I had a very frightening dream. Help me understand..?

Question

In my dream, it was night time and I was sitting with my back leaning on a street light and reading a book (specifically, pride and prejudice). The street lamp flickered out and I walked back inside my house which was across the street. I went into my room and a man I had never seen before jumped out from inside my closet and held a knife to my throat and violently raped me. Afterwards he just kind of laughed at me and left me. But I felt indifferent to it! I was not sad or angry or depressed about this rape. The weirdest thing about the dream is that it was very graphic. More graphic than I've ever had. I will not get into all of the details (because some of them are truely, quite disturbing) but the entire day I've felt cold, alone, and scared. Not scared that I will be raped, but fear that there is some stimulus in my life that would have sparked this. Can any help me figure out what this means?

Answer 1

I am not sure if I can help you, but I will try.

You have had a really graphic dream of something that happens to many young women (men, too) .

We are surrounded everyday with a culture that increasingly puts us at risk.    Fears can get hold of us.

The dream is a GARBAGE DUMP where you can trash everything that you dream if you so choose.   Just tell God that you feel so alone since you dreamed that dream, and that you do not know what to do.   Tell him how frightened you are.   Let him know that you finally are listening to Him now, and that you want your fears to go, and not be afraid any more.  

This life is so uncertain.  We never know if we will go through bad things or not.   There are Christian young women in many countries who are raped, and even gang raped, and Jewish women, who have the same thing happen to them simply because they will not recant their faith in God.

May I suggest a little prayer for you?

Here it is.

Dear God, In Jesus' name, I come to you and ask you to help me trust in you and not be afraid.    Clean my mind up.  I feel like garbage is all over me since this dream, and it was so vivid that I can not tell anyone except you, and now here on line this lady is telling me that you care about me.   Help me to believe in you.   Help me to know the security of faith that can be victorious over even this.

Thank you, in Jesus' name.   Amen.

Answer 2

One interpretation:

"Pride" is your resistance to rape;

"prejudice" is similar.

The street lamp flickering out is your street-wise sense beginning to fail.

You return home, but a knife reduces your will and you suffer a sexual event.

Feeling alone, cold, and scared of your psyche is the after-scene.

You are perhaps encountering a type of "God-obedience" vs. rebellion, in which rebellion invites rape.

Would suggest "Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet, as a helpful text.

Answer 3

The suggest you feel there is something threatening in your life.  I would wonder if this is related to the way you are feeling about yourself as in your pride and what your are prejudice about.  Rape is generally not about s*x but is about violence and being invaded.  It seems neither you nor he thought much about it at the time in the dream even though it was rape.   With this you say it was very graphic yet  you were indifferent.  I would wonder if this say anything about your s*x life in general, maybe  you don't really enjoy it for some reason and are frustrated by your lack of interest.  You also mention these details are disturbing as if a rape is not.  I would take it to mean that various s*x acts in your dream were disturbing yet again you were indifferent.

It seems though that you may be making more of the dream in your waking life than you did in the dream.   A dream is simply your unconscious handling the day's residue so don't get too upset about where the stimulus came from.  We all have those things in our life that we don't like to see.  Jung called it our shadow side.  

If you want to figure this out do it with the same indifference you felt i the dream.  Don't bring judgment on yourself and don't worry that there is some dark aspects of yourself.  It was just a dream.  Use the knowledge but don't let it put you in a bad mood.

Answer 4

This is someone who is giving you money, support or doing you good despite of their intentions while you don't need it or you don't care. If that person exists who is using money and support to win you over, then now it is the time to stop dealing with that person if he or she is not part of your immediate or extended family.