I had a dream last night that I recently realized was incredibly similar to one I had a while back. I will explain this theme more once I post the dreams, which are both fairly short.

I will start with the one I had a while ago. My friend and I were staying at a hotel with my mom, on some kind of trip or whatever. Next thing you know, these...marks start appearing on my leg. Like scratches. First they aren't that deep, or they're just little, but they were all over my legs, and I could see them forming but I didn't know what was doing it. The scratches got deeper and the new ones were bleeding. They were deep and red and they hurt a lot, so I couldn't walk very well. My friend and I were really freaked out because we had no idea how I was getting these. Then they started forming words, as if someone was literally carving them into my flesh. I had my friend read what it said and it had no relevance to me whatsoever, it was some kind of letter addressed to some duke or other royal figure somewhere. I remember saying "it's like somebody wrote a letter to someone and it ended up on my leg" it was terrible. It finally got bad enough to where we had to show my mom, and I'd probably need stitches. We showed her and she went pale and said we needed to go to the hospital, because they looked kind of infected. The last thing I remember her saying is "I think they're partly hallucinatory" and then I woke up.

Alright, now take a look at the dream I had last night. Some things in it didn't really make sense, but I'll try to explain it as best I can. I was hanging out with my friends, but throughout the day I would notice giant dinosaur footprints. They freaked me out, I was paranoid Godzilla was around and was going to come kill us. But nothing ever happened and my friends didn't seem to notice them. Another strange thing I noticed was that my arms were covered with angry red scratches, and I had no idea how they'd gotten there. As the day carried on the number of scratches seemed to grow until it got to the point where my friends became concerned. I tried to laugh it off and told them I'd probably gotten them from wrestling with my dog or something. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a gigantic dinosaur foot. I freaked out because Godzilla had finally shown up. My friends just looked confused and asked what was wrong. Apparently they still saw nothing, despite the huge dinosaur foot being right there. As they denied its presence the foot shrank and became a fake rubber dinosaur glove thing, like part of a costume, so I stopped being scared of it. It floated over to me and started running its rubber claws lightly down my arm, which tickled. I was casually itching my arm which to my confusion caused my friends to panic and tell me to stop. They ran away and brought back a teacher (we were outside of the school) and he stopped me, speaking to me in a soothing voice like one would use to try to calm down a crazed animal or something. Then I noticed that scratches were forming where I had itched. I must have been scratching myself harder than I thought I was, which means anytime I had to scratch an itch during the day I had been seriously hurting myself and hadnt even noticed. This made me really scared, partly because I couldn't stop unconsciously hurting myself, and partly because when my friends told the teacher about Godzilla they said I was hallucinating. I thought I was going insane.

I have noticed these same painful scratches on me in dreams before, though not ones I remember as well. It is always shocking to see them. Realizing my hallucinations was the most disturbing part of last night's dream for me. Therefore I found it interesting that my mom mentioned hallucinations as well in the other scratch dream, referring to my scratches that time.

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Anna,
Legs are often symbolic of being able to control your life. it may refer to confidence in doing that. The scratch would suggest there are doubts or frustration. The small scratches may represent minor irritations. These are probably unconscious since you did not know what was causing them. The longer they continue the deeper they get and will begin to drain you of emotional energy {bleeding}. They will begin to hurt emotionally and perhaps physically. Not understanding the writing would be an inability to understand the unconscious forces that are causing the 'wounds'. The royal self may be addressing deeper issues involving your higher being. Those aspects would relate to issues from early life or possibly accumulated experiences over time. They may be related to issues involving your mother, emotional aspects that need healing. Hallucinations are message from the unconscious. This may suggest there are deep issues related to your mother or mothering itself.

Giant dinosaur footprints also suggest deeper emotional issues {dinosaur symbolizing old experiences that create emotional issues}. Godzilla is a monster and that could represent the devouring aspect of the mother. This may be addressing issues where you are having to be the 'mother' to your siblings and possibly issues with your mother {we have established your responsibilities to your siblings so that is a logical area to look to}. Scratches on your arms may suggest there are doubts or issues with your 'ability' with the 'parenting' issues. There may be a fear you will grow up just like your mother or/and the responsibilities you have to perform early in life are makig you to have to grow up early {Godzilla had finally shown up}. You have yet to realize the full impact of these emotional issues {they are mostly unconscious, imprints from earlier experiences}. You may be denying some aspects of the influences or/and your relationship with your mother. You have to wear a costume to cover up these true emotions. There may be repressed emotions {which would cause you to stop being afraid since you have pushed them into the deep unconscious}. This may be causing you to look to your masculine self {outside male teacher} compensating the inner emotions to do with the issues I have laid out {mother/mothering}. But this only makes it worse since you can not be your true self. The itching gets worse as does the scratching which leads to deeper wounds. The insanity would be retreating from the reality of the world you live in. So you have to create an alternative world using your masculine self to compensate for what is not being given in real life.

In several of your dreams there are references to earlier life issues. Either these are accumulative experiences that are forming who you are {like mother like daughter} or there were experiences early in life that you have repressed and have yet to discover consciously. The mother issues may relate both to your mother and her abilities as well as the strain of having to be mother to your siblings. These are deep wounds that are long lasting making it imperative you understand what they are. If not they could be an unconscious controlling agent in your later life. How do you feel about your mother and her abilities/responsibilities? Generally how a mother acts is how the daughter will act in her adult life. You may have issues with this now and your dreams are trying to help you resolve them {already}. Or/and the issues of having to fill the role of being mother to your siblings are an issue. This would not be how you would want your daughter to be and thus it is an emotional issue that has yet to be made conscious. Look at these 'mothering issues' and see where they may fit. The dreams are suggesting an element of denial so be truthful {to yourself especially}. To not to do so only pushes it deeper where it will be harder to resolve later in life {they will come up again in mid-life if not sooner}.

Jerry

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