Dreaming (poss trigger)

I know this was a dream but it's been a recurrent dream.

I have been dreaming about suicide and writing about suicide in the dream. I am sitting in a classroom and my old English teacher was talking to me and asking me why I would write things like that. I was in a classroom across from her classroom and I overheard a conversation with her and another teacher. They were talking about me and what I had been writing and talking about. I decided to run away and hide. I am in a school and I hide. I don't know who's school.

Why does this keep coming up? I don't want to keep dreaming about this.

According to Jungian analysis, everyone in the dream is you. What was/is the relationship btw you & this teacher? Any clue who the 2nd teacher could be? How do teachers figure in your life--do you tend to hold yourself up to classroom standards in life?

As to the suicide theme in the classroom, this could go back to the actual year (even class) you had that particular teacher. Something you or another student wrote for class, or something you read for class. Or perhaps something that happened that year. Any suicides in your school, among students, faculty, their families, etc?

Dreams are uniquely personal, but not always intimately personal. Often they're more about someone or something we focus on than actually about ourselves--even recurring dreams.

Hope this helps, or at least points you towards something helpful.

Hey Roadrunnerbeepbeep,

The teacher in my dream was my English teacher whom I got on really well with. I do not know who the 2nd teacher is. Maybe another teacher I got on well with? I haven't been in education for 8 years so I do not know why this has happened. I have had 1 other dream where my English teacher came into it and that was in September when I was delusional and she was trying to calm me down as I stopped my meds. I do not know anyone who has ever committed suicide or threatened to. Nothing like a trigger came out of my time at school.

I am just worried that it means I am not doing as good as I actually feel

If you just want to stop having the dream, you can try programing yourself to wake up from it before you run away from the school. This ought to let you remember more of what actually transpires in the main dream.

Also, by interrupting it, you ought to have a sense of where it's going in those initial moments of wakefulness.

It feels more like a content than a process dream. I'd be really surprised if it turned out to be about your progress in therapy, if that's what you mean. There's nothing in it that points to you--you seem more to be passing thru.

Hey Roadrunnerbeepbeep,

I didn't have the same dream last night so I am hoping that it has all been erased from my memory.

Thanks for the advice