Nightmares

[The Trendy Wolf]

A few days ago I experienced two nights worth of nightmares, and both of them involved the death of those around me, but I didn't recognize the deceased whatsoever. Both nightmares also took place in my own home.

In the first nightmare, there was a man, to whom we referred to as 'dad' despite him having no resemblance to my current father, and he wielded an ax as he chased and killed multiple people in the house. I survived in the dream, but he chased me around, yet he never killed me.

The second nightmare consisted of an invisible threat, perhaps a spirit of some sort, and there were three humans in the same room, one of which was me. The other two people were around my age and I vaguely remember referring to them as 'friends'. The silent, invisible ghost murdered the other two people in the room, and the spirit also chased me around, but never killed me. I was looking around confused, and I occasionally felt a breath slither over my shoulder and down my neck. I couldn't seem to get away from it, as if it were a part of me in the end.

I have made my own interpretations of these nightmares, and I should add that I was experiencing some sort of crazed depression during those two days prior to the dreams. This depression came as a result of a realization of my own loneliness and exclusion from the rest of the students in my school. This wasn't my first time thinking about this, but that particular thought just hit me with a wave of unimaginable, and seemingly unprovoked, emotional distress that lasted for two school days. I was sad, confused, and unable to think clearly whatsoever.

However, the day after the second nightmare, which was the one that I was able to interpret the greatest, I had one of my happiest school days in years where I was giddy, social, friendly, and I enjoyed every second of the day. I'm feeling much better now than I was then, but I still question why that all happened so abruptly.

My interpretations of the nightmares may seem like a stretch, but it's the only possibility that I can think of. I believe that the spirit represented my unconscious urges, and my mind was somehow hinting to my conscious that if I continued to gradually deconstruct my own sanity, then I would eventually become a killer myself, despising or hurting those around me and only hearing my unconscious wants and needs.

[Hallie]

Well there have been studies done on what different nightmares mean, and a dream in which you are being chased seems to indicate that you are running from something in your life--trying to get away from it, but can't. I can relate. When I was younger I got plenty of nightmares about being chased and I would wake up in the middle of the night with panic attacks. I think there is something in your life that you are hiding from, and maybe you tackled it that day that you were happy.

[The Trendy Wolf]

Well there have been studies done on what different nightmares mean, and a dream in which you are being chased seems to indicate that you are running from something in your life--trying to get away from it, but can't. I can relate. When I was younger I got plenty of nightmares about being chased and I would wake up in the middle of the night with panic attacks. I think there is something in your life that you are hiding from, and maybe you tackled it that day that you were happy.

That's quite interesting, in fact, I distinctly remember another nightmare that I had many, many years ago, when I was around 9 or 10, where I was being chased by a group of witches. After running for quite some time in a place that seemed like a small canyon, I came to a dead end, and I pretended to be dead to confuse the mob of witches. I can't imagine what I could have been running from back then, but I suppose that it was something fairly similar.

I really appreciate your help! I suppose that I should have researched some interpretations of dreams before concluding my own, but it posed some relevance.