Had a dream during an afternoon nap. In the dream it was the apocalypse and there were gas shortages and riots in the street. Some figure that was basically the Antichrist sent a demon wolf and a man that was his follower after me. For some reason I had a sword and the wolf and guy were sent to kill me. It was kind of like a movie and when the wolf attacked me I cut its head off. Then the guy attacked me and I scared him so he ran away and tried to escape. I pulled him away from the car he tried to escape in and pushed the sword through his chin into his brain and told him to “Die Motherfucker!”.
Then the Antichrist figure’s face appeared over the dead man’s face and told me he would get me. I’m an atheist by the way so the Antichrist figure is sort of weird. Nonetheless I really enjoyed the dream and felt in a good mood upon waking.
No one knows why people dream. Some say when you sleep your consciousness is not like when you where awake. So you dream because your brain cannot have thoughts of nothing. Others say your dreams are your memories your brain is filing away.
If sleep main role is the memories in your brain being filing away or organized… Some auto immune system repair or memory organizing…
I was at a high school-type dance and kept hitting on Megan Mullally, who was dancing with Nick Offerman (her husband); he didn’t seem to mind at all and kept trying to hand her off to me, but she was having none of it. Da End.
I have always heard dreams of wolves meant you were about to go through financial crisis of some kind…per: the wolf’s at the door…just saying! P.S. burpo…you’re too funny!!
Some religions believe the stuff that happens in dreams is actually the “real” world, while what we experience as “reality” is the actual dream. Eventually, passing on from this reality is merely “waking up” in the so-called dream world.
Which I guess means the afterlife must be filled with people walking around naked in public, and signing up for college courses that you completely forget to attend until the last day of the semester.
What bugs me about dreams in fiction and in movies is that they are a lot more like non-dream life than dreams are. There are very few dreams shown in fiction which are like real dreams. “Death on the Nile” by Connie Willis is one (though not really a dream) and Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream is another. I’m sure there are a few more, but I can’t think of any at the moment.
Yeah, dreams mean stuff. Same as everything you do means stuff.
Thing is, everyone has their own “dream glossary.” What a wolf means to one person, wont necessarily be what means to another one.
Lots of dreams are just a distorted continuation of waking life. Others are some part of your mind trying to explain stuff going on around you, so that you stay asleep.
You can gain insights about yourself from your dreams, but it’s a lot like psychotherapy, in that it takes a long time and a lot of work for a given person to work out how to interpret their dreams reasonably well.
I have a guess for you, based on the tiny amount of information supplied.
The wolf and the antichrist and the guy sent to get you and the sword are all just stagecraft debris. I’d bet that somewhere recently, you overheard or read about the latest pop-religious prediction of the end of the world, and since you do (seem to ) take pride in being an atheist, your subconscious decided to pat you on the back, by allowing you to say “die, motherfucker!” to what was really a representation of the threat of religious people believing in Armageddon.
The main key to interpretation, is to take note of how you feel immediately after you wake from the dream. Since you both enjoyed the dream, and woke feeling good, I guessed that this dream was you entertaining yourself, and then applauding your own work.