Dreams of the common person, in the largest dream study collection done to date appear to reflect common motifs across the world. Repetitive dreams or repetitive characters in dreams are one of the subcategories of common themes that an average person from anywhere from Kandahar to Timbuktu to St Louis may have.
http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/fortune.html
Misforunate ^ is one of the commonest themes in dreams it appears.
Then subdividing these categories may indicate that this sort of dream is a coping dream.
It may have nothing at all to do with the person, her thought processes about you, or what will happen to her.
Rather it is quiet possibly a reflection of a coping dream related to your personal stress about the relationship or lack thereof.
The fact that she is a repeating theme may indicate that she is imprinted in your long term memory.
The best evidence based thing that ties these nonreligious approaches to interpretation of what the dream says about you is found in this paper on dreams of absent minded transgression:
http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doi...843X.100.4.487
The phrase that stands out in respect to this abstract is the comment:
" but it leaves me with this very ugly memory and unpleasant feelings for a few weeks."
Note how this abstract discusses this in the context of
"Ss caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt."
So its sort of an inverse of a dream of absent minded transgression.
Your after the event feelings might relate to the fact that you broke protocol and were somehow in some way involved with her life through the dream, just as the attempting to quit smokers felt guilty about smoking in their dreams.
or, the interpretation I would prefer: you are, subconsciously, uncomfortable with the nonexistent or soured relationship with this person and this is manifesting itself.
So one option is to do nothing at all and act in no way upon the dream with idea that since you understand its the bubbling subconscious you need not heed it anymore as it is now conscious.
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Religiously, if you are looking for a solution and you want to refer to a religious route of getting there that might address the interpretation above:
If she is a Muslim, Muhammad said that believers ought not be not non speaking terms for more than 3 days.
Here are two great hadiths from the Bukhari's own collection called... The Book of Dreams that offers other possibilities and a religoius solution as well to the actual events themselves. The second hadith actually covers repetitive dreams:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/fortune.html
Misforunate ^ is one of the commonest themes in dreams it appears.
Then subdividing these categories may indicate that this sort of dream is a coping dream.
It may have nothing at all to do with the person, her thought processes about you, or what will happen to her.
Rather it is quiet possibly a reflection of a coping dream related to your personal stress about the relationship or lack thereof.
The fact that she is a repeating theme may indicate that she is imprinted in your long term memory.
The best evidence based thing that ties these nonreligious approaches to interpretation of what the dream says about you is found in this paper on dreams of absent minded transgression:
http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doi...843X.100.4.487
The phrase that stands out in respect to this abstract is the comment:
" but it leaves me with this very ugly memory and unpleasant feelings for a few weeks."
Note how this abstract discusses this in the context of
"Ss caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt."
So its sort of an inverse of a dream of absent minded transgression.
Your after the event feelings might relate to the fact that you broke protocol and were somehow in some way involved with her life through the dream, just as the attempting to quit smokers felt guilty about smoking in their dreams.
or, the interpretation I would prefer: you are, subconsciously, uncomfortable with the nonexistent or soured relationship with this person and this is manifesting itself.
So one option is to do nothing at all and act in no way upon the dream with idea that since you understand its the bubbling subconscious you need not heed it anymore as it is now conscious.
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Religiously, if you are looking for a solution and you want to refer to a religious route of getting there that might address the interpretation above:
If she is a Muslim, Muhammad said that believers ought not be not non speaking terms for more than 3 days.
Here are two great hadiths from the Bukhari's own collection called... The Book of Dreams that offers other possibilities and a religoius solution as well to the actual events themselves. The second hadith actually covers repetitive dreams:
1. Allah's Apostle said, "When the Day of Resurrection approaches, the dreams of a believer will hardly fail to come true, and a dream of a believer is one of forty-six parts of prophetism, and whatever belongs to prothetism can never be false." Muhammad bin Sirin said, "But I say this." He said, "It used to be said, 'There are three types of dreams: The reflection of one's thoughts and experiences one has during wakefulness, what is suggested by Satan to frighten the dreamer, or glad tidings from Allah. So, if someone has a dream which he dislikes, he should not tell it to others, but get up and offer a prayer." He added, "He (Abu Huraira) hated to see a Ghul (i.e., iron collar around his neck in a dream) and people liked to see fetters (on their feet in a dream). The fetters on the feet symbolizes one's constant and firm adherence to religion." And Abu 'Abdullah said, "Ghuls (iron collars) are used only for necks."
2. I used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard Abu Qatada saying, "I too, used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard the Prophet saying, "A good dream is from Allah, so if anyone of you saw a dream which he liked, he should not tell it to anybody except to the one whom he loves, and if he saw a dream which he disliked, then he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil and from the evil of Satan, and spit three times (on his left) and should not tell it to anybody, for it will not harm him
2. I used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard Abu Qatada saying, "I too, used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard the Prophet saying, "A good dream is from Allah, so if anyone of you saw a dream which he liked, he should not tell it to anybody except to the one whom he loves, and if he saw a dream which he disliked, then he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil and from the evil of Satan, and spit three times (on his left) and should not tell it to anybody, for it will not harm him


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