A Recurring (?) Dream

[Fyrenze]

Hey everybody,

I'm just going to share this because for someone who hardly sleeps and who hardly remembers dreams when I do sleep, the past two nights I've had relatively vivid dreams, and this last night's was probably the most powerful feeling I've ever had from a dream.

And a random question, is there any significance to the fact that when I remember dreams, it's usually because I wake up right when it ends, and it's almost always around the exact same time in the A.M.? Or is that coincidental?

So:

I'm not sure if you'd call it a recurring dream or not. As I said, I only dreamed it last night, but I definitely went through the same dream several times with other dreams in between to break it up.

I was with a woman who doesn't look like anyone I know. Upon waking, the first association to anyone I made with her was Jennifer Tilly. It wasn't her, or an exact look alike, but it was a woman who was in the same tribe, if you will. Anyway, we were in a relationship, I don't know if she was a girlfriend or wife or what. We were in a room, either bedroom or living room, with a couch. She was sitting on it.

This part is a little unclear but I think I went over and hugged her. The next thing I knew, I lost all senses except for the sense of touch. I felt a very sharp burning sensation right above the hollow in my neck, then it just turned into a dull pressure. My extremities began to go numb and the numbness spread relatively rapidly through my body, as a heavy slippery stickiness spread from my neck,, which I knew to be my blood. I could also feel my breath get heavier as I assume my airway was blocked. And I knew I was on the floor dying from a slit throat. I assume she did it, but I really have no idea. Throughout this process I was completely calm, just taking in all the sensory input from all over my body. This could have happened within a nanosecond or an eon.

Then I'd have a more common dream of the sort I've always had, and then this dream would repeat. It's funny, Jung (I believe?) says a person's earliest dream memory tends to shape their life, but I don't really have any early dream memories. I have been told stories of nightmares I had as a child from my parents but I don't think I would remember them otherwise. And I have dreams written down from whenever I started to be interested in nonphysical phenomena, but I don't think I'd remember any of them without a journal. Until this one.

I certainly hope a slit throat isn't going to shape my life.
 

Well anyway, there it is. After I thought about it for a while I began to wonder if it's a memory. Past life regression? But do those happen in dreams? I tended to believe dreams were mental constructs so different egos could act themselves out, but I've never had a dream repeat on me before.

[wisp]

Fyrenze,
you say you never sleep!?

If you never sleep maybe your body is telling you something. Interpretation in a general sense. Like.....cutting your own throat?

What gives with your sleep pattern? Shouldn't that be looked at?

[Fyrenze]

Not that I never sleep. Just never sleep much. A great night of sleep for me is about four hours. On the very rare night I'll get 6. That's the most I'll get naturally.

I'm doing as much about it as I possibly can. I've probably tried every suggestion anyone has given me. The problem becomes though I'm so worried about getting to sleep that it becomes work. I get so focused on whatever techniques I'm using to try to get to sleep that I can't relax enough to actually sleep. So my latest thing is to meditate as much as possible. I don't know about the validity of the statement, but a teacher of mine who is working on her psych doctorate claims that 20 minutes of meditation is as restful as 2 hours of sleep. I don't know about all that, but I do find it to be sustaining on those nights when nothing else I do works.

I've been prescribed sleep medication, but I don't take it much, because I don't think I should rely on any substance to get me into such a natural state.

But yes, my sleep problems have been one of my pivotal issues for as long as I can remember.

[CaCoDeMoN]

I've had similar dream/vision, it was extremely real too, I didn't felt pain and I woke up when it ended. I think that it occurs when an energy blockage is breaking, and emotions are released. I think that my vision came from one of my past lifes, but it is to terrifying to even think of it.

[You]

Eep! Dream Succubus run!

[Leo Volont]

Dear Fyrenze,

Wow!  I've been shot in my dreams, and dispatched by grenade explosions, but I've never had my throat slit.

About Past Life Regression... it isn't necessary to go back into one's own Past Lives in order to have such a Dream... we may have been given a Memory Imprint from a Kindred Spirit.  Another Soul in Eternity who feels some resonance with you may have decided to give you one of his memories as a kind of 'gift'.... a 'sharing'.   Sort of like telling you "Look what happened to me... I got my throat cut.  What a feeling, huh?" but instead of telling you or even showing you, the Spirit decided to load his old Memory Cartridge into your head and let you play it back for yourself, putting you in the First Person position... but, really, it was not you... it was you experiencing first hand another person's memory.