Serious Nightmare

[JadeScarlet]

At my parents house with my mother, I see an old poster from an art festival advertising activities that I liked to do. I do not remember ever going to the festival. My mother reminds me that I did go, with childhood friends whom I also can’t remember.

Next, I meet with the mother of a childhood friend that I had forgotten, who shows me a photograph of me with 3 other girls at the age of ten. I now remember the girls, and I remember going to the festival with them, but I can’t remember their names.

The other girls mother tells me that something happened at that festival 20 years ago and the police are investigating. I remember that while we were playing at the festival we found a baby in the basket and had alerted the police. I now remember that they could not find the babies mother.

The other girl’s mother tells me that a man has come forward who thinks that he was the babies father, so now the police are reopening the case.

I meet the other girls as adults, and find one of them has died recently. We start chatting and become friends again. I wonder why I ever lost contact with them, since we got along so well as children and now get a long as adults.

I suddenly remember something else. I ask the other girls if they remember going to a show in a crowded pavilion. We were waiting for it to start, when there was an announcement about a missing boy, about five years old. We tell each other that we hope the boy finds his parents and pray for him.

At this point the dream changes from color to black and white. A little boy, about three, grabs my shirt and tries to look up it. I try to lean over, to tell him that it is rude to look up a ladies shirt. But he grabs my stomach and lifts me in the air. At this point I think I start to wake up, and it feels like I’m in my bed at my parent’s house and something is pressing on my stomach still. I feel like there is some dark presence around me, and don’t open my eyes, instead I start saying “You have to leave. You have no power over me. You are not welcome here. You have to leave. I will not let you come near me.” Over and over again, but I still feel something pushing on my stomach. I finally open my eyes, expecting that nothing will be there. It is completely dark but I see a glowing reddish orange demon grabbing at my stomach.

I screamed louder than I’ve ever screamed before, and it was my husband who woke me up for real.

[JadeScarlet]

The above dream was intensely detailed, so I tried to abbreviate it to just the major events and pick out common themes, because when I first wrote it out, it was several pages longer. I have some ideas about interpretation, but I appreciate the opinion of an outsider or comments on my interpretation.

Themes: memory loss, recovering childhood memories, children, happy childhood memories, searching for something lost, lost children.

Symbols: many objects relating to hobbies that I enjoy like movies and games, Also references to my work (a poster on the wall in the background had notices about school lectures related to my studies); Laughter, friendship; A change from a color dream to a black and white dream, to complete darkness except for a glowing orange demon; Names of girls (Debbie (short for Debra or Deborah) (English/Hebrew - Bee), Kelly (Irish - bright headed), Deirdre (Irish - chattering). One of the girls was in a wheelchair when I met her as a child, as an adult when reunited with the others I found out that she had died. It surprised me because even though she was in a wheelchair as a child, I had thought she was very strong.

Interpretation: My husband and I want to have a baby. Does a terrifying demon child grabbing at my stomach have something to do with pregnancy? There were lots of happy moments with me as a child playing with other children but they were mixed with incidents of lost children. Should I see if there is something unknown that is wrong with my health, related to whether or not I can have children? I'm feeling very worried now.

I'd appreciate any comments, or if there is a suggestion for an alternative interpretation.

[Wolfjk]

Originally Posted by JadeScarlet

The above dream was intensely detailed, so I tried to abbreviate it to just the major events and pick out common themes, because when I first wrote it out, it was several pages longer. I have some ideas about interpretation, but I appreciate the opinion of an outsider or comments on my interpretation.

Themes: memory loss, recovering childhood memories, children, happy childhood memories, searching for something lost, lost children.

Symbols: many objects relating to hobbies that I enjoy like movies and games, Also references to my work (a poster on the wall in the background had notices about school lectures related to my studies); Laughter, friendship; A change from a color dream to a black and white dream, to complete darkness except for a glowing orange demon; Names of girls (Debbie (short for Debra or Deborah) (English/Hebrew - Bee), Kelly (Irish - bright headed), Deirdre (Irish - chattering). One of the girls was in a wheelchair when I met her as a child, as an adult when reunited with the others I found out that she had died. It surprised me because even though she was in a wheelchair as a child, I had thought she was very strong.

Interpretation: My husband and I want to have a baby. Does a terrifying demon child grabbing at my stomach have something to do with pregnancy? There were lots of happy moments with me as a child playing with other children but they were mixed with incidents of lost children. Should I see if there is something unknown that is wrong with my health, related to whether or not I can have children? I'm feeling very worried now.

I'd appreciate any comments, or if there is a suggestion for an alternative interpretation.

Hi,
Your dream relates only to the sleep it happened in. You may not like what I say but your dream was caused by you lying on your back with your arms resting on your stomach! In this sleeping position breathing becomes difficult, the hands become progressively heavier and eventually a nightmare have towake you up!
Your dream is similar to sleep paralysis. In essence the dream frightens you awake.
You can have a look at this thread
Cheers Wolfjk

[JadeScarlet]

The problem with that is that I was not on my back, but on my side, and my arms were not on my stomach, they were next to me. I checked with my husband who woke me up. He was awake when I started screaming.