Odd Set of Nightmares?

Question

Recently, as in the past six months, I've been having a lot of nightmares. The first few were about mentally insane people coming after my sister and I. They generally progressed until I was having dreams at least twive a week about leading my church's youth group and there being a molester loose or a rapist chasing my friend around a dark barn or someone torturing my close friends and family because of something I had done or something of that sort. Generally, the only connection I can draw between all of these nightmares is the fact that it has always been another person ending up hurt, never me. And no one ever dies, for some reason.

Can any one take a stab at what's going on in my subconsciousious? My mum thought it might be because I feel guilty about something, but I can't recall anything of that sort at all, in fact, I've been really happy during my waking moments.

Help?

Answer 1

When you figure it out please let me know. I have the exact same problem. I'll have violent nightmares night after night and I have no idea what has changed in my life to cause this. I think about it a lot because I want then to stop. Have better luck figuring it out than I've had. Hope you get some decent answers.

Answer 2

Ok the first thing I am going to do is to break your dream down into parts.  

Being Chased - The pursuer or attacker who is chasing you in your dream may also represent a part of yourself. Your own feelings of anger, jealousy, fear, and possibly love, can assume the appearance of threatening figure. You may be projecting these feelings onto the unknown chaser. Next time you have a chase dream, turn around and confront your pursuer. Ask them why they are chasing you and your sister, or you and your friends.A more direct analysis of chase dreams is the fear of being attacked. Such dreams are more common among women than men, who may feel physically vulnerable in the urban environment. These dreams are inspired by fears of violence and sexual assault in which we are so over-exposed from the media. The violence that the media portrays magnifies our fears and how at risk we all are

Mentally insane people -

Molester/Rapist - This can show that you are worried that someone may be trying to over power or be controlling over your friends.  Since you are there, you may be worried about this happening and trying to stop it.  You may be worried that you are one that caused this.  Is there someone in your life that is in a bad relationship and this relationship is one that happened due to you, for example you introduced them or got them together.

Friends getting tortured - This could be above or if it is the same person it could indicate that you have some issues with that person that cause you to be angry with them.  If you are helping these people, I would say it is more of the above.  Also, when dreaming of friends you are dreaming of some quality of them that you are trying to either bring out or get rid of in yourself.  So if you are dreaming of your friends/family members getting chased and you are there to watch, I would think that would more be some characteristic of them, that you have, is being lost, challenged  and you are trying to fix it.  you are watching the stuff happen.  

Maybe the best thing for you to do, is to turn to the attacker in your dream and ask them why they are doing that.  Write down what feelings you had, what qualities that those being chased hold to you and see if you have issues with those parts of yourself that you may be having issues with. It may surprise you.

But that is the symbolism in a nutshell.  Hope that helped.

Lindy