Killing Spree Dream Options

Greetings fellow forum members,

'm new to this forum, this is the first post that I've made. I will tell you about my dream, I would like suggestions as to what it means and references as to what things mean in dreams. Thank you.

My dream is this: The hall is long and aqua color like the walls are water but frozen, it feels as though I'm watching myself walking down these halls, a few rooms with people in them and a garage door at the end of the hall. I'm watching myself look into these rooms with a curved knife behind my back, a belt consisting of nails, the ends of two screwdrivers sticking out of my pockets and a hammer sticking out the back of my pants. I seen myself walk into one room and there was screaming, I couldn't really see the people but I seen the blood splatter the wall in the room, I seen myself walk back out of the room and look at me with blood on my own face.

That should have scared me into waking up, but anyway.. continuing.. I'm walking back down the hall and people are panicking in the rooms, I go into the next room and I see more blood splatter and screaming but I don't see the people, not yet. Finally people come pouring out of the rooms as I slash them and they just stand still like disfigured statues as I pass through them checking the rooms for more survivors, stabbing people in the gut and necks as I pass by them, they just stand there. Finally.. the garage, which was the most horrific part of the dream and still, why I haven't woke up yet?

I drop the knife and open the garage to see my mother in my friend's maroon truck trying to start it, I look so calm walking to the truck just as I was during the annihilation of my friends and enemies - I open the truck door and she is crying, pleading to me for mercy and I speak in a foreign tongue.. I don't know what I said, but I stab her in the eyes with the screwdrivers and hammer nails down her spine and back. I spit on her and walk away back to the door, I'm still watching myself and the hallway - there were no more disfigured statues and there was no more blood, the smell was gone. I acted like I forgot it all and I picked up the knife and went back into the garage where I find my mother lying almost dead on the cement and I run to her speaking in a foreign tongue again, holding her.

It was a very vivid dream, I slept for about 14 hours that day after having curry. :| I woke up after that and I just can't stop thinking about it even after a few months of having it. I know it's hard to believe remembering details like that but after waking up in tears, it's hard to forget. A few things that I'd like to point out, one I would never spit on my mom, I love her very much. And I wouldn't go on a bloody killing spree, the aqua - I am afraid of water. Heh, thanks for reading this. I need to figure this out to put my thoughts at rest.

Signed,
Night Wolfe

Well, this is a shot in the dark but, perhaps you're feeling that you need to confront your fears? Have any of your friends or your mother ever done anything that might make you wish they were dead and immediately regret this? Mind you the food you ate might of just been bad (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Another thought that just occurred to me is that perhaps you've thought about subconsciously wanting to harm these people and never knew that you did due to some form of rage that had occurred at the time. Did you notice any animals or signs in your dream? Acid can probably explain this better than I can mind you, I was intending to help you get thinking about it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Uhhh. Haha no, I haven't seen any animals or signs in the dream I don't recall. So my dream could be just as blunt as that? I want to kill all my friends and mother? lol. Hmm, well I don't have any reason of killing them. My mom or friends have done nothing to me that makes me want to kill them, or even get angry at them. Hmm... is there anybody who has practiced dream magick or have any resources for me to read? Thanks.

Signed,
Night Wolfe

If you read my message, I was simply stating that you might of just randomly thought something like "God, I wish this person was dead..." if they got you mad or irritated. Like I said, Acid will probably get quite a bit more out of the dream than I did when reading through it right off. I'll try researching various parts of your dream for you.

Yup, I know. I'm sorry if I seemed irritated or anything. I'm not, I'm extremely grateful for your effort and your time consumption on my thread. Thank you, that'd be nice. I don't know much about dream interpretation - perhaps I'll read more about it as well. =]

Signed,
Night Wolfe

Man I've read your dream but its gonna take me awhile to give you a complete diagnostic of the content (like maybe 30-45 min) and I have a fun test to take in my statistics course and paper due tomarrow for english. But I will make it a point to give you some feedback if not tonight than sometime in the near future. So hang on to your pants.

Interesting dream too by the way.

Ok test was pretty easy got done early and so I have a little time to tell you what i think your dream means: Umm its also just an interpretation don't take anything I say for gospel. but I hope I can give you some insight.

The hall is long and aqua color like the walls are water but frozen, it feels as though I'm watching myself walking down these halls, a few rooms with people in them and a garage door at the end of the hall.

You are journeying through a point in your life that is full of mixed emotions, you feel, (perhaps sub-consciously) that you are stuck in this point in life and see no other option but to keep going. The rooms with people are aspects of yourself (repressed memories, desires, emotions). The garage is the end of emotional roller coaster.

I'm watching myself look into these rooms with a curved knife behind my back, a belt consisting of nails, the ends of two screwdrivers sticking out of my pockets and a hammer sticking out the back of my pants.

You already know what aspects are contained with them. The knife is your resistance to either accept them or it is you repressing them. The belt of nails, screwdrivers and hammer is the idea in your head that you believe you can fix whatever you think is wrong with you or your life on your own. You believe yourself to be a capable person.

I seen myself walk into one room and there was screaming, I couldn't really see the people but I seen the blood splatter the wall in the room, I seen myself walk back out of the room and look at me with blood on my own face.

You feel that by cofronting with whatever is in the room you might experience fear, anxiety perhaps guilt or shame. The screaming shows a fairly high level of an emotional reaction. Whatever is the room is not a little issue. The blood everwhere is something you can't hide. It shows your emotions. Its something you think others might judge you over.

I'm walking back down the hall and people are panicking in the rooms, I go into the next room and I see more blood splatter and screaming but I don't see the people, not yet.

You return to the emotional roller coaster where you realize what you have done, what the thing(s) in the previous room represented. Each room is another aspect of yourself that you believe you can fix on your own and don't need help over, yet the emotional tormoil remains. Its like a never ending guantlet of mixed emotions ranging from anger (the killing) to fear and anxiety (the blood).

Finally people come pouring out of the rooms as I slash them and they just stand still like disfigured statues as I pass through them checking the rooms for more survivors, stabbing people in the gut and necks as I pass by them, they just stand there. Finally.. the garage, which was the most horrific part of the dream and still, why I haven't woke up yet?

You continue to fight off the negative aspects (represented by the people). The fighting is you really suppressing or denying them as a part of yourself. The checking for survivors only reinforces this. If you experienced the sensation that you want to wake up within the dream it is a sign of guilt and possibly saddness or regret.

I drop the knife and open the garage to see my mother in my friend's maroon truck trying to start it, I look so calm walking to the truck just as I was during the annihilation of my friends and enemies - I open the truck door and she is crying, pleading to me for mercy and I speak in a foreign tongue.. I don't know what I said, but I stab her in the eyes with the screwdrivers and hammer nails down her spine and back.

You let go of your desire to hide from your negative inhibitions. Instead you are confronting them head on. Your is mom is really a feminine issue within yourself. Its a part of you that you feel is in adequet or broken. It makes you angry, or at least full of dis-content. Her in the truck is the aspect trying to conform to your desires and get out of you. But you are full of dis-content. Her efforts to leave are not enough. You must fix what she represents within this dream (mom's can have multiple meanings over different dreams). But you try to fix the aspect in the wrong way. Just like in the guantlet in the hallway and how you dealt with the aspects represented by the people you slew, you are dealing with the representation of your mother the same way.

The violence is acting out of anger and fear (these two emotions are actually closely related, think fight or flight response; doing whats wrong and fearing getting caught). The hammering of nails into her is you trying to fix what she represents within the dream so that you no longer feel the negative emotions, so that you nolonger have to go down that guantlet and face your other fears or respressed, thoughts feelings and memories. Thats why you turned back to the hallway; to make sure all the bad things were gone. The speaking in tongues is you, unable to communicate with yourself to truely understand why your mind was provoked into producing this dream.

Mothers can represent rules, nuture, emotions, our own feminine side. In men they tend to be more about rules, where in women they tend to be more about feminism and fathers are about rules.

Over all I'd say the dream means that out of either repressed emotions, thoughts, memories, desires (likely many reasons), you might have gotten yourself invovled in something that you know is wrong, but feel like you can control on your own, that probably breaks some form of rules within your life (school, family, law). Understand that the stuff I'm saying may be repressed, might not be. it might be things you perfectly are aware of and just not handling in a way that makes you happy. Even then you might be content in the short term but you know your actions will make those around you unhappy in the long run.

The dream deffinately indicates an element of stress in your life. How severe is really only something you could know. I couldn't tell you without reading over a dozen of your dreams and getting to know you better as a person. If you have these kinds of violent dreams repreatedly (as in at least once or twice a month) it means that you likely suffered a traumatic event that you either repressed, or didn't properly deal with emotionally. Dreams like these also occur in drug addicts, victims of abuse/neglect, involvement in gangs, violence, illegal activity, war veterans, people in prisions or institutions.

Just because I say that doesn't mean its all thats possible or that the dream is pointing to anything so severe. It could be that you are simply in a period of increased stress (maybe your a senior at your highschool and feeling anxiety and apprehension about the future) and you should consider finding a more productive way of dealing with your emotions. Also attacking your mother can mean you are not expressing your emotions in a good way and that you are not expressing them because you don't want to have to deal with all the bagage that comes with it (the other people that you killed represent different aspects, all together bagage, that you don't want to face). The people in your dreams can represent changes too. And you are resisting the change by attacking them. Perhaps there is change in your life that makes you feel angry or just upset.

Well I hope that helps.

This post has been edited by Acid09: Oct 16 2007, 07:55 PM

Thank you for your time, Acid09. It makes a little more sense. Dreaming ranges from violence to sexual intercourse, for me. I don't mind the sex dreams, but I don't really enjoy dreaming about brutally murdering my mother. Haha. Every other dream is sadistic in violent dreams but I suppose this one sort of just spooked me more than usual because she's my mother and I stuck screwdrivers into her face. lol. Well um, thank you.

Signed,
Night Wolfe

Well I looked it up from notes on the subject of violent dreaming. It turns out that repeatedly having violent, sadistic and sexually oriented dreams may not only be associated with severe truama. These kind of reoccuring dreams can also be a product of a developing body. I'd be willing to bet that at 17 you are pretty much a hormonal hairless monkey like the rest of us at that age. So its actually pretty common to have such "disturbing" dreams. If you've had repeated dreams of killing your mom it could mean that you have an issue with your feminine self. Perhaps you are not as attractive as you'd like or on deeply sub-conscious level feel inferior (because the males in your life tended to be chuvenistic). - those are the most common causes of these types of dreams in adolescents.

I'm guessing these dreams are probably just a by-product of your development and really don't mean anything serious.

However there's no fun in hearing just that so for the hell of it here are some other possibilities reoccuring violent/sexual dreams can mean: (ummm I'm not saying any one of these applies to you. Its just some trivia to kill a bit of time)
Violent and sexually oriented dreams can represent a deeply repressed perversion, the most common being homosexuality. Also fetishism (more common in older people) such as sado-masocism, domination, transvestism, painful sex, bestiality, role playing (in the extreme sense like dressing as a clown or wearing animal suits before sex) and so on. It also turns out that serial killers tend to have violent and sexually charged dreams. It is common for children who have been molested, violently abused, or raped, to have bad dreams as well. War veterans with post truamatic stress often exhibit reoccuring dreams of violence - not with the addition of sex of any kind.

People who have these kinds of dreams tend to have both dreams that are either just violent or just sexual and dreams that mix the two. If these dreams make you wake in a state of terror, sweating, rapid heart and these occur at least once a week over the past several months you could be having night terrors. Night terrors are more common in child and people with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). Come to think of it I remember reading an article in my dream interpretation class that claimed minors between the ages of 12 and 18 who engage in sex, especially "sex parties" - orgy, whatever, tend to have violent and sexual dreams. This happens usually because they know what they are doing is wrong and have repressed guilt. If I remember correctly this was figured based on a number of minors who got pregnent and had an abortion to keep their parents from finding out.

Crazy stuff huh?

+Snorts+ Ok, you're scaring me now. lol. Yeah. It took about a good while to really think about this, just looking at what you've said - Acid. I suppose I've never really wanted to think about my past but lately I've been thinking a lot about it because it has caused negative traits in my personality today. I've been trying self discovery of what I like and dislike, how I think and really focusing on values and morals... but it gets difficult when my past comes to mind - I usually just try to block it out. So.. maybe I will take the hint and try to fix it. Thanks, your information has been really helpful.

Signed,
Night Wolfe

Self discovery? Time to start a dream journal! And if you make a big enough log you can begin to interpret your own dreams because you'll start to recognize the patterns of your dreams and their similarities to your life (past, present and future). Believe me if you keep up at it for a long time you might start to learn things about yourself that you never even thought about - and maybe never wanted to know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Godd luck!