Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A dream about a cheating boyfriend: Prophecy, Psychic Awareness or Something Else?

"Hey idk I kinda jus woke up and went crazy googlin bc I keep having a recurring dream of my boyfriend who's faithful but my 3rd time dreaming of this girl ( who he slept w in his passd before me) first one was his mom and sister we're telling me he's with someone else and I was like noo and they we're like yes she comes by the house.

second one was at my one aunts house but supossd to be a hair salon (I do hair) and he's ther ( sitting like they don't know eachother) and I had one mor left and he didn't tell me she was coming or anything and I noticed who she was and that's it that I can remember . Random .

Now for my third one which was this morning we we're somewhere I think a different aunts house so random w my aunts houses, but the girl was they're again I was nice to her kinda conversational and then they go outside and I noticed they're making out but wasn't sure until my cousin comes up and says I didn't wanna say anything but and she confirms it for me I'm starting to forget his reaction when I came out but basically he was very egh whatever and he says I told you to go downstairs like get out of here but then I startd to beat them up and neither fought back. They just sat there.

I have been having stupid fights with him where now he's actually yelling back and getting sick of me fighting, please help me! I'd appreciate it!!! Thanks :)"



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A lot of people believe that their dreams are prophetic, or that they are psychic visions which lay before them the realities of the situations in their lives which they are not privy to in their waking lives. In the vast majority of the cases in which a person has a dream which they believe to either be prophecy or psychic warning the dream is neither of these things. Instead, the dream is a call to examine more closely the situations that plague them.

There is yet another possibility in this case: that you have, in your waking hours, gathered some information about your boyfriend which makes you increasingly suspicious of him. You mention specifically that he has been faithful to you, but it sounds like something more than these dreams is eating at you.

Is he too good to be true? Is there some possibility that you've been pushing him away a little, out of fear that he may betray you?

You also specifically mention a girl who he slept with before the two of you got together, I think that she's perhaps as significant as the cheating itself. First of all, I'm sure you're aware that to really love someone, you must accept who they've been in their past, simply because it's the one thing that they cannot change about themselves. That being said, people bring a lot of outside feelings, thoughts, and behavioral patterns into their relationships. It's unfortunate that we do this, in many situations, because we frequently cause our partners to live with consequences and emotional fall-out that may have nothing to do with them. I suspect that something about this other woman really irks you- she might have a personality flaw, or even an attribute that you feel you may not possess, either way, as a sexual rival, she fills an important place in this dream.

Freud believed that we were everyone in our dreams, and I find that his theory is frequently correct. If you look at this dream through that lens, something very interesting happens...

If you're everyone in your dream, you aren't just the hurt self, catching your boyfriend in various stages of deceit- you're also the concerned cousin, the cheating boyfriend and the other woman. You inflict injury as well as receive it, and you serve as your own messenger of the cold, hard, truth.

There is a distinct possibility that you have lived every role in this emotional drama that you've dreamt up at some point in your waking life. These conflicting feelings have percolated inside you, and have manifested themselves as a series of dreams which allow you to safely express them.

However, both paragraphs of the above interpretation hinge on a single factor: the ability to empathize with the position of the "cheater" within this dream, something I am not convinced that you are doing. It sounds as though you've dreamt up a situation in which you could not possibly understand the motivations behind the actions of your cheating boyfriend, or the other girl. The fact that suggests this is the reaction, or lack thereof, which he shows you when caught.

In the action of this dream, then, your boyfriend and this girl act more as props than as real people. This tells me that it's very likely that the dream is reflective of your emotional state, your fears, insecurities and perhaps your past, than it is a warning of your boyfriend cheating.

That being said, you have a call to make here. One that no one outside of your relationship can really know anything about!

Regardless of whither or not he's cheating on you, it sounds like you may not be happy in this relationship. I would encourage you to think deeply and carefully about WHY you're in this particular relationship. Does this man love you? Does he understand you, emotionally and intellectually? Is he actively looking out for you?

Get to the heart of why you're together, and have some conversations with him about these dreams, his past, your past and your feelings about the recent fights. If you're able to talk these things out, you'll be fine- and if you actually have a problem, these conversations will likely make you aware of that. Pay attention to how he addresses your feelings- and don't allow him to be dismissive. If it's important to you, it needs to be discussed.

I hope you found this interpretation helpful. You've got a lot of work ahead of you, but I think it was smart of you to take these dreams seriously, though they likely aren't warnings of his bad behavior, they are the result of the turmoil in your relationship, and you'll have to get to the root of all of it to make it go away.