The real terror came after I woke up.

[HTiger]

So I had this dream / nightmareish dream where there was a lot going on. But one aspect of it was that I had, in retrospect what seemed to be some sort of an assassin after me. There was this war going on and long story short once it ended I returned to my house and went downstairs into my basement. As I was walking downstairs, I hear a "slice" sound of some sort. I realized that there was someone underneath the stairs who had tried to just kill me when I was completely unguarded -- though they had missed.

This didn't really scare me at all at the time. The weird thing was that I was very, very brutally attacking him (specifically, for whatever random reason, his foot) -- as if he had been this lifelong enemy that I had been stalked by for decades. That ended and right as I think its all good I see him back on the stairs -- I'm below them, and now he has a sniper rifle and tries to shoot me (and misses). I think I shoot him back somehow. Anyways, this is a very random dream. Not much of it makes sense and its downright comical when reading it back.

But the thing that was specific about this dream (which happened on October 9th) was that immediately after waking up I wrote everything into a dream journal. I hadn't wrote a dream journal for years. Its now in my head for a long time. The last dream I wrote down and only read back once, years and years ago, I still have vague memory of. Anyways, the thing that was scary is that after I went to the bathroom and all that and went to lie back asleep, I started to feel absolutely terrified. I felt like writing down my dream had preserved this "assassin" or something, and I was deeply regretting writing down a journal entry.

While my dreams always feel real, the feeling I was feeling as I was lying in my bed to try to go back to sleep was something I had never felt before. I really believed that this wasn't just another nightmare, that this person/assassin/whoever really existed in an alternate dimension and would continue to pursue me as I slept. Worried that he might actually kill me in my sleep. I felt that this was deeper than any prior nightmare because I felt the same sort of fear one might feel in real life after just narrowly escaping a serial killer, whom is still in your house.

What does this mean? Does anyone know what it means to have such a realistic and vivid feeling of a man constantly pursuing after you in your sleep and then waking to feel that somewhere in some other world that it actually was happening?

[boarderphil]

don't mean to burst your bubble dude but you are probably just letting your imagination get the best of you. It's totally normal what you are feeling, but personally i think it's a good thing you wrote down your dream, and there definitely not an assassin out to get you. I am not good at interpreting dreams but i know that the meanings usually have nothing to do with the dream or they aren't always directly obvious. It's possible that the assassin represents your inner self that you are fighting with, but right now i am just talking out of my @$$ lol. Anyway i saw Wolfjk post something interesting on another thread. he said...

Originally Posted by Wolfjk

Hi,
First of all, it would help if you stopped believing in the supernatural. Any ghosts or presences you perceive are created by your own subconscious mind for your benefit! They help create the dream that makes you do what you need to do in sleep to function. Dreaming is a vital part of life.

This is very true, if one believes something is going to happen, it more that likely will (or at least a warped version of what they thought). So remember to have a clear mind before you go to sleep, because if you think you are going to have a nightmare, you are going to have a nightmare

hope that helps