[seeker1950]

This was so vivid. This was shortly after I left college in the early '70's. The man is actually now deceased, died in a car accident, but there he was in my dream. This occurred this morning, after I awakened around 5 a.m., and then fell back to a deep sleep. I wonder if
people from our pasts are able to contact us in our dreams? Now knowing more thru education about personality disorders, I think this man had a form of Asburgers. He had serious communication problems, and I couldn't get away from him. Though the relationship with him was untennable, I think I still have some residual guilt about it.

[Perna]

I had the man who molested me when I was 10 in a dream about 6-8 years ago. It surprised me. I never told my stepmother about it, I just avoided the man as best I could the next several years he was in my life, made sure I was never alone with him again. I kept all the anxiety about the situation and the feeling of "wrongness" that I never shared, etc. (I was too young to quite understand what was wrong, only "that" it was wrong and did not feel right) and the knowing my stepmother still "liked" him, etc., he worked for my father in close association with our family. In the dream the 40+ years had passed and we were all that much older but, in the dream, my stepmother was still alive and that was the odd part of the dream, it centered on wanting to pleasantly surprise her with bringing the two together as they hadn't seen each other since then. I woke confused and I guess still thinking about "guilt" too, as you say, even though we were both definitely not guilty of anything! It was like I was disappointed I couldn't get the two together when, in real life, I definitely "should" not want that.

[yutzman]

Thank you for sharing. I feel the dead are dead, but can only live within our minds. That is your mindsight, and we all have our demons...which come and come in certain ways. We see them, because we have lived the experience with them.
A dream is only a dream, but guilt is a part of our being.....
It will continue, because it has with my life. I deal with it by moving on.....
Time is strange...it moves on yet continues....

[Moodysmood]

I feel people who had a negative impact on us in our waking lives (whether living or dead) materialize in dreams when our inner selves are trying to call attention to something we are dealing with or need to emotionally reconcile. The fear of a stalker never really goes away. I have never had one, but I understand the fear of being followed or watched closely, interaction or otherwise. I had one scary dream about my ex-brother-in-law that really disturbed me. He was in the military and a trained killer, very aggressive toward people. He's had several run in's with the law and he was very abusive toward my sister. I never dealt much with him, but deep down, I had a very strong fear of him I feel I still do were I ever to see him again.

I can't handle fear dreams. But I am always telling myself there is little I am physically afraid of. I don't live in the greatest neighborhood but I have no qualms about being out past midnight in the streets... Maybe sometimes I do fear something could happen to me. Perhaps my ex-bro might be symbolic of that. JMO.

[insideout]

it might signify guilt, but probably not over him. did you do something that is now starting to catch up to you? do you have guilt about something you did recently that is following you. try to think about exactly how you felt in your dream. vulnerable? violated? ___? and try to link the feeling to something recent in your waking life. that may lead u to the answer.