Need Interpretation, scared by this dream.

[smithmiller6]

I keep having a reoccurring nightmare where my father shoots and kills my husband, my brother, and my sister and her family. This dream is so terrifying and real. It is extremely clear and vivid.

Back story - My father is abusive and has threatened to kill me and those that I love, we are estranged and he recently has started to track me again.

Any thoughts input, help?

Thank you so much.

[Bargainhunter]

 Hi smith miller6,

according to dreammmods.com

shooting - To dream that someone is shooting you with a gun, suggests that you are experiencing some confrontation in your waking life. You may feel victimized in some situation.

father - To see your father in your dream, symbolizes authority and protection. It suggests that you need to be more self-reliant. Consider also your waking relationship with your father and how aspects of his character may be incorporated within yourself.

family- To see your own family in your dream, represents security, warmth and love. It could also symbolize bitterness, jealousy, or rivalry, depending on your relationship with your family. Alternatively, it could mean that you are overly dependent on your family, especially if the family members are in your recurring dreams .Consider also the significance of a particular family member or the relationship you have with them.

[mossrisjhons]

I keep having a reoccurring nightmare where my father shoots and kills my husband, my brother, and my sister and her family. This dream is so terrifying and real. It is extremely clear and vivid.

Back story - My father is abusive and has threatened to kill me and those that I love, we are estranged and he recently has started to track me again.

Any thoughts input, help?

Thank you so much.

I guess you are particularly afraid that this dream might be predicting the future, and it does seem that some dreams are precognitive, i.e, they do come true.  I also don’t think this dream is symbolic in the sense that some dreams are filled with images that mean something quite different than the objects mean in our waking life.  I think this dream is very definitely about your fear of your father and what he might do.

Having said all that, dreams that come true are very definitely in the minority, so the most likely thing is that the dream is an image of your fear.  That fear reflects what you are afraid your father is capable of, so I guess my gut feeling is that the dream is less likely to be telling you what IS going to happen and to be more a reflection of your very real fear of what COULD happen (sorry about the caps, I can’t do italics).  This is clearly deeply distressing for you and very frightening, and in the end you know better than anyone whether you think there is any real danger of someone being seriously harmed.  If you do feel that is the case, I think you should treat the dream as a manifestation of your fear and the threats your father has made previously, but still take whatever precaution you can and feel is necessary.  Obviously I can’t say the dream is definitely not foretelling the future, but I can say that only a very small percentage of dreams do, and most often what they predict doesn’t come true in exactly the same way, so I can say that if I had to say what I think, I personally don’t think it is foretelling the future.  Nonetheless, rather than worrying about the dream, I think you should think seriously about whether you feel you are in any real danger, and address that.

[mossrisjhons]

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