Dream - He created a monster ... and I helped him ...

[sighthound]

Hi - I'd really appreciate if anyone was willing to take a shot at analysing my dream from a few nights ago. I don't undertand the dream and haven't been able to make any real connection with why it makes me feel so sad every time I read it. I get breathless and a tight chest even when I just think about it. 

 

In the dream I am on the outside watching another version of myself, like I am watching a movie with me in it, but I can feel all the feelings of my other self.

 

I am happy to answer any questions if more detail is needed.

 

So here it is.....

 

 

I see myself in a warehouse at the centre of an abandoned district of a large City.  The City is dark, grey and dank. It is smoggy and cold outside. Raining.

 

The warehouse roof is held up with large brick columns which are evenly spaced around the outside of the rectangular room. It is vast and dark . The only light comes from small windows at ceiling height all around.

 

I look over and they are both there. I know who they are but I don't know their names - I have forgotten. 

 

HE is a professor, scientist and medical researcher. He is intelligent, corrupt and manipulative. I have worked with him in the past and so I know him all too well. I have the impression that the 'me' I see standing in the warehouses afraid of him and of what might happen if his plan was to succeed. 

 

SHE is gullible, naive, superficially 'nice' and self indulgent. She wants the creature  and he wants rid of it. He created a monster...and I helped him.

 

The creature is there standing next to her. A tall and lithe quadruped. It is genetically and mechanically enhanced. I know it is super intelligent - far superior to any of us. It is cunning. Behaving like a cute pet rolling around like a puppy or kitten would, rubbing it's face on her leg. I see the malice in it's eyes.

 

I stand some distance away and watch with horror at the danger of the situation unfolding before my eyes. I know that if she takes the creature it will cause apocalyptic devastation to the world. ARMAGEDDON!

 

I know she can't be relied upon to refuse and I wait feeling my heart pounding in my ears. I hold my breath for seconds that seem to stretch out and stop time. She decides… She is going to take it! I gasp for breath and feel dizzy and faint. I have to run away!

 

I see myself running outside. It is dark and street lamps light both sides of the road. I am running back to the place I live, my chest is burning with panic. This place is not my home, I had to leave there months ago because I was scared that I was being watched. 

 

I climb up a wall covered in Ivy and onto the garage roof so I can get in the window upstairs. I go this way so that the 'watchers' don't see me. It is locked and I can't get in. I am crestfallen and curl up on the roof sobbing. I will have to spend the night there.

 

I wake just before dawn and I ache everywhere from lying on the hard roof. I am suddenly awash with melancholy. It is the last day of my life, the end of the world and everything in it. The creature has been freed to do it's evil and there is nothing I can do to prevent it.

 

As I climb down I see a figure glowing in the blue light of dawn. It is a large dog - rather like a Great Dane. It is captivating and draws me in by holding my gaze. I can see kindness and gentle loyalty. 

 

I know I can trust it. I feel like it has come to protect me, even though we both know that ultimately it will fail. 

 

We will both die along with everyone  else, but it will keep on trying.

 

I kneel down in front of the dog and put my arms around it's neck, it feels comforting and smells familiar and warm. I feel a deep sadness and regret for the life that I am soon to loose. Now that the creature was free.

 

I stand and walk, the dog walks beside me, it looks up at me and I down at it. I have accepted my fate and we continued walking together and wait for apocalypse to arrive. It will be soon.

 

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Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

Rach

[Lians]

Thank you for sharing this powerful dream! Before I share my thoughts, I'd like to point out a pattern that extends past the bounds of your dream. A tall, lithe quadruped that behaves like a pet, a Great Dane and your board name - sighthound. The image of a hunting dog is the first thing that popped up in my mind when I read your description of the creature. The Great Dane is a hunting breed. A hound refers to a dog bred for hunting. I don't know anything about your history with dogs so I'll rely on my own associations. Hunting dogs assist humans in the killing of animals. In a way, they're enablers.

 

In the dream I am on the outside watching another version of myself, like I am watching a movie with me in it, but I can feel all the feelings of my other self.

 

This, to me, is a sign of dissociative splitting. Whatever happens in the dream is related to an aspect of yourself that you're rejecting.

 

Names are identifiers. The fact that you don't know their names may mean that they are references to generic types of people in your life. It may also mean that they only exist in your mind, hence why they don't need names.

 

Human beings creating intelligence superior to their own is an absurd proposition unless you're talking about one's unconscious mind. It would make sense for the creature to have superior intelligence if it's actually a part of your psyche. Also, it makes no sense for a creature with such tremendous power to obey its human creator. The fact that it needs a gullible woman to fulfil its destructive nature is the first clear sign of enabling in your dream.

 

Despite taking part in the creation of the creature, you don't assume any responsibility for it. You could have intervened at any point in your dream. Talk to the woman, reveal information about the creature, expose the plans of the man. However, you do no such thing. Instead, you sit there - almost as if you're invisible - and you passively wait for an outcome that you know to be inevitable. After she makes her decision, you feel suffocated and decide to run away. What are you running away from? Guilt? The creature can destroy the entire world. Where are you going to hide?

 

You're locked out of the place where you live and end up sleeping on the roof. Your actions denied you access to your unconscious.

 

In the end, you find comfort in a dog that is practically helpless relative to your own capacity to protect yourself. It's an absurd situation no matter how you look at it. It's good that your dream didn't end with an apocalypse. It means that you can still turn things around.

 

The creature that is born with your help has the capacity to destroy your inner world. I think the dream is telling you that your future is doomed if you don't stop enabling corrupt and manipulative people. It's probably related to something that happened the day before you had it.

[sighthound]

Hi Lians,

 

Thanks so much for the time you have taken to look over my dream. There are one or two things that jump out at me. You have definitely have hit the nail on the head with certain things!

 

I will come back to it and respond when I have had chance to have a really good think.

 

Kind regards to you.

 

Rach

 

(P.S. Sighthound is because my dogs are very important to me, they are sighthounds but not hunting dogs.)