I have been concerned about the meaning of a short but quite disturbing dream. I dreamt that i was preparing for a planned suicide that was to take place the next day, by making arrangements with family members and saying goodbye to close friends. Also, as a distinct part of the dream, I remember sitting in a bar, talking to a priest about why i was planning to commit suicide.
This dream, apart from initially quite disturbing, has perplexed me but i am convinced that it is symbolic. I would be grateful in any assistance in resolving the meaning of this dream.
Thanks.....Matthew
Hi Matt this is a tuff one
sometimes i like to think that a dream resembles a bigger outcome or then again it can just come down to the individual and his world and not the whole world.
So the suicide part could resemble you losing something very important in your life and maybe you feel guilty.
The priest at the bar im not sure about, could be you confessing although you explianing why you want to kill your self, once again you could be feeling guilty about something or something to come. Goodluck and please im not an expert on any of this, just giving my opinion.
I'm not really sure how much this dream may relate to your waking reality, but I feel that it is time for you to be a bit selfish, please yourself and accept that it is virtually impossible to please everyone.
Suicidal feelings are a deep longing of the soul to express itself. Perhaps the life structure you have at the moment does not honour your deepest desires, talents and natural gifts. In short, who you really are.
People who are suicidal, believe that they want to die.
If one really listens to someone who is in ths emotional state, it is not that they trully want to die, but that they cannot bear living in whatever situation they find themselves. If the situation were to change and some hope is found it is possible to overcome these feelings and continue.
only you know within the context of the dream whether it was a sincere desire to check out (not wishing to deal with the daily grind that life sometimes is) or if it was a cry-for-help/attention suicide.
If it is the daily grind, I commiserate, some chunks of my life were not so special, but i was taught that suicide is wrong, and so I am still here, and strangely enough life is quite a blast now, it was worth the wait....and with hindsight and maturity I could have avoided some of the crap that dogged me.....
If it is the cry-for-attention type suicide, well, time to address the issues that are pissing you off, only you can make the changes necessary to improve the quality of your life so that it is as much fun as it can be each day.
I agree, if you have no obvious daily problems that you are really aware of, then this dream would be quite perplexing. I think your subconscious is telling you that it is not digging your current living-death state, you know, dead at 30 buried at 70....time to figure out what makes you happy, (running a roller rink, being a wrestler, being an art director etc etc) and just making a plan and going after it with no more delay. Good lcuk with your new life that your subconscious is pricking you about getting on with!
You were talking to a priest - this indicates confession - is there something about which you feel guilty (hence the suicide plans) that you need to get off your chest?
Are you anticipating a loss?
Is a friend of yours/family member seriously or terminally ill?
Are you anxious about something?
Maybe you are simply anticipating something that will change your life and outlook beyond all comprehension - i.e., job, relationship, that will make your life as it is a thing of the past.
Hope this gives you pause for thought,
Jo xx
I am struck by the fact that you are in a bar talking with a priest. The setting is the interesting part because if you think about it, who do you usually talk to in a bar about all kinds of things, knowing he will simply let you unload and yet let you forget what you told him later? The bartender!! People go to bars for comraderie, even among strangers. They talk to bartenders because it's safe. Bartenders often listen with half interest, sometimes just being polite, they rarely interact, just listen. So it would be safe to talk to a bartender about suicide, because you would know he probably wouldn't try to stop you or talk you out of it, he would nod and keep drying the glasses! But a priest, in a bar, to me says you want to unload the situation to someone WHO CARES, someone who will weigh the moral consequences. But it is you who is choosing to talk TO the priest, so you are telling someone who cannot listen half heartedly. You told your family and made arrangements with them, you said goodbye to close friends, but none of them tried to stop you, none of them weighed out the consequences. I didn't even detect a sense of sadness in that part of the dream, no sense of loss. But the priest, he, like Jesus, has gone into a place that usually harbors "sinners", yet there he is, just like Jesus in the home of the tax collector. Jesus, when criticized for this said something to the effect of being called by the Father to change the hearts of the sinner, as it is so easy to influence the heart of a good person. So there is the priest in a bar, with all the drinkers. Strange setting for him to be in, but he is there with you listening to you. It is his job to listen and to weigh the moral consequences. You are leaving the door open to changing your mind. It says to me you don't want to die, or you wouldn't tell a priest! Now, if you think of death as simply change, the end of something, and don't take it literally, it would seem that maybe you have some big decision coming up that will irrevocably change things in your life, the way death would. But you want to be talked out of it, before it is too late!
That is my take on it. Does this ring any bells? Are you planning a move, or a job change, or a marriage?
What are you about to do that you really don't want to do?
