What does this dream mean???

[stomach]

I have had a recurring dream for as long as I can remember. It starts off with me visiting an old unused swimming baths. The pool area is tall, enough to accomodate a 12foot board. When I get into this part of the building and look up I see hundreds of bodies hanging upside down, all dead. Obviously I start to panic and run away but in doing so I make too much noise which disturbs something in the changing rooms. It comes out into the main area of the pool and it appears to be a human shaped figure, about 9 or 10 feet tall with very elongated arms and legs and long sharp fingernails. The head is also elongated and very narrow with teeth like a saw blade. It starts screaming and at that point I become aware that the creature is called Banjeba???? It quickly closes on me and as it is about to grab me I wake up.

I find it difficult to go back to sleep afterwards and a few times have actually woke up screaming. It's absolutely terrifying. Luckily it's been a couple of years since I last had it but for some reason I've started thinking about it again. :(:(

[arten]

The only person who can possibly know the meaning of the dream is you dude. You need to start asking questions of your dream mind that is what is producing the dream!

[stomach]

And how do I do that?

[arten]

And how do I do that?

By asking yourself the right questions I will give u the name of a book that shows u how to do it mate it is on my bedside cabniet written by Gale Delanne but I cannot be bothered to get it now I am half cut :D

[stomach]

Cheers Arten. Glad to see I'm not the only one who is half cut. :D

[arten]

hehe :D

[void]

What does this dream mean???

Ah, i'd just written down all kinds of theorys of what I though the various elements in that one could mean, symbolically. But I then realized I'd made a big assumption about the setting you'd described, on which I based everything after that. Was there water in the pool, still? I'll need to know either way.

[metacomet]

I like where this thread is going. I'll be with everyone else who says it's up to you to interpret the dream yourself.

I will say one thing though : what you encountered sounds demonic. Does it mean you bumped into a 'real demon' in the dreamscape? I don't know. 'Real' demons are experienced in waking life (hauntings, psychic attack etc.)

Dreamscape Demons are a difficult topic because most people don't 'believe' it. Hard to talk about.

Do you feel this was a real entity you bumped into, and that it somehow 'invaded' your dream and turned the tables so to speak?

Those are the kind of nasties that I am familiar with. Enter a dream out of nowhere and totally change the atmosphere of it. Turning your parents into monsters, your house into a maze, 'scaring' you on purpose...

[wildeyes]

Banjeba? Do you mean Banshee?

Banshee means a female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. They scream or wail when a death happens in the family. Has anyone died in your family or group of friends recently? or do you still long the passing of someone that was close to you?

[stomach]

Ah, i'd just written down all kinds of theorys of what I though the various elements in that one could mean, symbolically. But I then realized I'd made a big assumption about the setting you'd described, on which I based everything after that. Was there water in the pool, still? I'll need to know either way.

There was no water anywhere. It was as if the building had not been used for years and had fell into ruin.

[stomach]

I like where this thread is going. I'll be with everyone else who says it's up to you to interpret the dream yourself.

I will say one thing though : what you encountered sounds demonic. Does it mean you bumped into a 'real demon' in the dreamscape? I don't know. 'Real' demons are experienced in waking life (hauntings, psychic attack etc.)

Dreamscape Demons are a difficult topic because most people don't 'believe' it. Hard to talk about.

Do you feel this was a real entity you bumped into, and that it somehow 'invaded' your dream and turned the tables so to speak?

Those are the kind of nasties that I am familiar with. Enter a dream out of nowhere and totally change the atmosphere of it. Turning your parents into monsters, your house into a maze, 'scaring' you on purpose...

It felt almost as if I was intruding when I went inside the building and there was a genuine feeling of fear. But I do keep going back inside, so maybe there's something in there that I need to discover??

[stomach]

Banjeba? Do you mean Banshee?

Banshee means a female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. They scream or wail when a death happens in the family. Has anyone died in your family or group of friends recently? or do you still long the passing of someone that was close to you?

It was definitely called Banjeba. I get what you're saying with the banshee angle though. The only person I was close to that has died was my grandfather. Everyone else is still here so I'm lucky in that respect.

[void]

Hmm, in that case.....

I suppose I could reverse my earlier theory on the water that was in terms of a possible 'fear' of the unpredictability of water (the ocean of life) and not being able to grasp it and hold on for comfort, or put your feet down on anything solid due to depth (life). You know, fears related to the unknown.

So, on the flip side, the 'absence' of water you now detail could be interesting in itself anyway. Water is fluid, flowing, not restricted and controlled. All the people hanging above that, may not be dead but 'paralysed' for one reason or another due to no 'freedom/flow' below them.

All dried up, nowhere to go, stuck in a rut. You panic at this sight (being on a website like this, you probably go against the crowd rut generally) and start to run from such a horrible way to live (controlled, restricted, no flow or freedom, etc). In attempting to do so, you awaken the ghoul from the 'changing rooms'. Changing rooms are places where we tend to leave our daily wrappings behind, in terms of identity (for lots of people, their clothes and those outer wrapping are a major part of who they think they are).

Ghoul comes from a place of more 'certainty' in that way, as you begin to flee the sight you saw of all that exposure. It chases you, trying to pull you back into the 'system' of false comfort? Comfort zones of 'belonging' even if it's a prison? "Better the devil you know" and that kind of thing. Others are paralysed. Hanging there. Too late. Conned. Below them is not freedom or flow or fluidity and fresh, but a dry trap they've been led into. An empty pool. No possibility of flow or joy. Dried up. You tried to run. The ghoul may be some 'outer' controlling force that doesn't want you to be different and go against the norm, or it might actually be a manifestation of your 'own' fear of breaking away from the comfortable yet prison like system?

Anyway, these are just some things from an outside perspective that you can play with.

Failing that, any bad experiences as a child with swimming pool attendants? :p

Of course, all I wrote above might just be absolute bollocks :D

[arten]

Hmm, in that case.....

I suppose I could reverse my earlier theory on the water that was in terms of a possible 'fear' of the unpredictability of water (the ocean of life) and not being able to grasp it and hold on for comfort, or put your feet down on anything solid due to depth (life). You know, fears related to the unknown.

So, on the flip side, the 'absence' of water you now detail could be interesting in itself anyway. Water is fluid, flowing, not restricted and controlled. All the people hanging above that, may not be dead but 'paralysed' for one reason or another due to no 'freedom/flow' below them.

All dried up, nowhere to go, stuck in a rut. You panic at this sight (being on a website like this, you probably go against the crowd rut generally) and start to run from such a horrible way to live (controlled, restricted, no flow or freedom, etc). In attempting to do so, you awaken the ghoul from the 'changing rooms'. Changing rooms are places where we tend to leave our daily wrappings behind, in terms of identity (for lots of people, their clothes and those outer wrapping are a major part of who they think they are).

Ghoul comes from a place of more 'certainty' in that way, as you begin to flee the sight you saw of all that exposure. It chases you, trying to pull you back into the 'system' of false comfort? Comfort zones of 'belonging' even if it's a prison? "Better the devil you know" and that kind of thing. Others are paralysed. Hanging there. Too late. Conned. Below them is not freedom or flow or fluidity and fresh, but a dry trap they've been led into. An empty pool. No possibility of flow or joy. Dried up. You tried to run. The ghoul may be some 'outer' controlling force that doesn't want you to be different and go against the norm, or it might actually be a manifestation of your 'own' fear of breaking away from the comfortable yet prison like system?

Anyway, these are just some things from an outside perspective that you can play with.

Failing that, any bad experiences as a child with swimming pool attendants? :p

Of course, all I wrote above might just be absolute bollocks :D

it is lol

[void]

it is lol

Maybe. But it's the sort of thing that would sell in a new age bookshop :p

Because all sorts of bollocks sells well in New age bookshops, I can tell ya :)

[metacomet]

It felt almost as if I was intruding when I went inside the building and there was a genuine feeling of fear. But I do keep going back inside, so maybe there's something in there that I need to discover??

Ok yeah. I think you wandered into a dreamscape where this thing exists.

I recommend you not say the 'things' name out loud, don't write it (anymore)... the fact that you received a name from the thing is enough for me.

No worries, try not to think about it too much. There's no need to interpret this dream or dwell on what you saw. Again: don't write or speak the name you heard.

[stomach]

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. I don't tend to talk about it at all to be honest, it weirds me out just by thinking about it, and I felt very nervous going to bed last night, I had a tingling feeling at the base of my neck. But thankfully a dream free night. People have said to me in the past that you can become lucid in your dreams and control what is happening. I get the feeling that doing that in this dream wouldn't be a very good idea.:eek:

[omnit]

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. I don't tend to talk about it at all to be honest, it weirds me out just by thinking about it, and I felt very nervous going to bed last night, I had a tingling feeling at the base of my neck. But thankfully a dream free night. People have said to me in the past that you can become lucid in your dreams and control what is happening. I get the feeling that doing that in this dream wouldn't be a very good idea.:eek:

I used to have sleep paralysis(spl?) and I had a very wierd experience that I'd rather not talk about!

Anyway I managed to stop dreaming by simply just not sleeping on my back!

just a tip to help you feel better about going to bed tonight! :)

[void]

I used to have sleep paralysis(spl?) and I had a very
wierd experience that I'd rather not talk about!

Yeah I used to have that for years, too. It was full of surreal and pretty disturbing things. Although, less visually than others have reported.

I once played about with Astral projection for a while though, and managed to get out during the middle of the night into a kind of half/half projection.

There was some kind of bloody terrifying entity there right next to the bed which did a fine job of putting me off ever dabbling with that seriously again.

It was tall, grey but had shock white hair, totally white eyeballs, and rammed its thumb into the side of my kneck, pressing harder and harder into it.

I seem to remember it was simultaneously saying something that was to put me off getting out of the body again. It was like a knife cutting into my jugular and I woke up pretty startled, with energy rushes. I'd read before all this that people often encounter a thing called the watcher on the threshold that is there to frighten away new projectors, and kind of seperate the wheat from the chaff in that realm. What it may be is a manifestation of our own fears. I don't know. But the experience freaked me out enough to make subsequent attempts at projection far too anxious to really project properly. :o

[omnit]

Yeah I used to have that for years, too. It was full of surreal and pretty disturbing things. Although, less visually than others have reported.

I once played about with Astral projection for a while though, and managed to get out during the middle of the night into a kind of half/half projection.

There was some kind of bloody terrifying entity there right next to the bed which did a fine job of putting me off ever dabbling with that seriously again.

It was tall, grey but had shock white hair, totally white eyeballs, and rammed its thumb into the side of my kneck, pressing harder and harder into it.

I seem to remember it was simultaneously saying something that was to put me off getting out of the body again. It was like a knife cutting into my jugular and I woke up pretty startled, with energy rushes. I'd read before all this that people often encounter a thing called the watcher on the threshold that is there to frighten away new projectors, and kind of seperate the wheat from the chaff in that realm. What it may be is a manifestation of our own fears. I don't know. But the experience freaked me out enough to make subsequent attempts at projection far too anxious to really project properly. :o

You can tell when someone has actually experienced it, as even in the typing you can sense and feel the absolute fear that was experienced! a kind of connection even through text lol! I feel you, if you get my meaning?

[flylead]

Bullshit.....no such thing as recurring dreams....FACT

[flylead]

It felt almost as if I was intruding when I went inside the building and there was a genuine feeling of fear. But I do keep going back inside, so maybe there's something in there that I need to discover??

dreams dont have emotion.....you cant feel like you wanted to go here or there...Or you thought about this and that then this happened.....
UTTER BULLSHIT......dreams are not prothetic for fucks sake....Why dont we ever ask our partners why we just fucked their best friends in our sleep ?.
Dreams are nothing but.......erm.....DREAMS.

[flylead]

I find it difficult to go back to sleep afterwards and a few times have actually woke up screaming. It's absolutely terrifying. Luckily it's been a couple of years since I last had it but for some reason I've started thinking about it again. :(:([/QUOTE]
Very lucky its.....what!!!!....Been a few years since this dream...and only now you tell us so fucking vividly...But Im so sorry...just remembered, your thinking again...

[omnit]

I find it difficult to go back to sleep afterwards and a few times have actually woke up screaming. It's absolutely terrifying. Luckily it's been a couple of years since I last had it but for some reason I've started thinking about it again. :(:(
Very lucky its.....what!!!!....Been a few years since this dream...and only now you tell us so fucking vividly...But Im so sorry...just remembered, your thinking again...[/QUOTE]

woooaah calm down angry person lol!

there is no such thing as a FACT! thats a FACT!

Its also amazing how much BS is spouted from BSers lol!

I have recurring dreams, I also have dreams were I choose what I'm doing in them (anyone can) I also have had dream paralysis which is SO VIVID YOU WILL REMEMBER IT FOREVER, LIKE IT WAS LAST NIGHTS DREAM!

Get a grip friend, there is no need to have such a go at anyone, especially when you are extremely uneducated in the matter!

peace and love! :)

[stomach]

dreams dont have emotion.....you cant feel like you wanted to go here or there...Or you thought about this and that then this happened.....
UTTER BULLSHIT......dreams are not prothetic for fucks sake....Why dont we ever ask our partners why we just fucked their best friends in our sleep ?.
Dreams are nothing but.......erm.....DREAMS.

Wow, I don't remember you being there while I was dreaming. Incidentally, your anger seems to have affected your ability to spell. Do you mean prophetic?