what is the meaning of this dream I had

[Bombero1956]

I had a dream the other night that ended by me being shot multiple times. I wonder what the meaning of such a dream is.

[Ohio Joe]

1. Those dreams always mean the same thing

You owe me $10, I love it when people have that dream :D

[Ptah]

2. You want to be the dead guy in a Spencer novel, written by Robert B. Parker, may he RIP?

[dimbear]

3. Here is the exact meaning of your dream. You have been

watching too many TV episodes involving hot CSI investigators.

[Recovered Repug]

4. You were either Butch Cassidey or the Sundance Kid in a

former life.

[Recovered Repug]

5. Here's a more serious response.

http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=shot

[struggle4progress]

6. I had a dream like that once

I had a blue-collar on-the-road construction job. We went out-of-town for two or three weeks

Part way through the first week, I learned the foreman was on parole for homicide

End of the first week, the foreman invited the crew back to his motel room for a start-the-weekend party. Way more alcohol than I wanted to see. Then foreman and racist girlfriend start playing with their handguns. I found a polite way to leave quickly and quietly

Couple nights later I dreamed the foreman shot me. I thought, "Y'know, these people kinda bother me. I think I'll be careful." The next day at work, during a break, the foreman came up to me and said, "I dreamed last night I shot you"

I said something vague like, "Eh, I hope that doesn't happen." But by the next day, I'd found a workable excuse to catch the next plane back home

I can still remember that dream, and sometimes I'll wonder a bit if I'm not wandering through the Garden of Forking Paths: maybe there's a path where another struggle4progress was shot dead by accident by a drunk at stupid party, and this struggle4progress just lucked onto a path where that didn't happen

But, really, it was just a dream

Your mental machine resets itself when you sleep, so it continues to work right. Your brain pumps your heart and drives your breathing and regulates your body temperature: the system wants to retune all that stuff to keep it running smoothly. There's all this electrochemistry associated with what you're actually going to remember from the day, and what it's going to be associated with when you remember it

I knew the guy could have shot me. He knew it too. We both knew it. Our little primate brains processed the info just about the same way: we dreamed about something that fortunately never happened

I could make obvious sense of that dream. But dreams don't often make much sense: there are no reliable maps of a dream world: you're driving down the road and you turn around to retrace your route and what's in front of you now isn't what you just drove through

Rarely, now and then, I'll wake from a crazy dream with an emotional certainly that it means such-and-such, even if I can't give any logical reason why. The little neurons were mopping-up and sweeping-out while I slept; sometimes they set something aside for me to notice when I first wake; but mostly, when I remember a dream, I think it's just that I briefly glanced what my neurons were carrying back and forth in their feverish nightly house-cleaning

[Lucian]

7. I've always wondered why I dream I'm a vampire.

In my waking life, I howl at the moon.

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

8. Did you know the person who shot you?

:shrug:

[Bombero1956]

9. the dream involved the theft of my car stereo

I took off after the guy and caught up with him by which time he had passed the stereo off to an accomplice. I made him call his friend who drove over to where we were. When the guy arrives he has 3 others with him and when he exits the car the thief says kill him and they start shooting. I got hit at least 5 times and felt myself starting to die. I woke up at that point and remember every detail about the dream. Joe I don't have $10 handy but will you take a bag of empty soda cans instead?

[RebelOne]

10. Pay attention to dreams that you remember vividly.

When I remember all the details of a dream, something concerning that dream happens to me or someone I know within a few days.

[rurallib]

11. Quit eating burritos before bedtime!

[Curmudgeoness]

12. It means that you will be coming into lots of money.

At least that is what my Tarot cards tell me.

[Bombero1956]

14. Gee I hope so

My house needs a new roof. I got a $37,000 estimate for the job.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. Holy shit. What kind of roof is that? OMG.

I had to have a new roof a few years back and it was about $3000 or so. I would have shit a brick, and not been able to get a new roof, for that price.

Well, I hope I am right.

[Bombero1956]

16. asbestos roof on a 100 year old house

it has to be handled by a licensed removal contractor and taken to a special disposal site. It basically doubles the price of the roof job. It pisses me off that there are no special programs to help pay for the work.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Guilt. All dreams where something bad happens to you...

come out of something you feel guilty about.

If, after years of analysis-- expensive analysis, you find out your overall feelings of guilt stem from feeling terrible about the pain you put you mother through during your birth, the answer is to kill yourself or your therapist.