Tell Me Your Dreams

PART 1

"The voice was familiar but I could not recognise the face". Samantha said to me.

Samantha, a girl who was sixteen had been coming to me for about a week. She complained of having the same dream every night  for about 6 months. 

I had been in this professsion for a while, I would like to call myself the dream intepretor since they had put me under that section for a long time. People of all ages with dream problems came to me. I had solved many cases and some were just beyond me. It had been a while since I had interacted with a teen so I decided to take up Samantha's case.

Dream analysis is different for different age group of people, according to Freud, whom i follow, children dream quite straightfowardly dream of fulfillment of wishes. Adult's dreams consist mostly of hidden desires, supressed emotions or repressed events. I've had lots of patients having dreams which later on i analysed as hidden feelings, none were supressed events. 

Samantha seemed to have a case of nightmare and recurring dreams. Let me start of by explaining what a nightmare is, it is a disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling frightened they occur because you have ignored or refused to accept a particular life situation. Recurring dreams are triggered by life problems, these resemble inability to cope with something or someone in your life.

Coming to her dream, she dreamed of a girl sitting on the swing yelling and crying,  violently being pushed by another someone else. The girl had dark hair and tears were rolling down her cheeks and she cried for help. The dream always abruptly ended when the girl wailed desperetaly  "Peggy, don't run away, please dont leave me this way, help! You're my_". Before the sentence was completed Samantha woke up sweating and panting.. Oh and she also spoke about the setting of the dream it was a dark night raining heavily accompanied by lightening and thunder. 

Nightmares consisting of rain were pretty common, i had heard almost all my patients having dreams with rain etc etc, but usually it depicted some sort of phobia, but this seemed to be depicting a personality which seemed dark and dangerous....