Do you get catastrophe dreams?

[Taomeow]

Please sift through your dreams and help me put a certain two and two together...

[Protector]

hmm

Now that I think about it, all of my dreams have to do with survival

I sneak around, find something weird and run away or fight it somehow

I even recruited dogs or wolf monsters, like for an army or something, and they show up in other dreams

In real life, survival was also a motivation for getting into things like meditation

hummmmmm

[Friend]

I also select like Rainbowvein, never.

 

It seems to me the catastrophe dreams are route navigated by the propaganda and agenda

and believes which are shaped by the different authors and also one is strongly directed into the way one fear or is afraid the most in the subconcious.

 

I assume you seem to have such dreams Taomeow....

[Gerard]

I had nightmares but can't remember right now if some belonged to the catastrophe category. Sorry.

[Aetherous]

Have had some awesome ones.

 

For instance, in one I stepped outside of my parent's house on a beautiful day, and all of a sudden there were pieces of land floating in the sky (similar to the movie Avatar, before it came out). Turned out they were actually alien invader ships in disguise, then these high tech Marine ships flew by and tried to take them out.

 

Last year had a dream that the Mississippi flooded really bad so that numerous states were completely wiped out. I think it did end up flooding, but wasn't anywhere close to that.

[Protector]

Oh man, I had a dream where I was a person living in some dried up village when some invaders came on a flying island covered in trees and stuff

I went inside it and it was all technologic and stuff

[Taomeow]

Hi TM, I can't cast my "never" vote without also selecting an answer from the second question's list. What do u advise us "never" bums 2 do?

 

Oh, thanks for telling me. I added the N/A answer to the choices of the second question.

[doc benway]

I've had one common theme on occasion since childhood.

I'm at the beach and a very large wave approaches.

Can't say the world is ending but mine certainly is...

I often next find myself backed up against a wall, climb higher and higher as the wave crashes in...

Very intense.

[Birch]

Alien invasion but we also have "ships" and lasers and stuff to fight back with.

Relatively recurrent over several years.

 

Never see an actual "alien" in the dreams, just the flying fighting part.

[Creation]

As a child I had many of tornado dreams, despite never having seen a tornado in real life.

 

None for the past few years that I recall, but in the last few months I had two where I witnessed giant meteors crasing into the Earth. Since that is so much more severe, I voted for "recently" and "end of the world".

 

I personally interpreted those dreams in terms of my own psyche and life situation.

 

In the first I found myself in the sky halfway across the world looking down and seeing the tsunamis as tiny ripples on the ocean thinking "that doesn't look so bad from up here".

 

In the second, there were robots from a space ship trying to teach get us to activate these machines to prevent the meteor strikes. We couldn't, and I was caught in the shock wave from the second strike. I was taken severely wounded (I could see the bones in my arm because the flesh had disintegrated) to the ship, where I found out that the ship was humans from the future trying to find a way to avert the disaster. When they realized they couldn't, they intentionally quickened the strikes by sending the robots (the machines attracted the meteors rather than preventing them) and took us to the ship as sacrifices in their experiment to reset time so they could try to prevent the disaster again. And they had done it countless times before. I refused to participate, and sat in the cabin of the ship waiting for the experiment to start.

 

Which seems to me to be a very elaborate metaphor for my own mental processes. Also a potentially awesome science fiction movie.

Edited April 13, 2012 by Creation

[hagar]

As a child I had many of tornado dreams, despite never having seen a tornado in real life.

 

None for the past few years that I recall, but in the last few months I had two where I witnessed giant meteors crasing into the Earth. Since that is so much more severe, I voted for "recently" and "end of the world".

 

I personally interpreted those dreams in terms of my own psyche and life situation.

 

In the first I found myself in the sky halfway across the world looking down and seeing the tsunamis as tiny ripples on the ocean thinking "that doesn't look so bad from up here".

 

In the second, there were robots from a space ship trying to teach get us to activate these machines to prevent the meteor strikes. We couldn't, and I was caught in the shock wave from the second strike. I was taken severely wounded (I could see the bones in my arm because the flesh had disintegrated) to the ship, where I found out that the ship was humans from the future trying to find a way to avert the disaster. When they realized they couldn't, they intentionally quickened the strikes by sending the robots (the machines attracted the meteors rather than preventing them) and took us to the ship as sacrifices in their experiment to reset time so they could try to prevent the disaster again. And they had done it countless times before. I refused to participate, and sat in the cabin of the ship waiting for the experiment to start.

 

Which seems to me to be a very elaborate metaphor for my own mental processes. Also a potentially awesome science fiction movie.

 

I had a flood dream last night. A river spills over it's banks, and floods all the houses in my vicinity.

 

Don't have to be Freud to see that most catastrophe dreams, especially those related to fire and water are about emotional content, or subconscious content being stirred, threatening the ego/personality structure.

Sometimes dreams can be the most succinct way of expressing an understanding or a message. I've read about psychics and sensitive people who all seem to have these terrible dreams of things to come, yet I feel dreams seldom are related directly to the world out there. The are almost always tell-tales of an inner process or dialogue, or a messenger from the subconsious.

 

When spiritual practice reaches a certain point, you do not dream.

h

[64changes]

I die in my dreams regularly, does that count?

Often in quite mundane, sometimes in catastrophic ways.

 

Everyone I've spoken to about this has at one time or another had dreams of being the last person on earth.

Been some good movies about it too.

[Seth Ananda]

{Taomeow add a dot for virus/plague if you have the time}

 

One dream I thoroughly enjoyed:

 

I woke up one morning Knowing that it was my purpose, my destiny to destroy civilization as we know it.

With this knowledge, I also 'knew' that I was one of the 1 in 100 people who are Immune to the Ebola virus.

 

All I had to do was become infected so I would be a carrier. I booked a flight to Africa, hired a jeep and an escort to get me as close to the Ebola zone as possible.

It was cordoned off by the military so I spent another two days scouting their perimeter, looking for a weak spot I could exploit. I found one eventually, and by cover of night, wriggled in.

I searched around inside there till I found an old elephant burial ground. I gleefully rolled around in old elephant scraps, till I 'knew' I had contracted the disease and then sneaked back out.

The next thing was flying round and round to all the worlds international airports, and then standing in the various boarding cues to different country's, and coughing on people to Infect them.

The next scene was walking through a waste land of a city. There had been rioting and looting and then - Silence.

It was one of the most profound senses of joy I have ever felt.

The happiness of occasionally seeing a face emerge and knowing that we were going to create the new world, and that Nature would regenerate and become glorious once again.

The Happiness of having fulfilled my purpose.

 

 

I have regular apocalypse dreams with varying themes, from famines, contagions, zombies or peak oil. Also it should be noted that I love the theme, think about it alot, and we in my house consider ourselves to be in apocalypse training. [steadily acquiring the skill sets necessary for the end of the world, as we know it]

[Ish]

{Taomeow add a dot for virus/plague if you have the time}

 

One dream I thoroughly enjoyed:

 

I woke up one morning Knowing that it was my purpose, my destiny to destroy civilization as we know it.

With this knowledge, I also 'knew' that I was one of the 1 in 100 people who are Immune to the Ebola virus.

 

All I had to do was become infected so I would be a carrier. I booked a flight to Africa, hired a jeep and an escort to get me as close to the Ebola zone as possible.

It was cordoned off by the military so I spent another two days scouting their perimeter, looking for a weak spot I could exploit. I found one eventually, and by cover of night, wriggled in.

I searched around inside there till I found an old elephant burial ground. I gleefully rolled around in old elephant scraps, till I 'knew' I had contracted the disease and then sneaked back out.

The next thing was flying round and round to all the worlds international airports, and then standing in the various boarding cues to different country's, and coughing on people to Infect them.

The next scene was walking through a waste land of a city. There had been rioting and looting and then - Silence.

It was one of the most profound senses of joy I have ever felt.

The happiness of occasionally seeing a face emerge and knowing that we were going to create the new world, and that Nature would regenerate and become glorious once again.

The Happiness of having fulfilled my purpose.

 

 

I have regular apocalypse dreams with varying themes, from famines, contagions, zombies or peak oil. Also it should be noted that I love the theme, think about it alot, and we in my house consider ourselves to be in apocalypse training. [steadily acquiring the skill sets necessary for the end of the world, as we know it]

 

I think you should change your display pic back to the Satan thing..

[joeblast]

once or twice I had some wacky quasi catastrophe dreams, but that was 15, 20 years ago. when I dream it is just random musings, almost always pleasant. sensitive bullshit meter, so those weird couple many years ago I roused myself...they didnt perturb me, though. if there's "action" in my dreams it is needing to get something done!

[Seth Ananda]

I think you should change your display pic back to the Satan thing..

ROFL! Thank you, i really did nearly fall off my seat there from laughing.

 

But is is weird isn't it just how amoral our dream worlds can be. People dream about having sex with their parents, about murdering someone for stealing their cereal or any number of weird things that may horrify their conscious mind... The important thing is not to jump to conclusions about the dreamer...

[三江源]

No, I dont get catastrophe dreams at all.

 

I had some precognitve dreams many years ago just before there were riots where I lived, that were of that nature. It was interesting at the time to see the emotional and physical environment around me manifest what I had dreamed, even to the extent that as I was walking down the street past all the boarded up shop windows that had been looted, there was a never before nor since seen flash flood.. a torrential downpour at great speed which the london drains couldnt deal with and suddenly the streets were filled with rivers of water that was flooding the shops that remained open, so that they too were forced to close. It was a dreamlike reality that I had already dreamed.

 

But since then, no.

[Cookie Monster]

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Edited September 26, 2020 by Ocean Form

[Taomeow]

I had a flood dream last night. A river spills over it's banks, and floods all the houses in my vicinity.

 

Don't have to be Freud to see that most catastrophe dreams, especially those related to fire and water are about emotional content, or subconscious content being stirred, threatening the ego/personality structure.

Sometimes dreams can be the most succinct way of expressing an understanding or a message. I've read about psychics and sensitive people who all seem to have these terrible dreams of things to come, yet I feel dreams seldom are related directly to the world out there. The are almost always tell-tales of an inner process or dialogue, or a messenger from the subconsious.

 

When spiritual practice reaches a certain point, you do not dream.

h

 

The interesting thing I've discovered with dreams (which I get very seldom, maybe a few times a year, not counting dream-visions which I get about once a year -- but these are a different story) is that they can be fractal-like (like everything else). Meaning, on a smaller scale they relate to your own inner processes, emotions, unconscious memories emerging ("creatively" re-processed into a story by the neocortex when they reach it -- e.g. I recognize birth dreams instantly when people describe them, having spent a considerable amount of time on the receiving and giving end of primal therapy), personal lessons to learn, etc., but it's not necessarily the beginning and end of their scope. They are not flat like that. On a different scale, the same dream that tells you stuff about you may be telling you about things that have to do with the "bigger you" -- e.g. members of your group, whether social, occupational, emotional, intellectual, gender, age, state of health, etc. -- and then on the level of a "still bigger you," about your species, where we're all at as members of that. (E.g., I've read some books on assorted dream studies and found out that invariably, in at least 95% of cases, all dreams in which animals appear involve some kind of violence. Since then I've asked people many times and had a chance to confirm the truth of this assertion. So, if "everybody" in any actual real-life relationship with animals (including none at all) gets them to visit dreams only in a violent context, it tells you something about the relationship of our whole species to the animal world (likely based on what we've really done to it as a species, not as an individual), rather than merely one's private and personal subconscious context.

[suninmyeyes]

I clearly remeber having a war dream days before any talk of the war started in Slovenia and Croatia, it was like a very nightmerish precognition dream .

I have also combed my mind for any other dreams and remebered a dream about recent devastating erthquake in Japan.

In a dream I was drawn to this place that I have never visited before . There immediatley I meet man as if he was waiting for me. He is a spiritual man, fellow practicioner that I know(dont know where from)he tells me that this is the time when Japonese people need much help in any form and it is a time of so much ferafullnes and sorrow. We walk through the destroyed land , talking. He tells me some things about disaster and the feel of terror is so tangible.

The morning after I find out about earthquake in Japan.

Today when I remeberd this man I tried to find his connection in my heart and still felt him faintly .

Can I just add that he was incredible right measure of interpersonal/spiritual qualities and looks.

I dream often just as falling asleep or waking and sometimes very vividly ,my dreams are not the same as they used to be - they are infact totally different.

I dont agree what Hagar said that when a certin level comes that you dont dream, as I have met a lot of meditators/practicioners who did retrets even for years and they all dream, including my teachers. It is also true that at some point it is hard to remeber dreams becouse in some states it is hard to keep awarness although duality is still present (IMO), but prehaps less than usual.

There is always stuff to process/work to do if not on personal , than on global/universal level of being. Suppose this is where dream and waking reality sort of merges too. Dont know if I sound clear about this at all.

 

Otherwise catastrophes are not really present in my dreams for all I remeber for now.

What about you Tao Meow? What prompted you to ask?

[Birch]

Interesting, my last animal dreams involved nice animals bringing me things so I could accomplish something I wanted/had to do.The animals were determined to make it happen.

My last people dream involved drug-injections and supposed air-travel (but we never left the airport) prior to which a computer programmer dressed like a 'fairy' with pink tutu and wand.

 

Great post Taomeow!

[Owledge]

Please sift through your dreams and help me put a certain two and two together...

Spoiler: We're collectively creating our reality.

So if enough people believe with a lot of emotion that something world-changing is happening at the end of 2012, that craze itself might be the self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

Regarding the poll:

Had two dreams some weeks ago, with a few days or weeks in-between. I don't remember the order, but one was me at home with family, at night, and space aliens were attacking, with energy beams I think. I knew/thought they'd wipe out the whole human race, and couldn't handle that very well. Felt kinda unfulfilling to me.

 

The other one, I was in a huge rectangular office building, very spacey, didn't even see any furniture, and when looking out the windows, there was nothing but forest, all around. Felt nice actually.

Then an alarm signal sounded, not a conventional one, more like a loud buzzer, and a few seconds after that, the building was shaking so much that we (?) had trouble staying on our feet, and I think I almost fell down an escalator or something. Somehow in the dream I knew or assumed that that wasn't a regular earthquake, at least not like on planet Earth (maybe I was on another planet, not sure), but more like something immensely powerful was tearing the ground apart.

 

Had a lot of mundane/weird dreams lately.

Edited April 13, 2012 by Owledge

[宁]

Yep, used to ~ but I kinda discovered the link to it in my mind.

IME, it's the influence of the people you're involved with. Especially if they're into religious stuff, or 'spiritual' stuff... Many such groups use strong psychological triggers like the above, for obvious reasons. IMO, if your practice leads you to that kind of dreams on a regular basis, you should consider that maybe it's not what you really need.

 

N.

[Aaron]

I clicked once or twice, because I rarely have catastrophe dreams anymore, but when I was 13 I had recurring nightmares about a nuclear holocaust for about five or six months.

 

Aaron

[Owledge]

...but when I was 13 I had recurring nightmares about a nuclear holocaust for about five or six months.

Bad term for that by the way, since it has religious origins and connotations. The interesting but often overlooked meaning of the word holocaust is the religious name for a sacrificial offering by fire. (That meaning is also intended by some zionists regarding the Jewish holocaust.)

How about global nuclear annihilation? ( Language provides so much variety. )

Hm, or maybe you did dream it in a religious context.

 

P.S.: I'm only commenting on this because language shapes thought and thought shapes language.

Edited April 14, 2012 by Owledge