Had a brief but unsettling dream. Not being able to go out during the daylight hours to get a haircut recently, my hair has gotten longish. I dreamed I raised a lock of hair to look at my scalp. The was a largish bleeding tumor and a wide but shallow crater where the skin had been eaten away by cancer.
I enjoy my dreams...even the "bad" ones. This was a little too much though.

[Perna]

Glad it was just your brain and not your hair that had a problem Seriously, it does sound shocking/nasty. I had a dream a little similar once about my legs being useless and bleeding, etc. and I was on a dance floor :-)

I like this site's thoughts/interpretations: http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/cancer/

LOL Perna...it was my skin... so there was no hair growing on the cancerous parts Fortunately I still had plenty of hair for the ultimate comb-over

1. There are two major links with dreaming of cancer. The first is that many people meet cancer in their dream because it represents death. So the dream is a way of experiencing their fears about death.
2. The second is that cancer depicts parts of ones emotional or thinking character that are sick and/or unhealthy. With these dreams you need to consider what part of the body you dream has cancer, then understand it psychological meaning.
3. Occasionally it is an awareness of illness in part of ones body. If this is suspected get a good health check.

omg... they all fit. Gotta love dream interpreters...

[Open Eyes]

Wow, that is a scarey dream, but often those kinds of dreams can represent trying to cover something up or doing something wrong. And that could be from anything like playing hookie from work or school or something you did like that in your past.

Our dreams are all about processing what we are doing day to day. And our dreams will file things in certain places because that is the reality of our own brains.

For example, when my husband comes home from work at night, like the night before last, and he is angry and doesn't talk to me. At night I always dream about him drinking and reverting back to the lies and things he did to me while he was an active alcoholic. And when he himself behaves in ways he used to, that was not healthy, he too has bad dreams.

"The second is that cancer depicts parts of ones emotional or thinking character that are sick and/or unhealthy. With these dreams you need to consider what part of the body you dream has cancer, then understand it psychological meaning." quote George H.



Open Eyes

And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I do actually have a lot of small things appearing on my skin that my doctor says appear to be skin cancer. A few of them are on my hairline and are covered by my hair now that it is longer. I think it may be just my unconscious mind reacting to a fear. Thanks

[Open Eyes]

Sounds like you have figured it out. After all, only you know "your reality".

Interesting how we can dream strange things. I can usually trace my own "bad dreams" to someone who had disappointed or hurt me in some way. I don't have dreams where I am doing anything bad, however I did have bad dreams of a guilt about not seeing what was happening to my animals while I slept.

Yup, dreams can contain some strange things.

Open Eyes

It must be nice to feel that you've never done anything bad in your life and that nothing was ever your fault.
I envy you. A lot of us who suffer with depression take on guilt that doesn't even remotely belong to us.
I only know one reality. It isn't mine... it belongs to everyone.

[Open Eyes]

And that is "your reality" George.

And I did "not" say that I never "felt" I did anything bad. I didn't say that nothing was ever "my fault". What I did say is that I do not have dreams where I am doing anything bad. I just don't, I cannot ever recall me dreaming of hurting someone or doing something bad on purpose. My bad dreams are about other's hurting me.

And yes, I have taken on guilt for things that were not even remotely my fault as well. I have PTSD, and suffered abuse, none of which was my fault, but I have felt guilty about the abuse just like pretty much every other abuse victim feels. Perhaps that is why I do not dream of harming others or doing bad and only of being hurt. And that is MY reality, it doesn't belong to you or eveyone, it belongs to me. And I "share" my reality with others as they share their realities with me. And somewhere there is this thing called trust, and it is real or it is just is not there to have. And it often depends on the other persons "reality". They are either trust worthy or they are not.

Open Eyes

I'm sorry about your PTSD and your abuse and all the times you've been hurt or disappointed but I'm not seeing the connection of that and my dream. I'm confused about your emphasis on "my reality." I'm not sure how we can have different realities.

[Open Eyes]

It was not connected to your dream, my post was connected to your statement about my dreams which is what "I" shared while contemplating what "your" dream was about.

And in the end YOUR "reality" is that a doctor told you that some marks on your forehead looked like the beginning of skin cancer. Well, that is "your reality" George. And you submized that is what your dream was about.

You put words down that I did not say George, and I clairified it for you.

You asked what a dream you had "could" mean. Well, none of us know "your reality" meaning who you really are and your life experiences George. So it is a guess based on a general idea of what a bad dream like that "might" mean.

George, I shared what my thoughts were thats all. I didn't share to be beaten up and acused of saying something that I did not say.

Open Eyes

Originally Posted by Open Eyes

It was not connected to your dream, my post was connected to your statement about my dreams which is what "I" shared while contemplating what "your" dream was about.

And in the end YOUR "reality" is that a doctor told you that some marks on your forehead looked like the beginning of skin cancer. Well, that is "your reality" George. And you submized that is what your dream was about.

You put words down that I did not say George, and I clairified it for you.

You asked what a dream you had "could" mean. Well, none of us know "your reality" meaning who you really are and your life experiences George. So it is a guess based on a general idea of what a bad dream like that "might" mean.

George, I shared what my thoughts were thats all. I didn't share to be beaten up and acused of saying something that I did not say.

Open Eyes

I'm sorry you feel accused and beaten up. I'm just not getting the whole "yours", "mine" or "ours" reality thing. Or the trust thing. You went off on a tangent there Open Eyes. Reality isn't yours, mine, or ours. Reality is reality just as facts are facts. As the saying goes...you're entitled to your own opinion but you aren't entitled to your own facts. To me it's the same with reality. Our perceptions may vary but reality doesn't. I appreciate your help.

[medkev13]

There is but one reality. The difference is that we all perceive this one reality through our own unique filters. FUN FACT - The brain processes and treats memories as if they are actively occurring in the present; there is no neural-physio difference between what happened in the past and what is happening in the present. SO when we say a person is "living in the past" that is literally true according to their brain chemistry.

I followed the "You never felt that you did anything wrong" line of thought. Because your dreams are never about you doing anything bad, the thought does not linger in your subconscious anywhere...so by what we can see, you never have this thought at all. I would like to make note, however, that Freud makes the claim that the thoughts that rule our dreamscape are those that are neither already in our subconscious or actively at the forefront of our minds when we fall asleep. Instead, the things that build our dreams are the thought that are put on the metaphorical back burner of our mind.

[Open Eyes]

Originally Posted by medkev13

There is but one reality. The difference is that we all perceive this one reality through our own unique filters. FUN FACT - The brain processes and treats memories as if they are actively occurring in the present; there is no neural-physio difference between what happened in the past and what is happening in the present. SO when we say a person is "living in the past" that is literally true according to their brain chemistry.

I followed the "You never felt that you did anything wrong" line of thought. Because your dreams are never about you doing anything bad, the thought does not linger in your subconscious anywhere...so by what we can see, you never have this thought at all. I would like to make note, however, that Freud makes the claim that the thoughts that rule our dreamscape are those that are neither already in our subconscious or actively at the forefront of our minds when we fall asleep. Instead, the things that build our dreams are the thought that are put on the metaphorical back burner of our mind.

Well I think that I clarified that and I believe I also clarified what I mean by "someone's reality" as well. My reality is that I have PTSD and I deal with working through that every day. And you have your realities as well, and it looks like your realities medkev are a real challenge as well (and I am sorry for your struggles).

While I would love to "pretend" I don't have PTSD and other problems in my life, that would not be "the reality of "me"". My other realities involve being abused "something that I seem to need to work through again with the way PTSD seems to bring it all back" And that is not a perception or anything other than the "reality" of what people with PTSD can experience. And many who have PTSD have severe "trust" issues that are well founded.

If we are to consider other "realities that are there for ALL of us"like the earth not being flat and that the economy is troubled and there are a lot of bad things taking place all over the world right now, that is different. But none of us know the totalities of each other's individual realities.

Apparently George's reality, that he realized later in his own thread, is that a doctor was concerned that some marks on his scalp "could" be cancerous. That is not "everyone's" reality, I don't have that, do you?

I am honestly surprised at the other issues that have presented just by my simply taking a guess at someone's dream and what it "may" mean. It has been somewhat distrubing actually, well beyond a simple dream.

Although I noticed that you seem to be good at that medkev and Perna is really good at looking at dreams and seeing how they could be a part of the real things we have experienced. Reality in and of itself doesn't represent something "bad"all the time either.

Geez, I am sorry that I offered up my idea of what it "could" have meant.
Open Eyes

Originally Posted by medkev13

I would like to make note, however, that Freud makes the claim that the thoughts that rule our dreamscape are those that are neither already in our subconscious or actively at the forefront of our minds when we fall asleep. Instead, the things that build our dreams are the thought that are put on the metaphorical back burner of our mind.

Hi Medkev, in Freud's view, dreams are the Royal Road to the Unconscious (seeing the unconscious as animalistic, instinctual, or sexual). Ugh. I hope not.

I prefer Jung's sunnier more positive take on it: a way of communicating and acquainting yourself with the unconscious. And that dreams are not attempts to conceal your true feelings from the waking mind, but rather they are a window to your unconscious (they serve to guide the waking self to achieve wholeness and offer a solution to a problem you are facing in your waking life). Awwww.

It's okay Open Eyes. It was just a discussion. You have PTSD. That is reality. It isn't your reality...it is reality. I have these little things growing on my skin. That is not my reality...it is reality. I had a diturbing dream and started this thread. That is reality...not my reality or yours...just reality.
I'm sorry this discussion was disturbing to you

[medkev13]

Rose, I'm very Jungian in my view of dreams, but when you have no control over your dreams you may find that the dreams are ruled by the subconscious as opposed to an open access to it.

Originally Posted by medkev13

Rose, I'm very Jungian in my view of dreams, but when you have no control over your dreams you may find that the dreams are ruled by the subconscious as opposed to an open access to it.

Thanks medkev. I will ponder that thought!
Rose

[Eyes of Blue]

Hair coming from your head is used in dreams to represent the thoughts coming from your mind. Thus a dream focused upon your scalp and hair is one meant to bring your attention to the kind of thinking you are doing.

The tumor represents an idea that has been growing upon you. As it is a largish tumor, the idea has grown to acquire some importance to you. Because the tumor is bleeding it indicates that where some idea has grown upon you – implying that you have probably become quite accustomed to the idea – you are actually making a sacrifice. The sacrifice here would imply a sacrifice of life energy or time. [Could this idea growing on you relate to what your doctor has told you regarding a possibility of having some skin cancer?]

The cancer, being a disease upon the body, can be regarded simply as indicating some emotional dis-ease or uneasiness. Here this emotional uneasiness has eaten away at the skin of the scalp, i.e. the uneasiness is destroying the self defensive ability that your mind and its thinking would normally provide. The emotional uneasiness seems also to be responsible for some slight depression (a shallow crater where the skin has been eaten away by cancer). Because this crater is wide, it seems that the idea of depression may occupy a sizable portion of your thinking space/time.