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Any dream analysts out there? Been having a number of weird violent dreams lately. Had a nap yesterday, was dreaming about killing people, bad guys. I was on some sort of moutain thing, it was a video game or action movie setting or something. The guns weren't working very well, I'd shoot someone several times until I'd run out of ammo, and I'd have to start with the stabbing. The stabbing would make a mess, but still wasn't working well. I think I eventually had to push a few guys over the cliff to finish them off.

And then last night was the rat dreams. I was staying in some sort of not-finished basement of a building under construction. The basement was rat-infested. Huge, agressive attack rats. Some of them were raccoon size. The minute they saw you, they would come running for you, and leap for your face in an attempt to rip it off.

And again to go along with the rats was the stabbing and cutting. I was armed with a machette, a sword, and a dagger. I was able to impale a number of the huge rats with the sword as they were flying through the air. One of the somewhat smaller ones (small cat sized) got on my left forearm, and managed to tear it open a bit. That one I had to run through with the dagger.

They are actually frustration dreams, not nightmares. They are not making me scared or nervous, just frustrated that things won't die properly. My wife is the one with the rat phobia, if she was having them she'd be hanging from the ceiling, screaming. Though, she has expressed a small bit of concern that I'm lying next to her, dreaming of repeatedly stabbing things.

Anyone? Bueller? Freud?

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  • ...dream analysis dogma. We simply don't understand the brain well enough. It's all whistling in the dark.

    There is certainly some importance to the contents of your dreams. But we can't really assign it accurately. There's probably a modest likelihood the contents of the dreams bears some relationship to recent stimuli - but it could be a subtle or even incidental relationship. Maybe this is the result of game playing or movies or television. Maybe it's reverse-feedback from some persistent emotional or men
    • The stimulus would be difficult to pick out, I suspect. About the only thing that was bothering me while I was trying to sleep was the tree branch banging the roof of the house, due to winds. I need to trim it down. Other than that, I haven't had a chance to play any games in a week or so. I just got back from a trip, I rented Serenity in my hotel room.... Reavers?
      • frustration dreams.

        the violence in this case seems to be the medium, not the message. If you didn't feel strongly about it, it's probably just using a format you know (video games) to express something.

        But you know what? Sometimes dreams are just a place your mind goes.

        So if these dreams didn't bother you overly, i'd say assume that they were you working something out, by which i mean something like aggravation over things in general, or you putting yourself through some emotional paces while asleep. Now, i
        • Thanks for the comments. I think you're right, I just wish I knew what I was frustrated about. Or more accurately, which thing(s), there's a lot to be frustrated about. It could be anxiety over a bunch of things, there's a long long todo list I rarely get to. If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done.

          My wife sometimes gets the frustration dreams as well, though hers are sexual in format. That is sometimes amusing to hear her describe. :) (She usually describes them as not bei
          • I get them maybe once a year.

            Like say, every Christmas? :-) It could be there is some regular holiday frustration going on (or maybe just some stress that just happens to be happening during the holidays this year). You could keep a journal; often looking back might give some insight into what caused the dreams. The brain is a weird beast indeed.

            • Like say, every Christmas? :-)

              Hmm... Not that I can recall, but as you point out, I haven't really been keeping track. But yes, Christmas is definately one of the looming deadlines that I have stuff to do for still.
  • I know what you mean. When I am trying to kill someone and they just don't die. I shoot and shoot and shoot. Then stab and stab and stab. It makes a horrible mess and they you have to finally get rid of the body. Grrrr... just makes you want to kill someone. Oh, I mean when I am dreaming, yeah, that's what I mean. ;-)

    I'm not a huge subscriber to the idea dreams mean much of anything. Probably because the world would be vastly different if they did. If anything I would subscribe to the idea of its ju
    • Well, I don't think the dream means something related to the content of the dream itself, but it means something. Even if it's just that I'm stressing over unrelated things. And yes, I don't too often remember my dreams, not for very long anyway, so this one kinda sticks out. Heck, maybe I have them every night, and I only remember them every so often. ;)

      No plans to visit the mountains. I DO worry about rats. I live in a semi-wooded area of the city (I'm on a city park), and there are a lot of critters
      • For the longest time I had to have my wife kill the spiders for me. Then I noticed she never killed them, so I had to do it myself even though it gave the the heebies. Atleast you don't try to save the rats like my wife does with the spider.
        • No, I made the kids cry when I rubbing-alcohol-gassed the baby rat I caught.

          My youngest daughter is the only one who minds the spiders at all, and it's not that big of a deal for her, so we just leave them be for the most part, unless I happen the have the vaccume cleaner out.

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