He tells me that he is on a boat that sinks and mummy dies, but he gets to grow up.
Now my question is;
Do I up the premium on my wifes insurance before she takes the kids on the ferry to visit family in Ireland next year?
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Dunnno, man. I used to dream of being eaten by dinosaurs that flew up to the window [round door handles meant that they couldn't come through the house].
Last time I checked, this hadn't happened.
You're probably OK.
I'm not worried, it all started when his sister got given Frozen on DVD and watches it at least twice a week - the girls in it get orphaned when their parents ship sinks at sea.
When I was about his age I used to have nightmares about hands coming out of the ground and pulling me down, that one still horrifies me!
I had a recurring dream once.
The boat might symbolise an aspect of his journey through life. In order to grow, he needs to change his relationship with his mother. Death usually symbolises change. Perhaps his unconscious, in its infinite wisdom, understands that he is too dependent somehow on his relationship* with his mother.
Carl Jung, for all his faults, believed that the characters in our dreams are merely symbols of our unconscious desires. By questioning what individual elements, like the boat and the mother figure, represent to your son's conscious mind, so he will begin to understand how his unconscious mind (the dream) is processing his experience and emotional development.
*I say relationship because the character in the dream may not necessarily represent the child's mother, but rather a collection of beliefs that combine to become 'mother' in his interaction with the world.
Jung believed that the influence of the mother on a child derived not only from the actual mother, but also from the Great Mother archetype, a universal image or symbol, along with influences from the child’s own psyche. The child’s idea of “mother” may or may not correspond accurately to the actual mother, then, depending on the child’s own temperament and personality combined with universally-held archetypes and the influence of the actual mother.
From [url= http://thirdeve.com/2009/04/06/great-mother/ ]here[/url]
See if you can get odds from the local bookies on the ship sinking.
I used to have a reoccurring dream for many years from a child untill ten years or so ago that there was a knock at the front door of the house I grew up in, And on opening a group of men would be stood on the door step holding large shiny knives.
At which point I would turn and have it on my toes into the house and they would then give chase.
The chase would go on for sometime as the three bedroom council house would turn into a huge house that started at the top of a cliff but through a great many rooms and staircases led down to the sea.
I always woke up before they caught me, sometimes just as they were about to.
Then one day they knocked and I thought its them ****ers with the knives and did not answer the door, and have not had the dream since, although I sometimes still dream I own the same big house that starts at the top of the cliff and works its way down to the seafront sometimes via a massive water slide.
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I had a recurring dream once.
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*I say relationship because the character in the dream may not necessarily represent the child's mother, but rather a collection of beliefs that combine to become 'mother' in his interaction with the world.
Well, he recently said goodbye to nappies for good - fits the Frozen time frame too. Not even pull-ups at night time, maybe that's what it is 🙂
See if you can get odds from the local bookies on the ship sinking.
I better step on it with the swimming lessons too!
my reoccurring childhood dream/nightmare was horrible.
I was on the front row of and old school roller coaster and there was a goblin type nasty fella on the back row.
the ride was on a massive loop with a dark tunnel as part of it, every time it went through the tunnel he'd have moved a row closer. the dream ended with me walk g up in a cold sweat screaming when we went into the tunnel and he was behind me.
He's not predicting the future, don't be daft, that's impossible. He's remembering a past incarnation.
I had a really detailed nuclear apocalypse recurring dream when I was a kid, with the proper creepy "goes a little further each time" ending too. Weird thing is, I'm too young for that sort of thing, I had no real idea about nuclear war etc at the time- it was only years later I made the connection.
He's not predicting the future, don't be daft, that's impossible. He's remembering a past incarnation.I had a really detailed nuclear apocalypse recurring dream when I was a kid
So you were remembering the last time there was a nuclear apocalypse?
I think most kids who grew up in the '80s or earlier had that recurring dream. We forget how close we really came to it.
Sometimes Ben, they're just dreams. Like that one where I was handrearing tiny elephants with strawberry rego.
Wife's insurance premium and bookies ...
Wet dream.
One of my five year old girls regularly has dreams about chopping people up or being chopped up.
It concerns my wife.
if we are having a go at dream interpretation......until my teenage years i used to have a regular recurring dream of being alone in a pure white room that was so vast it had a horizon in all directions. nothing ever happened but it was utterly terrifying. what was that all about then?
You like minimalism?
My childhood reoccurring nightmare was that there was a hole like the back end of a dust cart in the corner of the room that sucked everything in to it. The dream had a bizarre metallic smell too.
I get a flashback every time I smell swarf. Very vivid and always the same images. Odd.
Christ, you lot got into acid young.