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Hello, DMK Dream interpretation is not a science, but more like collected folk wisdom which has general things to say to particular dream situations. One's own dream symbols are best understood in the context of one's own life which nobody but one's own self can fully understand. Keep in mind that Freud tartly observed, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." This said, I will try to help you understand some things in the dreams you described in your post, with this "by the numbers" analysis.

Insects are symbolic of precision, alertness, and sensitivity. You may need to organize your thoughts and sort out your values. Sometimes they are seen as divine messengers.
To see a cockroach in your dream, symbolizes uncleanness or deficient mental/psychological hygiene. It also signifies longevity, tenacity and renewal. You need to reevaluate major aspects of your life. Alternatively, the dream represents an undesirable aspect of yourself in which you need to confront. A roach may also be be a pun on smoking marijuana. The dream may be telling you that a personal habit may be counterproductive.
To see violence in your dream, indicates unexpressed anger or rage. The dream may also reflect repressed memories of child abuse. In particular, to dream that the violence is directed to yourself, represents self punishment and guilt. You may be feeling helpless or vulnerable in some area of your life.
To see a giant attacking being in your dream, indicates a great struggle between you and your opponents. You are trying to overcome an overwhelming obstacle. Alternatively, it could symbolizes an issue, a person or a feeling that is dominating you and making you feel inferior. If you dream that you are being crushed, then it suggests that you are being prevented to full express yourself. The absense of mourners may mean you feel isolated, unappreciated and generally misunderstood.



To dream that you are in or walking through the forest, signifies a transitional phase. Follow your instincts. Alternatively, it indicates that you want to escape to a simpler way of life. You are feeling weighed down by the demands of your life.
To see food in your dream, represents physical and emotional nourishment and energies. Eating certain foods also refers to qualities that you need to incorporate within your own self. Eating vegetation in your dream, represents obstacles that you have to overcome in order to grow as a person and move forward, IOW you are getting your moral/ethical "hairshirt" roughage but this particular diet lacks spiritual enrichment and sensual experience. The dream is telling you that in the banquet of life you are deprived. To dream that you are eating alone, signifies loss, loneliness, and depression. You may feel rejected, excluded, and cut off from social/family ties. Eating may be a replacement for companionship and provide a form of comfort. Alternatively, eating alone reflects independent needs. Also consider the pun, "what's eating you up?" in reference to anxiety that you may be feeling.

To see a chimera in your dream, represents a feeling of confusion or lack of coherence of the various parts of your psyche and life. You need to sort out your thoughts and emotions. The sloth front-leg part of you [in your dream] indicates your passivity in a situation. You need to assert yourself and make your presense known. The sloth is symbolic of gentleness, laziness or lack of ambition. To see claws in your dream signifies feelings of vulnerability and/or hostility. You feel the need to defend or protect yourself or your surroundings. You need to be careful with your words or actions.

To see a wolf in your dream, symbolizes survival, solitude, and mystery. You are a loner by choice. Negatively, the wolf's rear legs represents hostility, aggression, or furtiveness. It may reflect an uncontrollable situation or all-consuming force in your life. This could point to an obsession, an addiction or something that is beyond your control. To see the tail of an animal in your dream, signifies annoyances and complications in a situation where pleasure was expected. Alternatively, the thin bony tail might represent tenuous balance in your waking life. Or it may be a pun on "being tailed" as in being followed or chased. To dream that you have grown a tail, represents an aspect of the past that still lingers with you. The sabre teeth indicates your backbone or strength which you still possess in reserve when you are cornered, you just have to make your teeth bite the right bad guy at the right time.

To dream that you are thin, may represent lacking strength and integrity. You feel that you are unable to hold up on your own or stand up for yourself. To dream that you are hairless may mean that you are worried about getting older or lack self esteem. Alternately, hairlessness represents purity, humility and personal sacrifice.
To see violence in your dream, indicates unexpressed anger or rage. You need more discipline in your life. The dream may also reflect repressed memories of child abuse. In particular, to dream that the violence is directed to yourself, represents self punishment and guilt. You may be feeling helpless or vulnerable in some area of your life.
To dream that you are being kicked, indicates you feel you are being taken advantage-of or are being victimized. The dream may be telling you to stop feeling sorry for yourself and to disenthrall yourself from being the "deer in the headlights" and to take action to defend yourself, IOW the dream is literally kicking you in the backside, to motivate you to be more aggressive and to work harder towards your goals.
To dream that you can't speak, indicates that you are afraid to say something for fear of being criticized or judged. There may also be a situation in your waking life that has left you speechless. To dream that you have been bruised, represents stress and mounting pressure that you are dealing with in your waking life. It may also refer to a reawakening of old, family wounds that have not been properly addressed. Alternatively, the dream is telling you that you need to accept the consequences of your actions, and to keep picking yourself up off the ground even after getting defeated multiple times.



To see a woman in your dream may indicate nurturance, passivity, caring nature and love. It refers to your own feminine aspects, or it may represent an aspect of your own mother. The spear the bad guys skewered the woman's stomach with, may be a veiled phallic symbol meaning the alpha males dominate the women in their lives and keep them pregnant and submissive. In family domestic violence histories this could be referring to a situation in which a father figure[s] dominates and suppresses the mother and abuses/dehumanizes the son- the mother does her best to defend the son but to no avail.
To dream that you are screaming, symbolizes anger and fear. You are expressing some powerful emotion which you have kept pent up inside. To hear or dream that someone is screaming, indicates that some friend or family member is in need of your help. To dream that you have been stabbed, signifies your struggle with power. You are experiencing feelings of inadequacy and defensiveness. To dream that you have been killed, suggests that your actions are disconnected from your emotions and conscience. The dream refers to drastic changes that you are trying to make. There is a characteristic that you want to get rid of or a habit that you want to end within yourself. Killing represents the killing off of the old parts and old habits.
To dream about a person/loved one who died trying to defend you, suggests that you are lacking a certain aspect or quality that the loved one embodies. Alternatively, the dream indicates that whatever that person represents has no part in your own life anymore. To dream of your own death, indicates a transitional phase in your life. You are becoming more enlightened or spiritual. Alternatively, you are trying desperately to escape the demands of your daily life.

Your dream was complicated, so too is this extended compendium of symbolic delineations, but I hope this helps to shed some light on what your dreams might be telling you.

I think you just hit the nail on the head. I was bullied as a child and I often have fantasies of getting revenge - unusual considering my usually peaceful nature. Often I dream about gathering an army of people who have been bullied in the past and making an army. We'd go acrross the world getting revenge as a team. We would hunt down and attack our past abusers like a school of pirahna. I'd be saying to the former billies we kill "You caused pain for months and years, your pain will last mere munites!" Whenever I get these fantasies i immediately start thinking of a cretain man who died in 2007

"You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and defenseless people."
-Seung-Hui Cho


Oh, yes I have done so many bad things in my life.


Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to be successfull, I know I have to move forward but that scares me. Also, the place where I life is infested with "gangstas". They scare me to no end. I hate them. HATE THEM HATE THEM HATE THEM!


The people from school. They made me feel inferior


bulls-eye


Oh yes, wouldn't it be nice?


exactly


rejected, excluded, yes. Back in school they did that.



yes I am.

Sometimes the bullies come back and continue to taunt me. I don't know how to make tham go away for good.


Lacking strength? that's me.

Lack of self esteem.

Oh, yes. Went over that earlier in this post.

I don't make insults very well so I am afraid to attempt them. Also, I'm afraid to talk about science too much even though I like science because I recall times in the past in which it went over poorly.


awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww




It should be noted that the woman in white does not look like my mother or any other woman I have ever met. She seems to represent hope. In the dream where I am an insect there is a small glimmer of hope when I think I can hold up the shoe, but that hope is dashed. In the dream where I am a chimera the woman seems to be the only person who can make the shadowy figures stop hurting me and she fails at that.

It is also worth noting that the shadowy figure who stabs the woman to death is indeed male, but the shadowy figure who holds her in place so she can be stabbed is female.

I get these often when I fall asleep while meditating. I think they are hypnogogic images. I find them interesting. One time I saw a pack of wolves rushing me like it was real, and It freaked me out so badly that I snapped back into full regular consciousness.

You probably aren't getting enough quality sleep. Perhaps try a progressive relaxation technique before sleeping.

And if any of you want to experience this, try to stay mentally focused and alert while falling asleep.

I have this problem to a certain extent but I also have unwanted day dreams. Like if Im worried about something....like my husband takes the kids somewhere I start having this daydream about them being killed in an accident and I go through the whole thing with gory details and really freak myself out. I hate it but I can prevent myself from doing it. I think this has more to do with my anxiety than anything else.

I often have images of hands caught in machinery, my eyes being put out by something, and getting acid thrown in my face or eyes. I think it comes from fears of work related accidents from jobs i use to work at. I also see bad things that can happen to my family's dogs which make me nervous when I see them.

as spock would have said, "fascinating." dream interpretation texts have their limits. but what you describe is certainly dog-eat-dog.

I think it's just a visual manifestation of paranoia mixed with anxiety. I wish there was a way to stop these images... since I was unable to myself I began watching movies that reminded me of them, listening to music that reminded me of them, etc. It was my way of facing my fears. Exploring my nightmares. I actually wouldn't recommend this because it didn't bring me close to the truth. In the end I just had to accept that it was the chemicals in my brain.

Every now and then I think these visions could be stopped with an exorcism. If only I wasn't into science...

lol not at you but at the whole thng, it's funny you would say that bc i used to and still do get random pics behind my eyes when i'm falling asleep. but mine don't suck, like i have no worm-men or awful stuff (sorry you do that sounds awful, sincerely) one that i remember vividly is just of a chicken, just walkin around a farm, doin chicken things. and i used to and still hear things too. not HEAR things hear things, but like one time i was falling asleep and i heard someone singing a song, and i remember kind of waking up and straining to listen bc it had happened before. they said 'ev-rybody's goin to the briar patch' WTF IS THAT. i just kind of shrugged it off. but if you're getting awful images i would definitely suggest maybe going online and doing something that is mind numbing but repetitive.

Sometimes I get the mental image of my spine being severed at the waist.

As a kid, I'd lay awake till late at night, seeing werewolves, Sasquatches, and other hairy monsters (when I was very young, hairy monsters were the most horrific for me). By junior high, I had seen the horror movie called Prophecy, with a gruesome mutant bear with a taste for human flesh; I still find myself having dreams about that thing, even today.
Sometimes I'd see those horrors when I'd close my eyes, as I was trying to drift off. Other times, I'd see them lurking in the darkness in my closet, or outside my room. I was constantly saying goodnight to my parents, loud enough for them to hear from their own bed. Both of them knew I was scared witless. But instead of showing any understanding, they'd say I was watching too many horror movies (which was probably true), and would tell me to just go to sleep. At times, they'd threaten to leave me alone in the house - a prospect I found absolutely terrifying. But after waking in the small hours of the morning, screaming after some forgotten nightmare, my parents would sometimes allow me to sleep in their bed.
I wish I only could have made my parents understand how I'd fear for my life every night the lights were turned off. My mom dismissively would tell me to just go to sleep at night; that none of those things I saw at night were real. If only that were enough. I think my dad should have been more sympathetic, because I have suspected in recent years that he was an Aspie himself. And I know that he was haunted by nightmares, even in his later years.
Well, I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who has experienced these nightmare images late at night. I'm glad to know this is probably somehow tied to my own Asperger's. And finally, I'm glad to know my parent's house probably wasn't haunted after all.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

every now and then, as i am either just waking up or just falling asleep, i get "attacked" by this fuzzy dark amorphous mass, it doesn't really hurt me other than making me feel victimized- i can do nothing but surrender to it.

once in a while [but even once in an eternity would be too damned often for my taste] i get scatomas, those migrainy scintillating thingies [usually after stress or bad food] that obstruct my vision with these flourescent zigzaggy jaggies that when i close my eyes, float around like static multicolored lightning bolts.

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i see car wrecks. i'm in them, i should say.

actually it stops before the point of collision, but i just get a second or a few when it is imminent, and obviously going to be very bad.

also when falling asleep sometimes i feel like i'm getting bigger and smaller ..and quite frequently i feel like my body is "buzzing" or moving / shaking (like being on a waterbed, or like a small earthquake)

That has happened to me and to 2 other people I know.

That sounds like descriptions I've heard of sleep paralysis. Never experienced it myself.

I've had sleep paralysis and this wasn't it. I woke suddenly from a dream with this heavy dark cloudlike being on my chest and in my half asleep state I "knew" it was a spirit trying to hitch a ride in my body. I got angry and yelled NO! and it went away. I read an explanation for it somewhere I think but I don't remember the details. I guess it would be sort of like sleep paralysis in that I was dreaming while awake but I was not paralyzed.