A very interesting dream I had last night and one I wanted to share with you guys in dreamland is one which really shook me up when I jolted awake and had to turn on the lights and put some random video to calm down. Now I've had lots of archetypal dreams (and all dreams are archetypal), but never one which involved the 'hidden self' part of one's being in such an immediate presence. So in dream reality, I was running through some dark streets (kinda scared already) and scurried into a building which had large glass doors with lights on. When I get inside, I trip and fall down and I feel a presence around me. Then, turning to my left, I see a man in a tidy blue suit standing a few feet in front of me. I also noticed there was another person in the back of the same room, but he (I'm pretty sure) was leaning back on the wall, kind of like he had been injured or knocked out. This got me more scared at this point, so I slowly look up to see the face of the man who was standing right in front of me, and I notice that he doesn't have a face. There was a layer of skin covering his whole face, but the outlines of the bridge of his nose was visible. Now at this point, I felt that this person wanted to harm me, so I started backing away (on my butt) and this person slowly raises his hand. I did not notice if he was doing that in an aggressive fashion OR in an attempt to help me. And I did not find that out because this was the jolt I needed to wake up, which makes me irritated now because I want to know what his intentions were. So that was my dream, after which I kinda kept trying to keep the faceless man away from my waking consciousness (the memory is still clear) but now I'm trying to figure out the details and ponder on the 'hidden self'. Now I did some initial 'research' on this type of dream and I've found out that the faceless man/faceless woman is a very old archetype, with people having lots of different experiences with these featureless people. These beings are supposed to be dimensions of one's own personality, the part of one self which one does not 'recognize' or keeps locked away for some reason. Anyone else have dreams of faceless people? What are your interpretations of these dreams?
I've had these dreams on occasion. They are a little creepy but not really. Just the unknown that's creepy. I agree with what you said about it being different aspects of the personality. It's also possible that it's a mystery person that you may meet in the future.
i've had dreams in which there were people who had perfectly ordinary faces, but a second layer of skin over and completely hiding them that had to be surgically removed. well now that is interesting that this is the same thing you mean, or appears to be. for me my dreams aren't particularly scarry. inveriably less so then real life for that matter. but the idea of that extra layer of skin hiding the face is kind of creepy in its own way. mostly the probable annoyance of it to the person, and the having to be surgically removed to get rid of it. i can draw a symbolism from it easily enough. when everything we are told, when every way of finding out anything, is controlled by people whose interests have nothing to do with truth or reality, the it is like we have that ourselves. people used to say pulling the wool over your eyes, only here it is your own skin over your whole face. you live in a world where everyone is brainwashed, they watch fox news and go to the same churches and its all completely self blinded to any kind of natural reality. people are told not to try to understand how anything actually works, but to fallow the magical cookbook of some religion or ideology, and it will somehow make everything alright, only of course it doesn't. and as long as the real universe is ignored it can't. jack vance wrote a science fiction story by that name, which was the first of a, to me, very interesting series of stories. the allusion was not however literal, though the cover art was.
