Ok folks, I may scared you all now...however it is I that should be afraid I think.
My beloved is having nightmares, for the last 2 nights shes got little sleep due to them. She had them before, about 6 monthes ago but they went away. They have returned recently.
The dreams are violent, they involve death everytime, mostly murder, but also the main theme is decapitation. They always involve my beloved itangled in some scenario where she is dealing with a dead body..often one that is dead through her own means!
Last nights dream involved her killing someone by hitting them really hard on the back of the head with a hammer, then scutting the head off. She then had to throw the body in a lake and bury the head elsewhere.
The other dreams have generally involved decapitation, once from a hanging, another time in a road accident. She says its not just as a silent observer but has all the emotions and anxiety that you could imagine goes with it, she wakes up exhausted.
Does anyone have any comments on this ( apart from I should be afraid...very afraid!!! ) . Does anyone know whether decapitation has a certain meaning ( if you believe in such interpretations ). Has anyone else experienced similar?
She is very hormonal at the moment but its not a constant feature, back 6 monthes ago when she had them she says she wasn't at her time in the month, maybe she was but has forgotten..who knows
Booosh
I take it your beloved is not normally a very violent individual. She is probably just reaffirming that with her nightmares. In that case I would say you have no reason to be afraid. She's not going to hurt you, or anyone else. She is horrified by her actions in her dreams right? Well, that's what will cause her to specificly not do those sorts of things, even considering doing them would cause the same or a similar emotional response, I would assume.
Sometimes when I am using sharp or dangerous instuments I will have sort of a vision of myself stabbing myself in the eye, or crushing my arm or whatever. It's a simple mental tool that makes me much more cautious and attentive when I am using whatever dangerous object, and it is completely un(sub)concsious. It doesn't have to be considered a "vision" so to speak, but just that it occurs to you in a very vivid visual way, without having the intention of considering it. I think it's kind of the same thing with your girl.
That would be for me the simplest explanation. I'm not even going to begin to attempt to analyze anyone's dream, my own included, in any type of a freudian matter. IMO Freud was far further gone than most his patients by the time he started interpreting dreams.
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IMO, this is a dream about conflicts. Dreams are almost always symbolic so I don't think she is really thinking about killing someone and I don't think it's a prediction about the future. It could be those things but more likely it's showing that she has feelings that she feels she can't let out. She is afraid that if she does, someone is going to die or a terrible thing will happen. I'm not sure what the beheading means, I'm pretty sure it means something but at the moment, have no idea. The fact the dream came back several times means it's something important. There is a message in the dream for her and she needs to meditate on it. It may be something very disturbing, it probably is but these things are always better when the person understands them.
The decapitation could mean overthrowing somebody in a position of authority. The person in charge is often called the "head" of whatever it is. At the end, the other person is dead and she feels guilty over it. This is the conflict, she has to do something but is afraid to deal with it. If she realised who and what the conflict was, she could make a better resolution. For instance, if it was her boss she could have it out on some issue that she was displeased with that the boss had been doing. Many people feel like losing their job is a major loss like death or she may be afraid she is going to kill him if she fully faces the anger she has. Or it could be something between you guys. The thing is, if both parties want to work out conflicts and not end the job, relationship or whatever, they can always do it. First, she needs to find out what the dream means to her.
Stoney
QuoteFirst, she needs to find out what the dream means to her.
An excellent point, Stoney. Have you asked her what she thought they meant yet, Bush?
Let us not forget that many people have been beheaded recently.
Maybe your girlfriend has taken the news to heart, and her psyche is dealing with it. Compassion at work?
The first thing I thought of, also, was the sorta 'dethroning' scenario... beheading someone is, to me, symbolic of removing all power from them... but that's just me... if she's similar, it could be a metaphor for that, that she feels as though something she is doing is stripping someone of something important to them, or stripping them of power...
also, about the recent beheadings, that was my second thought... almost everytime I hear about a beheading in the company of another person, the first thing they say is "how could someone do that to another human being!?"... that could be the case, that subconsciously, she's overwhelmed with the lack of compassion people feel to one another, and is putting herself in the same position through dreams, to reaffirm how she would feel if she were put in that position...
I would agree, it's nothing for YOU to be afraid of, and should be considered by her as an opportunity to discover something about herself