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Post by sansseed on Jan 26, 2011 6:58:32 GMT -6
I have had a this one type of dream for as long as I could remember, and I probably have it at least 2-3 times a year. In talking with others about their dreams I have yet to hear this particular type of dream come up. So, i thought I would put it hear and see if anyone else has this type of recurring dream.
I am in a house. Mostly it is the house that I grew up in. When I feel something isn't quite right. I look out the window and I see tornados off in the distance. Yes, multiple tornadoes. Sometimes 3 or 4 and sometimes up to a dozen. They start off far, but quickly move towards the house. I then scramble to get loved ones and pets into the basement. Sometimes it is just me. Sometimes I wake up before they hit the house and sometimes I wake up as it hits the house and watch it tear apart.
Now, I didn't grow up anywhere near where tornados are common. Nor, do I live near that now. So, I didn't grow up with the fear of tornados striking. Yet, I'm always scared and out of breath when I wake up from these dreams.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 13:44:00 GMT -6
From the Dream Moods online dream dictionary: www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/To dream that you are in a tornado, means that you are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Your plans will be filled with much complications and you will be met with a series of disappointments. To see several tornadoes in your dream, represent people around you who are prone to violent outbursts and shifting mood swings. It may also symbolize a volatile situation or relationship.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 13:47:06 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 13:50:17 GMT -6
The last 'violent' dream I had was when I was a very little girl. Right about the time I had the first little encounter..never a nightmare after that. I'd guess my brain doesn't like them. I do dream but I seldom ever remember one and when I do it's always something so dumb..like fixing supper for my family or something else very gentle. Instead I'll have waking flashes.
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Post by sansseed on Jan 26, 2011 14:46:41 GMT -6
I have read some of the meaning analysis when I have these dreams, but they never really seemed to fit or click. Life certainly has been chaotic at times, but not at times that I have these dreams. As for violence around me, I void conflict like the plague, so everyone immediately around me are quite stable emotionally.
I would get having this dream at times of stress and uncertainty, or when you feel out of control. Yet, it seems that I have this dream at regular intervals. When life is crazy and when life is not so crazy. That's what always stumps me. So, I always put it into the "unanswered file".
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Post by paulette on Jan 26, 2011 15:30:43 GMT -6
Sansseed - I am a dreamer of tornadoes as well. In fact, the emotional tone to the tornado dreams is similar to my UFO dreams. The similarities are: 1. I sense one coming before anything unusual happens 2. I try to hide/find somewhere safe but 3. I want to see them so I am torn between safety and watching 4. They (often I have more than one) come TO ME. Whatever path they are on is to me. 5. My house is not protection - in the tornado dreams it is removed from around me, in the UFO dreams the ship is directly over the roof and they are insisting I come out. So I come out 6. That is the end of the dream. They come to me and I go to them and then I don't remember anything else and I wake up. 7. The dream is "electrifying" rather than frightening. In the tornado dreams, the air seems to fizz, I feel energized and like the feeling. I feel like I "should" seek shelter but the other feeling wins out. There is, like my UFO dreams, a yearning to connect.
An aside. I once sat on my car hood in a park in Texas and watched a particularly inky thunderhead system overhead. The clouds were "mammilarian" - hanging down like breasts and then being reshaped and disappearing constantly. Any of those projections could have ended up touching down and being a tornado.
I was in a strange state of mind - definitely depressed but more than that - spiritually bankrupt. Nothing that I had believed in (from the 60's) still existed. The early 70's (during which I studied about magic and paranormal stuff) didn't seem to be present. In fact, my life as I knew it had to be deconstructed - which I did not long after my commune with the tornado cloud. I had to get out of town, go do something else, let go of the people I cared for more than they cared for me.
I did realize that if I didn't stop doing what I was doing (egging the cloud on) I might well be dead sooner than later. I got in my car and drove away ASAP. Happily I didn't have to die to get a new life - I just came to Canada and started over. Which has worked better than I expected!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 16:20:00 GMT -6
Well maybe there IS a common answer and maybe it does have to do with some encounter. They do tend to make a person feel out of control. If you are having the dreams randomly, then the answer must lay outside of the 'usual' interpretations. It's always possible that you've experienced something your mind isn't ready to confront. My 2 pennies worth anyway
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Post by skywalker on Jan 26, 2011 20:24:27 GMT -6
I have dreamed about tornadoes a couple of times. One dream was where I was in a building that was being used as a tornado shelter and there were a bunch of people inside hiding from the tornadoes. I really wanted to see them so I opened the door and looked out and saw dozens of tornadoes all around the place. Some were far away, some were closer. I decided that we weren't in any immediate danger so I grabbed my camera to go out and take pictures of the funnel clouds. Everybody inside was freaking out and begging me not to go outside, and I tried to tell them that they were safe but they were too panicked to listen, so I finally went out anyway.
I don't remember how that dream ended but it wasn't what I would call scary. I thought it was kind of cool.
The other tornado dream that I had was where I was living in a house and I looked out the window and saw a HUGE tornado coming right towards me! I tried to hide but it ripped the house to shreds around me. That dream was not cool.
What was weird about it is that a week later I was with my best friend and I told him, "Man, I had a really weird dream a while ago..." and he interrupted me and said, "You mean about the tornado? I had that dream too!"
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Post by skywalker on Jan 26, 2011 20:36:10 GMT -6
An aside. I once sat on my car hood in a park in Texas and watched a particularly inky thunderhead system overhead. The clouds were "mammilarian" - hanging down like breasts and then being reshaped and disappearing constantly. Any of those projections could have ended up touching down and being a tornado. I was in a strange state of mind - definitely depressed but more than that - spiritually bankrupt. Nothing that I had believed in (from the 60's) still existed. The early 70's (during which I studied about magic and paranormal stuff) didn't seem to be present. In fact, my life as I knew it had to be deconstructed - which I did not long after my commune with the tornado cloud. I had to get out of town, go do something else, let go of the people I cared for more than they cared for me. I did realize that if I didn't stop doing what I was doing (egging the cloud on) I might well be dead sooner than later. I got in my car and drove away ASAP. Happily I didn't have to die to get a new life - I just came to Canada and started over. Which has worked better than I expected!!! Thank you for sharing that with us, Paulette. I think I know that feeling you described all too well. I've communed with quite a few thunderstorms myself...part of me still does at times, but now the thunder is more inside than out. Luckily neither of us have to die to start anew, we just have to find a different path to take us in the right direction...away from the storms.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 12:27:57 GMT -6
Well maybe there IS a common answer and maybe it does have to do with some encounter. They do tend to make a person feel out of control. If you are having the dreams randomly, then the answer must lay outside of the 'usual' interpretations. It's always possible that you've experienced something your mind isn't ready to confront. My 2 pennies worth anyway "Out of Control" dreams I have often had. I used to have recurring nightmares of being raped which started when I was about 14 years old. I haven't had these dreams in years now though thankfully. According to my former therapist, dreams of being raped also indicate a feeling of no control over what's happening in your life. The same interpretation of tornadoes. How interesting... I don't ever remember having tornado dreams, but I live in Alaska and have only seen these storms on TV. ~shrug~ My mother however insists that back in the 1970s there WAS a tornado that touched down here but the weather people claimed it was just a powerful wind storm. She grew up in Colorado and went to college in Arkansas and has seen tornadoes before... in Arkansas of course. She said she saw a black cloud with a "tail" on it. ~shrugs again~
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Post by sansseed on Jan 27, 2011 14:46:18 GMT -6
Well maybe there IS a common answer and maybe it does have to do with some encounter. They do tend to make a person feel out of control. If you are having the dreams randomly, then the answer must lay outside of the 'usual' interpretations. It's always possible that you've experienced something your mind isn't ready to confront. My 2 pennies worth anyway I think this may be closer to the truth, IMO. When I awaken from these dreams I always feel (I can't think of a better way to desribe it) a tickle in the back of my brain. Like there is something there, but I'm just not seeing it. My impression of these dreams is that they are foretelling, that something is coming. What? Who knows. Could be anything..., the end of life as I know it, or foul mouthed pizza delivery guy. I'm glad to hear that others have these dreams. Like I said earlier, people that I speak with about dreams never had ones about tornados. Maybe they have, but it wasn't important enough in their lives to remember. I, personally, dream a lot, but 95% of it is nonsense. The other 5% is extremely vivid and sticks with me, even for years. The tornado dreams are one them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 15:25:34 GMT -6
Well maybe there IS a common answer and maybe it does have to do with some encounter. They do tend to make a person feel out of control. If you are having the dreams randomly, then the answer must lay outside of the 'usual' interpretations. It's always possible that you've experienced something your mind isn't ready to confront. My 2 pennies worth anyway I think this may be closer to the truth, IMO. When I awaken from these dreams I always feel (I can't think of a better way to desribe it) a tickle in the back of my brain. Like there is something there, but I'm just not seeing it. My impression of these dreams is that they are foretelling, that something is coming. What? Who knows. Could be anything..., the end of life as I know it, or foul mouthed pizza delivery guy. I'm glad to hear that others have these dreams. Like I said earlier, people that I speak with about dreams never had ones about tornados. Maybe they have, but it wasn't important enough in their lives to remember. I, personally, dream a lot, but 95% of it is nonsense. The other 5% is extremely vivid and sticks with me, even for years. The tornado dreams are one them. Hey, I think I dated that foul-mouthed pizza delivery guy whom you mentioned once... ~smirk~
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 20:44:55 GMT -6
A warning that something powerful and frightening is headed your way, makes a lot of sense. As I am so fond of saying (and saying over and over) our own minds play a bigger role in protecting us and probably hiding the truth from us than we can imagine. It's a little daunting to want answers and truths and find it's ourselves hiding it from us. Wow..does that sound schizophrenic or what LOL
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Post by lois on Jan 27, 2011 23:20:05 GMT -6
A recurring dreams I have had since childhood which always is .. I'm defying gravity.. I can go anywhere, Up to the clouds, or maybe I will be in my home and just go hang out on the ceiling. Watching everyone else in the room.
I jump off mountains but I do not fall at all. Guess my feet like to be off the ground.. Hanging on the ceiling goes as far back as maybe three years old.. Once I wanted on ferris wheel ride as a child, I just levitated up to a seat and sat down..
If I'm being chased I just jump up to get away from whatever it is chasing me.. Once my brother and I was flying a kite, it landed on the chimney of the neighbors house. I was up there in a wink throwing it off the roof..I never see objects levitate in dreams only myself.
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Post by paulette on Jan 28, 2011 10:08:37 GMT -6
"I never see objects levitate in dreams only myself." Lois
Interesting. I'm wracking my brain - am I around other levitators? Hmmmm. My intuitive answer is yes - but - I can't bring any details to mind. I know that I am hoping to find someone by flying/levitating or avoid someone/thing that is chasing me the same way. For me - I use tree energy - I can pull myself up to the tops of trees that I wouldn't otherwise be able to get the height to reach. And I also kite - I use the wind energy, sometimes with a fragment of material that I know in the dream isn't responsible for the height I achieve. It's like I have to fool myself to get over my usual perceptions of what I can do.
Just had a dream fragment arise from the depths as I am typing. I am recalling a dream in which I am in an "airplane" and we are drifting just over the buildings of a city and having to dodge powerlines. Happily we don't get entangled or run out of energy. I am not the pilot but I am sitting next to him in the front of the plane.
Funny, now that I think about it ....it doesn't seem very plane-like.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 11:24:27 GMT -6
I've known many people who have flying dreams and according to what I read, it's very common. I keep telling myself I'm going to stay awake to see what I'm dreaming about (for some reason this never works...go figure).
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