Anyone know of good dream analysis books or sites?

aliasojo

I keep having a dream with a recurring theme. The people in the dream are often different but the theme is always the same.

It involves a corpse that just wont die. The dead person is always in a coffin and we are usually at his/her funeral when the corpse starts to move or get up out of the coffin. In all cases, the corpse isn't fully alive or dead, it's somewhere in the middle. It can move awkwardly, but can't think properly and can't talk. Most of the time it wants me. The funeral directors never seem to think this is a problem and always tell the corpses to just lie down and sleep, but of course they never do.

Last night's corpse was extreme. It blasted it's way out of the coffin after the lid had been screwed down and it took 3 of the funeral undertaker peeps to drag it away as it had climbed out the coffin and was adament it wanted to to get to me. (I wasn't daft, I was sat in the top balcony in the church putting as much space between me and it as possible, even in my dreams I'm cynical ).

I've had this recurring theme on and off for years but last night's version had me switching the light on at 5am unable to get back to sleep. I ended up also having to put the tv on just to take my mind off it.

It must be my subconscious trying to tell me something but Lord knows what. I think I need to look into it to finally lay it to rest so to speak. I'm fed up being scared silly during the night like a 2 year old.

Any ideas? Other than expensive therapy? :rotfl:

SailorSam

Is a funeral in a dream suppose to be when you're suppressing your feelings and trying to put them to rest, but there are things from your past that are coming back to bite you on the bum.

podperson

Been a while since I looked into them but I think it's perhaps representing something that you have been trying to 'put to rest' but that refuses to die (so to speak!).

DVardysShadow

aliasojo wrote: »

Any ideas? Other than expensive therapy? :rotfl:

Arrange a meeting with the corpse, somewhere safe and let it speak.

It is obvious it has something to say and it won't die until it has spoken. The funeral directors have the task of laying the corpse to rest, but it is quite plain that they are doing this to a corpse which is not yet dead. You have to override the funeral directors. Once the corpse has spoken, I think it will climb back into its box.

I would say that the corpse is an issue which you have dealt with and rightly you are burying it - but you are trying to bury something else with it which is still important. Let the corpse speak.

ETA: I had not seen responses 2 and 3 before posting ...

Further ETA: Ask the corpse to write you a letter which you will find later.

LJM

i think you can buy dream dictionarys practically anywhere i got my friend one for xmas off amazon

aliasojo

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Arrange a meeting with the corpse, somewhere safe and let it speak.

It is obvious it has something to say and it won't die until it has spoken. The funeral directors have the task of laying the corpse to rest, but it is quite plain that they are doing this to a corpse which is not yet dead. You have to override the funeral directors. Once the corpse has spoken, I think it will climb back into its box.

I would say that the corpse is an issue which you have dealt with and rightly you are burying it - but you are trying to bury something else with it which is still important. Let the corpse speak.

ETA: I had not seen responses 2 and 3 before posting ...

Further ETA: Ask the corpse to write you a letter which you will find later.

I can see the logic in all that, but my problem is I'm usually terrified in my dream. I spend the whole dream feeling scared witless and do all I can to get away from the corpse.

I have no idea how I could turn things around and feel differently so I could stay near it long enough to yell 'email me'. :rotfl: Ok I'm making light of it and joking but you'll understand my issue. :undecided Intense fear (even in a dream) just makes you want to flee.

LJM, I know there are loads of books out there but some of them are little more than jokey pass the time affairs that could have been written by my daughter. I kinda wanted something serious and just wasn't sure which would be helpful.

carefullycautious

Dont buy books when you can Google it

aliasojo

I've googled and cant find anything to do with corpses that wont die/stay dead. All the corpse meanings seem to be about straightforward dead corpses.

Some corpse dreams can mean something in your past whilst others can mean part of yourself. I guess there's no definitive answer.

Spendless

aliasojo wrote: »

I've googled and cant find anything to do with corpses that wont die/stay dead. All the corpse meanings seem to be about straightforward dead corpses.

Some corpse dreams can mean something in your past whilst others can mean part of yourself. I guess there's no definitive answer.

Sometimes you need to look up the several happenings in your dream. So you'd need to look up corpses and resurrection and funeral and undertakers and so on, and then see if you can piece together. I have seen online sites where you write down your dream and someone else interprets them for you. I've only seen them when I've been googling so no idea if they charge for membership.

Spendless

ok, so the first one I find says this

Resurrection
To dream that you or someone is resurrected from the dead, suggests that you will eventually overcome your current obstacles to achieve your goals. It signals an awakening of your spirituality and renewed energy. Alternatively, the dream indicates that the same old problems are coming back to haunt you because they were not properly addressed or dealt with in the first place

From this website

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

delain

I have never found those dream books useful.

I had a dream where OH (the most practical man alive) has found a frog and put it in the dishwasher because he 'didn't know what else to do with it' we live in a village that's full of little streams

Your corpse dream sounds quite scary, glad it isn't me. I used to have a recurring dream as a child about trains. I'm a weirdo :rotfl: