I've been feeling down for a long time now, and I think it's getting to the point where I need to talk to someone about it. If not to a person, then maybe a chat room or blog site is a good place to start... I figured I would begin with something small... a dream I had the other night that I haven't been able to shake, see what (if any) responses I get, and go from there.


The dream started with me meeting someone I knew to be a great uncle or a grandfather type figure, not someone I knew in real life, but that was just the relationship I felt in the dream. Except, when I looked at him he transformed. He was about 24, gorgeous, and had completely different facial features then anyone I know. When I commented on his good looks, he replied that it was his new clothes (something rich and Italian) that completely altered his appearance. So we got in the back of a limo that had a driver and headed down some country roads. We were talking for a while about anything random and I was feeling very attracted to him when suddenly he made a majorly inappropriate comment about how large his penis was. When he moved on top of me I realized we were going to have sex, but I suddenly felt strange and tired and he told me that he had drugged me. In the dream I was aware that I had passed out and that he was going to take advantage of me. However, when I woke up, I was on top of him, pinning him down and almost strangling him. We were still driving in the limo and I could see the driver watching me from the rear-view mirror, we made eye contact and he made some casual comment about me almost being rapped and asked if I need any help, while still driving along. I ignored him and then when I looked back down at the guy I had pinned I saw him reaching for his pocket, in real slow motion, and I was aware that he was grabbing for the knife he had. I watched him reach for it, I knew I could stop him, I knew if he got it he was going to to hurt me, and I didn't stop him. I just let him reach for it.

I wish I could tell you what happened next, but that's when I awoke.
Everything was so real and detailed and I haven't been able to stop going over it, so if you have any thoughts about what it means or how to shake it, well... that would be great.

Dreaming of somebody that transforms into somebody else is a conflict within your ego or some type of conflict within yourself.
To see people you don't know in your dream, denotes hidden aspects of yourself that you need to confront.
Sex in dreams refers to the integration of contrasting aspects of the Self.
The knife may be symbolic of something divisive in your life. You may be attempting to cut ties or sever or closure of something in your life.
Basically your dream is about some power struggle or conflict you are having within yourself.

I'm not sure, but I've been having weird dreams as well. I have been really depressed lately due to previous events in my life, but this past week I've been having dreams of me being murdered. The only dream I can remember in detail was just the other night. It began with me being with an old friend that I knew from where I used to live. He asked me if I wanted to do acid with him. I told him yes and he touched my face and then my neck and said that's enough for you. (As if touching me were to intoxicate me with LSD) We were walking around an area that was unfamiliar to me and I began to be chased by a dog, which turned into some sort of beast. I have no idea where my friend had gone, but this beast caught me and attacked me, and it was so real I could feel the pain, and I'm guessing it killed me. I immediately jumped into another dream, that was very similar, it was the same friend, but in a different place. I somehow remembered what happened in the last dream and explained to my friend what happened and he told me that I just had a bad trip from the LSD. He explained that if I ever start to have a bad trip again, to just try and realize that it's only the drug, it's not real. I did not take acid again, but I did start seeing colors and rainbows everywhere (this part of the dream is somewhat foggy, I don't really remember much about this part. But after the colors and everything, I was walking down a sidewalk in a residential area and saw a pickup truck being driven by a man that I did not recognize, for some reason I got scared and started running as fast as I could and then realized I was on fire and again it was so real I could feel my body burning. I tried rolling on the ground but the fire wouldn't go out, and everything went black. Yet again, I jumped to a new dream. This would be the last one before I awoke. All I remember is, I was in an empty apartment, and a man in a mask, and carrying a very distinctive knife that I could draw every detail to because I remember it so clearly. He grabbed me and takes me out of the apartment and we're in the middle of a staircase. I'm begging the man to tell me what is going on and all he says is I'm going to kill you. He keeps repeating it over and over and another masked man shows up and I'm begging for my life to not kill me, and the other man tells me to shut up so he can slit my throat, and I start screaming, and one of the men grab me and put the knife to my throat and begin to slice back and forth, and I did not wake from the dream. I died in that dream as well and slept through it. I then awoke. I used to have a dream once I a while where I thought I was going to be killed, but I always woke up before I was killed. These past few days I'ver been murdered numerous times each night and I sleep all the way through and it scares the out of me. I'm thinking twice about going to sleep tonight cause I'm so scared of how I will be murdered tonight.

Yikes Ska8ordie, That's unsettling. If you're still feeling depressed maybe your dreams mean that you feel you can't escape what is causing your sadness, that it kills you every time. You may need to try a new approach of dealing with the previous events in your life, take new steps towards being happy, or talk to someone about what's making you sad. I haven't tried that yet, but I've heard it helps. You could take comfort in the fact that since you're begging for your life, it means you really do want to live, be around, and get better.

Does your friend, or drugs have anything to do with the events in your life? Maybe those are things you need to deal with. Like Nohelp4u mentioned, the knife could mean you're trying to cut something, a person or a relationship, out out of your life. The fact that you die from the knife might mean that the thing you are trying to cut out is bad for you, and could be causing your problems.

On a good note, I read somewhere that dying in dreams can be a good thing. It could stand for a big change in your life. The end of your old ways and the start of something new…