[OurLadysTears]

Over the past couple of months I've been very depressed to the point of suicidal thoughts, but not to the point of acting on them. About a week ago I had a strange dream that sort of scared me and also changed my mood for the better. In my dream, I was an outsider observing a scene in my life, almost like a movie scene. Someone I really care about was looking for me, but couldn't find me. Everything that was mine or that I had touched was marked with a red X, which I could not see, but the person that was looking for me could see. I was also surrounded in flames that I could not see, but others could see and in my dream I saw myself die, but not by being burned. I could see myself drowning and suddenly I could feel myself drowning (I have a strong fear of drowning in real life). Rather than waking up depressed, I woke up relieved. I had this dream about a week ago and although I've still been depressed, my suicidal thoughts have subsided. I'm not exactly sure what the message of the dream was, but I think it told me that I need to keep moving on. Anyone have any dreams that have changed your perception on life?

[Hazel Glitter]

I haven't had any that I can recall that has changed my life to say but I do have dreams that I remember vividly.

I had one where I was crossing a bridge. It was a little rickety barn looking bridge. I had my baby strapped in the car and I was driving across it and the bridge collapsed from underneath the car and all I could think of was my baby and then I look up and see my best friend as a white floating ghost in front of the car. That was very scarey for me. I woke up crying and panicking. I ran to check on my child but she was fine. I still don't understand what it meant.

I often times have dreams that I am crying in and I wake up crying. Weird.

[beauflow]

dreams, I remember so few.
I am not sure if life changing or reflect what was going on around me.... I had 2 around the same time I'll go with the happier ending one.

I had a dream I was fighting with a once mutual friend of my brother in our apt. I left angry and started to run due to this mutual friend started to chase me.... I then stopped and turned for some reason, and it wasn't the mutual friend any more it was my friend that is now my boyfriend today... after this dream I left my bad part life of drugs finally behind about less than a month after.
And About 2 to 3 months after this dream my boyfriend and I moved in together

[mgran]

That's a really interesting dream. The flames that you couldn't see but others could in particular. Of course the first thought people have about flames in a dream is to do with hell fire, but that's not the case here (or I don't think so.) I think it refers to the anguish you've suffered in the course of your illness.
The death, though traumatic, in your dream did not reflect on any action of your own. It seems to have been simply a consequence of your being alive... all that live must die. It seems like you came to terms with it, not as something to seek, but as something that will come in it's own good time. The fact that this didn't scare you seems very significant too. It seems like you renounced suicide at this point in your dream.
The drowning could symbolise some kind of rebirth or renewal... again the obvious idea is from the Judeao Christian tradition, the baptism. But I think its' more likely a case of you facing your deepest fears.
What's been going on recently for you to be so vulnerable in your dreams?