Dark Chamber

[tommedina79]

This is a dream I had several years ago, it is short but powerful.

I am in a dark chamber, I see dull glowing red lights, one bulb on each wall. I can make out shapes of other people and I hear very low worried whispers. I feel young, I think I am a child, a little girl. I am holding someone's hand but I do not see who it belongs to. I smell something odd, then everyone falls to the floor in a panic. I feel like I am being pulled to the floor by a magnet.

I lay there stuck, then I feel it. The only way I can describe this. I feel like I am dieing. There is a panic i have never felt before as my life slips away, and before I die I wake up. I felt extremely drained upon waking and weary. I was affected by this dream for about two weeks. That feeling of dieing?

 

[PaulKH]

Rather than jump to the fear aspect of this, consider it from another angle. Is this personal proof of the separation of "self" from sensation? From spirit ("awareness") and body ("vessel")? The lack of mobility is actually an unjoining from a body that you are used to controlling (even as the dream imagery is showing you additional layers by what is representing you and the environment and the process), but isn't that possibility fascinating rather than scary?

Be not afraid of the function of existence or you will be ruled by that fear (rather than by your potential). So, instead of the morbid focus, I suggest focusing on the experiencing of another mode of existing--you had an imagery-heavy experience of the "other" in your life equation. Dwelling on that and plumbing those depths is far more productive to your life than even the lingering unease that makes you wary.

The more you open and delve and accept--not in a blind way but in an emotional-possible way--the more useful dreams can become to you. (Much of the upset people have around dreams, I have observed, comes from their own lack of preparedness, not from the dream itself.) Dreams work to enlighten you, not stifle you--trust in this, and you will go much further in your life progress.

 

[MistressLex]

Normally in dreams dying is a symbol of change and growth fighting it or feeling like you are is generally viewed as a fight or struggle against that change.
Seems like you went through your own personal hell back then...watching the last part of your personal innocence dying ... it would be a profound dream

 

[tommedina79]

Interesting why do you think it portrayed me as a young female?

 

[MistressLex]

"I feel young, I think I am a child, a little girl. I am holding someone's hand but I do not see who it belongs to. I smell something odd, then everyone falls to the floor in a panic. I feel like I am being pulled to the floor by a magnet."

You stated it in the dream.
That's why I responded that way.

 

[tommedina79]

You stated it in the dream.
That's why I responded that way.

I worded that horribly I apologize haha. I am curious as to why in the deeam I am portrayed and feel like a little girl. When last time I check I'm a dude. Sorry about the mix up.

 

[MistressLex]

I worded that horribly I apologize haha. I am curious as to why I am portrayed and feel like a little girl. When last time I check I'm a dude. Sorry about the mix up.

I sorta assumed so, generally depictions of being of the other gender in dreams talk about aspects of ourselves we few those elements resemble, soft, weaker, gentle, caring. Where we'd see a male child though still a child would display a different nature maybe more rebellious, stronger, alert, confident, but still a child so a more fragile aspect of the Mascline/Feminine side of things.
Now being shown the death of, or feeling the death of you as a young female child would likely mean that some part of that feminine aspect you relate to that child when you recall the dream was diminished or died. Hence the lingering emotional state after it occured.
Your emotional and mental perception of that child has a factor towards what might have happened in your mind in relation to that "death"

Some times I feel like dreams like that may even be genetic memories. But that's a whole other thing lol

 

[tommedina79]

I sorta assumed so, generally depictions of being of the other gender in dreams talk about aspects of ourselves we few those elements resemble, soft, weaker, gentle, caring. Where we'd see a male child though still a child would display a different nature maybe more rebellious, stronger, alert, confident, but still a child so a more fragile aspect of the Mascline/Feminine side of things.
Now being shown the death of, or feeling the death of you as a young female child would likely mean that some part of that feminine aspect you relate to that child when you recall the dream was diminished or died. Hence the lingering emotional state after it occured.
Your emotional and mental perception of that child has a factor towards what might have happened in your mind in relation to that "death"

Some times I feel like dreams like that may even be genetic memories. But that's a whole other thing lol

Well, I am part Jewish..

 

[MistressLex]

Well, this took a more interesting turn for conversation.

I like the idea of genetic memories and energy, it puts forward an interesting spin to things like this.