[LilyMop]

Last night I dreamed that I was at my grandparents home from many years ago and none of the family members I grew up with recognized me. They didn’t even remember that I ever existed and they treated me like I was an annoying outsider. I kept trying to explain who I was and gain acceptance but they wanted me to leave.

For the past few months I’ve been struggling with facing some harsh realities about my life... myself, family, friends... all relationships, even with coworkers... I have been feeling overwhelmed with emotion and trying to figure out how to face it all. I have been feeling lost and hopeless.

Do you think my dream is a way of my subconscious working through my feelings in a constructive way? I woke up feeling devastated. My counselor says I will need to face and feel my emotions before I can ever move on and I don’t know how to do that. I try to think and rationalize my way through everything instead... and here I am all these years later struggling with a lifetime of unresolved emotions and issues.

[Thunder Bow]

Dreams are all about how we are feeling. In dreams, our mind processes the days events and how you were feeling around them. Are you currently in a work or family situation where you feel like an outsider? Sometimes you will feel like an outsider if you out grew that situation.

[LilyMop]

Originally Posted by Thunder Bow

Dreams are all about how we are feeling. In dreams, our mind processes the days events and how you were feeling around them. Are you currently in a work or family situation where you feel like an outsider? Sometimes you will feel like an outsider if you out grew that situation.

That’s interesting you said we can feel like an outsider when we have outgrown a situation. I have definitely outgrown some situations, especially in the past few months. Once you reach a turning point, you are done and there’s really no going back to the way you were before.

[TunedOut]

LilyMop
I tend to dream in the middle or toward the end of processing troubling things. Maybe your dream means you are coming to terms with you feelings. After we come to terms with things, then we can stop looking back as much. Hope you feel better and better!

[LilyMop]

Originally Posted by TunedOut

LilyMop

I tend to dream in the middle or toward the end of processing troubling things. Maybe your dream means you are coming to terms with you feelings. After we come to terms with things, then we can stop looking back as much. Hope you feel better and better!

I hope you are right. I really hope I am coming to terms with things. Acceptance takes some work.