Strange dream

Poltergoose

In work at the moment and not really getting much done as have been left rattled by a dream I had last night.I'm not usually someone who interprets or looks in to dreams too much but last night I had what for me was a very disturbing dream and it all seemed a little to real and just wondered if anyone here would know much about it.
Ok the dream was basically me in my bedroom with everything as it should be ,it really felt like I was awake.It was gloomy though and I could feel a negative presence in the room with me, so I got out of bed and sat on the floor.As soon as I got out of bed the presence got stronger as though it was all around me,so I began to pray, as soon as I started this I began to get jabbed and poked all over to the point I started to jumble my words up and was unable to remember lines of prayers,then I made a move to open the curtains to let in light but the curtains would not open as hard as I tried move them they would'nt budge and I was getting pushed around still ,I woke up then and was relieved to find it all a dream though it still disturbs me.I was raised catholic but have not gone to mass for years or prayed.Not sure if this was some sort of sign though as I always said if god really wants me to go to mass and pray he can give me a sign to do so.I'm wondering now if this was it.

Ziycon

Around what time did you wake up from this dream at?

Poltergoose

Think it was around seven or something,so got up anyway for work.I know three in the morning being a strange hour for paranormal happenings, glad it was'nt three or i'd a been rightly freaked out

Ziycon

Poltergoose wrote:

Think it was around seven or something,so got up anyway for work.I know three in the morning being a strange hour for paranormal happenings, glad it was'nt three or i'd a been rightly freaked out

I was going to say if it was around 3 then it could have been to do with 3 being the demonic witching hour.

Sephiroth_dude

Ziycon wrote:

I was going to say if it was around 3 then it could have been to do with 3 being the demonic witching hour.

Whats that? :eek:

pretty-in-pink

Sephiroth_dude wrote:

Whats that? :eek:

Its the polar opposite of the time we have for Christs death- and so it is accredited with being demonic. It is also the time that most of the world wake up from nightmares etc. (their 3 am, not ours).

realisticaly, it probably has a lot to with REM cycles, and moving from one level of sleep to the next, and something being disturbed during the process. still a mighty big coincidence though

edit: I meant coincidence that so many people experience this. although, maybe not. I'm sticking with my REM cycle theroy

Talliesin

It's not much of a coincidence that if you take a period in time (3am to 5am) and then hunt around to some reference in mythology to some point in that period, that you'll find one (only managing to get it at the opposite time of day, and only getting a recent folklore reference rather than anything canonical to the mythology in question makes it even less of a coincidence).

That the average person is most succeptible to psychological weakness and negative feelings at this time is known by many people from writers of melancholy songs (Leonard Cohen being just one example) and "secret police" in many countries (best time of the day to kick someone's door in and drag them off for interrogation).

Havermeyer

Have you ever heard of nightmares?

Poltergoose

nummnutts wrote:

Have you ever heard of nightmares?

yeah i have you plank,but they usually dont contain every little detail of bedroom right down to a glass of water i left beside the bed the night before and anyway i think i remember stating at the start "strange dream" and by saying dream i am including nightmare.never said i thought it was real numbskull,but that i thought it might have a meaning to it,something your life probably often lacks.;)

Aisling&M

I had a similar dream about 10 years ago that I remember clearly. I was in my bedroom and I felt a presence that I felt was 'the Devil' who kept waking me up from dreams inside dreams but never really letting me wake up in reality and after about 5/6 times waking up (still trapped in my dream) and praying incessantly I found a way to outsmart 'him'. I looked around and scanned for any slight difference to my own real bedroom. It was when I saw the light switch was slightly in a different place that I realised I had the power over my dreams not 'him'.
to this day I am pretty sure it was an entity with mischievous intent.

As a child I had terrible nightmares and taught myself to recognise when it was a dream and how to wake myself up. Now, although I don't get as many dreams that upset me I can still use it.

Like in my dream I would send myself to the kitchen and splash 'dream water' on my face and I would wake up instantly.
When I got a bit older I adapted it and when I curled up every muscle in my dream so that I rolled into a ball......upon relaxing the muscles I would wake up in my bed.

If this was a one off, maybe think about the symbology of an oppresive presence in your own life.
Is there some battle of good v evil in your own mind/soul at the moment? Something/someone you are trying to overcome?

stevenmu

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hiorta

A similar experience of awakening in a dread presence and being unable to move a muscle.

This thappened at the beginning of the start of me looking further into this field of human knowledge.

I understood the experience to be a clear lesson in the necessity to always aim for your personal highest in this line of work.

Good advise, as it has turned out.