My sister's dream

[Emaleth]

Merrry meet!

I wanted to ask your opinion about a queer dream my sister has been having since early childhood. Many times we've tried to analyze and interpret it together, but it is difficult.

This dream is terryfying, when my sister was very small, like 2 or 3 years old, she would wake up crying in the middle of the night when she had that dream. It is extremely difficult to describe it, because this dream consists more of feelings and sensations that images or events.

Every time in this dream she feels that something awful is going to happen or is happening. There is a feeling of tragedy, hopelessness. It's like someone was dying and was aware of it. She associates the dream with some kind of an accident, maybe a train crash, she feels it's like one of those old trains that were used in the 19th century. There is also a feelling of being trapped somewhere, unable to move, crushed. And then a feeling of lightness, as if released from a great burden (physical burden).

She also feels something like the pressure of one substance on another, something hard on something soft, metal on flesh (?).

Another thing is that she associates number 6 with the dream.

She hasn't had this dream for five years now, but now and then the feelings from it come back and haunt her. They came unexpectedly, when she isn't thinking about the dream at all, and they remain for a couple of minutes. My sister says it's impossible to get rid of them just by thinking about something else, they are like a change of atmosphere, something she can't control.

My interpretation is that this may be a past life memory. This could explain the very vivid feelings she has in connection with the dream. But I'm not a dream expert, this may be something else.

What do you think? What may be the meaning of this strange dream?

Blessed Be

[Myst]

Originally posted by Emaleth
My interpretation is that this may be a past life memory. This could explain the very vivid feelings she has in connection with the dream. But I'm not a dream expert, this may be something else.

I was thinking that even before I finished half your post. I agree.

[Azure]

From what I've read, what you are describing sounds like what researchers consider the best and most likely kind of past-life recall. It usually shows up in children between the ages of 3-6 or 7 and generally fades before they are ten or so.

The alternative is that she may have been influenced by something else outside - a movie that scared her or something like that when she was barely old enough to remember, that manifests itself as a stress dream.

Either way, you might want to find some sort of "key" she can use to calm down when that sense comes over her - relaxation techniques that are very simple, or happy thoughts she can use to trigger a sense of calm.

[Silver Venus]

Good advice! I agree too, breathing and focusing her mind on something positive, a special calming place she can go in her minds eye would be great practice for her.

[Emaleth]

Thanks from me and my sis! This was pretty much what we had expected and I'm sure she will want to try some relaxation techniques. The most important thing for her was, however, to identify the source of the dream, so that she could understand the meaning better. So thanks for confirming our guesses:)

Blessed Be

[Flar's Freyja]

I agree with the interpretation that it's connected to a past life memory ~ or that it could also have been connected to a current trauma in childhood that she was going through at the time. I'd be interested to know at what age she started having the dream. Even if there was nothing particularly traumatic going on, some children go through a period where they fear losing their parents or other loved ones.

[Mithrea]

While I agree that it may be a past life memory, it also sounds very, very similar to my cousin's daugther's description of her own birth. She is only six now and started telling us about this as soon as she could talk. It's that feeling of tragedy and being crushed and then release that reminded me of it. Also the metal on flesh part makes me think of forceps. It's just something to think about. Does the number six have anything to do with her birth? Say, in her bday or maybe how long your Mom was in labor?

[Emaleth]

She started having the dream when she was 2 or 3 and finished having it when she was about 14 (she's now almost 19). I don't remember any particular trauma she might have experienced at that age, we had a perfectly happy childhood, no strange incidents, at least as far as I can remember (I'm only 3 years older). Maybe it could be connected with the fact that when she was 3 she went to a nursery school, so she might have feared the separation from parents. What my mom says, is that as a small child my sister was afraid of old trams that were very noisy, but I don't know how significant this was.

There also weren't any problems with her birth, the labor lasted something like 4 hours, and her birthday is on 24 September (1983), so no 6. I can't think of anything connected with that number (only that my birthday is on the 6th :) But I don't think it has anything to do with the problem.

Blessed Be

[Scarlett O]

I with you on the past-life memory. I'd want to know more though.

Since you mentioned trains several times and the 19th centuary I'd start there...You might try finding about any bad train crashes in the 1800's. I'd start with the general area in which you live and go from there. The number 6 could be the train number, the month or day of the crash or even when the train departed or it's scheduled arrival. I know it could also be the seat number or the answer to the math problem that she had just figured out on impact. It could be any number of things, but I'd start with the obvious.

I have no idea where to start looking for this stuff, but I know I'd have to try and find it...that's just me.

Also, has she considered going under hypnosis? If she did and it was successful, that could stop her "flashbacks" altogether.

***Edited, to say that I just read your thread on hypsosis...I understand your reasoning.***