This is only my second post here although I have been reading and studying the forum and Casschat for a while now. I have wondered about the following dream on and off all my life, for it was very vivid to me.
When I was 3 or 4 years old, I had a dream that totally terrified me. It's also the first dream I ever remember having and it was a repeating dream.
My dream would start by me running as fast as my little legs would carry me. I would be sobbing and I was, as I said above, terrified. Behing me was a long line of robed beings. The robes were dark gray and covered their whole body and had hoods pulled up, their hands were crossed in front of them and inserted into the opposite sleeves so there was nothing showing as to a body, hand, or head. All you could see were the robes. Hanging from the crossed hands were small pots on chains and a smoke or mist was coming out of these pots, which made the entire scene misty or smokey. But, at one point as I was running I turned back to see how close they were to me as I was sure, just so sure, that they were after me. I don't know why. But, as I turned back I saw inside all of the hoods that I could see and there was no face. All there was was a dark hole with swirling mist for eyes and mouth. This terrified me more and I ran screaming.
At this point I would be awake with my mother holding me telling me it was just a bad dream. Funny, I remember the dream better than the part of being awake with my mother. Then, I would go back to sleep and not dream of it again until another night.
Then, one night I had the same dream, but as I was running and sobbing, terrified "they" were going to catch me, somebody pulled me to the side and whispered in my ear if I wanted to learn how to hide from these beings. It was an adjult woman. I never saw her. She stood in back of me. I shook my head yes, too choked up to even talk. She told me to be very, very quiet. Not to make a sound. We stood to the side as if on the shoulder of a road, facing the road, but it was dark. Well, heck, the whole scene was dark and misty/smokey. Then, she put her arms around my shoulders and we stood very quietly and all of the beings just passed by us. I could hardly breathe. I just knew that one of the robes would brush me and we would be found out. However, that never happened. All of these robed figures just went on by us. The dream ended and I never had that dream again.
The really strange thing about this is that 30 some odd years later, I met a woman in Washington state that had had the same exact dream. Now I grew up in New York state and she grew up in Iowa. She was several years older that I. I don't know exactly how many years older. I started telling her about the dream one evening and she would take up and continue it. We were both flabbergasted. I never got to the part about the woman as we were called to class and then the subject was never brought up again. So I don't know how her dreams stopped.
Since our dreams were, as far as I can tell, the same, I was wondering if anyone else has had a similiar dream. Or, if anyone can give me any insight into it, as I said it was so vivid and I knew these beings were looking for me.
Any input will be appreciated.
Lynne
When I was 3 or 4 years old, I had a dream that totally terrified me. It's also the first dream I ever remember having and it was a repeating dream.
My dream would start by me running as fast as my little legs would carry me. I would be sobbing and I was, as I said above, terrified. Behing me was a long line of robed beings. The robes were dark gray and covered their whole body and had hoods pulled up, their hands were crossed in front of them and inserted into the opposite sleeves so there was nothing showing as to a body, hand, or head. All you could see were the robes. Hanging from the crossed hands were small pots on chains and a smoke or mist was coming out of these pots, which made the entire scene misty or smokey. But, at one point as I was running I turned back to see how close they were to me as I was sure, just so sure, that they were after me. I don't know why. But, as I turned back I saw inside all of the hoods that I could see and there was no face. All there was was a dark hole with swirling mist for eyes and mouth. This terrified me more and I ran screaming.
At this point I would be awake with my mother holding me telling me it was just a bad dream. Funny, I remember the dream better than the part of being awake with my mother. Then, I would go back to sleep and not dream of it again until another night.
Then, one night I had the same dream, but as I was running and sobbing, terrified "they" were going to catch me, somebody pulled me to the side and whispered in my ear if I wanted to learn how to hide from these beings. It was an adjult woman. I never saw her. She stood in back of me. I shook my head yes, too choked up to even talk. She told me to be very, very quiet. Not to make a sound. We stood to the side as if on the shoulder of a road, facing the road, but it was dark. Well, heck, the whole scene was dark and misty/smokey. Then, she put her arms around my shoulders and we stood very quietly and all of the beings just passed by us. I could hardly breathe. I just knew that one of the robes would brush me and we would be found out. However, that never happened. All of these robed figures just went on by us. The dream ended and I never had that dream again.
The really strange thing about this is that 30 some odd years later, I met a woman in Washington state that had had the same exact dream. Now I grew up in New York state and she grew up in Iowa. She was several years older that I. I don't know exactly how many years older. I started telling her about the dream one evening and she would take up and continue it. We were both flabbergasted. I never got to the part about the woman as we were called to class and then the subject was never brought up again. So I don't know how her dreams stopped.
Since our dreams were, as far as I can tell, the same, I was wondering if anyone else has had a similiar dream. Or, if anyone can give me any insight into it, as I said it was so vivid and I knew these beings were looking for me.
Any input will be appreciated.
Lynne