Hello, I've been having this dream for as long as I remember, I'm 16 now. It's like my worst nightmare ever, even though the dream itself isn't actually bad, it just has an effect on me. I've never got on with me Grandad, he's never liked me. He has 5 grandchildren and I've always came last against the other 4, it's just the way it's always been. Anyway, the dream is, I'm quite young, around 5, and I'm like really small and i'm in his cup of tea, and he's above me with a huge evil grin on his face and he keeps stirring the tea. I'm screaming asking him to stop, but he won't.. This is when I wake up.. I'm getting worried that this dream is trying to tell me something about what happened when I was younger that I've pushed to the back of my mind. It might sound stupid, but it plays on my mind. Thanks, Luke.
Hi Luke, nightmares have a great potential to help you change and transform. So you may just want to use what you got - the nightmare energy - and go deeper without trying to interprete or analyze. Instead let the dream work itself out. The message is inside, not outside. Lucid dreaming could be a direct way to go back into the dream and change and dissolve the struggle; but not everbody is a lucid dreamer. You also could do a role play and be the grandfather who stirs the emotions ... or as you may feel like you're perhaps not his cup of tea, imagine you are the cup, the tea, the spoon, the heat - as if you were all parts of the dream - and go deeper with it and see what happens while you hold the tension ... until the fear dissolves and the energy neutralizes. It's the dreamer inside you who wakes you - even literally. Your grandfather seems to stand as a symbol, a mark on your path to greater awareness. Maybe just appreciate and honour him for being who he is, and for helping you to come to greater awareness. This is just food for thought but I hope it makes sense.
