Recurring Suffocation When Young?

[Midnight Moon Child]

I've been wondering about this ever since I started having this dream, it started I think when I was about six or seven and I continued to have this particular dream for about two years and I never told anyone about it. Im now 17 and I still have no idea what it meant so I was hoping someone here could help me out :)

DREAM:
Im lying in bed ( from where im sleeping you can see to the very end of the hallway ) when I see this black figure walk past very quickly, too quick to describe what it looked like exactly, just a flash of black...anyway...a get up from my bed and begin to walk down the hallway, I walk past my sisters bedroom but don't recall ever seeing her lying in bed, I don't stop I keep walking slowly down the hallway until I get half way when this big grey moss-like substance very very slowly makes its way down the hallway towards me, the substance doesn't stop and it continues to expand and increase in size, I begin to try and walk away but I can't, im stuck in this one particular spot everytime, I fall to the floor and attempt to crawl away but that doesn't work either, eventually this substance slowly covers me and I start suffocating.

This is where I wake up and I still can't breath, or scream or move, im stuck to my bed and the sheets have been kicked off my bed completely, this exact same dream occured about twice every week for the next two years.

I remember one time I actually got out of the grey thing and I started floating, and I woke up on the floor on the other side of the room with the blankets around me :/ Can anyone explain this to me cause it's been on my mind ever since!

EDIT: I have a few premonitions here and there also, I don't know if that helps or not :(

[Hamelyn]

I'm not sure how I'd translate this. I dunno if has anything to do with a premonition, as I don't hear about many recurring dreams being premonitions... most futures aren't going to stay stable that long. Never know, though... if you want a good psychological breakdown, a good friend of mine (he's the father of another friend) does pretty thorough dream analysis. He knows a lot more than I do. If you want some feedback from him he's got a linky thing:

http://dreamwalker.airebor.com/

From a strictly pagan point of view, it sounds like an incubus or something. The heavy feeling, the thrashing in the night, the nightmare, and the violation of personal space. Or it could be your subconscious trying to digest stressful situations. If these dreams tend to come up at difficult times, I'd say it could be an incubus attracted by negativity, or- more likely- just the way your memory copes with it and puts it in a file labeled as "Oogie Stuff." I could be horribly wrong. :)

[Raihn]

Wow. That's quite a dream, Midnight. :hugz: But from the way it sounds, I don't believe you have entirely very much confidence in yourself. Hmm...

The house almost always represents the self. The bedroom, especially your own, can symbolize the deeper, more secretive self...usually your own feelings, and sometimes your self worth. The figure that runs past, to me, acts much like an intruder, possibly even the representation of a stressful situation of which you fear may happen to you. It all basically sounds like the fear of a terrible happening that you are worried of occuring.

The moss is your actual fear itself, clinging to you and sufficating you...whatever it is that you are afraid of coming true invades you and continually creeps into your mind. Possibly a dark idea or a cruel event in your thoughts.

Reaccuring dreams continue to return when the subject is not delt with. So, in other words, whatever this fear, you must come to terms with it...and if you haven't a clear idea of what this may be, you must search yourself. Because the subconscious is a tool that reflects back to you your most inner secrets and thoughts, which, when they are not in peace, are confronted to you directly in dream form...and sometimes they are frightening.

It's sort of your minds way of saying, "You have this feeling or thought inside that you do not deal with. Why?"

[Hamelyn]

See, that's how someone translates a dream. *blush/grin* Hope you sleep better, Midnight! (If I can't be much help, I can be moral support. ^___^)

[Raihn]

See, that's how someone translates a dream. *blush/grin* Hope you sleep better, Midnight! (If I can't be much help, I can be moral support. ^___^)

Aww...you're too sweet. :bigredblu :hugz:

I do hope Hamelyn and I have been able to help you, Midnight! Do sleep better.

[Midnight Moon Child]

Thanks everyone :) This all happened when I was about seven, it doesn't happen to me anymore but I still remember the dream so clearly, even with your very good explanations...I still don't know what it all could have meant, It's weird but I can't remember very much at all from when I was young, that dream just happens to pop into my head every once and a while.

[MysticMoonQueen]

Well.. this isn't an interpretation, but I had something similar with a man in black... he was a none too nice entity who i would wake up to at night... The same thing would happen to me when I would wake up.. I couldn't move.. couldn't do anything... that's sleep paralysis.. there's many different theories on why sleep paralysis exists... a doctor once told me that it was your body's way of protecting itself when you woke up from a nightmare.. so you wouldn't run and jump out of a window, etc. until you gathered your bearings... I don't know if that's true, but he sure believed it..

i believe the reason for mine was paranormal.. and i never experienced another episode of sleep paralysis once I moved out of the apartment...