This was actually from about a month or two ago, and I didn’t put it in my dream journal at the time because I didn’t consider it worth typing up at the time. But longer it’s been, the more my mind keeps coming back to what happened, and the more certain I am that this dream was a nightmare. My first nightmare.
Now, I’m not used to nightmares at all - although scary things often happen in my dreams, I just deal with them and get on with other things. But this one was very different and freaked me out. I woke up from it with my heart thumping, very frightened, and had to reassure myself that it was only a dream, not real. It wasn’t very pleasant, but I assumed I’d forget about it after a while. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to - it really got to me! So I’d appreciate any insights or advice.
What happened was this: It began as a typical dream in which I was playing the role of a sort of detective to figure out why some ghosts were haunting a tower. This was all going very nicely, and two of the ghosts had gone back to heaven or wherever, when I was suddenly called into a doctor’s office.
The doctor was a nice, pretty woman, perfectly polite and friendly, and I felt totally at ease. A moment later, she told me she’d gotten the results of a test that showed I had terminal cancer. This was when I woke up feeling terrified, her words still ringing in my ears.
It doesn’t sound like much, and compared to what I typically go through in my dreams (things that should be much, much scarier), I ought to have just taken it in my stride. I can’t understand why I was so frightened when all I did was sit in a pleasant doctor’s office. This has been bothering me for a while now…
it’s because it is a fear linked to real life and not a fear from an adventure dream. it touches on mortality and the fragility of life. has a family member or friend recently died / currently suffering from terminal cancer?
No, not at all. Nobody in my family has died since I was about seven years old, and even then I hardly knew them. Likewise for my friends - I know my father recently had a friend die of cancer, but I never met him. I don’t know anybody suffering from cancer, either… it’d make more sense if I did, I know! That’s why it’s so confusing. But what you say does make sense - this was closer to something that could potentially happen in real life.
It looks like the nightmare just hit a little nerve about things you value. Your life and living it freely without restrictions or compromises. Maybe even a touch of screwing with the control you like to have of things.
Nothing stinks more or bothers us more than our SC messing with something we thought would be unchanged.
I wouldn’t bother too much about that dream.
On a second thought have you had precog dreams before?
I think dreaming of disaease like cancer or any other is part of the everyday’s input, and cancer is in almost every other movie and in every serial someone got it so everybody is scared of cancer, that doesn’t mean everybody is going to get it.
So don’t worry, I wouldn’t worry if i were you.