Nightmare about my DD

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I just woke up from a dream that my daughter tore up my bible and wasn’t sorry. She’s ND so doesn’t always understand why things are wrong but in the dream I was really angry and was holding myself back from hurting her.

I’m not religious but my grandad gave me the bible when I was a baby so it has absolute sentimental value to me. Does anyone know what a dream like this means?

'...doesn't always understand why things are wrong.'
She didn't do anything wrong. Your brain created the dream so, in a sense, you tore up the bible. You have fears - about religion, about your daughter, etc. This is your unconscious alerting you to things in yourself that you are reluctant to look at consciously.
Good luck OP.
Incidentally, how old is DD?

DD is 12.

Interesting idea that it’s all me. It felt like such a negative dream but maybe it’s positive e.g. I’m destroying an old thing.

Have you outgrown your religion?

It probably means nothing whatever, other than that you had a particularly unpleasant and unsettling dream which woke you up. Probably all sorts of weird things go on in our brains that our waking minds don't remember.

I don’t really have a religion as such. Was raised in a religion but it wasn’t very serious, just a thing you did, so when I grew up I just stopped without thinking too much about it.

@ErrolTheDragon don’t you dream things and wonder what your brain is trying to tell you?

Maybe you have some latent anger at your DD about her tearing up your past and things you once held dear - maybe her being ND has meant you could not have the sort of parenting experience you hoped for? In some way she has destroyed what you once believed.

Of course we have many many feelings all coexisting so even if mainly you feel love for your DD, these shadow feelings could also exist.

I do think that dreams that give us an insight into the type of things playing on our mind, even if it's subconscious thoughts. It's often not difficult to work out what they might mean. So I don't understand why it would be in Paranormal?

@CurlyhairedAssassin I had a look at all the groups looking for a place to write about a dream and there were some dream chats in here.

Were you physically sleeping properly? No hands or legs numb or throat really parched and kind of stuck or some really odd posture?

I have found my brain sends me nightmares to wake me up. Not sure if this is really a thing - just my observation.

The two things you love a lot were in trouble and brain thought yup that'll wake her.

I don’t think the Bible represents religion, I think it represents your “Grounding”, all that felt safe and secure in your life.

So dealing with your daughter’s ND is causing you to feel that the rug has been pulled from under you, and so ripping up the Bible represents you being shoved away from what you feel comfortable with.

…also I’m saying her ND, but actually it’s being a parent of any child stretching you beyond your comfort zone.

Not really, because it's pretty obvious to me that the sort of dreams that do wake me up so I remember them don't mean anything. For instance one that stuck in my mind was that we were out somewhere with our dog and climbed a tower which had a spiral staircase but empty middle. And then he fell and we could see him dead at the bottom. It was an unreal tower (they're not built like that) and we'd never have tried to get a dachshund up one anyway ... it was unreal and meaningless but unpleasant and unsettling. (Dog lived to a ripe old age).

My brain tells me much more sensible things when I'm awake!