I've been having really weird dreams lately and they're just so repetitive I don't know whether I should be amazed or scared.
Anyway, these dreams are usually about tsunamis. They'd be about I running away from one, or I fighting one, or I simply going with the flow. These dreams had been very vivid, in full color, and almost real. The thought that I escaped all these tsunamis was relieving enough. But will I be able to escape these huge waves the next time I go to sleep? Errr. I was never afraid of nightmares, until now.
I don't have any emotional burden (except for occasional stress because of my job) that's why I find these visions (?) odd.
An online dream dictionary however said that dreaming about tsunamis means the dreamer is "being overwhelmed by some repressed feelings or unconscious material that is rising up to the surface. You are experiencing some unhappiness and emotional instability in some waking situation." Err. Creepy. I can't say this is so-so true but I can't also say this interpretation is entirely false. Hmm.
Maybe these dreams have something to do with my upcoming visit to the dentist. Again, I was never afraid of dentists, until now. Argh. I'm doomed! I don't want them to extract my tooth and I don't want to undergo a root canal either. What shall I do? I hate these impacted teeth! The pain is killing me! And I could not eat well (which is another nightmare since parties are everywhere nowadays!). Huhu. I only had occasional visits to the family dentist when I was younger and I don't remember anything traumatic about those trips. Tsk tsk.
Oh well I am still thankful. Despite my difficulty to chew, at least I still have something to eat, unlike thousands of civilians in war-torn Afghanistan. At least I'm still in a peaceful (?) country unlike Myanmar where a Japanese journalist recently died while covering a violent rally dispersal.
Going back to nightmares, maybe these tsunami-infested dreams are caused by reading Anita Pratap's Island of Blood--a good read for aspiring journalists. Imagine covering Afghanisan and Sri Lanka at the height of a war! Pratap's accounts were really devastating, scary, and exciting at the same time. (Pratap was the bureau chief of CNN. She also worked for Time). Her book is more exciting than my previous favorite, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's All the President's Men, which tackled the Watergate scandal that eventually pushed then US Pres Nixon to resign.
Anyway, I should cut short this entry. But writing too much permits me not to go to bed first. And avoid that Tsunami dream.
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For a Freudian, dreams of water are usually connected with the process of childbirth, most often the child's experience with passing through the birth canal. As such, they are usually connected with the idea of birth or rebirth, the desire either be reborn or to give birth, sometimes metaphorically. Maybe what the online dictionary's trying to say is something connected to the "rebirth" part.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note: When dreamed by women, dreams of water may sometimes express the dreamer's desire to become a mother.
Wala lang.
hmmm. made me think. :) maybe i want a baby soon na nga. hahahaha :)
ReplyDeleteWater dreams are always related to feelings. siguro dahil in a form of tsunami, strong 'tong feelings na 'to. nasa tao lang yan kung good or bad feelings un.
ReplyDeletenaks mga [p]pol pala ay dream interpreters. :) basta alam ko nakakatakot ang tsunami! hahaha :)
ReplyDeletei've interpreted dreams for friends and my mom, and they say i'm pretty accurate. i'd tend to go with your dream dictionary interpretation (though normally i don't agree with them--this one surprisingly just happens to be not so bad). my basis for interpretation is typically jungian and i'm also interested in healing metaphors. i agree with jung that dreams are our opportunities to pay attention to things we overlook, suppress, or deny in our waking life. our mind simply makes sense of what we cannot figure out (or deliberately neglect or ignore) in our waking life. your tsunami dream is an archetypal dream--you are always "running away" or "fighting" one, you say--so tsunami represents something bad in your life you perhaps are literally "running away" from, or are "fighting".
ReplyDeletewow! thanks dear, i needed that! :) really, i think you're right. :( maybe im too bothered with something i want to forget and now I actually forgot that it bothers me and so it just haunts me in my sleep. hmm :) hay. i just hope these dreams would soon stop. they're giving me a heart attack! hehe :)
ReplyDeleteoh, and i forgot to say this too: reassuringly, your tsunami dreams are your mind's way of healing yourself--especially as you said there were times you fought it--effectively, as they say, you faced your monsters. jung advocated something to the effect that dreams resolved our unfinished business in the waking life, or at least that's how i took his view on dream interpretation to mean.
ReplyDeletewow, that has got to be the best dream interpretation! :) hihi :) i sooooo agree :) im sure tsunami dreams won't haunt me anymore :) yes, ive been dealing with a monster from the past but I think I'm done and over with it. :) thanks thanks! next time ikaw ulit consult ko about dreams :) hehe :) hi to anton! he's growing fast daw! :)
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