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Strange dreams?

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I'm gonna shoot two birds with one stone here.

When I was younger I used to have dreams where something was chasing me, so I would run into a room and slam the door, but the door would just keep swinging back and forth until the last minute when it would slam shut on the monsters face. Then I would immediately wake up. What does it mean?

Second dream:

There was this guy at my church that I was really good pals with. He joined the army. One day about a year after he left I had a dream where he came back. During the dream, I was vaguely aware that it was a dream. When I woke up I completely forgot about it. That Sunday when I went to church, I was so excited to see him again, but that's when I remembered it was just a dream. I miss him a lot and I was wondering if that meant anything?

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  1. Your first dream is one of childhood anxieties giving way to nightmares.  

    It is rather creative - the swinging door adds suspense.  The dream likely startled you awake, but not before the monster was finally safely cut-off from his pursuit of you.

    Things like swinging doors and being chased through them can stem from exposure to a kitchen door or similar of that type, perhaps in an older home.  The 'monster' could emerge from any number of oddities about just such a house.  Did you perhaps visit such a place as a youngster - where perhaps there were darkened corners in a pantry or behind a refrigerator?  That or similar would drive such a dream.

    Think about that - those are the subtle things that come to visit in the night in vivid ways when our youthful imaginations are so very sharp, and our fears so easily piqued.

    Your second dream is one of normal yearning to know of this fellow you like as a friend.  

    Perhaps over time you hadn't really considered it, but when the thought of him came up a new fondness may have slowly developed over time.  Now, it's been some time and you don't know what's become of him.  The dream is a natural result - and that you forgot it only to be reminded in the church setting is not unusual.  That happens a great deal - dreams have a way of drifting into the mind's perception of 'reality' in our recollection.  We can walk straight into church only to have that act suggest the 'reality' of his 'being there' only to finally realize 'it was a dream'.

    Yes, it does mean something - a great deal.  You miss him alot.  As a friend?  No doubt - and maybe that's all - but that is dearly enough to inquire of him and perhaps try to send him a letter just saying 'hi' and that he's thought of and a safe return is hoped for.  At the very least he'll be delighted to be thought of and appreciated by someone who misses him back home.

    More than a friend by now?  That's possible.  We can mature in feelings that way even in absence - in fact, often more so by absence.  Even though he's been out of sight and not in touch you would naturally see him as maturing and doing a brave duty - these things are to be admired, and feelings can grow for others in that fertile soil.

    Consider these things.  You must sort them out for yourself, but by what you've written they are well suggested.

    All the best for happiness to you.


  2. Well to be honest, I think that those are ordinary dreams that we all have. The monster dream is similiar to a friend of mine who as a child was plagued by a giant hamburger that chased him until it ate him.

    The second dream was probably just because you missed him. It's happened to me too. Well, glad to help.
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