Horror Dreams Meaning and Translation

Nightmares Meaning

Jane wakes up in a state of panic. Her body is covered in sweat. She’s had the same nightmare for the last three nights. It’s always of a man chasing her down a hallway. It leaves her waking up early in the morning with a feeling of fear. Jane, like many people, wonders what the horror dream’s meaning is and why it keeps repeating.

Horror Dreams Meaning As a Venting Tool

If you are having nightmares and wondering what horror dreams meaning is, start by taking a moment to relax. Having nightmares and dreams with negative emotions is a natural function of the mind. These, if had early in the mornings, represent venting dreams. The late stage of sleep is when the mind performs memory consolidation. This is the mind working through emotional conflicts of past events.

So if you have a reoccurring dream like this, all it means is you had some kind of emotionally impactful event your mind didn’t finish processing. It’s just attempting to finish processing it for you through your dreams. Because of this, all the images and sounds in the dreams are symbols related to this emotional conflict. This allows us to translate them to understand what the mind is working through.

Simple Translation of Horror Dreams Meaning

Dream analysis is a popular subject in the world of therapy. Many authors will sell you complicated systems for interpreting the symbols of dreams. However, all of these are for not, because the symbols are dynamic and what they mean has to do with an individual’s emotions. To explain, sit down with a pad of paper and recall your dream.

1. Write out all the objects and their attributes in the dream on a pad of paper.
   1. For example, one man’s dream might be of his mother wearing a witch’s costume and flying on a broom.
   2. Therefore, we have three objects: the mother, the witch’s costume, and the broom.
2. Then, separate the objects into real objects and symbolic objects.
   1. In our example, the man’s mother is real and the witch’s costume and broom are symbolic
3. Now, focus on the symbolic objects and write down how you feel. These emotions are the emotions behind the emotional conflict of your dream.
   1. The man reflecting on the witch’s costume brought up feelings of bitterness and resentment
   2. The broom brought up a feeling of powerlessness or being out of reach.
   3. Thus, the conflict is related to a time when his mother did something he didn’t like, but he failed to confront her about it.

Seek Out a Hypnotherapist If the Horror Dream Keeps Repeating

A horror dream’s meaning only becomes concerning if the dream keeps repeating night after night. This is a symptom that the mind is trying to work through a difficult emotional conflict, but could be getting stuck. It’s a common symptom of PTSD where the events involved are too emotionally intense for the capacity of the mind.

When this occurs, it’s time to get the mind’s help in resolving its inner conflict. I use hypnosis as a way to allow the mind to discharge large amounts of emotion while keeping the suffering to a minimum with disassociation. I bring up the root cause of these unprocessed emotional conflicts and facilitate the mind’s natural healing process to resolve it in a few sessions.

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