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Why Am I Dreaming About My Old Friend Almost Every Night?

Asked by desiree333 (3219points) July 29th, 2009

My best friend and I got into a fight probably about 7–8 months ago and we aren’t friends anymore at all. I miss being her friend, but it dosen’t really bother me and I don’t think about it often at all. Every single night she always is in my dreams. Mostly she wijust happen to be wherever I am in my dream, wheither it be on the street, at a store, usually in public places, etc. Usually we will smile say hi, small talk for a bit and be on our way. Other dreams we apologize, become friends again, and hang out. Whenever we become friends again I’m always in the country with her or in a forest. Whenever we casually say hello its always somewhere busy, and public. I’m not sure what the underlying reason is as to why she is in my dreams every single night, but if someone knows a bit about dreams can you please tell me what is going on in my brain?

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styfle's avatar

Well I’m no dream interpreter, but it sounds like you really do miss your friend. Your brain is thinking about her so its on your mind. Sometimes dreams mean nothing and people dream about things they never want to happen (nightmares, etc). Why don’t you try contacting her?

Dog's avatar

When that happens to me the person re-enters my life. I either bump into them somewhere or they call me out of the blue.

desiree333's avatar

@Dog interesting, but I don’t think she would ever contact me, and if I randomly called her it would be awkward and totally strange and out of the blue. I think if she was going to contact me she would have by now, she’s been in my dreams for about a month straight now.
@styfle Your probably right, I do miss being friends with her. We were best friends since JK (kindergarden). Also after we stopped being friends I lost contact with most of my other friends. I guess I’m just lonely, and I’m missing all my friends.

cyn's avatar

dreams mean something…..I believe you two are going to become friends again. Especially if you dream about becoming friends again almost everynight. :)

nebule's avatar

You do miss her
You are bothered by this
You have not reached any resolve on it…
You should try to get some

This happened to me with someone about 5 years ago…the exact same thing happened in that I started to dream about her all the time.

I tried to get resolve but unfortunately she wouldn’t talk to me or even simply tell me what I had done so badly wrong…Wouldn’t even give me the chance to apologise..for whatever it was that I had done.

I resolved that it was then out of my power to change the situation and all I could do was to walk away.

casheroo's avatar

I had a fight with my best friend, and we didn’t talk for I believe six months. I forget how we contacted each other again, but we both apologized and moved past the fight. We’re still best friends to this day.
I think your dream means you want to fix things.

desiree333's avatar

@casheroo I haven’t been friends with her for a long time, I know shes not mad at me because we talked briefly about it a long time ago. I don’t see any way we would ever be in a situation where we would have to talk. I’m still in high school and we didn’t have any classes together or anything.
@lynneblundell Sorry to hear that about your friend. You didn’t ever figure out what happened that made her not want to speak with you?

nebule's avatar

nope…

ralfe's avatar

@desiree333 What we see in our dreams is the result of complicated subconscious processes. To understand what this dream is about, you need to understand something about desire. In our minds there is a constant war taking place. On the one side we have powerful urges, desires and wishes. On the other side we have everything which prevents those urges, desires and wishes from being fulfilled. For example, I might have a desire to hug my mother, but my mother might be dead, thus preventing my desire to be fulfilled.

Now, because of this inner conflict, our urges, wishes and desires release themselves in other ways. One of these ways is in our dreams. It makes sense if you think about it, that if your desire cannot be attained in real life, why not attain it in your dream. These preconcious desires, wishes and urges eventually make their ways into our dreams and their prominence is often an indication of the importance they hold within our unconscious mind.

The fact that you dream about making peace with your friend on a nightly basis tells me that this is something that is really troubling you, even if you are not consciously aware of it. What actually happens in our minds is that these people that we love become part of us. Then when they are no longer in our lives, we experience a sensation of loss, as we have actually lost a part of ourselves.

To solve this, I think it is important for you to try and contact her, and just make peace. Appologise, expect nothing in return. Just do your part to release this inner tension and anxiety you have.

I hope this has been helpful. And I wish you the best.

desiree333's avatar

@ralfe thanks, that was helpful. We have already apologized but she never has contacted me or anything

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