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Rape dream.
So I've had the same dream for 3 nights in a row now and it's really starting to scare me. It feels so real, but of course when I wake up, I'm fine.
So basically the dream goes along the lines of this guy who rapes me in my house. He gives me a needle with some kind of disease in it and then dashes off. I've never seen this guy in real life, and actually he looks almost like a cartoon, but he's a real man. Orangle hair, dark black moustache and he likes to disguise and travel everywhere to avoid the cops. So basically I tell the cops, and they go searching for him, but for some reason we're searching inside my house. So I wait in the closet where it's safe, but the cops totally miss him as he sneaks in my room, into the closet, rapes me again and almost kills me. And it keep happening in every dream.
There is more too it, but it would take forever to write every tiny detail. What does this mean? A dream of rape, does it mean something? It's freaking me out, someone please help.
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Relax your normal. Many women have this dream. There are many ideas as to why women have this dream. Some might say it is a way of experiencing a rape fantasy. I think that is BS but what do I know I'm male and we males generally do not have such dreams.
It is something that happens in your sleep so it is more of a subconscious thing that for some reasons has been brought into your conscious being. Don't put any more value on it than it really deserves which is none. IT's a dream and only a dream. Stop worrying about it in the conscious world and it should stop bothering you in your sleep.
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Correct advice, I'll second that. Dreams often act as a 'safety valve' in which we face ideas we do not wish to in our conscious state. But the subject matter, however 'real' it seems is scrambled and coded rather than direct and literal. TV and video games just before you go to sleep are not good ideas, they stimulate the psycho-visual centres greatly and can be rsponsible for really vivid dreaming. Music, even fast paced club music on the other hand seems NOT to excite the same responses. And of course, forget ANY idea that it's in any way predictive of a real-world event. That's plain nonsense. By all means try and work out some of the coding for yourself, it's fun and defuses the dream too. Cops might just stand for 'authority fugures'. They fail to stop your attacker, so maybe you're feeling that some authority figure (parent, teacher etc) is not giving you the support you need or want, you feel they're failing you in some way? Rape...maybe NO sexual undertone at all...simply the concept of being forced against your will by someone more powerful than you, the control side of the offence? Get the idea? I assumed teacher or parent as your language sounds quite modern and young...apologies if you're 35 or something mate!! Read as 'boss at work' maybe? Most of all, don't worry!
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Although different cultures and faiths choose to interpret dreams in different ways, they do not actually 'mean' anything in any defined or objective sense. Your brain is just making connections and firing away in your sleep. It is just not necessary to apply deeper meaning to it.
Just like dreams of falling or drowning - dreams of death are very very common. Although I haven't seen studies on it, I suspect dreams of rape are pretty common as well - it's a very basic fear and a compelling, if upsetting, idea.
So honestly I wouldn't be overly worried about the subject matter of the dream, what I'd be asking myself is why it's recurring. Recurring dreams are unusual for most people. If they aren't normal for you, you might want to try and reduce your stress levels or get some more exercise so you sleep more soundly.
Whenever you aren't happy with something your mind is doing the very first step s to make sure you are taking good care of your body.
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