Air Raid
Feeling under attack, the severity depending on the dream damage. The attack might be emotional from people, or feelings we have about events around us. Things may be going badly at work, and comments be felt like bombshells. Very often though, the threats are purely emotional/mental. We may read of an illness such as AIDS and the anxiety we connect with the idea has a devastating effect.
Example: ‘I am in a house and planes are dropping bombs on it.’ Mrs S. M.
Example: I was in a room with my aunt and uncle. It was dark outside and there was some kind of air raid going on with glowing missiles flying through the sky. I was terrified and tried to draw the red curtain across the window to block them out. The window was a right angle shaped one in the corner of the room. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t cover the whole window. As fast as I pulled the curtain across, the other end would be exposed, showing the missiles. I was becoming more and more frantic and my aunt and uncle just sat at the table playing cards, completely unperturbed and indifferent to my fear. D. K.
This dream from a girl in her teens clearly shows how she is dealing with her fears concerning the world. Her distress is even more intense because the fears of external threats which appear very real to her, are totally ignored by her family. The curtains depict how much she tries to shut these feelings out of her mind, and how unsuccessful this is. The dream is probably dealing with her difficulties in facing life as an adult, and the demands it may place upon her.
Idioms: I feel blitzed; it come as a bombshell; go down like a bomb; go like a bomb; put a bomb under someone; earn a bomb. See: aeroplane; war.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What in my external life am I feeling threatened by?
Are things happening out of the blue that I feel threatened by?
Am I facing new things that I am still learning to deal with?
Can I put a name or situation to what threatens me?
You can gradually change any fear of anxiety you feel by using Carry the Dream Forward.
Comments
I saw in my dream that its day time. suddenly i saw that far away in the sky a plane is droping bombs, but bombs are far from us,. then suddenly a big plane came and drop a white color atomic bomb. bomb is not exploded, its still in the air only. i ran towards room and took my mobile and call my father, i want to tell him that war is started and he should be careful.
Early this morning I had a dream of missiles..
It was beginning to become disk I’m at a lake and I look up to see a single missile fly over head and then a second later there are thousands of them flying over head. I’m caught watching the effect of the wake from the tails its in spirals. And I ask who fired the missiles someone answered Obama . The missiles were heading to d.c. I was waiting for my slowpoke son and I turn around there is a missile heading straight for me. It’s only inches from my face. I say oh shit and I wake up.
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Sarah – Because I am UK based, a couple of your dream images need your associations, for it is personal feeling connections with things like DC and Obama that are the living blood of dreams. So maybe use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson to find what your personal feelings are about Obama and DC.
It sounds like you suffer anxiety about an out of the blue attack. Causes of this might be a sudden change in your life or circumstances, so you have no idea where your problem will come from.
Example: A woman radio researcher was offered the job of presenter. She was thrilled but fearful, and dreamt she was walking and planes flew overhead dropping bombs. She dived into a ditch to avoid being killed. She realised from the dream that she was afraid of facing the public directly, and this fear would have caused her to refuse the job. She faced the fear and accepted the job.
It might be useful to use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/