In our dreams, all kinds of strange things happen to our bodies. Me, I’ve had an invisible arm, strange objects embedded underneath my skin and even had my teeth break into tiny pieces, to the point I was spitting, what seemed like, sand out of my mouth.
When trying to figure out what the strange things that happen to your body in a dream mean, it’s important to remember that all the different parts of your dream body represent all your different mental and emotional parts. Your dreaming mind will give form to your mental and emotional abilities so you can better understand how well or how poorly you are using them.
Below is a dream about one of the more common bodily afflictions that occur in our dreams: the inability to open one’s eyes. It is a great example of how this works. This is from my nationally syndicated column The Dream Zone…
Lauri: It sounds like this could be sleep paralysis, where you temporarily get stuck in between being awake and asleep. It tends to happen when we aren’t getting enough good solid sleep. However, you didn’t have the sense of being unable to move so, I will also go ahead and treat this like a dream.
While the eyes of our real life body give us the ability see, the eyes of our dream body give us the ability to “perceive and to understand.” This is why we say, “I see,” when we understand something that has been told to us.
Is there anything you have been turning a blind eye to lately? Something you are afraid to know or face because you are afraid of having a “rude awakening?” Are people telling you things you don’t want to hear? If so, that’s why you could hear what was going on around you but couldn’t do anything.
Lauri replies: Well, it seems your subconscious wants you wake up and take a good look at the truth. He’s an ex for a reason. The subconscious is much wiser than we are. Look at it as your second, smarter brain. And listen to it!
Kate’s dream is trying to show her that, taking back her ex is like trying to go through life with her eyes closed. There will be many bumps, trips and falls that can be avoided if she simply opens her eyes and sees the truth.
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I had a dream where I had a friend that has snacks and those snacks never attempt to bite me only this day that we kind of had a misunderstanding with my friend…. Then I was trying to run away and when I was almost at the gate and my friend held the gate close so I couldn’t escape and then the one snack out of all those snacks bit me, Grace 22
One time I dreamt I was running but I couldn’t open my eyes in the dream . I was running with my eyes closed because it took great effort to open them
Hi, I keep having the same dream when I go into a place and come out my car is gone. I had this dream last night and this dream was a family members old home that I went into came out car is gone. This was the first time the same house was in this particular type dream. This was the first time my spouse was in this dream. What does this mean?
Some nights i dream some i dont but the nights i do dream all i remember is my vision moving in a wobbly figure 8. What does that mean
Currently just woke up from a dream that felt sooo real . There were two parts. The first part I was having a three some with my girlfriend – ex girlfriend now (broke up 2 days ago but she still lives with me we still basically do the same things just established we’d be single and she’s due to move out in a few weeks) but anyways in the first part the 3 some portion was fine. After that scene some what switched. I was sleeping in the dream and I was in my exact room. Except, there was a door to an attic exactly like the room I was in as a child. In the dream, a friend walked in the room and went in the door to go to the attic. As she went upstairs my ex and I continued to have the 3 some. Then the friend knocks on the door to come out of the attic and my ex opens it for her and she leaves our room. Then I am sleeping again. As I’m sleeping it’s as if my eyes are blurry and I can’t really open them fully. As if I was super tired and couldn’t keep them open. I was hearing a noise in the background like it was a dirt bike reving from riding up the street. But then I couldn’t differentiate between it being a dirt bike or gun shots . So that scared me and I attempted to get out of bed (this is all in the dream) but as I tried to get up my eyes would close from being so tired . Finally I was able to make it to the door of my bedroom and walk out. Walking out the room mimicked the one I am innnow. My back door was open and as I peeked , it was a couple people walking up the steps in the back hallway to their apartment, feeling confused as to why the door was open I quickly shut it and proceeded to try to check the house. Suddenly a person appeared in front of me. As I seen him i fell to the ground in terror. He just seemed to stand over me. Through this whole process I am trying to scream “help me” but the words could not come out. It was like I would start to be able to scream out “help” but my voice would fade out/ shut off . Now I am laying in bed eyes very blurry and in the dream I am trying to blink repeatedly like you would when you first wake up but my eyes would just keep closing as if my body was forcing me to sleep. Trying to scream help because like I said my ex sleeps next to me but I couldn’t get her up because I couldn’t scream/talk. Finally I wake up IRL and it looks just like my dream except I can talk and wake her up to alert her that I had “a bad dream”. I am spiritual in a sense so upon awakening I “plead the blood of Jesus” to cancel away any bad spirits or demons. As I was taught this as a child. I’m sort of afraid to go back to sleep bc I don’t want to go back to that dream or anything similar to it. I don’t remember this ever happening to me before but it was reallllly scary.
I had the very same kind of dream. I couldn’t speak or see very. I could could communicate very much and was lost in a sense.
No communication
I couldn’t open one eye in my dream, what does it mean
I had a dream where I was driving and I couldn’t open my eyes. Scared me so badly I feel like I need to stay awake.
I have this many times and I think it’s sleep paralysis I can’t open my eyes or move from my bed and it’s scary as fuck.
Dear Laurie
I have been having the same dream. Where I am home. My normal life is going on. I fall asleep on my couch and in my dream I wake up but I can’t open my eyes. I cry scream ..run around my house( in my dream) trying everything to get them open. It scares me because it’s like my normal life , like I’m not dreaming at all. Could this be a type of sleep paralysis?
I have the same thing and I just had one again right now. Where I’m in my room and I cant open my eyes I get up and move around trying to force them open. I would really like to know what that is.