[notthisagain]

I have a hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep. However, when I do sleep, I have reoccuring dreams and they are unpleasant and sometimes scary. Those dreams are the only indicator that I actually got some sleep. I cannot remember the last time that I actually got a deep, restorative sleep and woke up refreshed.

One of the dreams that I have been having is that I am in school and that there is a test or an assignment due. I am always woefully unprepared. Either I cannot find the classroom, or I don't have the books I need, or I didn't study or finish the assignment. Last night I had a dream where we were getting assignments back and the teacher announced to the whole class that I got a zero on the assignment.

Another dream that I keep having is that someone is chasing me or trying to kill me. Every time I try to run and hide somewhere the person finds me. I remember one where someone was trying to torture me and their office was on the 50th floor of a building. I tried to take the elevator to get away from her but every time I pressed the down button, it would go right back to the 50th floor. And it was a glass elevator so the woman could see that I was in it.

It's like I can't catch a break even in my sleep. Does anyone know what I can try to get rid of them and have a decent sleep? I don't eat anything weird or watch anything disturbing before I go to sleep. My T says that nightmares won't hurt me, but that is no help at all. I journal the following morning but that doesn't seem to help either. Any suggestions?

[Thunder Bow]

Dreams are how how minds process our daily events. They are all about our feelings.

In the elevator dream you are feeling exposed. Maybe the 50th floor indicates your head or intellectual mind, in there feelings can be killed. She is your alternate self.

The school dream sort of ties into the elevator dream. You are not in your head anymore, thus you can not find the classroom. You got a zero on the assignment. Go with your Heart at all times.

[anushka]

Originally Posted by notthisagain

I have a hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep. However, when I do sleep, I have reoccuring dreams and they are unpleasant and sometimes scary. Those dreams are the only indicator that I actually got some sleep. I cannot remember the last time that I actually got a deep, restorative sleep and woke up refreshed.

One of the dreams that I have been having is that I am in school and that there is a test or an assignment due. I am always woefully unprepared. Either I cannot find the classroom, or I don't have the books I need, or I didn't study or finish the assignment. Last night I had a dream where we were getting assignments back and the teacher announced to the whole class that I got a zero on the assignment.

Another dream that I keep having is that someone is chasing me or trying to kill me. Every time I try to run and hide somewhere the person finds me. I remember one where someone was trying to torture me and their office was on the 50th floor of a building. I tried to take the elevator to get away from her but every time I pressed the down button, it would go right back to the 50th floor. And it was a glass elevator so the woman could see that I was in it.

It's like I can't catch a break even in my sleep. Does anyone know what I can try to get rid of them and have a decent sleep? I don't eat anything weird or watch anything disturbing before I go to sleep. My T says that nightmares won't hurt me, but that is no help at all. I journal the following morning but that doesn't seem to help either. Any suggestions?

I was so surprised to read this because i too have the exact same dreams combination. I never thought anyone else also can have the same dreams like me!!

i dont have a remedy but would still like to share my part.

I also see that i am awfully under-prepared for an exam. Or/and i didnt know the exam date thus is about to miss exam/didnt prepare or that i dont know the syllabus or that i have never touched the book the entire sem or i dont have the book/note needed or that i have left the old tuition and thus dont know what to study etc etc. i see this dream often.

another alternative and common dream is, like u said, i am being chased. recently i see, i am being chased by terrorists but i also see some devil/monster/animal sometimes. i am running and running, where ever i am hiding, the chaser finds me, and i run again. i am very afraid through the entire dream, with heart racing.

i also dont see violent movies or any such thing. i was a good student till last year. so i cant figure out why i keep seeing these dreams every other day. (just before 2days i saw the chasing dream and i woke up very afraid)

i also wake up tired most days, i cant remember the last time i slept in peace.

i think Thunder Bow is right, the chasing dream is perhaps due to the fear of being exposed. are you shy/ have social anxiety? do you have any low-self-esteem issue?

have you, in the recent past, missed some career opportunities?? or trying to do well in exams but not being able to?

if you manage to find any remedy,please let me know too.

[ImmerAllein]

Originally Posted by notthisagain

One of the dreams that I have been having is that I am in school and that there is a test or an assignment due. I am always woefully unprepared. Either I cannot find the classroom, or I don't have the books I need, or I didn't study or finish the assignment.

I have EXACTLY the same kinds of dreams about school ! Last night, I dreamt that I was taking a total of 5 classes, and I suddenly realized that I had missed a whole bunch of sessions of one of those classes, and that I was going to fail it. OR, I dream that I'm always late to one of those classes.

You are not alone, my friend

[unaluna]

I am 64 years old and i had a school dream last night too! Maybe its partly because it is back to school time. I dreamed i was going to take my senior year in high school over again.

[yakmom]

I dream that I'm starting high school again and don't know where my classes are. I'm not prepared for them. Can't find the room or textbooks. It's bizarre b/c in the dream I know I have long been out of high school.

[Lugus]

Ah yes – the school dream.
It does seem like most of us have had frustrating school dreams. Although there are numerous possible interpretations, I believe that the most likely explanation is that our dreams of school refer to the school that we all attend. It is the school of life.

Okey dokey now. So what can be done about these types of school dreams? As I said, virtually everyone seems to have had similar types of dreams. The schooling that we all need is not necessarily more world history or high school physics. The type of schooling that we need is the schooling where we develop the less developed part of our psyche. For example, an introvert would need to become more of an extrovert while an extrovert would need to become more introverted.

To expand on this, I was discussing dreams with a man who I have known for several years. He has always had a very good work ethic but is also a low-key, introverted type. Anyway, several years back, he started doing karaoke. By doing this, he forced himself to do things that made him uncomfortable. This helped to fill-in a weaker part of his psyche. A few weeks ago he told me that he had a dream in which he was grading exam tests. This means that he has progressed in his schooling to the point that he is able to evaluate others.

We can now see how he grew. The hard work probably helped but the main thing is that he identified his weaknesses and worked on them to make them stronger.

As for the dream of being chased, it may be that the dreamer is being chased by some spirit. However, my suspicion is that the dreamer is being chased by someone who is part of the dreamer. That is, the dreamer is being chased by a person from the dreamer’s unconscious. I doubt this dream person really wants to harm the dreamer. Instead, she wants to the dreamer’s friend and helper but in order to do this, the dreamer needs to listen to her and try to understand what she wants. When this is done, more helpful dreams will eventually follow. She should not be casually dismissed or ignored but she should be given the respect that is given to a real life person. By doing this, the dream person will become much less aggressive.

The number 50 is the product of 2 times 5 times 5. The number 2 suggests that there is a duality, which would be the dreamer and the female torturer. The 5 times 5 may once again refer to this duality. As for the number 5, I usually interpret it as symbolizing our experiences and the initiation to the next stage of development.

We now see that these two dreams are related. That is, the woman has been chasing the dreamer because she wants to have a more active role in the psyche/ego of the dreamer. The issues with school are due to the dreamer’s not sufficiently developing this part of his/her self.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by notthisagain

Any suggestions?

Are you on Seroquel, by any chance?

Seroquel is secretly the drug of freaky dreams. Your dreams could be caused by a million things I know nothing about, but if you're taking Seroquel, I accuse.

[yugh]

Hi Notthisagain,
Some of the replies above, allude somewhat to my own experiences with unpleasant dreams. I too have had dreams where people are chasing me and I am in a school totally unprepared for an exam. Today...i don't have them. Why?

This reply will be long, since I will describe my own experiences and then what I learnt from them. I will also interpret your two dream scenarios as if they were mine.

About 12 years ago I had a near death experience which changed me. About 3 years later, I began to keep a dream journal and also began to meditate. I had stopped and started mediation all my life, in effect going nowhere in a hurry. This time, I had the intent to keep it up. I had heard that when one meditates deeply, one can touch one’s higher self. I had never been successful at this.

At first…nothing happened. Then slowly my meditations began to deepen. One day I felt my higher self. It was a glorious feeling in effect reconnecting with myself by then…poof! It was gone again as my conscious mind took over. However, I now had the bit between my teeth since I realized why people meditated.

Then one day, I had a meditation that changed my life…

In the meditation, I was looking down at a Russian doll that was myself (the kind of doll that fits inside itself over and over and over again). The first one I was looking at was myself. I saw myself as this old guy (pun intended), very analytical, a loner and yet very caring underneath. Then the second doll appeared.

I was looking at a man who didn’t look like me but I knew it was me. He was standing behind a red brick fence, shaking his first at the heavens, mad as hell. Then the third doll appeared.

I was now looking down inside the doll. It was dark. At the bottom there was a dirt floor. Lying on the floor were two tween-age children, a boy and a girl, both naked, curled up and absolutely scared shitless. My meditation ended.

I came out of it wondering what I had just seen? I knew it was important but I was lost as to the meaning. So the next day, I decided to meditate on the young boy in the third doll.

I knew it was me. I was living in the times when people wore togas, somewhere in the Middle East. Four soldiers were raping me, one after the other. When the last one finished, he raised my neck and slit it with his knife. I died totally scared.

I came out of that meditation quite shaken. The next day, I meditated on the young girl.

Once again, I knew it was me. I was looking down at myself sleeping in an animal skin tent, somewhere in Central Asia, with my mother and younger brother. I awoke as I heard our camp being invaded. I watched with horror as a knife slit through the tent and two invaders entered. My younger brother leapt to his feet to somehow protect us. One of the men sliced his head off. They then raped my mother and myself, cut off my breasts and then impaled me on a pole where I died totally scared.

I came out of this meditation more shaken than the last one. I knew I had to get help. So I went to the leader of a spiritual circle I had joined. She told me they were past lives and that I had brought with me a fear of death to deal with in this life.

A medium then came to my place and brought through an old Japanese warrior who is a guide of mine. He told me I had been a warrior in many of my lives and had “gone off the path”. This was my life when I could address it.

He then went on to say that the old man behind the brick wall was me who lived in England when I was a very rich banker. My kids and my friends were all trying to kil me to get my wealth.

So now I could begin to assemble clues to myself. I saw why I was a loner (I didn’t trust anyone) and why I was very analytical (my warrior side of me). I then went through my dream journal.

I could see how almost every night I was waking up with my heart thumping as I was running away from people who were trying to kill me.

This began a year’s journey where I read anything I could find on what happens when we die. I read many, many different books.

Then I had a ceremony with me, myself and I! I forgave the people who had killed me. At this point a weight was lifted off my shoulders.

Then I had a dream where I was looking down on a dead raven. Its eyes were popped out and its head was twisted. I awoke wondering what this was about?

A few weeks later, I went to a meditation circle and in my meditation, I felt a eagle land on my left shoulder and a female deer nuzzle up underneath my right arm. The meditation leader told me they were totems and to read a book called “Animal Speak” by Ted Andrews. There I learnt that the raven had been my guide for the first 50 years of my life through the time of my spiritual darkness. The dream I had was its way of saying goodbye. I no longer needed it to spiritually see for me.

I felt so sadden to have not known this totem. So I went up high in the mountains behind where I live to have another private ceremony where I thanked it.

I tell you all of this as a prelude to my dreams. I had seen many different people in my dreams and didn’t know most of them. Also, sometimes my wife was in my dreams but she was doing things not typical of her.

About 8 years ago, I had the idea come to me to use my higher self to assist me in interpreting my own dreams. This was like a vast door opening on myself to the world I now call the “multiverse”.

Along the way of this healing/learning process, my dreams of death and being attacked completely went away. I was now listening to myself and no longer scared of dying.

I will tell you of another meditation that changed my perspective on death…

I went to a meditation circle, a number of years ago, in the middle of a great autumn storm. I made the effort to go and found only 3-4 of us who showed up. We decided to meditate together and share at the end.

When I finished, I felt a presence. It showed itself to me as a premature baby boy. I then turned to the woman sitting beside me and asked if I could give her a message. All that I knew about her was that she was Jewish, a teacher and had tow late teenage children. She said yes.

I then asked her is she had miscarried a baby boy? She said yes. And then, the most wonderful thing occurred…

The baby boy turned into a man and sent pure love through me. It was a feeling words can’t describe. It only lasted a fraction of a second but it went to the very core of who I am.

I broke out into tears. The woman also began to cry. The man told me that he was always beside his mother. She told me another medium had brought him through before but she was so happy to hear from him. I am teary once again as I write this.

That man was a teacher for me. He was letting me know that we carefully select our incarnations beforehand. It is not the length of time that is important in each of our lives, it is the decisions we make each moment that is important.

So, with this said, back to your two recurring dreams. If these dreams were mine here is my interpretation of them…

“One of the dreams that I have been having is that I am in school and that there is a test or an assignment due. I am always woefully unprepared. Either I cannot find the classroom, or I don't have the books I need, or I didn't study or finish the assignment. Last night I had a dream where we were getting assignments back and the teacher announced to the whole class that I got a zero on the assignment.”

In my dreams, school is a symbol for the belief compartments we use to construct our lives. What the hell do I mean by this?

I have learnt that before we incarnate, we carefully create our personalities, select our major life events and also choose several or more potential “exit points”. The way we construct our personality totally fascinates me.

I am slowly learning that we select approximately 200 different belief filters. Each belief has a positive and a negative polarity or, one might call them a masculine and a feminine polarity.

These are conscious energy filters that filer out our greater reality, on a moment-by-moment basis. For each belief, we choose the degree of polarity we are going to use, i.e. more feminine or more masculine. This then creates a certain energy vibration for each belief.

The beliefs interact with each other and thus literally create our reality. They then create our thoughts and emotions since they are filtering in what is acceptable for us to interact with.

I have learnt that rooms are symbols of some of these beliefs. We often create dreams where we are in one room, in a building with many or in a multistory building. Each room has it’s own level of vibrations. This is why in many of our dreams we then are going up or down within a room, a building, etc. So, in essence, we are a montage of different vibratory beliefs.

In each life, we struggle with the dis-ease created by each of the vibratory belief filters. The goal is to get to a neutral state. We may incarnate thousands or more times experimenting with different belief vibrations.

The material the rooms are made out of is one of the many ways we symbolize for ourselves the polarity of the beliefs. If they are people made, they are masculine. If they are wood or natural materials they are feminine.

I’ve also found that my position in a dream is also symbolic. So, if I’m sitting down, it means I need spiritual support to even see the effects of the beliefs I am learning about, i.e. the room. If I am standing, it means that I am now able to spiritually stand on my own two feet and see the effects of the beliefs. If I am walking, it’s a symbol that I am now making steady spiritual progress on my beliefs.

So, back to the dream…

Masculine based beliefs produce masculine based belief effects. These include things like analysis, order, control, etc. Another one of the masculine based belief effects is judging myself by how others judge me. So in my recurring dreams, I’m telling myself over and over and over again that I am totally ill prepared for the exam. Then I am getting a zero on the exam. So, it’s time for me to begin to listen to myself and address my underlying beliefs that judge myself by how others judge me.

There is a bit of good news amongst this…the number zero. Who is the teacher giving me this? It’s one of my spiritual teachers sending me a message.

The number 0…

0 is the Alpha (beginning) and Omega (the highest) as there is no beginning and no end; all is infinite. The ancients proclaimed that the ‘God force’ is a circle whose centre is everywhere and its circumference is nowhere. Zero is the symbol of ‘nothingness’ and denotes freedom from limitations in this material world. Zero is the number of the ‘God’ force and Universal Energies and reinforces, amplifies and magnifies the vibrations of the numbers it appears with. The number zero encompasses the attributes of all other numbers, and brings one closer to the ‘God force’ or ‘Source’.

Number zero resonates with the vibrations and energies of eternity, infinity, oneness, wholeness, continuing cycles and flow, and the beginning point. Number 0 stands for potential and/or choice, and when this number presents and recurs it is a message to do with developing one’s spiritual aspects as zero is considered to represent the beginning of a spiritual journey and highlights the uncertainties that may entail. It suggests that you listen to your intuition and higher-self as this is where you will find all of your answers.

So, now I am laughing at myself! Why? Instead of feeling like a total failure I am missing the point of these dreams. My teacher is trying hard to let me know that by listening to myself is where I will find all the answers.

On to the second type of recurring dreams…
“Another dream that I keep having is that someone is chasing me or trying to kill me. Every time I try to run and hide somewhere the person finds me. I remember one where someone was trying to torture me and their office was on the 50th floor of a building. I tried to take the elevator to get away from her but every time I pressed the down button, it would go right back to the 50th floor. And it was a glass elevator so the woman could see that I was in it.”

So who is the someone in my dream trying to kill myself? It’s another life of mine. These dreams are about what I call “command and control” beliefs. I have been slowly learning myself about these.

They are masculine based polarities where my masculine is afraid of my feminine. As a result, I then build emotional and physical walls around myself and try to control others, nature, etc.

I’ve learnt that there is a “controller” and a “controlee”. In these dreams one of my other lives is acting as the controller and I am the “controlee”.

So there I am with my other life “torturing me” in my dream with me thinking I am going to die. So, in the dream, I literally interpret it. Rather than “face myself” I try to run away. So what’s with the 50th floor.

I am showing myself that these vibratory beliefs I have now are at a higher level than many of my other beliefs. The number 50…

Number 50 is a combination of the vibrations and energies of number 5 and number 0.Number 5 resonates with healing, personal freedom, adventure and curiosity, opportunity and courage, making positive life choices and changes, adaptability and versatility, motivation and progress. Number 0 resonates with the attributes of eternity and infinity, continuing cycles and flow, and the beginning point. Number 0 stands for potential and/or choice, and represents the beginning of a spiritual journey and highlights the uncertainties that may entail and suggests that you listen to your intuition and higher self, as this is where you will find your answers. Number 0 reinforces, amplifies and magnifies the number it appears with; in this case of 50, the number 5.

Angel Number 50 brings a message from your angels to do with your health, well being and lifestyle choices. Your angels want to help you to make positive, healthy lifestyle choices that will enhance and benefit you in many ways; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Be assured that your angels love and support you through these transitions. Allow your angels to guide and assist you.

Angel Number 50 also brings a message to live your life as it suits you personally, and do not allow your fears or other people’s opinions deter or hinder you. Have the courage to make positive changes that are in-line with your personal lifestyle choices and ensure that you remain true to yourself, always.

The reason I can’t escape this is…myself. I need to learn to listen to the message I am sending myself. If this were my dream, I would meditate on this message. Also, before I go to sleep each night, I would ask my other life who’s trying to kill me to work with me since we share the same underlying beliefs.

Well, I hope that some of what I have said above resonates deeply within you. You are on the edge of a most wonderful spiritual voyage, if you choose to listen to these dreams.

With kind regards,
Guy

PS For numerology in dreams, I don’t think it really matters which reference one uses as long as the reference resonates with the person. Then their higher self will create dreams using the numerology reference. If you do a Google on “Angel Numbers Joanne Sacred Scribes” you’ll find the reference I used in this interpretation.

Originally Posted by notthisagain

I have a hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep. However, when I do sleep, I have reoccuring dreams and they are unpleasant and sometimes scary. Those dreams are the only indicator that I actually got some sleep. I cannot remember the last time that I actually got a deep, restorative sleep and woke up refreshed.

One of the dreams that I have been having is that I am in school and that there is a test or an assignment due. I am always woefully unprepared. Either I cannot find the classroom, or I don't have the books I need, or I didn't study or finish the assignment. Last night I had a dream where we were getting assignments back and the teacher announced to the whole class that I got a zero on the assignment.

Another dream that I keep having is that someone is chasing me or trying to kill me. Every time I try to run and hide somewhere the person finds me. I remember one where someone was trying to torture me and their office was on the 50th floor of a building. I tried to take the elevator to get away from her but every time I pressed the down button, it would go right back to the 50th floor. And it was a glass elevator so the woman could see that I was in it.

It's like I can't catch a break even in my sleep. Does anyone know what I can try to get rid of them and have a decent sleep? I don't eat anything weird or watch anything disturbing before I go to sleep. My T says that nightmares won't hurt me, but that is no help at all. I journal the following morning but that doesn't seem to help either. Any suggestions?