Introduction
I had two previous dreams that I really find interesting and scary at the same time. I think about them now and then to figure out how they are connected with my life. Here is my analysis of my two dreams.
Dreams
Dream 1:
In my first dream, I was with a group of friends and we were having a party. It was a very active and happy party, but some of us were doing drugs. Then I realize that I was with a boyfriend – he was white. I never had a white boyfriend and I never even thought about having one. I am an African American, by the way. So as the partying continued, someone died of a drug overdose. Then out of nowhere, someone was trying to stub, so I woke-up with my chest beating so fast.
Dream 2:
In my second dream, I was being followed by someone. He was chasing me, but I was just walking. What is weird about this dream is that I know that I am only dreaming. When I thought about this, I was suddenly transported to a different place. Then another man was chasing me so fast so I had to run. The man was already near me, and he was holding a knife – he was trying to stub me. I woke-up with my heart beating so fast.
Common Themes on Both Dreams
As I think about my dreams now, I realize that there are common themes in them. The first is that on both dreams, my life is in danger – someone is always trying to kill me. The second, is the manner by which I was about to get killed – by stubbing. Lastly, just when I was about to get stubbed I woke-up. It is important to note that on both cases, I woke-up at the same position – I was lying straight in my bet facing the ceiling.
My Analysis of the Dreams
I was thinking that, perhaps, there was an event in my life that I was running away from – it could something or someone. But as I review my past activities – even when I was still young – I could think of a person or an event where I want to go and just run-away. So I got rid of this idea. What is it that makes me dream about this stuff, then? I really do not know. But something tells me that I have a discomfort during sleeping. Note that I pointed out earlier that I was in the same position when I woke-up on both dreams. It is also interesting to note that, in the past, I had similar dreams. I realize now that whenever I sleep on that position – lying flat in my back and facing the ceiling – I would always get nightmares. As far as I can remember, I read an article once, about proper posture during a sleep. The article mentioned that it was no good to sleep on a perfectly straight position with the head relatively elevated compared to the chest. This posture does not allow the efficient passage of the air through the nasal cavity into to the lungs. The result is that the heart is running out of the air so the brain tends to signal to the heart that it needs to keep pumping more, which the latter does. Now, I realize that perhaps, the discomfort that I felt during those dreams – the fast beating of my heart when I woke-up – were manifested by my subconscious through my dream. My subconscious had to create a story to wake me up so I can change my position and get more air into my lungs and heart and then to the brain.
Now I realize that my fallen or bad dreams are not bad at all. They are simply the means of my body to wake me up, to tell me something is wrong – not with a past or current life, but with my sleeping posture. Nevertheless, now and then I tend to rethink about the aforementioned dreams. I tend to rationalize my further indulgence in analyzing them by thinking that, they might be telling me of some danger in the future. Perhaps, I would have white boyfriend, and then my past boyfriend would be enraged by the idea that I chose a White American over him, so he would try to kill me. These thought bother me, sometimes. But, then again, I have no power over the things that had or will happen. All I can do now is to do the most practical thing – change my sleeping position and see if I get to have nightmares still.
Conclusion
Our bodies and our minds are two inseparable things that we have. I think this is the real reason we have some bad dreams or nightmares. The mind cares for our body because the body is what supplies “food” for the brain. When our body is in danger, the mind communicates this danger through dreams when we are asleep. It is good, therefore, to analyze our dreams and think about their messages for us – there must be something that we need to do or change.
