My sons sea monster dream

[lizzy]

This is not my dream but I am wondering what it may mean. My oldest son woke up and told me his dream this morning, this is how he told me.
"I was in the ocean on a boat with my uncle when I saw something in the water, it was a sea monster so I went into the water and swam to the shore so the monster would follow. The sea monster followed me and when it came to the shore it burned up because it was not in the water anymore." I asked him what it looked like, He also told me the sea monster had fins and a thing on the back like a shark and he was not afraid. Any Ideas? He is in grade school. Thank you. Lizzy

[Varzandeh]

Hi,
Dreams of immatured boys refers to their father so the interpretation is for his father.
Being in an ocean means working for the government.
Being in a boat means doing a dangerous job.
There will be a big man at his job and he will resign for a while to get free from the big man or something like that.
Good luck.

[lizzy]

Thank you for the reply Varzandeh, we will see what comes of it! Lizzy

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

Hi Lizzy

Well how old is your son? Grade school means nothing to me as I am from the UK.

Anyway boats tend to link tpo moments when we are on an emotional journey. The monster dshows that this dream is about exploring an emotional journey which is out of control and scarey. Actually an emotional journey in this sense could be summed up by the following sentence...."my uncle was telling me stories which I was really getting into"

The monster element of this shows that hius uncle was perhaps telling him some scarey things. But of course the dream may not be about the uncle at all.

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[lizzy]

unclesirbobbyrobson, My son is 7 he was just spending time with his uncle a few days before and he just loves his uncle they spend lots of time playing adventure games together. so it could be just that, maybe his imagination was just still active from the days before. He just took him out and bought the kids toy swords and they were playing active games together. He loves to play games like this and he is not afraid. He was not even afraid when telling me this dream. Like he enjoys the outsmarting and has fun talking about conquering the monster! Know what I mean?Lizzy

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

well yes that kind of makeas sense. it sounds like a young boys dream. The feeling that he lkikes taking on the monster shows that he enjoys the relationship with his uncle. He enjoys that sense of taking on some unidentified foe. That its himn amnd his uncle against the world

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[lizzy]

I think you hit this on the head,

Many dream dictionaries tend to share a common mistake. They tend to use symbols in only one uniform sense.

This is very true if we look at this dream of my sons in the terms of a dream dictionary we may not get a clear answer but by talking about it and pondering different ideas we were able to come with up with an answer that individually fit the circumstance. Your interpretation was very much on. Thank you for helping me learn about all of this. I find your knowledge wonderful! Lizzy

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

HI Lizzy

Yes I think the answer does fit. Its actually a straight forward explanation. I try to think of dreams in terms of brain functions. They show our thought processes. This dream probably has a slightly deeper meaning. Your son was very much being guided when his uncle was around. the dream occured after his uncle left. To me the dream links to his own need to recreate the feelings and emotions that he had whilst with his uncle. He wants to recreate that sense of adventure. But he has to do this on his own and has to initiiate this rather than before when his uncle led the way. So your son is responding to his own need to get that sense of adventure going.

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