I need a Joseph. An interpreter of dreams. Any volunteers?
I’ve had dreams for years and years – often – in which I’m in some sort of stressful situation and am trying to call home and/or for help. Here’s the kicker. I can never properly dial (well, these days, punch) the numbers to connect and get through to whomever I’m trying to reach.
I’m always left with a horrible sense of dread and disconnectedness. Of being all alone or at least unable to reach those I love and need the most.
When I first began having those dreams, I always saw rotary telephones that had the be dialed. But, I never could quite dial the correct numberso or in the correct manner. Whatever. The dreams began with black telephones, but switched to rotary phones of other colors, later.
Then, I began to dream of push button phones of various colors, but again, I could never either see the complete keypad or else the numbers were all out of order or something. Same result. I became terribly frustrated, but could not get through.
Lately, including last night, I’ve been dreaming of holding cell phones and trying my best to punch out those teeny little numbers with my big clumsy fingers, but never succeed. The numbers switch around and all aren’t there. Meanwhile, I’m in some sort of great danger.
I wake up following such dreams with a deep sense of dread that is hard to shake. It makes me wish – as this morning – that I had not gone to sleep at all.
So . . . what say ye? Have any answers for me today as to what these dreams might mean, or are trying to convey? Is there some deep angst within me that I need to try to uncover, deal with and hopefully overcome, do you suppose?
Quit sleeping, perhaps. Stop paying attention to Tom’s current series "Battlestar Galactica" he’s watching on DVDs every day. I mean – I don’t eat much before I go to bed, so it can’t be overeating or heavy foods.
I sleep well most nights, but do have – like "story" – dreams all night long nearly every night in vivid color. Sometimes I have nightmares in which I try to cry out and Tom has to wake me up to calm me.
In my waking hours, my life is wonderful, you know? Better than it’s ever been. I’ve been madly in love with Tom for many years now, and it just gets better all the time.
Do you think I need to seek professional help? I’m certainly not adverse to doing so, y’all know, I think. This may all sound rather lame to you, but sometimes it’s a burden.
That being said – on another note – all my blood tests from Monday came back normal, which is great!! I do not have Lupus, which is great, and I’m feeling very well this week. The weather is gorgeous and I’m getting a lot done in preparation for my upcoming "Road Trip" with my mom and my sister. I’ll tell you all about that next time!
Cheers & Blessings to you all today! Dee
Dee,
Wonderful news about your blood work. If you need professional help, I will have to join you as I have very similar dreams. I often am trying to call for help and can never quite dial the numbers correctly. My theory is that our brain cannot function, in sleep, the way it would in our waking moments, but perhaps our underlying fears creep easily into our sleep. It is my theory and it comforts ME.
Blessings to you.
Do you have the dreams all the time or just when you are under stress? You said that you were worried about you health and some financial stuff, so it could just be that your mind is not at rest due to worry. Do you wake up in the middle of the night and not want to go back to sleep because you are afraid that you will have the dream again?
I used to have horrible nightmares and I would wake up and be afraid to go back to sleep again for fear I would dream it again. My sweet hubby taught me to say “in the name of Jesus, I command you to leave my dreams” and you know I never dream it again once I say that! Maybe that will work for you too!
Another idea is to play some type of soothing music while you sleep, so that your subconsciousness is peaceful.
Don’t know if any of this will help but it is certainly worth a try and a lot cheaper than a psychiatrist!
P. S. If any of these things help, I will be happy to send you a bill for my services!
Just joking!!!!!
Ladies – Thanks for your input. Makes me feel much better.
And, Michelle, I WOULD send you payment for services rendered, but we have joined the ranks of the downturn economically oppressed! Which, could very well, be one of the causes of my bad dreams, for sure.
What we need here is input from the guys. Like hypnotist Dr. Greg, who should have some cogent answers to all my dream questions. For a price, I’m sure.
I asked my beloved Dr. Tom at lunch for his opinion, after relating to him the tenor of my dreams over the years. He listened studiously. Then when I asked, “Do you think I’m crazy?”, he immediately responded, “Yes!”
So much for HIS input!
Michelle – I’ve actually done exactly what you said to do when I’ve awakened from nightmares and it DOES work!
Okay, guys. What say ye? Let’s hear it.
Dee
Dreams are crazy things. Just check out my latest post. I remember when my wife woke up from a dream to tell me in it, her Mom confessed to her that she had an affair with JFK and she was the “love child” from that encounter. She said she could remember saying in the dream, “I’m a Kennedy?” Crazy stuff.
After becoming an adult and until I was in my later 50′s, I had a recurring dream. I would be halfway between the little town where I was born and lived until I was 7 and the county seat 10 miles away. It would be getting dark, I was on a US highway, frightened and alone. I asked my husband to walk the 10 miles from the little town to the county seat. My uncle dropped us off while it was still dark, and we made the walk. I’d worked one summer at the weekly county newspaper so we walked right to their office. As I knew they would, they took our picture and an article about the walk appeared in the next issue. Since then I’ve never had the dream. Maybe you can use this as a creative way to be freed of your dream.
The last paragraph was certainly an answer to prayers! As for your dreams, if I could analyze dreams, I’d have far more restful nights. I have crazy dreams all the time and oft-recurring dreams with the same story. I have found that typically the purchase of a new guitar seems to put the nightmares at bay for a while.
I read a book by M. Scott Peck which he highlighted recurring dreams from patients he had seen. In every case, the dreams did represent something from real life.
It was fascinating to me to see how he was able to draw the correlations between the symbols in the dream and the realities in the patients lives. I think if you opened yourself up and truly meditated on your life that you would be able to do the same thing.
I think the dream is your subconcious trying to tap you on the shoulder to something that is unresolved in your life and you’ve been suppressing it…based on what I’ve read.