Hello, many thanks for your reply :)

I'm feeling a lot better now. I think that nightmare (that i spoke of above) where i heard that whispery voice and couldn't open my eyes, not quite knowing whether i was dreaming or if it was really happening really put a lot of fear into me and opened up the floodgates to many of my deepest darkest fears in general. (I wonder what you might think that dream meant?) I was concerned that all my dreams would then follow on to take that kind of nightmarish tone, and that i would be overwhelmed by fear & scary nightmares for a time, but it didn't happen, no nightmares since (phew!) and i'm feeling much more like 'normal' again.

I'm not used to having nightmares at all, and so having them in a row was a bit of a shock to the system. It did seem like they came to me right at the point at which i started to pay real attention to my dreams (after a long time of not paying too much attention to them at all), and so i thought that somehow i had 'brought them on' or something. That's why i thought that perhaps it might be best not to note down my dreams for a while.

As i mentioned in the reply to my other dream, i don't actually live in Egypt, im just here for a little while. I don't actually live anywhere, i suppose. i've just been travelling for 7 years (mostly in Asia) though i was born in Egypt and spent most of my early life growing up in the UK (a very strict Egyptian & muslim upbringing hence the feeling that i need to conform as shown in my dreams).

In terms of finding a spiritual community, people have recommended that to me before. It would be nice to be around like minded people. But for now i cant imagine staying in one place long enough to make that happen!

I truly believe what you say about the greatest joy is to your true self, not bound by the restrictions of social duty. I am the perfect example of a person who has absolutely no (outward) ties to society whatsoever, my life is totally out of the norm in that i haven't even stayed in one city for more than a few months for many, many years, always travelling from one country to the next, but outwardly though i don't conform at all or belong to any society, inwardly it seems i cant shake the restrictions put on me by my strict upbringing. It is interesting to me that someone so totally free from the restrictions of any society is unconsciously so totally trapped within cultural expectations & feels such a strong deep desire to 'fit in'.. Something for me to work on & think about!

Thanks again for your interpretations, they were very helpful & have given me much to think about!!

:)

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