The strangest dream?

Question

I've been having some strange dreams lately. For the longest time I've dreamed of myself walking with this overwhelming sense of being alone. This lonely me was always walking around in settings I've been in real life but always alone. This was normal to me however, in recent dreams my dream self is assulted by another me without eyeballs. This eyeless me always attacks and kills me by shoving his forearm down my throat and sufficating me. It's pretty disturbing and the oddest thing of all that some how I know that the eyeless me is the same character as the lonely me who was always walking. Don't ask me how I know just when I see him in the dream I know. Whats more I could be having a happy dream and he's there, usually in the back ground. I'm kinda getting creeped out.

I've tried online dream analis things but they're pretty much bull and I'm not to concerned about it to see someone who'd I'd have to pay to tell me what it all means but I am curious.

Questions? Comments? Answers? I just wanna know what it means.

Answer 1

well i cant say usually dreams tell you something is there anything wrong going on in real life for you maybe that could be bothering you

Answer 2

All pretty good answers... (sorry, Im a bit new to answer and so I have no idea how to respond to my own question).

Is it my imagination? Well obviously that plays into it since it takes place in my head.

Is anything bothering me in real life? Not particularly. I just graduated from high school and I've got a few months before I go off to boot camp.. I have a nice girl friend who is still in school and we've had a great summer. Life is alright other than the fact all my friends have gone off to colleges.

Am I a loner? While I have no problem spending time by myself and even enjoy having a good time period alone to be with my thoughts and surroundings I wouldn't consider myself a loner. I need people just as much as the next guy does.

I certainly hope I'm aware of any underlying problems in my life but if that is true and my subconcious is trying to tell me something I'll have to keep my eyes open for it..

Answer 3

You may be blind to something that will kill you and it will always be there, as a literal translation.

Or that you're afraid of being alone, and that it can hurt you mentally.  But, are you a loner?  This question may help with ambiguity.

Answer 4

sounds like you need to build you self esteem.  

Answer 5

I only have a very basic Freudian interpretation, and even then it's only loosely based on any Freudian knowledge, but what the h**l, I promise not to mention any Oedipus complexes.

Firstly: where are these "settings", a different type of environment means a very different interpretation. But I'll try to work your current description anyway.

The obvious answer is that the alone you feels completely isolated in your current environment and your unconscious blames the environment for your sense of isolation, but as I say I'd need to know more about your "setting" to go into detail.

The fact that this eyeless you is the same you is however going to make things a lot cheaper for you. This eyeless you is your unconscious creating an embodiment of of the feelings of loneliness expressed in your dream. The fact that he attacks you suggests to me that your unconscious is warning you that such feelings are dangerous and to be avoided. Also the fact that the eyeless you suffocates you could suggest that these feelings of isolation are "suffocating" your life in general and preventing you from living how you ought to be. Finally the fact that he appears in more than simply the recurring dream means that on an unconscious level at least, this is causing you serious grief, even if you don't realise that consciously.

However the fact that this you is eyeless is intriguing. You'll need to add if you know why he's blind, is it a self-blinding, mishap or attack?

Right, I don't think this is a dream about your current environment, but I wouldn't entirely rule that idea out.

The fact that the setting is the place you grew up would suggest that it is infact a childhood dream, that the blind and lonely you is infact representative of your past. Obviously it'd be wrong to ask for childhood details over the internet so I'd suggest that you consider any moments of severe grief or trouble you had as a child that for whatever reason were dredged up when this dream began. Most noteably of course any moments of severe loneliness or resentment of society.

These new people, at what point in your life did you know get to know them, since as I say the details obviously make a difference. However I would suggest that the ones you've created are a good sign as they suggest some form of development and hopefully advance from these problems.

Finally don't confuse the blindness with anything relating to sight. The eyes are considered the joint most valuable appendage a man can have (three guesses as to what the other one is) and the loss of them is one of the greatest unconcious fears. It is the fact that they have been removed that makes this version of you inferior to the actual version of you and I should imagine this to be an unconcious message that obviously you need to lose this version of yourself to return to proper health.

Answer 6

My curiosity is piqued.  What if your eyeless self is seeking eyes to see others with what your lonely self is willing to ignore and that makes you content to see only yourself, as being alone?

I know you say you are happy being alone but really no one truly is.  I mean we (me too) can be content being lonely at times.  But life made it so that we are not meant to live life separate and apart from people.  In fact it's the complete opposite.  We can through little circumstances in life help our fellow man.  But we need to have eyes to sense or see their immediate needs.  And if it is within our ability and intelligence and heart.  Then we should do what we must do for others.

He is not trying to kill you.  But to take that selfish part out from deep within you in and get back his eyes into his head to see others around himself.  So that perhaps even the two of you can become one.  And the two unfulfilled halves of you become whole.

This to me seems to be what you are telling yourselflf in your dream.