Wow, actually I had a similar dream once, in which I exorcised a girl in the grocery store in much the same manner you described, hurling names of god at it. It was quite a dream, and one of the more vivid ones I've had.
I wrote the parts I could remember down in my journal, it was a little over a year ago.
"I was walking through a grocery store and there were people talking about ghosts, like that the store was haunted, and there was a ghost making trouble. So I went back into the store and tried to find it. Some cans of stuff flew off the shelves, and everything in the back of the store was flying at me, thrown by some unseen entity. I commanded the enttiy to appear by raising my right hand into the air and shouting 'ADONAI, the light almighty, thou art the revealer of truth!' the entity appeared, some sort of terrible visage that was glowy white like that witch ghost, the fake one, from one of the scooby doo animated movies. Flowy and angry, with dark eyes. It threw something else at me, but I was ready, and I said something I can't remember about being cast into the abyss or void, or basically hell type place. It disappeared with a howl, but then this girl that was suddenly visible in the next isle was thrashing about. I don't think that I thought in the dream that it was the ghost possessing her, but some other creature. I laid my hand on her forehead, and pinned her down by her chest with my left hand, the right one on her head. I remember the words that I said so clearly, "By YHVH, divine light of creation, destroyer and maker of being, ADONAI the will of God Almighty, I command thee out, unclean thing, gone from the temple of ADONAI and into the darkness beyond the mercy of the Divine Light, by What will I condemn thee, be gone!' I remember that it wasn't actually as easy all all that, but that there was some kind of struggle, but I won out in the end. For some reason the details are fuzzy about what exactly happened, but it feels like it was one of those astral sort of experiences that don't really convert to my five senses. This makes the fifth dream I've had where that happened. I can't really remember some of the fine details about the surroundings. It seems like I was wearing a red shirt. Like I felt red, in a way. And the girl, I think she worked there cause it seems like she had an apron, but i don't remember assuming that she did work there. When I looked at her it's kind of like i was looking at what was inside, but she didn't look ugly physically, but was somehow made ugly by this other part of her anyway. Now that I think of it there was some kind of mark on her, too, but i can't remember it in great detail. it was important, though, and had something to do with the struggle I had with the demon. I think I must have made some sort of deal with it, because I talked to it for a while and when it finally left I was leaving the store and on my way out I was stopped by a man who was really something else, like I knew he was just taking that form. He said thank you, and then told me he'd be around. i can't remember what he said after that but it feels like I responded by telling him my name, so he either asked for it or gave me his. Maybe i'll remember more later."
I never did, but eventually, about two months later, I had another dream in which I met the same guy from the end again, and this time he told me he heard I was having a problem, almost exactly in the way you described, like it was an insider thing or something. I had just worked a little money mojo to drum up some clients during a slow period, but in the dream I didn't know that's what it was about, I just sort of agreed that I was having problems. And he said he'd show me how to fix it. I think there were more details than that, but I had forgotten to write it down at the time, so it's largely lost. Anyway, I had two clients the next day, and then three a day for the next couple of weeks. I managed to recover my savings to twice what I had in it before. What's more, over the course of the next few weeks, I suddenly came to an epiphany about the nature of abundance and what sort of attitude I had to adopt to continually manifest abundance in my life. I've never had any other dreams like that before, I have only a few recurring characters but they're all people I know in real life. This guy sort of reminded me of Christian Troy, from Nip Tuck, I forget the actor's name. And Cole, from Charmed. But a little bigger and less menacing, but still dark.
I've had few dreams with major occult themes. In the case of exorcism, I think that it is you exorcising something out of yourself, like subconsciously desiring to let go of our excise negative aspects of yourself. I can't decide if that's a positive thing or not, but I have found in looking back that over the last year I have made a great deal of positive changes, mostly by confronting some negative habits, or 'admitting a problem' sort of thing, then gradually just changing to more positive habits and thoughts. And, my magick has been steadily becoming more reliable and powerful as well. I sort of thought that it was possible the mysterious man was my Higher self, or possibly my magickal will. It's not uncommon for strengths and weaknesses to manifests, and in a way we can see our strengths as guardian spirits, and our weaknesses as our Demons.
Even when dreams occur in a literal fashion, like dreaming about meeting your HGA, etc., the symbolism is still important to take a look at. All that's happening has a reason, or your mind wouldn't interpret what was being told to you the way it did.
that's my two cents or so.
peace
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