[maxierebecca]

I was wondering what this dream meant and why I have been having it every so often since i was a young child.

The dream started out with me by myself in the parking lot, i then saw a headless couple in a rollarcoaster cart driving up to the store. I proceeded to walk in to the grocery store and soon got the erie feeing that i was not alone. the grocery store looked very odd too; it was filled with only the freezers that held frozen dinners. I then met my dad up at the help desk, he was complaining about how the vampires had taken my older sister and ripped her head off(once the vampires got you they would eat your head and steal your skin to wear, but you would still be alive). My dad and i continued to walk around the grocery store and some how ened up in the back offices. After every office we went to the person in the office would be taken by the vampires. We were then forced to leave the store and go out into the parking lot; we had decided that we need to drive to the grocery store on the other side of the country(there were only two grocery stores). When we got to the parking lot i told my dad "check in the back seat first i don't want any vampires to come." When we got to the car vampires were everywhere. They were all wearing the same things; a long light navy blue trench coat and a black bowl hat. the secondd that they came out from under the cars though, their close vanished and they had leopard print skin and ganged up on my dad and me. I kept yelling "VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE!" at the top of my lungs but no one could hear me. My dad and i fought off the vampires we kept hitting them on the head with the hard part of a broom stick.

this is where i woke up and i have had this dream only two other times, the first was when i was around five but we never made it to the parking lot and i was with my sister. the other time i had this dream i was around 11 years old, i am now 15.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS DREAM MEANS!!!! THANK YOU!!!

[billieJ]

Yours is a generation filled with tales of vampires, which could contribute to the content of this dream. It suggests to me your anxiety that you are being controlled or attacked in your desires to be your own person, that you are not being allowed to wear your own skin or think your own thoughts, etc. I am not at all experienced in this area, but this would be a not-uncommon thought of a child and teen, which might not otherwise be freely expressed.

[Perna]

Thank you so much for sharing your dream, I find it a really interesting one!

If it were my dream, I'd be thinking rocery stores are where you get "food" and if you think of that concept in a larger focus, food for the soul, food for the intellect, etc. you realize that this grocery store only has frozen food. You can't eat frozen food, it's a block of ice. Maybe one's feelings and all that give one "life" are frozen? It then would make sense that everyone's heads are gone but yours and your father's. That would be intellect/brains and personality. The other people aren't who you expect them to be, aren't people you know.

I think in most dreams, fathers are "authority" figures, and our own adult male way of being in the world. We all create our own dreams and populate them with "us" in forms that make sense to us. How you are in the world, your male self, could be represented by your father in your dream and that would be why he is with "you". You are operating in that mode. Your sister though is clueless, she has been taken over by the vampires and cannot help or understand you. I don't know what feeling there was in your father complaining, whether he was wanting to "rescue" her or was just disappointed in her being taken over by the vampires but didn't expect anything better of her. . . I don't know how you feel about your sister but imagine there is a clue with how your "father" views her in the dream?

Buildings are important in dreams, we already thought about how going to a grocery store would be about feeding yourself. And going to the back offices would be important too, maybe in organization or "running" your life? Do you have any issues with eating? That could be a clue too; the whole feeding thing and all the food being frozen and unavailable and heads/brains being eaten and going to the office to "complain" or get help/information would all make sense to me if one had an eating disorder? The father trying to be dominant/male to balance and the sister having succumbed to the vampires, etc. would work in there too.

Otherwise the father/adult male figure being the socially in charge one and sister (could be "twin" to self, another side of self) having fallen and everything frozen could have to do with social issues or fear (animals "freeze" when they're frightened, hoping not to be seen). The headless vampire victims in that case make me think they are all the "same" and interchangeable, kind of like when I'm afraid in social situations, everyone else seems equally out to get me/frightening?