A while ago, I had a series of dreams where I would be dreaming that I was in bed. It was very much like sleep paralysis. Anyway, I felt like I was on the edge of the bed and about to fall off. I tried to move but I couldn't. There was nothing scary in the dream, I was just trying to not fall off the bed.
Hello again! Thank you so much by the way for understanding and enjoying my interpretations! It means a lot. Time to tackle this series of dreams (but in the future please post again rather than edit)!
First Dream
The bed represents the intimate part of you and possibly looking into sexuality. However, since you specify being on your bed, it probably shows some form of feeling safe and having your mind be healed and restored. You could be looking for different things like happiness, peace, or escape. The sleep paralysis that you experience in your dream could actually reflect was is going on with your body. When we are under REM sleep, we undergo what is called atonia, or an inability to move. This helps us not to act out our dreams. Perhaps it was safe guarding you from actually falling from your bed because if you had tried to not fall in your dream you might actually fall in real life? However, we can also look at this symbolically and see your inability to move as a feeling of helplessness that comes from your waking life. It might be symbolic of feeling unable to change a situation?s outcome. It can also be emotional paralysis where you are having difficulties in expressing your feelings. It seems that you are not really scared and are just trying not to fall. This probably signifies how you are trying to overcome problems. You will probably do this with ease.
In summary for this one, I think you are trying to overcome an issue where you have felt helpless in the past. You might have been looking for security or maybe this dream is a reflection of your mind healing and overcoming these issues. If you stick to your persistence, then you will probably overcome these issues. I can also see this dream as simply a reflection of the inability to move that occurs in REM and the dream might be showing how that looks in reality? Whichever sounds more accurate to you is probably what this dream is about.
Second Dream
In another dream. I was sitting on a chair. I was about to fall off again too, so I tried to move but I couldn't. These dreams lasted for a while, and it was kind of weird.
Interesting that here you are unable to move once again. Your dreams must really want you to pay attention to this inability to move. While I can say it is the work of atonia again, I think there is also some more meaning here. First, let?s talk about sitting. Sitting represents being unable to decide on what to do. It can also represent idling and wasting your time. Chairs represent a need to contemplate about a situation or a need to relax. However, since you dreamt you were about to fall off, I think the dream is trying to alert you do take action rather than contemplate. Dreaming that you fall (or in this case about to fall) off of a chair is your dream?s way of telling you that you are getting too comfortable lazing around and not accomplishing anything. Perhaps your dream in making you unable to move is trying to tell you to get off and start doing. Ahh dreams sure are funny.
Third Dream
Also.. I had a seperate dream my ex bff told me to kill myself so I did. I nearly hanged myself in a park, where we often spent time together there, and they came right before I hanged myself to say sorry. I was crying after I woke up, because they know I'm very suicidal and depressed irl. I guess this is a sign I really want to be friends again, but that will never happen.
Awww! :/ This must?ve been one stressful dream. Before we go into whether it is a sign of wanting to be friends, let?s see what all of the symbols mean. First, ex-friends actually mean something recent has reminded you of that friend subconsciously. Although sometimes your ex friend also represents lessons you learned from the falling out. Think about that lesson and how that can be applied elsewhere in current issues or relationships. Suicide in dreams represent escape from waking life, feelings of guilt, and wanting to turn the aggression onto yourself. However, it can also be a way of saying good-bye to one part of you and saying hello to another part of you. As I have said to others, death can usually mean something positive. It is your dream?s way of showing a transformation in yourself. However, I put both meanings so that you can think about how this relates to your ex-friend and the possible lessons you have learned from the falling out. Again, the escape part comes up with the method which is hanging. Hanging represents escaping from guilt or fear. It can also be a pun for leaving something ?hanging? or not finishing something in your life. It is also significant that you were in the park, as parks are an escape from reality. It is a renewal that shows your readjustment after serious personal conflict. Perhaps it is your dream?s way of trying to help show how much you have grown and give you some sort of temporary space away from reality. Your being sorry is supposed to be a reflection of feeling regret or remorse. If you have been feeling this way it probably made itself into your dreams. Waking up crying is also significant as it represents suppressed hurt that needs to be dealt with.
My take on this dream is that there might have been something that reminded you of the lessons concerning your ex bff that could be applied to some issue in real life. Perhaps when your ex bff was telling you to kill yourself in your dream, it was actually your dream guide, represented as whatever lesson the ex bff taught you, telling you to say good-bye to the old you and hello to the new you. It might be that you are hanging on to something or that you are trying to escape guilt or fear. However, the dream is there to give you a sense of renewal. Perhaps you need to deal with some hurt that you have suppressed. Also, if you have been really thinking about whether you wanted to be friends again then it could be that. I do want you to consider the above as well and think about any lessons that your falling out had created. It must?ve been really hard to see a reflection of the feelings of depression and suicide in your dreams. I know I would have difficulty even today seeing that in my own dreams since it would remind me of my own times. I hope you have someone to talk to about it, especially a professional, but if you don?t I hope you can seek someone to share things with. Having someone to talk to helps to get the feelings out there and try to deal with them. If you ever need a talk just shoot me a PM too!
Fourth Dream
we were friends again in this dream, and we were hanging out. i forgot how but he gets injured pretty badly because of me and i start crying on how he got hurt because of me
Again with your ex-friend you need to think about lessons you learned during your falling out and how you can apply it to a current problem or relationship. Like you have said before, it could be again your desire to reconnect with this friend. It can also be reconnecting with a part of your own self represented by your ex-bff that you need to acknowledge. This is also represented by you hanging out with this ex-friend again, implying that you can learn something from your ex-friend, specifically a quality of theirs that you would want in yourself. The hanging out, though, can also be your dream?s way of winding down. It?s implied that you might not have time to socialize during the day. Whether that?s true or not is up to you, but I put it here in case it is. I think that your ex-friend getting hurt could be a sign of healing old wounds and hurts and needing to slow down. Perhaps it is some old wound concerning your ex-bff or an old wound concerning some aspect of this ex-bff that you would want in yourself. Since you felt as it was your fault, then it suggests a feeling of being powerless in some situation in your life. This causes you to cry, or to release negative emotions from this situation. Dreams are a way we can let out these negative emotions when we want to deny or keep them away.
I think this dream might be telling you that there is some lesson from this ex-bff and that you need to start slowing down and healing yourself. You might feel powerless to stop the situation and you find solace in releasing your emotions in your dreams. Definitely think of what the lesson could be, what aspect of your ex-bff you would want in your own self, or whether you want to reach out to your ex-bff and see how you can find a way to take charge and heal.
Fifth Dream
this was a lot violent than my usual dreams, which was me beating my stepfather to death with a baseball bat. i hate him. i suspect its probably a sign of my anger towards him and what he did to me when i was a child (hes gone now, thankfully) but i remember the dream. he was begging for my forgiveness and i just said no and bashed his head in
Thank you by the way for all of the sharing you have done. It helps a lot and I?m sure it probably took a lot of courage and trust in me, so thank you. I definitely think for this dream you are on point on it being a sign of your anger towards him. I will go into detail on the other symbols just to be sure.
Beating someone suggests shoving your views and opinions on others. A baseball bat represents motivating and driving forces. Stepfathers represent authority and protection, but since you have anger and a bad history with your stepfather, then that takes more meaning that the archetypal stepfather. Perhaps you are trying to give your opinion of your stepfather onto others or your opinion of authority onto others with anger being the driving force? It is especially helpful that you said you were angry because killing someone indicates an expression of hidden anger. I also want you to think about if there are characteristics that you might share with your stepfather that you want to get rid of in yourself as well. I definitely lean towards the expression of anger more, but I want you consider that other possibility too. The begging might represent unhappiness and a fear of admitting that you need help for some waking situation. Since your stepfather was begging for forgiveness, it might be that you are afraid of admitting needing help with letting go of some sort of past guilt or resentment. It seems that the dream thinks of you needing to verbalize and express negative feelings. When you said no, you were standing up for what you believe in and making decisions for yourself. When you said that you bashed your stepfather?s head, it also suggests unexpressed anger. Your dream seems to be suggesting a need to express anger in a healthy way. Perhaps since it is the head you were bashing, you might be bashing accomplishments, self-image, and perception. I lean towards the perception more.
I definitely see an expression of anger, though think about anything else in your stepfather that you might have as well that you are angry about and want to get rid of.
Whew that was a mouthful! I hope that this helps!