I posted a few weeks ago about how I had a dream that I was a member of the Swedish royal family. In the dream the Skarsgards were the royal family and I was married to one of the sons. Last night I dreamt that I was a member of the British royal family, married to Prince Harry. I can’t really remember what happened other than all the royals and I were in a house together watching TV and eating in separate rooms. At one point the King came to my door to speak to me.
Why do I keep dreaming about this? I don’t even want to be royal, or married. What’s extra annoying is that I used to have a lot of really vivid interesting dreams, but thanks to meds and health issues I have very poor sleep now and almost never dream any more. But when I do, it’s this. I wonder if these dreams are trying to tell me something but I don’t know what.
you are going to become a 21st-century british Rasputin
That would be great as long as I don’t get poisoned, shot, cut and drowned.
Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure he only died because of hypothermia, pack matches and extra socks.
i have dreams where i have more dogs than i actually do, or where they’ve run away
i’ve also been having dreams where i’m a footballer and i can only say “obrigado” to my portuguese teammates because it’s the only portuguese word i knowSubconscious yearning for guillotines?
honestly wouldn’t say no.
financial security?
maybe, a family and a secure home and financial security, and some social status instead of being bottom of the pile in society.
Also a Skarsgard
Which one btw
I don’t know, the dream never specified which one.
I have dreams where im the unlucky servant to a very large anthrophomorphic Snake queen who gets into shenanigans
I’ve no idea. My recurring dreams are deffo linked to my worries, hopes and fears. One of the most prolific ones I have is my “return to school” anxiety dream.
In reality I flunked out of school and am therefore completely unqualified. In this dream I return to school and rather than make the most of it I find myself lost, unable to learn, and flunking out again. The whole thing clearly stems from a sense of inadequacy, my regrets that I didn’t take education seriously, and my desire to learn now.
Your dream is about royal families. Is it possibly about family?
I don’t think so. I don’t really have contact with whatever is left of my family, most are dead, others live hundreds of miles away and none of them bother with me. I wonder if it’s because it’s the opposite of my actual life. In real life I’m penniless, alone and have no control over anything, not even my own life. Total opposite of a rich, powerful royal surrounded by family.
It could well be.
As an additional thought along similar lines, I personally have something of a weird half-farcical complex about being a noble and in some spaces - half-farcically - lean into that aesthetically and behaviorally in benign ways. My ‘weird LARP bullshit’ as I tend to call it.
This sort of thing may be psychologically adjacent to these dreams If yours. In my case, I think my brain latched onto it - in part - because it allows something of a recontextualization of my disabilities, which are purely mental.
‘Actually, my so called ‘inability to clean up my house properly’ and ‘intensely mercurial moods’ and ‘drug dependency’ are signs of me being born to be a loser poet twink aristocrat, thank you.’
It’s extremely silly but does genuinely make me feel better about myself - a similar if less intense psychological Thing may be going on with these dreams.
That’s quite funny.
I graduated a few years ago and I constantly dream that I’m somehow back in school. In the dream, I question it and swear that I graduated and got a job at one point, but then accept that I wouldn’t be back on campus if I wasn’t meant to be.
i finished grad school several years ago, but occasionally have a dream that it’s midway through a semester and i entirely forgot about a critical class i registered for and have to look it up/find it on some unfamiliar part of campus as im already late for it again + unprepared for a project/exam.
this never even came close to happening to me. straight As, crushed my defense, etc.
I have the exact same dream, but it’s usually the very end of the semester
Lmao its somewhat comforting to know even people who excelled at school have these dreams too
My particular flavour is “I just woke up for my final exam at 9am… and it’s already noon and I slept way thru it, oh no!”
Meds can definitely do that to ya. I’ve been there. My theory is that any dreams that come about while taking no-dreams pills aren’t connected to your psyche in the same way. I used to be able to get really good introspection from dream analysis but when i’m on the pills it’s like my dreams are just a funhouse mirror put to whatever I watched on tv before bed.
I also think it’s because I get barely any real sleep now. I used to sleep well but now because of side effects from the meds plus bladder issues I struggle to drift off at all and when I finally do I have to keep waking up to go to the toilet. There’s just no opportunity to dream usually. It’s a shame because I used to love my vivid dreams and even kept a dream diary.
You are what you hate? Idk
