Dream Warnings?

[GhostGirl]

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When I was at camp loads of creepy things happened. The same nights that my tent mate was freaking out, one of my best friends was having weird dreams in which she was being told to run. How Bethany described the man that she saw in the dreams, was the same way that my tent mates described the man they all saw. Tall, dark, mostly a silhouette. Like a shadow, but it has more substance. But it's not quite as much as a humans.

Bethany is come to by fictional characters, for example, Draco Malfoy, or Jareth(from the 1980's movie, The Labyrinth). They tell her to run, or tell her to wake up. They're coming for her. She doesn't know who 'they' are, but all she ever see's is a dark, tell, silhouette. I trust B, and I don't believe that she is making this up.

Three nights ago I had my first lucid dream. When I realized that I was dreaming, I was talking to Bethany. She was telling me that I had to run, I had to hide. They're coming after me, they've already gotten her. I have to run and save myself from them. I'm not one who eaisly gets frightened, even in dreams. I take controll of the situation I'm in, and make the best of it. I remember the last thing being said was me screaming 'I have to wake up!', and then I woke up.

Two nights ago I had a nightmare. I haven't had a nightmare where I wake up in a cold sweat in years. Even now when I read horror novels, or watch horror movies before I go to bed, I'll still have an easy time falling asleep. I never have nightmares anymore. That night that I had the nightmare, I didn't do anything horror the entire day because I was out of the house from the time I woke up, to the time I went to bed. I didn't have time to watch anything or read anything that could give me nightmares, and I don't think that I was thinking of Bethany before I fell asleep.

The nightmare started where I was floating above the sleeping form of myself. I looked at myself then I went and stood next to my bed. Which isn't really possible because my ceiling slopes, and I'm too tall to be able to stand there.

My door doesn't have a lock, and it slides open. I saw my door open slowly, and a dark, tall man came in. He was mostly a silhouette, but his hand. In the one closest to me he held a silver knife. The man started towards my bed and I started to scream at the sleeping form of me. 'Wake up! Wake up! Wake up or he is going to kill you! You have to wake up! Wake up please!' , and so on is what I screamed to myself. The man didn't notice anything but the sleeping form of me, and as he bent to slit my neck, I woke up.

Now since I'm typing this, it's kinda obvious that there wasn't anyone standing over me with a knife. I was lieing in bed for about another two hours before I could manage to fall asleep again.

Last night I was terrified to fall asleep. If that man came back into my dreams, if he invaded them again, would I be able to wake myself up?

Can things that happen in dreams really hurt you? Or is it a warning? I'm certin that Bethany and I are overreacting a bit, and most likely more then that. I know the power of suggestion, but if I'm only having these dreams because B told me about them, why did she have them in the first place? Why are we being told to run? To hide? To wake up?

She hasn't been even close to being attacked in these dreams, but I have. I don't understand what is going on at all. Could these be a warning? Or is there something wrong with B and I?

[vzy4kat6387]

Dreams can sometimes be meaningless, and sometimes there can be a meaning behind them. As for yours it's scary yes but I can't really pinpoint on weather it's meaningless or a warning. I know I've had a dream a few times in a row, it would be me carrying some type of card/ticket to somewhere and each time I would dream about it I'd be getting chased by people. It eventually stopped but I had no idea what it was suppose to mean haha.

[1TxLady]

I think it's highly possible it's the power of suggestion on both yours and Bethany's part. From what? Who knows... time together, interest in horror films, etc.

Sometimes ... often... we dream things that are representative of our emotional state...meaning .. we may manifest dreams that seem real and scary but like in this case.... perhaps you have a fear of something bad or harm coming to you justified or not... just a fear.

It could also be a form of Sleep Paralysis. I really doubt any life threatening meaning at all. I do not believe things in your dreams can hurt you. Your mind took control of the dream by putting you inside it and you telling you sleeping to wake up.

I think the worst lucid dreams I have had in my life have either been scary or just out and out weird in an odd sense. I can remember waking up, walking around, using the restroom, getting some water and thinking "how dumb" or "sheeeeesh... why did I dream that".... finally getting back to sleep and it was like a movie starting again after an intermission. I don't know why that is... it just sometimes happens.

That said, recurring dreams can be premonitions ... BUT .... I don;t think at all in this case that is what it is. I think you're working through something mentally and emotionally that you fear ...which is why it is recurring. JMO That doesn't mean the fear is that someone will slit your throat.. it could be as simple as feeling like you're dying as some do when they break up with a b/f or g/f ... or feeling like the life is being drained out of you by someone who is negative .... etc. There is a plethora of possibilities but only you live your life.

Maybe if you started a dream journal with details about recent waking activities and emotions around the time you have them, you can see a pattern develop.