One night I was walking to my car when out of nowhere came this man. He wanted my money and jewellery. After I gave it to him he shot me twice.
When I was found by another person I was rushed to the hospital.
The entire waiting room was filled with my family, friends and basically everyone that I knew.
The hospital told them that I had lost a great deal of blood and that I needed a transfusion. The only problem was I have O-blood and no one in the room had that type of blood. A person who has O- blood can only receive this type of blood.
The doctors asked if there were any other family members who could be called: there was my real father* (see note). They said that he had to come to the hospital.
Then just all of a sudden I was fine and I was sitting in the hospital bed talking to my father for the first time ever.
Note:
* I am 20 years old and have never met my real father.
This dream occurred a week ago and I am still having strange dreams. Although I can't remember most of them my college roommate says that I scream a great deal in my sleep.
There are two episodes of lost and found in your dream. First, you lose your money and jewellery to your attacker and then you are found by someone. Secondly, you have lost a great deal of blood, and then your real father was found.
When a theme repeats in a dream it is known as a motif, and this motif is a clue to interpretation. Your dream explores a sense of loss that leads, somehow, to a sense of being found.
Another approach to identifying the issue a dream is exploring is to look for opposites. Again, your dream provides these, and they are the same – lost and found.
So let’s start by looking at what you lost in the dream, to give more clues.
You lost valuables – money and jewellery. You lost them because you were threatened. In fact, you gave them away because of this threat. Interpreted, this suggests you lost a sense of value, perhaps self-value (self worth), in the day or two before your dream.
What felt threatening to you in your waking life at that time? As in the dream, it would have been a feeling that came “out of nowhere”, that surprised you. Who or what threatened your sense of self worth, and why did you give in to this, robbing yourself, in a way, of your sense of self worth and esteem?
Your second loss was blood. Dreams often use word play, and since only your real father had the same blood as you, the loss of blood was loss of your bloodline – your real family. What you had lost “a great deal” was your sense of connectedness to your real father. You deeply felt the loss of ‘blood’, of your natural, genetic heritage.
This is where dream interpretation becomes so helpful. Your unconscious dreaming mind has connected these two losses because they ARE connected.
Putting this together, recently your sense of self worth (and perhaps also your values), has felt threatened by a sudden development in your life that has left you feeling vulnerable. This is connected with a deeper feeling of loss of ‘blood’ through a lack of relationship with your natural father. It’s as if not having your real father in your life has undermined your sense of self worth and, on two occasions (the two shots in the dream), you gave up some of your values because of this, only to end up hurt.
Going deeper still – because it’s in going deeper that dream interpretation has the power to heal – your dream suggests that you have suddenly “out of nowhere” (out of the depths of your unconscious mind) suddenly connected with the sense of loss your real father might have felt when he gave away something valuable (you) in the same way that you were forced, in your dream, to give away something valuable (money and jewellery) under threat. (It’s like a double shot –the two shots in your dream perhaps.) Do you think your father felt threatened – either at the thought of fatherhood or by other circumstances or experiences – to give you up? Might he have been lacking in self worth, feeling too vulnerable to defend and protect his values?
The truth about your father and why he hasn’t been in your life is not something you can access in a dream, but what your dream can do is address your thoughts and beliefs about why he ‘gave you up’. If you believe you were abandoned by your father, and if this belief is affecting your feelings of self worth and your values today, then you can reprogram that belief to work more positively for you.
Your dream introduces the hospital, a place of healing, and a healing occurs because there you are, “fine” at the end of the dream. What made you fine, in the dream, was talking with your father. This is a time now for you to reach out, within yourself, to make peace with your uncomfortable thoughts and feelings about your father. (It’s not necessarily a time to contact and meet your father in actuality. He may not –and may never – be ready. This is all about you finding healing peace within.)
The fact that you were fine and healed at the end of the dream, and communicating with your ‘found’ father, suggests this healing process is already underway.
It’s about healing your sense of loss by FINDING peace within.
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