiritual "Wade in the water" stuck in my head since I woke up.

(God's going to trouble the waters.)
Gotta run, back at lunch.

[crikkett]

10. still dreaming of bathing and wearing white... spotted a ufo

Yesterday's dream was about going to a river to bathe wearing nothing but a white cloth. This morning I dreamt I was running around in nothing but a white half-slip (still in the same great shape as the previous episode) with a shower going in the background. I kept telling people (husband, friends) that I needed to take a shower but I kept doing one more thing to clean/organize before I did it.

The dream was set in two different places simultaneously: an old dormitory (typical stress-dream setting ever since college) and someone else's house.

As I was preparing to shower in the house, I saw a large airship hovering above the neighborhood through the window, I couldn't recognize markings on it to see whose it was. I went outside to get a better view. The ship was hard for other people to see, and only semi-transparent to me, and it was because something special had happened to my eyes. It was bigger than an aircraft carrier and looming lower than 1000 feet in the air. It scared me silly and my dream immediately shifted to the dormatory and an argument over possession of the room my husband and I had chosen to occupy, with the shower still running in background. I won the argument if that means anything. Which it may - each time I find myself returning to dream-school I am stronger-willed.

[Shallah Kali]

13. let me take a stab at this

water and white represents cleansing and self care. You keep putting off necessary selfcare to take care of other things. finally you are about to take care when a major event intterupts which could be good or bad. You have the gift to see things others do not but not enough to make all the decisions yet. ufos can represent abuse, fear, and trama and they can represent spirituality, great change, and ascension. Do you want to go all the way yet washing away the past without knowing what exactly is in store for you or will you keep revisiting the past trying to win old arguments over *comparatively* trivial issues?




btw I still have high school/jr high dreams. I am late for class, my locker has been moved, can't remember the combo, etc. Then I remember Hey! I graduated ages ago so what the heck am I doing here? Then I wake up. For a long time tho I kept dreaming those dreams like I really was there. I figured I had finally progressed when the dreams switched to me realizing I was graduated and a full grown adult.

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. I've had a lot of long dreams the last couple weeks

Usually I don't remember dreams unless I'm actively keeping a dream journal, which I haven't been doing. But the last couple weeks I've remembered a number of long, long dreams upon awaking.

I don't know that they're more vivid than usual. They are, well, not depressing but somewhat frustrated. A lot of walking around a city trying to find some place, with no directions, no map, not even certain where the thing is I'm trying to get to. Just a general idea of a direction or location or intersection. It's weird because there are never any major streets, just a lot of buildings and little alleys that don't go anywhere except to more buildings. Some of the buildings are under construction/renovation.

One really weird one a couple nights ago included an instruction to me to "page Sylvia Plath." It was like an announcement on an office PA system, "(my name), page Sylvia Plath," but it was outside. I didn't have a phone or know what number to call to page her. I didn't even know who Sylvia Plath was. After I woke up, I didn't think it was a real person's name but then thought it sounded vaguely familiar, so I looked it up. She was a writer/poet who died young from suicide in the 1950s or 1960s.

[The Blue Flower]

6. YES

Sunday morning, just before waking, I had an extremely vivid, lifelike dream of being in a highrise office building like the one I work in. From the window, I saw the sky darkening. It then got very dark and windy. I saw white spots that I thought were snowflakes, but they turned out to be bubbles being released. I remember asking, "Where are those bubbles coming from?" Solid torrents of rain then started coming down sideways. Then a gigantic tornado appeared and came directly toward the building. Everyone was screaming and panicking. I and others got down on the floor as it hit. The building was shaking far below us, and I was on the floor reciting the Lord's Prayer out loud so others could hear me and hopefully calm down. I was really living going through a very horrific experience, and as soon as I woke up and realized it was a dream, I thought, "Oh, shit. This is bad."

I had dreams about approaching tornados and fires throughout the year 2000, leading up to the election. I took them as definite warnings of impending danger. I even had a dream that lasted two nights, the second night starting up with where the first one ended. The first and only such dream I've ever had--very, very weird. I couldn't remember all the details, but it was outlining to me what was going to happen in the next several years. It was about battles, political and military, and the people I'd hook up with as I fought them. I really think that my dream Sunday morning was about impending catastrophe for this country, and the bubbles that were released before it hit were symbolic of the economic bubbles that are bursting all around us.

[lildreamer316]

7. Yes, very vivid dreams. I found myself avoiding sleep a few nights ago because of it.

Not necessarily bad; just weird and very strong.
Wonder what is going on?? I was going to mention it, and am glad you did.

[FirstLight]

8. The connection to weather stuff is interesting too

The florida part of that dream included running from a impending storm...maybe a hurricane? and the desert was a reference to drought in the west, i am sure


really interesting connection to toxoplasmosis, too.
the "bugs" were like centipedes/worms... it was so "wrath of Kkhan" with them being under the skin, etc... it still makes me go EWW just thinking about it! and I am SO not a horror movie person!

On another note, I also had a dream the night before this one - of seeing two very different men in my life that I was pursuing - they were very symbolic of two "types" that I seek. Weirdly, they were brothewrs and one could care less, one took me out and I remember that he touched my hand and I was so amazed at the attraction....and the "mother" of the two men was telling me which one she thought was best...which wasn't the kind I usually seek! I thought it was a profound message from the godess about what I need to look for in a mate.

cool stuff...maybe astrologically influenced? or is i just the FULL moon being unusually strong this week?

thanks for the info.. let's keep our dreaming journals at the ready!!!! :)

[katty]

12. vivid dreams for last 3 weeks-in color+b/w