I had an experience the night before last that shook me so that I don't know If I want to do any more retrievals. I have been realizing more and more the signifigance of the places in my dreams. The town in which I have spoke of before is a meeting place or link between where I am and where they are. I have been meeting up there for about a year now and everything has been going smoothly until, the other night.

I began asking questions of the people I meet there, about 3 weeks ago, to try and figure out where I was. It seems I may have asked too many questions because I was met with some resistance a few nights ago when trying to reach someone that needed me. The crowds on the side walk started to bunch together as if to slow me down, and I wasn't able to reach the person I was trying to find.
Then the night before last they turned down right hostile. I was met by a mob, angry all shouting at the same time. I couldn't make out what they were saying only that they didn't want me there. They looked different too, usually happy wearing bright colors, like the sixties, this time they were barely clothed and they looked like they had mascara running down their faces like black tears. They pushed me until i took refuge in an old theater. This is where it really got weird.
I was behind stage with everyone running around trying to get ready for the play, and someone handed me something and told me to get to work. I got to work (automatically?) and used this as an advantage to check the place out. It was very old, dark and creepy, with mazes of tunnels and catwalks. I climbed a catwalk and from there I could see the stage.
A most gruesome play was taking place. A man in dark red hood and a woman being dragged across the stage by her hair. Then (it gets a little foggy here) some band of weird men with hunched backs come out of the side of the stage snarling and begin to try to cover the woman with themselves when suddenly she stands straight up on her toes and shoots lighting from her fingers, mouth, eyes and toes.... I feel really hot and will myself to leave this place, only to end up face down in a puddle in a hotel room. I get up and try to find a way out of the room but all the doors are locked with card sliders at the tops of the doors, and the doors are like 15 feet tall! A man (appears) on the floor next to me. he rolls over and stands, looks at me and extends a hand. He says he can help me break out of here.
I wake up..
I have never felt more stuck in my dreams than I did in that place. I couldn't wake up and I couldn't transport, and I couldn't manipulate the structure...  Pretty scary! :-/

that sounds harsh :-/

Oops unbelievable, I wanna say just forget it and be normal, no need to think anymore, since it's an dream.

Time management training

wow bad dreams :-?

I also get scary dreams a lot, do they have any meaning really? Can anyone tell me why do we see them?

  My experience with nightmares and really nonsensical dreams, so far confirms what Cayce's guidance often mentioned about the causes of these.  More related to physical body imbalances, such as incomplete digestion before sleep, eating really unhealthy and hard to digest food before sleeping, just eating too large of a meal to soon before sleeping, etc. 

  Also, taking certain prescription drugs seem to contribute, or so i've heard from others experiences.  (me, i don't even take aspirin let alone any other pharmaceutical, so i can't directly comment on this). 

  This was more or less 'verified' by me, from the fact that when i was a kid, and had a much unhealthier diet and eating habits in general (eating too close to bedtime, etc), I would somewhat regularly have nightmares. 

  Years later, i started to clean up both of these areas of my life, and really improved them, and when i did, i stopped having nightmares and those completely nonsensical dreams.

The episode when you watched the stage play  could have been a hint for you to become more self-confident / lucid in your "dream". I mean the woman who first seemed to be a victim, but then showed her power.

Spooky

Perhaps all these people were fragments of your "whole" self, & need to be integrated? Their running make-up would then be an indication that their masks are falling away, & their true selves are being slowly revealed.
The stage could represent the "stage of life" at which you currently find yourself, or perhaps that "life IS a stage performance"  (Problem is, we have to take it seriously or it doesn't count!) 

Seeing backstage would represent the workings of the unconscious mind, the "stage manager" (your Self, who directs the stage production of your life)Perhaps you "feel small" in the face of circumstances & events that seem overwhelming.. .

But you seem to acknowledge to yourself in the dream setting that life is all really just a stage production - something that is ephemeral, & will pass.

The other possibility is that you slipped into someone else's dream scenario in the lower astral.  I feel that this dream is a very significant teaching dream, & that you should meditate on the different aspects of it until you "clear it"  & do not need to dream it again in any form.
But this is just my intuitive impression, you need to go with your own gut feeling.

thank you all!!
@ Justin I see what you mean, I used to drink and had bad dreams all the time but have been sober and eat very healthy now for 5 years or so, maybe revisiting that side of myself?

Hi Stalagmite,

I wonder if you found an answer to your dream or anything to help you correlate it to your waking life. It certainly is an interesting dream.

I tend to lean toward kirolak's assessment in this dream is trying to get a message to you. Several years ago I participated in a forum for dream analysis and the general consensus was that every person and everything in our dreams is a representative of ourselves. Sadly, the board disbanded for some reason, but it was incredibly helpful for learning how to understand one's dreams and their relationship to our waking life.

The basis of your dreams seems to suggest there is something within you that you are curious about and want to learn about but are being blocked or prevented from doing so (represented by the angry mob, locked doors and general intensity of everyone you encountered). However, it also seems there is a part of you that is aware and strong and willing to "save" the day (the man who materializes at the end offering help).

I find dreams are a safe way of addressing matters we can't or don't address in waking life. I also have found that we tend to remember more details of dreams that have a stronger message or more immediate need in our lives. All in all, it's really about what resonates with you in your life.

All the best,
mj