Last night in my dream I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I knew I had been shot in the head, and that there was a bullet in my brain. But for some reason I held off on calling an ambulance. I decided to wait and see if I lost consciousness or if the bullet would kill me.
I feel like this perfectly sums up how I’ve acted with my psychotic issues for most of my life. I KNOW there’s something wrong with my brain, I’ve known for a while now, but I’ve been incredibly hesitant to get help for it, always just waiting to see if I ever have a mental breakdown or not. In reality, I shouldn’t wait until I have a meltdown, I need to learn how to manage it and get help before that happens.
Anyone who says dreams are meaningless don’t know what they’re talking about.
i used to wait to see if i would have a meltdown too, to see if i would just go crazy or bounce back fit as a fiddle. you definitely dont bounce back as you were, i really wish i could have gotten help when i needed it because stress does some crazy stuff to you.
dream are only meaningless to ppl because they cant understand them. which in turn makes them meaningsless. to understand them gives them meaning.
i see that most of my dreams are metaphorical… hard to understand, until i get to the point of my life where they actually mean something.
@Anna… dreams work out and explain problems, that the conscious mind does not want to percieve and look at.
the bullet may represent the psychosis.
take care
I had a dream last night that I escaped from a concentration camp on an island. Me and one other ran to these houses on stilts, and we climbed a ladder knocked on the door and a man welcomed us in. We noticed he had a huge crate of cigarettes on his counter and we asked if we could have one. He suddenly became very freaked out and made us leave. Then we continued on our mission for a cigarette. Two old men laughed at us and pointed us to a store that had a name I cant remember anymore. Then I woke up.
I think this symbolized I am a prisoner to cigarettes.
There is a proverbial bullet in your head and you wonder why you are hesitant to get help?
Having something seriously wrong with the brain may in fact prevent you from doing certain things, im no doctor though.
In the dream you decided “to wait and see if i lost consciousness or if the bullet would kill you” but you decided to do that with a brain which has a bullet in it. Having a bullet in your brain may in fact affect your decisiion making, im no doctor but i believe this is the case.
Sometimes dreams are just dreams. Not every dream has to have any significance. Recently I dreamed that I was pregnant with my ex-husbands baby. My tubes are done and I haven’t seen him in over 20 years… And I very much love my current hubby
That actually makes sense too. When I get really bad I stop wanting to seek out help because I feel like everything I experience is true,and I don’t think a psychiatrist would be able to help me,or anyone for that matter.
