Horrifying reoccurring childhood dream

**Sadie** · 02-16-2017 01:48 AM

When I was a child (5-8 years old) I used to have a reoccurring dream. I would be lying in my bed and would look up to the entrance of my door way and a large dark shadowy figure would walk in and pick me up out of my bed. He (assuming the figure was a male, as the figure was quite large and strong) would carry me down the hallway and into the middle of our lounge room. There he would spin in circles and I would watch the room whizzing around until I became delusional, in a drunk like state. Then I would wake up scared to death and call for my mother. I can't recall how many times I had this dream but it was often.

What does this dream mean? I had a normal, happy childhood and I had no traumatic events happen in my life.

Any interpretation would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

**JoannaB** · 02-16-2017 05:22 PM

Children commonly have nightmares, even children with happy childhoods. The more one thinks of a dream, the more likely it is to reoccur.

Personally I don't believe one can get a dream interpretation of a dream that occurred years ago. Dream interpretation is most meaningful when one knows the context of what is going on in waking life because that influences dreams. Many years later the person has only very limited memories, and thus one cannot get the rich context of what was going on the may have influenced the dream. For example, spinning in circles until one is delusional may be about feeling that one keeps doing same thing over and over again and that one feels that is driving one crazy, or it may be about things changing too fast and one not being in control (like as if a grown up is spinning one), but you probably no longer remember enough about how you felt then to be able to tell whether you felt anything like that, no? Of course dream could have been caused also by something completely different, I don't know.

**JOats4** · 02-16-2017 07:28 PM

Sounds like a member of your family had control of a part of your life that you would liked to have had a say in. Either that or maybe an adult during your infancy would spin you round in your lounge room and you recall it as feeling a bit insecure.

**JoannaB** · 02-16-2017 10:04 PM

I thought of it some more: kids at least used to have very little control over their / our lives. I think this is changing in our culture. So just that lack of control, where grown ups made all the decisions for one, that could be what such a dream is about.