[lorax177]

I have a lot of very vivid dreams, I'll just post them here whenever I remember them because they are pretty interesting.

Possible trigger:

the weird dream i had last night. my family and I went on vacation to Australia with some cousins and we stayed at this like, rustic lakehouse hotel? but it was really nice and tropical like a Hawaiian resort kinda, but like, kinda broken down. And we went for a hike in the forest, led by a tourguide who was telling the story of a local legend of a spirit who killed deer with a special red arrow as vengeance for whoever did her wrong in their human past lives. And she kept the antlers as trophies, trapping the spirit inside of them. And like, one day it backfires bc some hero guy is granted shapeshifting powers and shapeshifts into a deer to trick her into shooting her, but he instead uses the red arrow to trap her inside the antlers. And we pass the skull with the antlers but it’s broken, and the ghost of the spirit possesses one of the girls in our tour group (from one of the other families staying at the resort place). And she tries to kill everyone in the group with an axe, but we escape and make it to the lodge place, where it’s like half submerged in the lake and everything looks like it’s been abandoned for 12 years. Like all the paint has worn away, the nails have rusted and become loose, most of the walls and floors have eroded so there’s nothing but a broken frame, like a really sad/creepy jungle gym. And she’s chasing us through this haunted house, we can’t hear her footsteps so we don’t know where she is, she killed the girl host so now she can like, teleport??? while still possessing the corpse??? idk man, dream logic I guess. But like she’s super ****ing pissed at all of us bc we just walked by that skull and the tourguides had known she’s in there and didn’t do anything, and so she’s been separated from the spirit world and can’t get back, and even if she could get back, she’s a serial killer so they wouldn’t let her live there anyway. So now she’s taking out her vengeance on a frightened group of tourists and we’re just trying to figure out how to escape/kill her, and the girl’s parents are freaking, because their kid is dead and also chasing them around trying to kill everyone with an axe???

and it just had this very surreal quality, the whole thing, because I felt this abyss in the depth of the story, like it was almost evoking a feeling that it’s impossible to feel? like, ever. Like no human could feel this emotion or comprehend this…depth, but that experience was the closest you could get. Idk, it was weird, but definitely not the wildest or most vivid dream I’ve ever had, I just wanted to write it down before I forgot. Most of my dreams are super vivid like this.

[Thunder Bow]

This may relate to a real life situation where you are interacting with a group of people in this way. Someone in this situation is interacting with others as if he has an axe. Shows someone is bullying in the situation and is looking for control. There may be much blaming in this situation.

[medkev13]

The other factor is in that it's an internal conflict. Since every character is the dream is a projection of some part of the dreamer, you can start by identifying how you relate to each character in the group (this includes the entire tour party, the guides, and the spirit of the hero).

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I'd like to take a moment to address the hunting method. This could be a reflection of suppressing the anima/animus part of the psyche (the intuitive/instinctive side of a person). Most people simply try and hold it back, but here the hunter outright kills the animal and traps its spirit. This, in my reading, evokes the idea of keeping memories as tokens. Like "Lest I ever make that mistake, I shall keep a token to remind me of the pain". It's powerful, but it could also be self destructive.

--> What memories do you hold close as reminders of things to avoid, or of pains felt in the past?

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So the skull is broke and the spirit is freed, angry that it is effectively being ignored. Are you knowingly ignoring some part of yourself? Perhaps stifling it, or denying it's there?

Describing the house, you gave a very specific time frame : 12 years! I went and checked your bio page (wow! so full!). What was going on 12 years ago? That seems to be reflected in the state of the house. Might be important. Might also point to what the spirit relates to, as well as what the guides were hiding/ignoring.

There's a lot more that could be gained, given more specifics regarding what each character reflects in yourself, and what you relate to. But for the big moral of the story, I think it's important to look at what's being hidden, and what's making the spirit so angry.

Carl Jung spoke of the monsters in dreams as projections of our shadow selves, the parts of ourselves we dislike and hate. The point, however, is to embrace them, accept them, and turn them into positive traits. That's the goal with the spirit. Understand what's angering it. Come to terms with that and begin to see the anger from that character's perspective (in turn identifying why that trait comes up in you). Then, havign eccepted and addressed the issue, coming out a more complete person.