Nefer wrote:I had a rather odd dream last night. Usually I do very well at deciphering dreams. However this one is a little bit, how do I put this, out there.
Last night I dreamt that there was a skinny frail old lady with straight long gray hair. She was about mid-to-upper 70s. In my dream she was holding a small animal. I'm not sure if it was a puppy or a kitten. I cannot remember. She was holding this animal standing about 20 ft away from me, calling out for help. She was saying somebody please help me something is wrong with my animal. Except she said what kind of animal it was. Of course me being the animal lover than I am I'm quick to go over there. As soon as I approached her she dropped the animal on the ground and let out this wicked laugh. Then she holds up her right arm that has a small cut on it and out of the cut is coming this worm. It was a white worm that was able to stand up and move about like a mini tentacle. She takes her arm and she comes towards me with it. I perceived it as a tapeworm in my dream. So I jump away from her but somehow this old lady is faster than I. She catches me and takes it and rubs it on my leg. Somehow I had cuts on my leg but they were scabbed up, therefore they were not open Cuts they were closed. When she wipes this worm coming out of her arm onto my leg it breaks apart into several little White worms. At this point I am freaking out I am running around looking everywhere for soap and water. I finally find a half working sink and there is some soap. I take the soap apply it to my leg and vigorously start washing this worm off of me.
Later on in the dream There She is again. Again she is trying to come after me I know not what for this time. However I attack her and I beat the s*** out of this old frail lady. I would not ever do such things in real life.
I have no idea what this dream could mean. I did not eat or drink anything before bed. Nor did I watch anything on TV before bed . Neither did I read anything remotely close to my dream before bed . Does anybody have any insight they're willing to share with me? Please and thank you.
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The Disclaimer.....This is the way I "analyze" dreams. It is my own method because I have never found one that ever worked for me very well. There just isn't much out there on serious Dream Work.
Cliff's Notes Version: I break down the dream into separate "symbols" or "objects" and strip them of emotional significance, and their context, to help the dreamer see them as JUST symbols, not symbols that are Fraught With Meaning to the dreamer. THAT comes later. Please note I did this without asking you how you think or feel about any of it. That's for a good reason. I don't WANT to know how you think or feel about ANY of it, it would just get in the way. YOU add the emotional context that will (hopefully) point to the meaning of the dream. That said.......
I had a rather odd dream last night. Usually I do very well at deciphering dreams. However this one is a little bit, how do I put this, out there.
Last night I dreamt that there was a skinny frail old lady with straight long gray hair. She was about mid-to-upper 70s.
(A sentient “outside agency” (Lady) with malicious intent. One long established. (Old) Though in the dreamers eyes, weak, (frail) and lacking real substance. (Skinny)
In my dream she was holding a small animal. I'm not sure if it was a puppy or a kitten. I cannot remember. She was holding this animal standing about 20 ft away from me, calling out for help. She was saying somebody please help me something is wrong with my animal. Except she said what kind of animal it was.
( This outside agency uses something the dreamer places great emotional value on to draw her into it's “trap”)
Of course me being the animal lover than I am I'm quick to go over there. As soon as I approached her she dropped the animal on the ground and let out this wicked laugh. Then she holds up her right arm that has a small cut on it and out of the cut is coming this worm.
(The outside agency is host to individual parasitic organisms, which exit the agency through the “right arm” as in “The right arm of the law?” Just a thought)
It was a white worm that was able to stand up and move about like a mini tentacle. She takes her arm and she comes towards me with it. I perceived it as a tapeworm in my dream.
(A very specific parasite, one that lives in the gut, or “core” of it's host. One that draws it's sustenance from the food the host eats)
So I jump away from her but somehow this old lady is faster than I. She catches me and takes it and rubs it on my leg. Somehow I had cuts on my leg but they were scabbed up, therefore they were not open Cuts they were closed.
(She was “vulnerable” to the parasite,or would have been, if that which made her vulnerable had not “scabbed over” Also, the outside agency tries to “infect” her by rubbing the worm off on her leg, not her arm or neck, not her face or across her back.)
When she wipes this worm coming out of her arm onto my leg it breaks apart into several little White worms. At this point I am freaking out I am running around looking everywhere for soap and water. I finally find a half working sink and there is some soap. I take the soap apply it to my leg and vigorously start washing this worm off of me.
( Panic at discovering that the worms “attached” to her. Strenuous effort to find a “cleansing substance” that will remove them. Success in finding one half of the “cleansing substance” (the soap) but the other half (the water) is from an unreliable source. The parasites never succeed in “penetrating” her not only because she found the “cleansing agent” even if it was of dubious utility, but also because the only point in which they could have entered had “scabbed over” She WAS vulnerable to the parasite at one time in the past, when the “wound” was fresh, but no longer, her “body” had “defended” itself against the parasite by “healing” the wound.
Later on in the dream There She is again. Again she is trying to come after me
(The “outside agency” is still active, although it now lacks the most powerful “weapon” that would have been effective against the dreamer. The dreamer is having none of it, no second chances, not even a chance of a second chance. The “outside agency” is going DOWN and will NOT be getting back up.)
I know not what for this time. However I attack her and I beat the s*** out of this old frail lady. I would not ever do such things in real life.
(The dreamer is not being “taken in” by the “old frail lady” facade. This “outside agency” is DEADLY and MUST be exterminated.)
I have no idea what this dream could mean. I did not eat or drink anything before bed. Nor did I watch anything on TV before bed . Neither did I read anything remotely close to my dream before bed . Does anybody have any insight they're willing to share with me? Please and thank you.