Just woke up from a nightmare...
Okay, I'll start off by stating that I have no ill-feelings towards anything Christian or especially Jesus Christ. I don't even feel negative towards the Catholic Church, and I'm not big into Biblical Apocalyptic movies or scares.
Don't know if any of that effects this dream, but I thought I'd state that first.
So this nightmare begins at the end of another dream that I don't think had anything to do with it. The place I was at in the dream was suddenly a church, I think it was supposed to be a big Catholic Church, but it looked the same as before. Either way, supposed to be a church. I'm walking to the pantry or something when suddenly a big gold and white throne appears in front of me and scares the daylights out of me. I start freaking out, but then I only get worse when I see that Jesus is sitting in it... but he's dead. It's not the gruesome crucifix style, bloody and scarred, crown of thorns Jesus, just him sitting in this throne, his eyes open, pale and dead. So I flip out and scream for my husband in the other room who placidly ignores my cries, not even paying attention to what's happening. I get on the phone and call the police. As I'm on the phone, all the children in the church come and draw eyes on slips of paper, cut them out and start placing them over his eyes. I tell the police that and then proceed to yell at them that I can't stop these people because it's a church, it would be like asking them not to pray.
While I'm waiting for the cops, and trying to ignore the throne with a dead body, I'm fumbling with this container of some strange dried food, a recipe passed down since biblical times. I was the one who made it, I don't know why, but I just knew this in the dream. Every time I put it in the cabnit, the flip-lid on the food would open. I'd shut it. Open the cabnet again: it was open. I shut it. I got so frantic that I started opening and shutting the cabnet door over and over again really fast until finally I saw the lid open itself.
So I screamed, felt the sleep paralysis, made the decision to wake up, and actually screamed to break the paralysis. And I'm still mildly freaked out.
Okay, one thing about dreams for an interpretation I think that food is symbolic of spiritual nourishment. So I have that much, but why it's a Biblical recipe and why the lid kept opening is still beyond me. And I'm a little more concerned about the first part. Dream books can tell me all sorts of interpretations about myself being dead, but never about other dream characters being dead. And I've never dreamt about Jesus before, dead or alive.
Don't know if any of that effects this dream, but I thought I'd state that first.
So this nightmare begins at the end of another dream that I don't think had anything to do with it. The place I was at in the dream was suddenly a church, I think it was supposed to be a big Catholic Church, but it looked the same as before. Either way, supposed to be a church. I'm walking to the pantry or something when suddenly a big gold and white throne appears in front of me and scares the daylights out of me. I start freaking out, but then I only get worse when I see that Jesus is sitting in it... but he's dead. It's not the gruesome crucifix style, bloody and scarred, crown of thorns Jesus, just him sitting in this throne, his eyes open, pale and dead. So I flip out and scream for my husband in the other room who placidly ignores my cries, not even paying attention to what's happening. I get on the phone and call the police. As I'm on the phone, all the children in the church come and draw eyes on slips of paper, cut them out and start placing them over his eyes. I tell the police that and then proceed to yell at them that I can't stop these people because it's a church, it would be like asking them not to pray.
While I'm waiting for the cops, and trying to ignore the throne with a dead body, I'm fumbling with this container of some strange dried food, a recipe passed down since biblical times. I was the one who made it, I don't know why, but I just knew this in the dream. Every time I put it in the cabnit, the flip-lid on the food would open. I'd shut it. Open the cabnet again: it was open. I shut it. I got so frantic that I started opening and shutting the cabnet door over and over again really fast until finally I saw the lid open itself.
So I screamed, felt the sleep paralysis, made the decision to wake up, and actually screamed to break the paralysis. And I'm still mildly freaked out.
Okay, one thing about dreams for an interpretation I think that food is symbolic of spiritual nourishment. So I have that much, but why it's a Biblical recipe and why the lid kept opening is still beyond me. And I'm a little more concerned about the first part. Dream books can tell me all sorts of interpretations about myself being dead, but never about other dream characters being dead. And I've never dreamt about Jesus before, dead or alive.
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Permalink Reply by Narked Duvêl on -
Wow thats a pretty wild dream...but really interesting.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Reinhardt on -
I once had a dream that I killed Christ when he came to convert me. Told him, I would not leave the earth, then sliced him diagonally from shoulder to hip with a huge sword. My dream was about how religion takes you from the earth - if I followed a religion, I would no longer feel the earth, join with the earth, feel the animals, join with the animals, feel the plants and trees, join with the plants and trees. If I followed a religion, I would not only lose myself but all that I loved.
Your dream reminded me of mine. In reading your dream, I saw that religion is dead and no matter how you dress it up (the child and the eyes) it will remain dead. It can never be alive.
The spiritual nourishment: you can't close the lid on what nourishes spiritually. It is alive and it will not be contained.
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Permalink Reply by FarenWolf on -
I feel similar: I'm looking to increase my spirituality, not religion with rules, moral laws, etc. I've always liked Jesus Christ, even when I was little; yet even when I was little and going to Sunday School for my First Communion, I wanted "Cool Gods" like the ones in the Greek Mythology books I was reading, lol. I even pointed out that Zeus looked like God and that the other Gods could be his Angels and Saints. I still keep a similar belief, that all of the spiritual beings share identities with each other sometimes, and that all together every spiritual essence, even our own, can make up one huge, ultimate spiritual presence that I'm sure some could view as a single God.
But because I like Jesus, I was very upset with the choice of imagery in this dream.
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Permalink Reply by Cait on -
were you raised christian? i'm not an expert, but if a friend of mine told me this dream, i'd think they had unresolved issues with leaving the church.
after leaving catholicism, i once had a dream that jesus appeared in my front yard, but i only saw his feet. they were as big as my house, and he was going to end the world. i convinced him not to(can't remember how.) and i felt no connection to the church afterwards. i think it was a goodbye to the church.
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Permalink Reply by FarenWolf on
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Yes, as I stated in response to Mary, I was raised Catholic at a very young age. As soon as I took my First Communion, however, we stopped going to Church and I no longer was tied to a Monotheist obligation.
I was never really "Pagan" of any sort until a few years ago, at least I never admit it to myself, but in High School I was heavily ridiculed by Christian peers because of my strange beliefs such as reincarnation, and my lack of convicting myself to absolute Good and absolute Evil. And in the past I've had terrible dreams about a boy dressed like a satanic Goth, very black and crimson, who would sneak up behind me, grab my shoulders, shake me violently and scream in my ears that Jesus will save me... Needless to say, I stayed away from anybody Christian for a few years because of that reoccurring dream. But I'm over that now and I think I'd slap that boy if he reappeared in a dream now.
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SponsorPermalink Reply by Dreamwalker on -
I was on a radio show recently doing dream analyses for people who called in. One lady had a dream about a dead Jesus who would sometimes open his eyes. You had a dream about a dead Jesus in which children placed pictures of eyes on his eyes. The meanings of both dreams is the same.
Dreams often make use of plays on words such as puns. Christians believe that Jesus is divine. Divine is also a word for using an oracle. And that is what this dream is all about. This dream was urging you to immerse yourself in divining, not necessarily for becoming a professional card reader, but so you could make better sense of things going on in your daily life.
Jesus was dead, indicating that you had been into divining before, but it had died. You lost interest or you gave it up for some other reason. Or maybe you had some divinations done for you by others. In one way or another you have had some previous experience with it.
Even though Jesus is dead, his eyes are open. This indicates that divining for you is in a condition of total readiness. That the children were placing pictures of eyes on him indicated that you need to open your eyes to the value of frequent divining in your daily life. The many pictures of eyes symbolized your doing lots of divinations, not just every now and then.
Children in dreams always indicate things at which we have some previous experience or contact, but not a whole lot. They symbolize things we still have a lot to learn about. This is another tie-in with the meaning of Jesus being dead.
From a Christian perspective, an important part of that religion is that Jesus arose from the dead and came back to life. That is what this dream is telling you. This dream is encouraging you to bring divining back to life again.
Food in dreams always symbolizes things in our waking lives that nourish us, help us to grow, and make us strong. This means that divining will nourish you, help you to grow, and make you strong. The way you describe the flip-lid on the cabinet makes me think of the flip-open lid of a box of tarot cards. In your dream, it will not stay shut. This is telling you to keep that option open.
When we experience fear in a dream, it always means that we are resisting something in our waking lives that is extremely valuable to us. We could be resisting it because it does not accord with our worldview, we feel guilty about getting involved with it, it intimidates us, or whatever. Regardless of what the specific reason is for our resistance, what we are afraid of in our dreams is always something that would be extremely helpful to us in our waking lives.
If you want to learn how to make sense of dreams, I would encourage you to stop using dream dictionaries. The people who write them just make up stuff as they go along. The only thing you will learn from a dream dictionary is what your dreams do not mean.
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Permalink Reply by FarenWolf on
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Thank you, you're actually the reason I joined the Dream Analysis Group, because you obviously know what you're talking about, lol. Actually dream books are kinda guides for me, some meanings make sense, others make me think "No... no, actually it means...(insert my own interpretation here)" I've never found a single book that's charted enough of the dream-land to show me my way around.
And if this is about Divining--something I'm not very good at--I suppose my bag of runes looks a little lonely. I'd kinda wanted to ask them about the dream when I woke up, but I was too frantic.
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SponsorPermalink Reply by d'Arqstar on -
Firstly, it's interesting to me that Jesus and his throne did NOT appear in the chapel of this 'church' or on the dias, but in the pantry with you. That you would see him as dead, be freaking out and no one would answer your cries of alarm is quite interesting as well. (perhaps YOU and the children noticing something others were intentionally ignoring?) That the children were giving him paper eyes, as a child might do in a pinch, is lovely. DRIED food...a recipe handed down since biblical times. (hmmm...one wonders of the nutritional value of THAT in this day and age! LOL!) Seems logical that the fact that both the cabinet and the top of the container refused to close means something is trying to get out. Only YOU can say what. Have you ever considered a past-life regression? It might be interesting. Eh? Just a thought!
Your reaction to all this...your alarm and 'freaking out' is of interest. It would seem to imply some emotional investment in the matter...which is why I wonder about the past-life issue. It COULD be a matter of unresolved feelings about religion in general, but again...that's something only YOU can say. Dream interpretation is personal and subjective. What all of this means to YOU is what's important.
F&W!
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Permalink Reply by FarenWolf on
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I'm sure I was just as rebellious in a past life against being convicted to Absolute Good and Absolute Evil as I am now, lol, so I'm pretty sure I would have faced some pretty harsh consequences for not spiritually laying down with everybody else. If that is everyone else's path and that helps their spirit to grow, that is amazing and I can do nothing but respect that. But I have a harder time growing, and I'm struggling and perhaps have always been struggling my own way. So it would not surprise me a bit.
Perhaps if this nourishment has been passed down throughout the generations, which could include what nourishes my own soul? Maybe it won't close because I'm not finished with it, and I've been feeding off of the same ideals for many lifetimes. I don't know, I've never considered past lives--I figured they were over, and I'm having a hard enough time with this one, lol.
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Permalink Reply by FarenWolf on
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Thank you, all of you, for your wonderful input. I was very alarmed when I woke up. The imagery was very alarming to me and that was all I could focus on at the time.
I know how personal dream analysis is, I've said myself that dreams come to us in a language that bridges our conscious to our subconscious and our mind can only show us this language in a means of which it can understand. Dreams have been important to me for as long as I can remember, since early childhood. But a traumatic event caused horrible nightmares to terrorize my nights for at least 7 years, enough time for me to completely lose touch with my own dream language.
Now I've been trying to pay attention again and learn how to understand it once more. But it's so hard after so long, and even I get caught up with what I saw, heard, and felt rather than what it all means.
I can see where pieces of everybody's opinion here could definitely relate back to this for me, so I'm going to consider this more deeply and with a clearer mind now that I just got off of work, lol.
Thank everyone again!
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Permalink Reply by Colleen *Wulfmare* JuuJin on -
Now the soul seeking quest is on..
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