[owlicia]

Ok. So for the last month, I've been having terrifying dreams about being consumed by the ocean. And also very violent dreams of me beating people I don't recognize and last time, straight murdering them. I have grown up in a beach town my entire life. Literally, walking distance about 10 min. I did just quit a job I have had for 5 1/2 years. And I started working on the wharf. (Pier, whatever you want to call it) I love, love, LOVE the ocean. My new job has been starting off pretty slow, and I have MOST DEFINITELY been stressed out about paying rent, as its very expensive to live here, and I'm not making nearly enough to get by.
Anywaayyysss. In every dream I can remember recently, the ocean is crashing on me and I feel drowned, extremely uncomfortable, and scared. I always wake before I feel something bad is going to happen. ( like dying ) I wake up basically drenched in sweat, and I don't even want to go back to sleep. Also, I have never been known to sleep walk. But two nights ago, I was drinking with some co workers. Nothing unusual. Drank about 4 pints and went home. I remember every part if it except for what my boyfriend said I did. Apparently, I woke up at about 1am. He was in the living room watching tv, when I came out there, shut the sliding glass door and started moving stuff around on our coffee table. He said he kindly asked what I was doing, (I do not recall ANY of this) and I told him I was 'bringing up the ocean'. He kept asking what I was talking about and even thought I was tripping on something. Which I can assure you, I took no drugs that night. Just drank beer with friends. I kept just pointing to the wall behind him, and kept repeating "I'm bringing up the ocean!".
He obviously had no idea what I was talking about. And apparently, I just got frustrated and went to bed. Then, (I remember this) I woke up I guess 10 mins later and was hungry. I microwaved some pasta I had left over, and my bf asked if I was 'bringing up the ocean'. I don't know why, but I got super defensive when he told me what happened. I just couldn't believe I did that, and it kinda scared me. Then last night I had a scary ****ing dream with what seemed like a giant, white dragon in the ocean with a beluga whale face. I was in a giant abandoned beach shack with people I didn't know, and what seemed like suppressive authority figures trying to burn the place down with us in it. I ended up killing 3 of them, which seemed like forever. I felt I was the hero in the end, but I woke in a sweat and it took me hours to feel comfortable to get out of bed. It basically ruined my day. There's more to it, but this is already so long. Oh! And my dream before that was me literally, beating this girl who'd I've never seen before to a pulp. Like, brutally kicked her *** in ways I thought I could never think of. (I.e. grabbed her with both my hands on her neck, put her face under a table and just smashed her skull) yea, I know. I'm not a violent person AT ALL so that's why I came here. I also recently cut back on smoking weed IMMENSELY. Mostly because I cant afford it right now. But I literally smoked every single day. Ugh. I really appreciate if any of you stuck through this long *** message for me. I just don't know what to do. I'm afraid to sleep. Please&Thank you for any feedback.

[Thunder Bow]

Stop Drinking! Stop Drugs! I saw this in your post after reading the 1st sentence! Seek help ASAP before you Crash! I need not to read any further.

[Demeanor]

very very interesting dreams..
question.. thew ocean.. is it usually rough? is the waters very murky or clear? apart from the dragon type creature, are there any other marine life that you could see in the water? can u feel yourself struggling to breathe?
what did the authority figures look like?
how did you kill them?
what was the dragon creature doing in the ocean? was it attacking you in any way? or was it just there..

lastly the dream where u were attacking a girl.. what led to you attacking her? can you remember anything else from your dream..
was her blood very muddy looking or very red?
you are welcome to p.m me if you do not want to post more detail in this thread.. but i would love to help you with these dreams..

[MusicMike]

Your dreams are trying to bring to your attention that something is happening that you fear, and you fear being consumed by it. If it has to do with drinking and drugs, you might use the dream as an opportunity to reflect on the effects of your actions on yourself, your psyche, as a whole. That might give you motivation to change patterns. You might reflect on whether there are things in your life you can consciously detect are consuming you.

[medkev13]

First...

Originally Posted by Thunder Bow

Stop Drinking! Stop Drugs! I saw this in your post after reading the 1st sentence! Seek help ASAP before you Crash! I need not to read any further.

Don't pay this too much heed. If there was any real reading, they'd have seen that there were no drugs. The alcohol probably caused the sleepwalking - something that's been found to be pretty much a solid cause in research. The bringing up the ocean was just you engaged in your dream. Being defensive later....well it's not unheard of for people to get defensive because all of a sudden some inner part of them is being shown to the waking world. Don't be too concerned, embrace the openness and accept it. After all, it -was- your boyfriend that saw it, not some stranger on the street...

Your first dream follows a pretty standard symbolism for being overwhelmed. That it was at the beach and it was the ocean can on the surface be simply a reflection that you're living at the beach and it's being there that is causing you this stress. Deeper, though, is the significance that water is symbolic for emotions. What emotions have been building up (surging) within you? Do you feel that these emotions are becoming an overwhelming problem?

The first thing I want to say about the next dream is this :: death is -never- about actually dying when it's in your dreams. The second thing is this :: -every- character in your dreams, especially the 'strangers' you happen upon, are parts of your own psyche. That you were going around beating these parts of you 'to death' can mean a couple of things. First, since you are the antagonist in the dream, how you view yourself in the waking world may be the image of a shadow self as defined by Carl Jung. The shadow self is that part of you which you fear/despise/hate/etc. Ask yourself if you feel you don't like the person you see yourself having become. There is a second part to the image of the shadow self - Jung says that for the health of the psyche we have to face this part of us -and embrace it-. Accepting the shadow within us and allowing it to be part of us allows us to confront the things we want to change and make ourselves psychologically less damaged. The action of killing these other parts of you is significant too. Whatever it is that's driving the anger within yourself, it's taking over other parts of you, overpowering and changing them (because death is about change and transformation, not just ending of life). Is it for the better that they are transforming? Or are they becoming something equally negative? This wouldn't happen in the dream. You have to look at each 'stranger' and identify what in them reflects something within you. That connection is what has been taken over. Only when you identify this can you assess how that part of you is changing.

There isn't much that can be interpreted from an annotated dream. The white dragon could either be the building negativity reflected in the first two dreams, or a growing awareness of the need to end the anger. Whichever, it comes out of your emotions, and if it's a good dragon it also represents a sense of wisdom and inner power. Buildings of any sort represent the body usually, so the fact that the shack/hut is abandoned tells me that you may feel that you are either not yourself or that you have simply made yourself into a hollow shell, cutting the emotion and personality out of the picture. But there is the oppression in the authority figures. Still part of you, now you are seeing how the negative emotions and psyche traits are affecting your inner self. You're trapped in yourself, and the building is set to fire. Fire can usually represent anger, which I'm guessing is the main negative force in these dreams. It takes over the body, and threatens the parts of you left inside. You say you killed a couple of the other inhabitants, which I'm guessing is a mercy killing. If this is the case, then the change is toward peace. Though you are still left to face the anger. I want to know more about this dragon, though. Does it come in to help? Does it linger in the water? Does it command the authority figures? Only from learning what the dragon does would I be able to complete the interpretation.