Whats in a dream?

Question

I dreamt last nite that i was woken by screams from the streets,when i looked out the window there was a massive bomb that was lodged through a building that hadent exsploded,i was living in New York city but in real life i live in Kent England.

I know sometimes you can dream of things that have been on your mind or seen something on the tv but this hasnt been the case.can anyone exsplan please?

Answer 1

Your dream suggests that like so many of us, you are somewhat saturated with the concerns of our times.

The bomb obvously got there as a 'dud' - so far.  But people in the streets are terrified - for good reason.  There the thing sits just waiting to cause much more destruction.  New York - how can one escape the visions we all shared nearly 6 years ago?  Regardless of where we all variously were, we were all New Yorkers for a moment in time.  

And were we not all Londoners for a bit as well with some of the events that followed there.  Good people have empathy for others and can easily identify with other places and circumstances beyond our own borders.  Kent England would leave you no more immune to that than would be one in some small rural town anywhere in the USA or elsewhere.  But we do so easily draw from the imagery of those events - and those similar that have followed: even a light plane crashing into buildings in an 'ordinary' way makes the news and we go back to that time - it is always around us.

Why now, and why this dream?  It could be stress for any reason combined with some slight exposure to the suggestion of those out of control events that do frighten us.  You would not need to be consciously aware of any real stress - or the notion of terror.  In fact, subliminal suggestion is more likely to spawn a dreaming event than conscious awareness because when we are fully aware of such things we are more likely to do our mental housecleaning before sleeping.

To go a level deeper - the event is terrorizing but so far not fatal, at least by your description.  The bomb has done damage - but sits there, the full impact not realized.  There's time - but how much?  There's the possibility of escape - but how?  Some of that implies the questions we are all stuck with - 'where next?', 'how will it happen?', how will or should I deal with it?'.  At some level we may easily fear being so confronted and the thought of having to thwart an attack or take life-saving action is more tortuous than the actual event might be.  This too can dwell on the subconsciousness and factor into such dreaming.

But in short - you are part of the human parade and cannot escape these thoughts in today's world.  Your mind simply needs to off-load the burden at times and the dream comes to you.  Again, it may well have been a bit of stress for some reason that helped trigger it - something small even, but somehow mentally sympathetic to that particular worry.  Think it through - perhaps something along those lines will come to you.

All the best to you.

Answer 2

Might be reliving the events of 9/11. Though you live in England, it was all over the news (even in your country). The bomb hadn't exploded, cause as you remember the morning of 9/11, there had only been one plane in the buildings at first. The building was perfectly intact. It was stable, but yet people on the streets were in a panic and awe.

Why would you have such a dream? Well could be due to something happening in the news over at your place. Sorry, neither CNN or Fox News shows much about other countries (unless it's related to the war). So I don't know what's going on over your way.

Answer 3

Perhaps this is one of your fears. Often, I get really bad things happening to me, but not where I am.