Puritan/Pilgram Gruesome

I had a dream about what looked like a puritan or pilgrim type person sitting on a horse drawn carriage with hands tied up to either side of the carriage part. As the carriage drew closer to what I understood as their home, a priestly type man standing on the back of the carriage (it was going very slowly) was reading what felt to me like criminal charges. When the carriage stopped in front of what I understood as the tied up persons last stop (either a home, or a place where the tied up person wanted to be) the driver of the carriage came to the front of the tied up person, slit his neck with a hunting type knife from ear to ear, untied the person, and pushed him off over the edge of the carriage into the coblestone street. The person then was left to bleed out, but some of them had smiles as they choked on their blood, etc. Does this mean anything?

Well, sure, Chad, it means something. But only YOU know what it means! Your unconscious is sending you a message in code and only you know the key that will unlock the code. T can help you, if you have a T. But even T can't tell you what the dream means. He can ask interesting questions about it and nudge you along with your own interpretation. But the dream itself relates to you and your life and your unconscious and your preoccupations and worries and desires. It does sure sound like an interesting dream. Wonder what it means! Take care.

Experience has shown me that my T is excellent at dream interpretation. We do a lot of it, and he's always spot on - sometimes so accurate that I get really uncomfortable. He says some dreams are like works of art that our unconscious creates - just marvelously constructed with layers of meaning.

His take is that everyone in the dream is ourselves, different aspects of ourselves. So the pilgrim/puritan may be some part of you that is ... how do you see a pilgrim or puritan? Very proper? Repressed? Very righteous? What do you see as their characteristics?

So the driver of the carriage is another aspect of you. Seems like he's in a position of power as the driver of the carriage that the puritan is shackled to. Then he "destroys" the pilgrim and removes it from the carriage. Could the carriage represent your life, your journey? Maybe a part of you wants to destroy that pilgrim persona and remove it from your life?

I may be just full of it here, but since you asked for an opinion .... Keep thinking about dream - maybe you can figure it out for yourself.

Chad, that sounds like one powerful dream. If those are all aspects of yourself, i would ask, what are you judging and punishing
yourself so harshly for.

thanks for the insight, ill ponder for a while and see if i can realize anything

Hey Chad, After reading the details of your dream I am reminded of a very vivid dream I had several years ago. I can still see the images as clearly today as I first saw the dream then. It took me awhile, but I think I deciphered it, but first my dream:

I was standing in the middle of red rocky desert valley surronded by mountains. No one and no life was around. There was a raised road ahead of me running horizontal east to west. Suddenly on this dusty road a very large black wolf appeared from the west and was dragging something, dragging fabric... dragging an elderly lady with long white hair and she was wearing a long white night gown. He was dragging her by her neck. The wolf stopped a few metres ahead of me and released the woman. The wolf looked up and over to me for a long moment and then back to the woman. The lady was smiling up at the wolf with intense love in her eyes, reaching her arm up to the wolf's face. She seemed to accept and welcome the wolf as he bite down on her throat and killed her. She remained smiling and the wolf continued to drag her past me down the dusty road....

This dream troubled me for some time and one day it hit me. The old woman was me the old me that I was growing away/out of and the wolf was also me, the new me, the new person I was becoming. I was going through some pretty heavy changes at this point in time, for the better and I believe I was trying to tell myself something about me. Perhaps that it is ok to let go and embrace my new self that I was changing into even if it is a scary and newer concept of me.

I hope this makes sense and helps you somehow with your troubling dream.

Cher

Hard to say, the easiest way to tell is if you or someone you know 'are' a character in the dream, and which character that is.

Off the top of my head it could mean,
+The guilty deserve no mercy
+You (or someone else) are being punished unfairly, perhaps for something that is not wrong
+You deserve to be punished (the aspect of this with someone else would be the first one)
+It's meaningless, a result of something you read, saw on T.V., or heard about the day before.

Satisticly the last one is more common, but it's also the easiest to rule out.
Key factors in interpreting the dream if it is meaningful will be the feeling it inspires while you had it, the significance (to you) of puratins/pilgrims as a symbol, the
The importance of smiling as the victims bled out, how often you dream in the third person (if I'm not mistaken that it is in the third person) it also could have alot to do with your personal views on death or execution and what is happening in your life now.
I wish you luck with this.

I know it wasnt tv or something I heard. Im having more and more of these. The one I had the other night invoved my ex wife, satan worship, the manipulating of genitals(voluntary and invountary). Some of these are 3rd person, this last one was 1st person.

You dream things like this often then? But not the same dream?
That could change everything, it probably means that the feelings associated with the dream, not the contents, are what is important.
So the pivotal question becomes, what feelings are associated with this dream?

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