The power of prayer?

[starrlyte]

OK, talk about bizarre dreams. I dreamt that I was living in this housing project and a big tornado was coming in, at first it wasn't supposed to come our way, but we looked up and that's exactly what it was doing. I grabbed all the kids and parents and pushed them down and prayed that we be spared, when I opened my eyes there was literally a swath of destruction cut right around us. the building we were in was gone, but we were all fine. That's when I woke up, 2:11 am on the nose. I went back to sleep and dreamt that my 6 year old had been im'ing people and wanted to meet them. Against my better judgement, I drove him to this place in the middle of nowhere. When I walked in, it didn't feel right. It felt like some trap for young boys and I kept trying to tell my son that we didn't know these people and maybe we should leave. He kept insisting that it was alright, so we began to explore. My husband showed up, and at the same time the boys my son had been im'ing showed up. They were 6 and the place turned into an indoor water amusement park. My husband looked at me like I was crazy when I told him I had thought it was some sort of trap, he said obviously we had just been early and the workers had just been getting ready. I woke up at that point and it was 3:33. It was funny because I had done an Angel card reading before bedtime, and sleep kept being the bottom card on the deck (I had read for my hubby, myself, and for the trip coming up for the weekend, all three times sleep was on the bottom of the deck, and then when I shuffled just for fun, it was still on the bottom. When I acknowledged it, it stopped. Weird, huh?)

[Arcadia]

I read this this morning, thought I would give it to the guys in the unconscious shop to play with and come back...hopefully to see someone else had responded. Oh, well.

The dream with your son was much more vivid than the tornado. I could See It/Feel It as I read.

MY interpretation would be that you have an intense worry right now. Both dreams involve Horrible Peril that is averted or imagined. Which could translate two ways:
Either something is bothering you and your unconscious is telling you not to worry
OR
There will be a Horrible Peril side-stepped in the near future.

[starrlyte]

I had the feeling that I needed to have faith and any perils will be avoided!

Thanks for the post Aracadia!!

[Kimberanne]

Hi there. I have had tornado dreams for as long as I can remember. As a small child I was terrified of tornados. I don't know why really. No one in my family ever is and they are the stupid ones that would be video taping one while I would be in the basement.

Anyway, these dreams would cause me to wake up terrified, in a cold sweat.

I finally put 2 and 2 together and figured out a pattern to the dreams. First, I would always be in a basement or shelter of some type. Sometimes the shelters weren't that great, but they worked. Second, I always came out of it safe and unharmed. Third, there was total destruction all around me.

I also figured out that the dreams occured at times in my life were I was very stressed out and my life seemed to be totally out of my control (is it ever REALLY in our control?). The tornado symbolized a "force of nature" that I had no control over. This force would create chaos and damage in its path and there was always fear as to what would be left in the aftermath.

Finally I got to the stage where I was able to say, while in the dream, "Oh, this is one of my tornado dreams". LOL... After I was able to do that it was like my brain kicked into competitive overdrive and the dreams would get worse and worse. I would sit there in my basement chuckling, knowing it was just a dream. In one dream the tornado actually started to come down into the basement. Dreaming me got a bit ticked off that it wasn't following the "dream rules" so I told it to get back up to the surface where it belonged and it had to play by the rules....lol.

Now it seems that these dreams are a type of steam release valve. I feel so much more relaxed after I have them because I am reminded that I can't control many things in my life, but in the end, I will be ok.

[starrlyte]

Cool Kim, I remember you mentioning these!!! I didn't think I was stressed over anything, and in the dream I wasn't scared, I was sure everything would be fine, and it was, even though everyone else was amazed! LOL!