Murderous dreams

[Starlight09]

Why am I constantly having dreams involving shootings, death, and murder? It's quite disturbing and most of the time I make myself wake up really fast because it seems so real.

Last night I had a dream I had a murderous little brother.... he was innocent enough when we were little, then over the years after my mother had an affair on our father, and they started fighting about it in the wee hours of the morning. It was odd because they both came downstairs and my brother and I were in the living room sleeping, and reading... not in our bedrooms. So my father is yelling, and then my mother is arguing back. Fast forward in dream time and my father has divorced my mother, and my mother married the man she had an affair with. The next night my little brother killed him outside the bedroom window of our house while I sat reading a magazine pretending not to notice (because I thought if I did anything then my brother would turn on me). He strangled him with a belt first, and then shot him in the left temple with a gun that had a laser sight on it. It was night time, and it was weird because this man (the one my dream mother had an affair with and married) was wearing work clothes. Like, a peach button up shirt and slacks. Anyway, so after my brother killed this guy I'm still sitting at the table reading a magazine and my brother walks up and looks at me silently, and goes back inside. Later on in the dream he starts wearing a Jason mask and kills more people, but he never kills me (although I am terrified in the dream he will.) because we have some kind of understanding. I don't have a little brother in real life, and none of my family members were in this dream (not that that matters).

Not only was this freaky enough that it made me seek out an interpretation/reason for having it, but I was wondering if there's any advice on how to control what you dream about?

[amethyst57]

murder is usually denoted as denial, repression, control...mayhaps of love or other emotional ties....maybe some unresolved childhood trauma, emotional stress or uncontrolled temper is kicking your unconscious in to overdrive...our unconscious mind always exagerates things to get messages across to us...

[Milfoil]

Originally Posted by Starlight09

Last night I had a dream I had a murderous little brother.... he was innocent enough when we were little, then over the years after my mother had an affair on our father, and they started fighting about it in the wee hours of the morning. It was odd because they both came downstairs and my brother and I were in the living room sleeping, and reading... not in our bedrooms. So my father is yelling, and then my mother is arguing back. Fast forward in dream time and my father has divorced my mother, and my mother married the man she had an affair with. The next night my little brother killed him outside the bedroom window of our house while I sat reading a magazine pretending not to notice (because I thought if I did anything then my brother would turn on me). He strangled him with a belt first, and then shot him in the left temple with a gun that had a laser sight on it. It was night time, and it was weird because this man (the one my dream mother had an affair with and married) was wearing work clothes. Like, a peach button up shirt and slacks. Anyway, so after my brother killed this guy I'm still sitting at the table reading a magazine and my brother walks up and looks at me silently, and goes back inside. Later on in the dream he starts wearing a Jason mask and kills more people, but he never kills me (although I am terrified in the dream he will.) because we have some kind of understanding. I don't have a little brother in real life, and none of my family members were in this dream (not that that matters).

Not only was this freaky enough that it made me seek out an interpretation/reason for having it, but I was wondering if there's any advice on how to control what you dream about?

The symbols in your dream will mean something specific to you so how I perceive them may be somewhat off base, however . . .

I wonder if something in your life, which started off innocently enough, you fear is now tainted by worldly issues or lack of solidarity? (a job, relationship, club, church??) This could be an aspect of you which wishes to destroy what you perceive to be the cause of your dissatisfaction but the dream is indicating that such rage is misdirected and twisted. Could this be your own anger which is rising to the surface and scaring you?

If this were my dream I would be looking at what is upsetting my calm and balance? What seems to be pushing my buttons but I am not responding to? What is boiling just beneath the surface and has it been doing so for a long time? That may give a clue as to what needs to be acknowledged.

When the root source or cause of this dream scenario is uncovered then it will change or disappear. One thing you can do is to wholeheartedly ask, just before you go to sleep, to have a dream which demonstrates a solution rather than the emotion.

Feel free to disregard if it all seems rather off - just my take, that's all.