Dreams

[Redheadthere]

Anyone hot on dreams? Scientific and any other explanations please. In my dream I was getting pushed along to some-place I`d rather not be. I woke up suddenly but felt the hands pushing me were really there, someone actually behind me in the room. It Wasn`t my wife as i was sleeping facing her.

[wildwood]

It was the milkman, getting impatient.

[naomi24]

You were dreaming.

[Redheadthere]

Very much so

[jackthehat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

[Redheadthere]

Good article Jackthe hat! The sleep paralysis was something I experienced while trying to wake myself up. Scary!

[keyplus90]

You have something in your life to do with finance (Insurance, loan etc) that needs sorting but you are trying to avoid it.

[Redheadthere]

Ooooooh, scarily accurate keyplus90. What more is there in this?

[sandyRoe]

I have a worrying recurring dream. A succubus in the form of Julia Roberts comes to me in the night and we wrestle over points of theology.
I'm worried that these visits will stop.

[JonnyBoy12]

Perhaps it was the hands of death clawing at you?

[jno]

she's like Santa, sandyRoe, has to make millions of visits in a night, so it'll always be rather a rush.

[Answerprancer]

Dreams (IMO) are the unconscious mind's way of unravelling our day to day struggles. I accepted long ago that the apparent nonsense and weirdnesses of my dreams are metaphorical 'symbols' of things in my life that I find confusing or difficult to deal with. You could start by comparing *feelings* you experienced during your dream to *feelings* surrounding difficulties/confusions you are currently experiencing. I would hazard a guess that you woke up experiencing feelings left over from your dream.

[naomi24]

My dentist says I've got a smile like Julia Roberts - but I know he's lying. ;o))) Ding!!!

[jno]

AP's right. Regardless of who was doing the pushing, do the feelings you had about the place you were being pushed to match your feelings about a place, or situation, in real life? Keyplus may well be on the right track.

[flobadob]

It probably was something like sleep paralysis. I had it a few times years back.

[Redheadthere]

@jno. It started with me leaving a house full of strangers and unknown people, walking across a field that is familiar in previous dreams that leads to a small village, the road signs that lead out of the village are places that I recognise in real life. As I leave the village I`m in a car, turning left at a cross road and seeing more recognisable village signs I`m suddenly in a double decker bus so I was able to see the top of houses etc. Even though I didn`t appear to be driving the bus I seem to be able to control where it went. That was until I came to a road that leads off to the right. I didnt want to go right and that was when the "pushing" started. I remember thinking "I don`t want to go here". I tried to stop but couldn`t, and felt fearful. Tried then to wake up but couldn`t move a muscle. When I finally woke it felt like whoever/whatever was pushing me was really there behind me.

[Redheadthere]

@ Sandyroe. Julia Roberts suck a what?

[seecse1]

I often dream about me being in my first school running around naked when I am grown up

[jomifl]

A bus apparently, but this is Julia Roberts..