So basically, the other night I had a dream about being strangled. If it couldn't get any worse, I was being strangled by my sister... and she was wearing her normal, everyday clothes... I think was in my bedroom too...

And last night I had another dream except I wasn't myself, I was a much older man who went to the hospital to visit his dying ex wife... and then i remember being in the hospital and trying to download some illegal files, when my ex wifes boyfriend runs in. I try to run away but I'm carrying a really heavy rucksack and then I know that he's going to kill me, which he does. He slashes my head open with an axe, and I can feel throbbing in my head, and then he's spraying some sort of gas into my mouth while he is spinning me round, and the thing is I could smell the gas and it was some kind of petrol... I also remember I was wearing a long back coat... and all I could see was white and blue...

As you can probably tell I am pretty freaked out... I dont think I have ever had dreams like this, and it wouldnt be so worrying if I havent of had them one night after the other... Can anyone reassure me here and tell me what is happening??? I don't really understand much about dreams...

Kena x

First off you have to remember that pretty much everything in dreams, when it's not a direct memory at least, is totally symbolic. So that, no matter how horrible something appears in the dream, most things that happen have a meaning other than the obvious. The heavy rucksack for instance could well be your life's 'baggage', the stuff that's weighing you down in waking life. The files you're trying to download could be symbolic of a need for hidden knowledge, stuff you think you need to move forward with your life that is being denied to you. Like you don't seem to be able to get these things in waking life so you're going undercover in your dreams, like a spy, and trying to get the info you need.

Perhaps you also believe, at least subconsciously, that your ex, or the memories connected, is part of what's stopping you from moving on?

There's some stuff about colours here: http://www.meaningofdreams.org/Dream...lor_dreams.htm

Once you start thinking about your dreams as a series of symbols and metaphoric images, and what these images mean to you - their connected emotions - and mostly ignore what they are literally, like your head being cut off, you may find it easier to make sense of them.