?LyinEyes?:
I too have had the reoccurring tornado dream since around early puberty! I used to have this dream about looking at the horizon and seeing a dark storm coming with multiple funnel spouts. I used to have a real fear of being caught in a tornado. In my dream, the funnel spouts are steadily advancing toward me, and I?m trying to run away from them.
It doesn?t take a genius for any of us to figure out the real meaning of the tornado storm in the dream (i.e., the ?big A?). It was particularly grievous to me, as my elder father used to scare me about sinning against the holy spirit, which, during a somewhat troublesome puberty and having ?unnatural? desires and fantasies, I thought I had done. (Thus my user name.)
After recently receiving an interesting ?education? at Web sites such as this one, the tornado dream doesn?t seem to be happening anymore.
Of course, who knows what kind of dreams I may still be having and not be aware of them. I do occasionally experience brief but somewhat intense ?night terrors? where I wake up suddenly and experience a feeling of fright and horror, but don?t recall any kind of dream whatsoever. Apparently this phenomenon occurs more in the deeper non-REM stage of sleep. I have actually on different occasions woken up feeling so terrified that I have grabbed my stomach or side so hard that I?ve actually broken the skin and had some bleeding and bruising. This is a defense mechanism I have to make sure I don?t scream or call out, because I have done this a few times when I was quite young while feeling very terrified while awake at night.
It?s amazing what kind of special traumas people go through dealing with abuse, especially from an abusive cult like the JWs. Thank God for support boards like this one where we can at least find some kind of healing.
?SAHS