reocurring dreams

[NeoSaturn]

i have had a number of reoccurring dreams, so pleas help with any of them, just specify which one.

#1.
I am in feudal Japan and it is raining, and everything is drenched. there are 3 people, me a boy my age and a girl my age.
then as if out of nowhere this man my age appears holding a bow pointed at us and i say "you Bastard" and then he shoots and i dive in front of the arrow saving the girl. she falls to the ground shocked by what just happened, and then the guy who was with me runs up and decapitates the guy who shot me. the girl cradles my head in her arms and i die.

#2.
another one i had recently was me and one guy who was shorter then me was walking in a forest then all of these archers appear, and i say the classic "traitorous bastard" line and we get shot.

#3.
now this is a really odd dream, in stead of being just one reoccurring, it is like a series of me and my friends in a parallel world. yet they are so real if you wanted me to i could draw a map of the city it's centered in, but not the other cities i travel to. sometimes it relates to ever day life sometimes it doesn't. and i also had one part of it where my family and friends and me fought against our exact duplicates.

Any help is greatly appreciated

[scarecrow]

Neo,

The first thing I would say is that the only person who can properly interpret your dreams is yourself. The best technique I find for interpreting my dreams is "free-association" and it involves taking each part of your dream in turn and analyzing it, asking yourself questions about it such as "What does this part/thing remind me of?", "Why did this bit bother me?", "Why did this appear in the dream in the particular way it did?" etc.
You'd be amazed at how far such a technique can take you but I would add that the important thing is to be honest with yourself as it is your own subconscious that is sending you the message within the dream. However, you may uncover things about yourself that you'd rather not "hear" but the only way to overcome them is to confront them.
As far as the content of the dreams you mentioned I would say (and please don't think I'm some kind of dream expert because I'm not) that in general dreams tend to be symbolic and so people in your dreams are very likely to be parts of your own personality that may be conflicting with each other and killing people (and it's amazing how common this kind of dream is) tends to mean, again only in my non-professional opinion, a part of your personality that you want to "kill" or shrug off.
Your first two dreams seem to be similar in nature i.e. feelings of betrayal ("Bastard!") - perhaps one part of you has done something that another part of you does not approve of - and guilt (you being killed) - a part of you feeling guilty for bringing attention to it - but these are only surmises on my part and may not be at all relevant.
That's about as far as I can go. Best of luck with it.

[NeoSaturn]

but the odd part is dream #1 and #2 came to me during deep meditation...

[NeoSaturn]

any other coments?

[coolbreeze]

I'm definitely not an expert on dream interpretation. I have a lot of trouble with dreams myself, but in my experience, do NOT rely on dream dictionaries. They are elaborated tales simply for amusement. In my experience I would agree with scarecrow, if you really want to know the meaning of the dreams question yourself about it.
It is odd that the first two dreams happened during meditation. For me, meditation seems to stop reoccurring or bad dreams. Maybe your subconscious wanted to play the dreams over?

[NeoSaturn]

i don't know, but maybe they have some meaning, or possibly past lives, but that sucks, meeting my end at the end of an arrow

[VesAn]

Some questions to help you think about your dreams.

What does an arrow mean to you?  Attacking from afar - cheap?  Speed, precision, something you like/hate?  

Do you like feudal Japan?  Think of it often, or none at all?  What's Japan mean to you?  Lastly, this'll require some research, but is the image of the feudal japan you see in your dreams/meditations historically accurate?  Do the people dress/act the way they really did, or the way TV/Movies/Cartoon shows portray them?

[Badwuv]

Try reading Freud on dreams. I'm pretty busy so I only managed to read some of it, but what I read helped a great deal.  It's very similar to the association thing.  One other thing is that I find that I sometimes have to be blatantly honest with myself when interpreting my own dreams, something that's often times very difficult. So, my point is that you know what your dreams mean because your subconscious created them, you just have to realize it.  "Know thyself"-Socrates
Speaking of dreams, I need slepp

[liquidreality]

btw

what do reacoring dreams mean....is it something subconcious?

[VesAn]

Reoccur means to happen repeatedly.

[liquidreality]

o ok thanks man...