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Edited on Sun May-02-10 09:30 PM by BlueIris
I had a strange dream Friday night and wanted to see if anyone in this group had any insight.
Vampires are a fairly common symbol in my dreams--they usually pop up at least a couple of times a year, and are definitely the most frequently recurring monster in my nightmares. I've read a lot about what they may represent unconsciously--debilitating relationships, disease, threats from our external environment. For me, they sometimes represent conformity (you get bitten by a vamp, you'll turn into one.) This dream was...different than many of the vampire-themed dreams I've had in the past.
There's an acquaintance of mine...let's call him "Michael," who's been a part of my life for six years. He's a nice guy and I want to see him happier than he has been. A couple of years ago, he had a professional fall out with his company and got transferred (demoted) to another office. It's been hard for him. He was at the peak of his career. (Did I mention he is a really nice man? The last person my brain would ever associate with vampires?)
In my dream, he was visiting me at my house and we got attacked by a bunch of vamps. It was winter; the environment and the mood were cold and bleak. At one point, I thought he'd been killed off, and thinking there was no way I could save him, I took off for safer ground (I was aiming for a neighbor's property.) Eventually, the vampires arrived at my neighbor's home, with Michael (apparently) in tow. The neighbors and I were surprised to discover he wasn't a vampire as well. He helped us fight and kill all the vampires, and the end of the dream featured all of us standing around on our street, exhausted and (sort of) relieved. But the mood was still dark. I kind of felt like, "So you're not a vampire after all...yay?" and not feeling much else. We'd just been through such a terrible experience, nothing about the awful situation seemed improved at the end, other than the dead predators (and Michael being alive, of course.)
This dream is still haunting me. Why was my friend in it? And why didn't I feel any better that we survived a vampire attack together?
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