Can anyone tell me what this dream means

[Greebosmum]

Hi everyone. I had a very unsettling dream last night that has stayed with me all day.

I dreamt DH and I got involved with a group of people. There was a very bad person in this group and it was decided that he needed teaching a lesson. The way this was done was to bury him alive under my sitting room floor. Arrangements were made that he was able to breathe and had water.

After 3 days I was supposed to dig him up but I forgot until he had died and started to smell.

I was so scared of going to prison, but woke up before there was any kind of resolution to the story.

It has been troubling me all day and I would like to know if there is any meaning to it.

Thank you.

I don't think dreams mean anything. I murdered my brother in one, then slept with Robert Pattinson (Edward from Twilight) in another.

I expect you are right and it means nothing. I have just felt weird about it all day.😁

You clearly have a guilty conscience and have been harbouring a secret all these years. Let me guess, you are not a natural blonde?

People will always say dreams don't mean anything but I believe they do. Sometimes they aren't straight forward. I'm sure you don't want to murder anyone. My take is someone is trying to stifle you, or is causing you work/stress meaning you can't do what you want so I'd think about that angle.

You're just worried, about something totally unrelated. I used to dream I'd robbed a bank and machine-gunned all the customers. I hadn't. I didn't.
I did divorce my husband, though.

Just a thought, but have you checked under the sitting room floor...?

Sounds to me as though you're afraid you have shirked some responsibility or other - possibly one which you didn't actively choose - and are worried about the consequences.

Is there anything urgent and forgotten on your To-Do List?

The message I would take from that is there is something happening somewhere in your life that your subconscious thinks you should stay well out of and not get involved in. Your dream reflects your underlying worry that this situation has potential to end up becoming your responsibility whilst not being in your control and will cause you problems.

These are all fabulous ideas. I did spend most of yesterday biting my tongue so as not to have ridiculous arguments at work. I am thinking it may have something to do with that. I will just check under the floorboards though.

I've had the 'hiding a dead body' dream quite a few times. Freud apparently said this represented being uncomfortable with or hiding certain aspects of your personality. I haven't verified this but it makes sense to me!

I have a dream that re-appears whenever I think about moving house. It is that I bought a house some time in the past, but forgot about it. Not a particularly nice house, but always the same one. A wooden structure, entered by a long flight of wooden steps, and quite ramshackle inside. I am usually glad to rediscover it, until I wake up. Sometimes the conviction that the house is there in the background - a responsibility that I've forgotten - takes some shaking off after I have woken up.

Gameofphones, I often dream about houses. I have an idea that a house is supposed to represent yourself, then further details of the dream refer to things about you. I think it's all a load of old hooey really, but I still find it interesting.

@Greebosmum

Gameofphones, I often dream about houses. I have an idea that a house is supposed to represent yourself, then further details of the dream refer to things about you. I think it's all a load of old hooey really, but I still find it interesting.

Yes that seems to be the main interpretation. Current thinking in scientific psychology is that most dreams are random activity in the brain (as often they appear to be). Yet wish fulfillment dreams are recognised (eg dreaming of water when thirsty) and also anxiety dreams that express worries. So dreams can be meaningful. I think a recurring dream like mine must have some significance, not least perhaps a prompt to self to 'think about this issue, it may be important'.

You suppressed/killed off a part of yourself that you were told (and then, out of fear or shame, agreed) was 'bad'. (Usually, or originally, in childhood.) That part of yourself survived for a while in some form (behaviour that was 'acted out' and probably judged by others as bad) but eventually your persona was completely moulded around 'acceptable' behaviours and attitudes. And at some point you really needed that buried part of you but by then you were completely out of touch with it and some difficulty in your life (perhaps your marriage, health, creativity, or all three) ensued. The guilt is because deep down you know you've betrayed yourself - not deliberately, we all do it to some extent in order to survive and be accepted in certain situations by others, when it seems an authentic part of us is undesirable.

Therapeutic work (or alternatively, being intensely honest with yourself) would break through those floorboards and bring up the corpse to be properly grieved. A resurrection of that buried part of your true self might even be possible. But for that to happen, you'd have to recognise and accept that you created a 'false self' to some extent. It's likely that your marriage somehow symbolises how you suppressed a vital part of yourself. The honesty with yourself has already started, hence the dream and the fact that you can remember it.