I rarely have coherent or memorable dreams but had a really horrible violent dream last night. It was a 3rd person perspective like a film, but I felt "attached" to the main protagonist who shot a lot of people in a tower block with a machine gun. When he got home, it went pornographic – I wont elaborate. He then expressed utterly callous sentiments about the consequences. Then I woke up and felt really horrible. I really hate this sort of thing. 🙁

Any psychologists on here? What does it all mean?

I'm jealous, I hardly ever have rudey dreams (less that once a year) and half the time when I do they're alarmingly incestuous 🙁

Odd that you were a 3rd party…

You're clearly a psycho 🙂

Tell us about your relationship with your mother…

alarmingly incestuous

please tell us more simon!!

please tell us more simon!!

I shall not! Considering how much time I spend thinking about sex & women when I'm awake I feel cheated that my dreams are not similarly populated.

What do dreams mean – nothing. Its just random noise in a sleeping brain that you try to make some sense of.

3rd person indicates too many computer games surely?

Did you watch Die Hard 4.0 the other night?

Your not Patrick Bateman are you? 😆

not sure it's random noise TJ, the human brain is crap at 'random'

they have no meaning, true, but they are surely related to memories, experiences and emotions?

Probably michealwright – they have no meaning tho unless you believe in Freud

Pics?

S'Funny 'cause the other night i dreamt i saw 2 huge estate cars full with Hells Angels and they were intent on killing each other until it was last man standing !Seeing as me and Buzz live in Zummerzet perhaps it's something in the air from Hinkley Point !!!

Its just random noise in a sleeping brain that you try to make some sense of.

I'm often able to relate bits of dreams with things that happened the day before, but mine often involve biking with levels of skill way beyond my own, or flying or spaceships :o)

Pics?

that's interesting, inasmuch as there's no actual light involved, and they take place at a conceptual level. Presumably people blind or deaf from birth don't dream those senses ?

Yep, I've occasionally wondered what the inner voice of someone born profoundly deaf sounds like. No doubt google has the answer somewhere.

SFB – thats just your brain attempting to make sense of it. A lot of what people "dream" is construct made in the process of waking up IIRC. Teh actual dream will be short impressions that your brain trys to assemble into a coherent whole

I've been having similar dreams recently involving a vampire (yer classic Christopher Lee-style vampire) charging around the house. It always ends up with me and the dog in the back garden and the bloodsucking tw4t flapping around in the doorway to the kitchen.

I've had this one a few times now.

It's only in recent years that I've become aware of the aggressive aspect of my personality – I'm well known for being placid. There is suppressed anger over various things – I usually channel it into boxing training and attacking hills on the bike. But my shoulder injury means I have had a minor lay off. I wonder if that's caused the violence in the dream.
I've had good porno dreams very occasionally, but in this case I found it revolting. Although the plot was very different, the mood of the whole things was somewhat like American Psycho!

The gun fire can represent the fact that you may feel that someone is blocking a path in life and they need to be taken out of the equation.

However, the gun, being a symbol of male virility may mean you have some kind of angst in this area of your life. Dreams of killing represent changes happening in your life, so it may not be quite as negative as you think, but yeah, given the emotion it may be that you are not finding these changes easy and that you perceive certain people are blocking you in this transition?

i rarely remeber any dreams.when my missus recounts hers there like a flippin novel, she goes on and on for ages.
also ive had about two rude dreams in all my life(that i can remeber) wouldnt mind if i was shy and retiring..but well..im not! 😉

or flying or spaceships :o)

Simon,
Flying is apparantly a common theme for dreams:
http://www.dream2live.com/Dream_flying.php

The fact that I don't have these dreams any more is a bit of a downer when you consider the suggested meaning.
Its about the only recurring dream I can remember; controlling climb, direction, etc of the flight.
Psychiatrists would have a field day.

Do you play video games? If so, they are almost certainly to blame!

Jees this is like a Horoscope! Quite possibly true but likely to be applicable to lots of people on here. Thanks anyway.

Your reference to guns being male virility seems to link with the sexual aspect. Perhaps I should consult a sex therapist? 😀

Do you play video game

Not for years

you mean a 'sexologist'

quote from Amazon on review of this book.

"For anyone who has speculated on the meaning and purpose of dreaming, Griffin and Tyrrell's astounding insights light up the dark corners of the mind. Not since 1964 when Carl Jung's book Man and his Symbols was published has anyone set out to write so conclusively on dreaming for a wide audience.

Jung proposed a compensatory role for dreams to re-establish 'the total psychic equilibrium'. Griffin and Tyrrell leap ahead of this to the notion that dreaming functions to cleanse the undischarged emotional arousals of the day and they explain how this happens through metaphorical pattern-matching. From this one sets off on the journey to understanding the true causes (and routes to healing) of depression."

Mind you, read a few of his books and been to some of his lectures and whilst he talks some sense, some of his stuff I think is just place nonsense.

now I'm depressed about there not being enough shagging in my dreams 🙁

There's a dreamologist in the Sunday Mail. Contact him – he'll fabricate something for you.

Contact him – he'll fabricate something for you.

I'm perfectly able to make up my own fantasies thanks all the same, but no means to inject them into my dreams

flying dreams are awesome. I tend to dream that i'm "buzzing" people by swooping down from great heights and skirting the ground before soaring back up. ace feeling.

Buzzlightyear sounds to me like you are trying to supress some inner feelings of guilt. Do you have some dark secret lurking at the back of your mind?

The porno bit just means you're a dirty wee bas**rd.

Hmm, i used to have a regular dream where i was on a battlefield hitting people with an axe – they never had faces, but i always seem to wake up with the sound of the blade thumping into flesh ringing in my ears.

Am i mental? 😆

The porno bit just means you're a dirty wee bas**rd.

were it any other creature we'd call it "normal procreational drive"

were it any other creature we'd call it "normal procreational drive"

I know of no other creature which uses pornography

I know of no other creature which uses pornography

you're being disingenuous again – he said it was 'pornographic', which clearly didn't mean he dreamt he was reading a jazz mag :o)

As an aside, I'm not sure any other creature (even chimps) is able to relate a photograph to its subject unless it's presented in such a way as to appear real, and I think the same even applies to some human tribes…

he said it was 'pornographic', which clearly didn't mean he dreamt he was reading a jazz mag

Yeah I understood that. I also understand that pornographic thoughts/dreams are very much a human characteristic. Where's the evidence that it's part of "normal procreational drive" in other creatures ?

I think you are being disingenuous again not to accept Full Stop's explanation that the OP is a durty bashturd. Sounds like a perfect explanation to me.

Do you have some dark secret lurking at the back of your mind?

Of course – many. Some I think I keep from myself. Doesn't everyone?

The porno bit just means you're a dirty wee bas**rd.

The stuff I've dreamed before was great! But this was genuinely unpleasant and disturbing actually. And this protagonist I associated was an immoral monster a la Bateman.

That book sounds entertaining and maybe informative.

I had a dream this morning that was both startlingly realistic, but at the same time fantastical, involving multi day bike racing through shopping malls that were built in the middle of man man tracks like you'd find at Afan and the like. A large house I owned (in my dream) in the middle of Wales that had 17 (precisely that number) cottages attached that were rented out to the Post Officce, and a young woman who was being accused of murdering her Sikh boyfriend by cutting the cords on his parachute during a charity jump because he wouldn't marry her…

It was all very very confusing, but no sex, and no obvious violence…

Ernie – chimps and other apes are well known to enjoy a bit of "self pleasure" Its not a long leap of imagination to assume they are thinking abut sex when doing so.