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11 years 3 weeks ago #1 by V.M.A

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  • So, not sure if I’m really looking for an interpretation so much as insight.
    One night about 2 weeks ago I went to sleep early while my fiancé staid awake working in the living room.
    I had this dream that there were noises coming from my basement, the noises sounded like metal hitting the floor and at first it sounded like a wrench, but when I ignored it the sound got louder like something bigger had hit the floor and then rolled away. So I get up and say I’m going to check what it was, but I tell my fiancé to stand by the door incase I need him. Once downstairs nothing looks like it has fallen. My mother is suddenly there insisting we clean. Partly threw the clean up, I go into the bedroom that is down there (it’s the room I slept in as a teenager) and I fall asleep on the futon that for some reason is in the middle of the room. I wake up to the room being dark and some shadow is reaching out to me. The shadow is coming from the closet (which in the dream is on the opposite side from where it really is). The arm is getting closer to me so I reach out and grab this hand. I cant see who it is but the hand is very ruff like someone that does a lot of farm work. (I don’t know why this mattered to me but when I woke up it was the part that stuck the most ) This dark figure led me out of the bedroom into the basement which is now not only clean, but has a living room set up, and my mother is sitting in an arm chair. Now that we are in the light I see that this figure who I am still holding onto is a man around my age, with shoulder length blond hair pulled back into a ponytail. He is a ghost and my mother cant see him, he sits on the arm of her chair and tells me to tell her he is there. I then wake up.
    The man/ghost is someone I have never met, No one has ever died in my house, the previous owners are all alive and well. Despite this, occurrences have happened threw out the house that can only be explained as paranormal, we don’t know how or why they happened.
    The most significant part of this dream and the part that I wanted insight about is that when I started to tell my fiancé about it he stopped me as soon as I said I heard noises coming from the basement in my dream. He said the whole time I was asleep he was hearing those same metallic noises coming from the basement for real.

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    11 years 2 weeks ago - 11 years 2 weeks ago #2 by Stella

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  • The location and people in the dream suggest that your dream is about a family issue. Houses, basements, ghosts and shadows are common dream symbols. Here are links to their definitions on this website:

    house: dreamdoctor.com/index.php?option=com_dre...task=details&id=1035
    basement: dreamdoctor.com/index.php?option=com_dre...&task=details&id=159
    ghost: dreamdoctor.com/index.php?option=com_dre...&task=details&id=895
    shadow: dreamdoctor.com/index.php?option=com_dre...task=details&id=2160

    There are aspects of your dream that suggest that elements of a confusional arousal may have been a factor as well. Here's a link to how they manifest in dreams: dreamdoctor.com/index.php?option=com_con...8ed64ba7f78bbbec0416

    The sounds you hear in your dream that were "coming from the basement for real" is a result of what is known as "dream incorporation." External stimuli (such as sounds or other physical sensations) "incorporate" themselves into your dream. It is not uncommon. It would seem to support the influence of a confusional arousal on your dream, which is otherwise may be rooted in a deeply subconscious family or possibly marital issue, given the other reference points in the dream. Without knowing the waking life background that generated your dream, it would be hard to speculate what that might be. An interesting fact about dreams... the more obtuse the dream, quite often the more unconscious the dreamer is about how their feelings about its subject. This is quite often for self-protective reasons. If the issue or concern is important enough, it will surface in your dreams.

    Hope that helps!

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