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May 04, 2014, 02:14 PM
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I've been having frequent rape type dreams. I've never been raped to my conscious knowledge but I'm having a lot of these dreams. They are never however detailed if that make sense. I've also been having a lot of dreams where someone (a man) is bathing me. In the dream hat I had last night was really disturbing but it's not something that's happened to me in real life.
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#2
May 04, 2014, 03:58 PM
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A man bathing you, sounds a lot like a repressed memory. A therapist may help you recall it.
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May 04, 2014, 10:07 PM
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There are lots of ways to interperet dreams, and most methods view dream content as symbolic. There are therapists who specialize in dreamwork, like mine, and I find it illuminating, reassuring, interesting work to discuss my dreams with her.
One of the fundamentals of Jungian dreamwork, which is one of the best known and commonly used in therapy (though certainly not the only way) is that the people in our dreams typically represent aspects of ourselves. Therefore, a dream about being bathed and then being raped might have something to do with your masculine and feminine sides clashing, or the bathing could be something about washing away a part of yourself that leaves you vulnerable to attack. Those aren't any type of official interpretation: they are examples of the type of meaning one might make about such a dream in the Jungian school, but those trained to do it rely on much more detailed knowledge of collective unconscious symbols and of course, would want knowledge about your current life, issues, past, etc. to help you put this in context. Dreams can be very disturbing but a good analysis helps me learn from them, which defuses their power. |
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May 04, 2014, 10:16 PM
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Maybe somehow you got a strong fear of it from something? How long have you been having these dreams for? Is there any way that you could pinpoint when it all started?
 Good luck! Nightmares are no fun. At all. 
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#5
May 05, 2014, 03:51 AM
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I told a similar dream to my t. She said it represented coming of age and feeling victimised in every way.
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May 05, 2014, 06:35 AM
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My counselor always begins discussion of a dream by asking what the dream means to me. So therefore I am wondering what the dreams might mean to you.
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