[MsIncognito]

Just a few days ago I hade two nightmares. I usually never dream (not that I can remember when I wake up anyways).

Dream #1
I had just moved into a shared apartment and one of my fellow mates was showing me around. It was a huge apartment, an people sitting everywhere eating soup. Suddenly their stomachs started rumbling very loudly (because they were eating pea soup) and people turned into zombies! They started moving towards me and wanted to eat me, trying to grab me from all directions. Thats when I woke up.

Dream #2
I dreamt about a friend of mine, that he got psycotic and came to my house with a knife. When he saw me coming down the stairs, he threw the knife under the staircase, trying to hide it. He talked to me, and I knew he was psycotic because he stuttered (much more than he does in reality).

Anyone that can help me out?
Do these dreams mean anything you think?
To give you some background information - I'm in my thirties, live a normal life (job, got lot of friends), just met someone that I hope is the Right One, have normal mental health.

Please help me out!

[Perna]

Welcome to PsychCentral!

"What you are eating can symbolize qualities or skills that you are trying to digest and make a part of your self. Think about what you associate the food or item with to connect with the meaning of your dream." (from: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30246.asp

I think your new someone and that relationship might be "as clear as pea soup" to you? LOL. Mayhaps you're afraid you'll behave (or he will) as you may have in past relationships (automatic pilot/zombie like/doormat so the other person walks over you/eats you?).

The psychotic friend; you know more about him than he's telling you. He got rid of the knife but you figured out he was psychotic from other things you knew about him. I'd explore if there's something about your new love or another friend or coworker, if there's something you "suspect" but haven't even really told yourself about them (or even about yourself; the "friend" could be a mirror for "you"). If the friend in the dream was an actual, real-life friend; check your relationship with that friend, check anyone you know with that friend's name or who reminds you of that friend, etc.

The stuttering/more stuttering=psychotic seems like a literal progression of something obvious to you (so I can't guess what it would be). What feeling, habit, thought, etc. in you is like the stuttering for you that is getting more and you're afraid will get out of hand? What do you half recognize but haven't confronted in yourself?

It could just be you're afraid to hope or commit or something to your new love? New love can be overpowering (whereby simple stuttering become psychosis).

[sky dancer]

Originally Posted by MsIncognito

Just a few days ago I hade two nightmares. I usually never dream (not that I can remember when I wake up anyways).

Dream #1
I had just moved into a shared apartment and one of my fellow mates was showing me around. It was a huge apartment, an people sitting everywhere eating soup. Suddenly their stomachs started rumbling very loudly (because they were eating pea soup) and people turned into zombies! They started moving towards me and wanted to eat me, trying to grab me from all directions. Thats when I woke up.

Dream #2
I dreamt about a friend of mine, that he got psycotic and came to my house with a knife. When he saw me coming down the stairs, he threw the knife under the staircase, trying to hide it. He talked to me, and I knew he was psycotic because he stuttered (much more than he does in reality).

Anyone that can help me out?
Do these dreams mean anything you think?
To give you some background information - I'm in my thirties, live a normal life (job, got lot of friends), just met someone that I hope is the Right One, have normal mental health.

Please help me out!

Ms Incognito--

The only way I have ever worked with my dreams in interpretation has bene using the Gestalt Therapy model. Each element in the dream is a part of yourself--in this modality.

You tell the story of the dream from the perpsective of the pea soup, of the stomachs of the transformation into zombies etc--you just keep telling the dream from all these different perspectives. In my experience, generally an insight arises.

It is usually not literal at all. It's a way the mind gets creative with symbols.

Rather than rely on someone else's idea of what the symbols mean, you have to ask yourself what they mean to you?

Just think of this as food for thought--pea soup interpretation from the peanut gallery.