[DemolitionRed]

I have 2 very vivid reoccurring dreams and wonder if anyone can give me any insight into why I have them.

The first is; I'm walking through a shopping mall and up a slope of polished floor. The floor starts to get steeper and I can feel myself slipping. It then becomes impossible to climb and I'm down on my hands and knees trying to move upwards. Everyone else is walking up the ramp with ease and I feel silly and embarrassed.

The other is the neglect of an animal. Its always a hamster that I suddenly realize I haven't fed or watered for weeks. I look in the cage and the wee thing is still alive but then something distracts me. I keep coming back to feed and water the hamster but every time I'm about to do this something else distracts me. I'm feeling terribly guilty each time I go back but I never get round to feeding it.

A little history that could relate to my second dream. My mum was very cruel to our family pets and she did kill my hamster in front of me when I was about 7 or 8. That was only one of many things she did though but none of her cruelty towards any of our pets had anything to do with neglect. It was always sudden abuse she did in anger.

I have no cruelty in me. I could neither hurt nor neglect an animal and yet this dream is so persistent.

I have suffered night terrors for as long as I can remember. Its always the same trigger...I think I'm being suffocated by being wrapped in blankets that I can't get out of. I don't know if this has come from a real event or if its an inborn thing but anyway, that isn't what this thread is about.

I'm not much on dream interpretation. There are others, here on PC, who have many more skills in this area. But it seems to me these dreams simply suggest a feeling of inadequacy on your part &, perhaps, a fear that your inadequacy will lead to not being able to complete important tasks. (As I wrote above, dream interpretation isn't one of my primary skills.)

[wormintheapple]

Your first mentioned dream seems like, that you feel like your not able to do things than you should or any other person is doing. This is a feeling many of us feel during the day, but we like to bury them - so they come out az a repetitive dream.
The dream with the hamster can be the same but I think it might also represent you. That you want to care about yourself but something always distracts you. You know, that you should care, but some things becoming more important.

((My advice is try to tell yourself, write down or simply acknowledge that you feel like "less inadequate" than other people during the day. Tell yourself that this is only a feeling, and try to find things that you are good at/better than others.
Try to give yourself some 'me-time', maybe a hot bath before you go to sleep -maybe your dreams will loosen up and even disappear.))

I interprete only my own dreams, not others, so this might be not right.

[Thunder Bow]

You feel like you are falling behind, in the mall dream. As said above, your feel you are neglecting the hamster part of yourself. The blanket dream says you feel suffocated by your parents.

[DemolitionRed]

Thank you all for the responses. I do feel inadequate a lot of the time but I'm very good at covering those feelings up and coming over as a confident go-getter.

For the last five years we have really struggled on the money front. Gone are the days when I just got my hair done when it needed doing or bought clothes from my choice of outlets. This does make me feel as though I neglect myself sometimes.

[CosmicRose]

Both dreams say the same thing to me. Loss of control. The slopping floor dream could mean that you feel you are literally losing your footing in your personal life, a feeling of failure or uncertainty. This also relates to feeling embarrassed and silly in front of other people.
The Hamster dream also correlates much the same way. You keep forgetting and you keep being distracted, you can't get yourself to do the thing you want to really do, and you end up feeling guilty.
Is there something you aren't doing in your life that you would like to do? Are you denying yourself some kind of passion or outlet in your life? Are you accomplishing the goals you want to accomplish? Are you craving more status or even more personal stability in your life? Do you feel like you don't have control over a certain situation you're handling right now?

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I have 2 very vivid reoccurring dreams and wonder if anyone can give me any insight into why I have them.

The first is; I'm walking through a shopping mall and up a slope of polished floor. The floor starts to get steeper and I can feel myself slipping. It then becomes impossible to climb and I'm down on my hands and knees trying to move upwards. Everyone else is walking up the ramp with ease and I feel silly and embarrassed.

The other is the neglect of an animal. Its always a hamster that I suddenly realize I haven't fed or watered for weeks. I look in the cage and the wee thing is still alive but then something distracts me. I keep coming back to feed and water the hamster but every time I'm about to do this something else distracts me. I'm feeling terribly guilty each time I go back but I never get round to feeding it.

A little history that could relate to my second dream. My mum was very cruel to our family pets and she did kill my hamster in front of me when I was about 7 or 8. That was only one of many things she did though but none of her cruelty towards any of our pets had anything to do with neglect. It was always sudden abuse she did in anger.

I have no cruelty in me. I could neither hurt nor neglect an animal and yet this dream is so persistent.

I have suffered night terrors for as long as I can remember. Its always the same trigger...I think I'm being suffocated by being wrapped in blankets that I can't get out of. I don't know if this has come from a real event or if its an inborn thing but anyway, that isn't what this thread is about.

My mother was also exceedingly cruel to our pets. As far as I know I don't think she killed any of them but she would beat them frequently because she was angry about something else. I tried for years to understand why my mom was so cruel about so many things then one day I found the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and then it all made sense.. In the hamster dream I assume you don't know what it was that distracted you but I am a bit curious. Demolition Red I wish you well and I hope you find your answers