Hey everybody!

I've been on the forums for a few weeks now, and I have to say that I have made many new friends and people that I feel comfortable talking about these various topics with.

I've talked with Woodwytch about this already, but I was wondering about any more input from those of you out there.

I've had this reoccurring dream since about the age of 3 or 4 (about the time that I was "awakened" with my sensitive gifts). It involves me as a young child in a rather large castle like tower. It is completely cylindrical and made out of bricks (like I said, imagine a castle tower on the inside). On the outside wall is a spiral staircase that spins all the way up to the top. At the top of this staircase is a recess in the wall, with a large wooden door at the back of the recess. Standing in front of this door are three, sometimes four cloaked and hooded figures. Imagine monks or Sith Knights or something along that line. The cloaks are all in black. In the background is really creepy organ music playing, and I have composed many pieces (I am a professional musician) that incorporate that tune. To this day I can still not get it out of my head.

To this day I have had this dream about a total of 20-25 times. It happens the exact same way. I climb the staircase and reach the top, only to be met by these hooded figures. I always seem to wake up before I can figure out what is going on. I haven't had the dream in about 3 years, when two nights ago I experienced it again, and I had this intense feeling of dread fill my entire body. When I woke up, I turned on every light in my room and the television set because I was creeped out. I'm a 27 year old guy with many years of experience in the paranormal field ranging from simple residual hauntings all the way up to demonic ones, yet this dream still creeps me out. Does anybody have any indication as to what this dream may represent? And has anybody ever had this dream before? I believe that we are all connected somehow, and I'd be interested in seeing if anybody else has had a similar dream.

Thanks all!

[edit on 31-1-2010 by truthseeker1984]

Just *bumping* the thread.

I don't really know for sure, but I found it really significant. Very detailed and something that is given to you repeatedly. If no ones else can suggest ideas, perhaps taking this deeply into meditation, or listening to binaurals and really focusing on this then going deeper. Or before sleep, pose this question to your subconscious over and over, and intend, that this answer will come to you. Your soul does know the answer. It could be past life glimpse, or it could be a puzzle with different layered meanings.

Thanks for sharing this, and I hope more come on who might have more ideas.

Hi.

Firstly, I'm no expert on such matters but for what it's worth, here is my opinion.

You say you have had this dream since you were very young.

To me this indicates that it relates to something which happened to you when you were very young, pretty straight forward logic there.

You've had the dream 20 - 25 times before.

This would seem to suggest that the subject which the dream represents is very important to you in some way.

You had the dream again recently.

So the topic in question is unresolved and to this day and still occupies your subconsciouss.

Like I said, I'm no expert but my guess would be that something traumatic happened to you when you were very young which you may have repressed and so do not remember it directly.

So the dream could be a metaphorical representation of an event or fear you had when you were younger.

Or, I might be way off. hope that helps

Well, if you're a gifted sensitive, you should be able to control your fear, first of all. That's not meant to be derisive, only instructive. The human mind fears what it doesn't or can't immediately understand. In deep meditation, it's common to reach these fearful thresholds requiring you to maintain your composure and step over the line, whereupon you discover that it was only your bodily fear holding you back from ascending to a new level of awareness.

Sorry if this sounds overly metaphysical — It's difficult to tell when I'm waxing too vague anymore.

But I can give a personal example: For years, since I was a small child, also, I had recurring dreams about 7 very indistinct, sort of vaporous figures following me everywhere. These things worried me a great deal, so much so that I sometimes dreaded going to sleep. Whenever I saw them in my dreams, I'd move away in the opposite direction, only to find them blocking my way again.

There were six very similar figures and a taller one, and these figures only resembled humans in a general sense — no distinct facial features, no apparent hands or fingers, but just a general humanoid shape.

After years of inexplicably dreading these things in my dreams, I was introduced to a professional seer who I noticed was scrutinizing me with wide eyes. Puzzled, I asked her why she was watching me.

Without my prompting, without any cues — I had told nobody of my dream situation — this seer very politely remarked that she saw I was surrounded by 7 figures, one of them quite tall.

This took a moment to soak in. I looked around expecting to see people behind me, but there were none, and I chuckled nervously. Then I made the association to my dreams, and the realization hit me like a thunderbolt.

Trying to remain composed, I asked the seer to be more explicit. She leaned in and assured me, "You shouldn't fear them. They're guardians." That's all she said before parting.

I was dumbstruck. The seer moved off, mingling with other guests, and I was kind of overcome with a relief and a sense of anticipation. For the first time in many years, I was looking forward to seeing these figures and even confronting them in my dreams. It was like I had been given a key to unlocking a great secret.

Shortly thereafter, I did confront these "guardians" in my dreams, walked right up to them, stood there and waited. The only communication I received was not a spoken message but an urgent desire to follow them and watch everything around me.

My dreams changed dramatically after that, becoming much more expansive and epic — flying became the norm in my dreams, I experienced lucid dreaming, and the 7 figures appeared nearly every time. Soon it was like going on outings with my family, completely familiar and completely comfortable.

I didn't mean to stray too far off the OP, but I just wanted to make a point that these hooded figures you keep seeing do sound like guardians at some sort of threshold of awareness, as symbolized by the tower with staircase and guarded doorway.

Sounds like a doorway to a "higher level," and the hooded figures are your guardians as you pass through it. It may be that you're fearing the crossover, and that's why they're there — to assist you.

2 cents, anyway.

— Doc Velocity




[edit on 1/31/2010 by Doc Velocity]

Update:

As I fell asleep last night I kept telling myself that I would confront the hooded figures in an attempt to find out what they are and what they wanted. Well, every time I felt like I was going to have that dream, something stepped in and shifted my dream to something completely different. I felt as if I were on a railroad line, and I had no choice and no discretion as to where I wanted to go. I have had lucid dreams in the past, and did achieve full lucidity to the point where I could fly, materialize things that I wanted, etc. Last night was probably the most out of control dream cycle that I have ever experienced.

Any thoughts? And anybody else out there in the peanut gallery that would like to interpret my dream?

Originally posted by truthseeker1984
I kept telling myself that I would confront the hooded figures in an attempt to find out what they are and what they wanted. Well, every time I felt like I was going to have that dream, something stepped in and shifted my dream to something completely different.

That sounds like the mind itself rebelling against your decision to confront the hooded figures, and your mind is struggling to prepare itself for accepting that decision.

It's pretty well accepted that the human mind is not a single house, it's not one mind but, rather, several mental routines that function together as one mind. These routines fit together in myriad different ways to create different sets of personalities.

We each have multiple, multiple personalities, each personality dedicated to dealing with a different situation in life. For example, you have a personality dedicated to dealing with your mother, a personality dedicated to dealing with your pets, a personality for dealing with audiences, a personality for dealing with the ticket counter at the airport, and so on and so forth.

In other words, we each have a nearly infinite number of personalities, specifically customized for specific situations — when we encounter a new situation that we've never experienced before, our minds go into high gear to invent a new personality. However, this effort requires time to perfect — it usually takes us a few similar encounters to perfect a new personality that perfectly handles a new situation. After a few tries, we start to feel perfectly comfortable in dealing with that situation, and this becomes a new personality for us.

Perhaps your conscious decision to confront your fear has initiated the creation of a new personality for dealing with these hooded figures. You described your dreams becoming chaotic, switching tracks, going anywhere except to the tower. Sound (to me, anyway) as though your mind is stalling for time, building up to the confrontation.

— Doc Velocity

ive been having reoccurring dreams since i was a child also... well more the same dream but a continuation of the previous dream..

anyway.. ive trained myself over the years to ask questions within the dream.. & to take more notice of things of importance.. example.. i'll ask the date in a dream.. or ask for a persons name... or why they are here.. or what something is..

maybe you could give that a try when you next have one of your dreams & see what information you can pull.