Yeah, I know this is ooga booga stuff, but...

...I just had to post about it here.

A year ago, I had a dream that was so clear and real--it felt as if it was an out-of-body experience.

I was online tonight, looking up dream-interpretation sites that had messageboards--so I could get some opinions on my dream.

On every single one of these messageboards that cater to dream interpretation--people are coming to them
in droves--reporting dreams about the end of the world, the United States being occupied by military
and the United States being overtaken and invaded.

Every single site had people coming to these boards and asking for interpretation of these frightening
and very clear dreams that seemed real.

I was a more than intrigued, because my dream was about nuclear bombs falling in the United States--
in a large city just a few miles from our suburb. That's why I went to these sites, and many apparently
others are doing so as well.

At the very least....it's creepy.

Anyone else having dreams like this?

I would say those experiencing such dreams are afraid of the things they dream of coming to pass. It's like dreaming you've flunked the big test, the night before you take it. It's not unusual - it happens to all of us.

The level of fear in this country has not decreased, or increased. Rather, the focus of that fear has shifted from fear of terrorist attacks to fear of our own government.

Just a sign of the times, if you ask me...

minds of a lot of Americans. That's what they've been trying to feed us, after all. And not just them. You get a lot of fear-mongering HERE as well. If it isn't the terrorists planning to bomb us, it's the neocons. Global warming, the economic crash, etc...

We're standing knee deep in fear, and it's rising fast.

Bad dreams come as no surprise.

lend itself to the probability that you are deeply informed about so many things going on behind the scenes, much of which probably makes you fear the future a bit. I wouldn't think it to be such a stretch that your subliminal mind, through the course of dreaming, would concoct a scenario in which bombs fell on our soil. You read wild theories about so much worse here every day. Why would it be surprising to you that one night you had a dream that pertained to such a thing?

I know vivid dreams can be intimidating and fearful, depending on their substance, but they still don't carry any more weight in prophecy than any other dream. You just simply had a bad dream that shook you a little. But I'd advise staying away from interpretation type sites, since dream interpretation in and of itself is worthless and could just serve to confuse you even further.

Just a bad dream. That's it. May you have pleasant dreams tonight. :)

The site of the mushroom cloud is engrained into our conciousness. It's largely because it is a valid risk given the current context given that fact that the world has united before to take down facism.

My only solace is a hypothesis in dream research called the "activation-synthesis" hypothesis (Hobson, in "The Dreaming Brain") that basically operates on the premise that our brain-stem randomly stimulates regions of the neo-cortext and the forebrain does the best of a bad job attempting to fuse the images invoked into a coherent storyline.

In fact, my "dream" could easily be described as a view of the aftermath of what you were describing in your post.

and forgive me if I am hashing this up badly, someone will surely correct me ... the key thing to remember about dream interpretation is to consider the dream in the context of your own life and the symbols in it. It's obviously an expression of anxiety you were feeling at the time, coupled with your interest in politics and awareness of the situation. Dreams can, in fact, be very useful windows into your own psyche, especially if you are doing therapy or other kinds of "inward-looking" work that is going to lead you to be introspective. A dream like this could lead you in some very interesting and fruitful developments in your personal direction. Jung often painted his dreams, in order to extract more layers of meaning from them, and I have had similar powerful dreams that helped me with some unlocking of my personality.

I also think that we as Americans are beginning to realize that our power is in fact on the wane, and this is going to naturally make us uneasy. The loss of the housing market, the overseas debt to China -- sending, in effect, a good part of our "energy" to China-- and of course the Iraq war are all bringing up the fact that we, as a nation, have not been taking care of "the basics" for a very long time. For example, collapsing bridges because they are not well maintained. In your life, this is the same thing as you not taking care of yourself little by little for a long time. I think we as a country are realizing this and it is going to naturally make itself manifest as a great unease and fear for the future of our country -- which is dramatized in a very spectacular fashion in these dreams. I do believe in a sort of "collective consciousness" that we are all participating in -- see the Princeton Global Consciousness Project if you have any doubts on that point.

Now, if you want to go beyond that, it depends on whether or not you want to posit, as Hamlet said, that "there are more things under heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." If you are willing to grant the existence of the numinous, there are some interesting thoughts there. You may have heard of the Mayan calendar and the whole 2012 being the end of a great era in that calendar. There is a certain awareness of this coming into some areas, and I think it may be creating some anxiety.

I think what you're really asking, though, is "Are these prophetic dreams?" I don't know enough about dreams of prophecy to answer that. Maybe someone else can.

And it's been bothering me all day. Not nuclear bombs, but a similarly terror filled scenario. And I don't usually have these.

It was many years ago, but it appears to have been a reflection of my own life at the time.

We live in very scary times and it is understandable that people would have such dreams now. I wouldn't take them as an indication of what WILL happen, but of what COULD happen if we don't change course.

Too bad you can't transfer the dream to the decision-makers in DC. Maybe they'd wake up!

Your dream would seem to be speaking of very possible potential futures.

number of those who claim to channel information that there will be no nukes. Also, remember that much of that type of information is symbolic to believers, so dreams about bombs and the USA or world ending can mean that a era is ending and a new one beginning. It could mean that this neo-con nightmare that we have been going through might be finally coming to and end. Bush/Cheney may get impeached, and we might get our country back into the hands of those who can exhibit real leadership. It's like the death card in the Tarot deck doesn't mean death but the end of something and that can be a good thing, like the end to unemployment or a disease.

Maybe a general fear for the life or future of someone who lives in a city where the consensus things an attack could happen (L.A., New York, etc...).