I am plagued with reoccurring zombie attack dreams please help interprut!?

Question:

I don't remember my dreams much. The ones I do remember seem to be a reoccuring nightmares about zombies attacking. They mostly entail me running away and trying to persuade others to run with me with no avail. It also entails my family members turning into zombies usually slowly. Mostly these dreams feature strangers those I do not know just trying to hurt me. I been having these dreams spiratically for a couple of years. I personally read an interpretation of my public fears and powerless and chemically induced feeling fears towards people. I don't understand why my family then would be turning into zombies for I have no fears of family(like my mom turning into a zombie slowly and knowing she will kill me). I feel I am missing something and some outside help might help. SO I reach for the huge online community. I hoping to find peace and for the fact that these dreams are reoccuring seems proof that these are not random and not from movies or other media that I generally dont watch

Answers:
When I was a teenager, I felt like my family was walking around half-alive. Meaning nobody talked about anything important, emotional issues were avoided, and people didn't seem to have a lot of enthusiasm or appreciation for life. I found it extremely frustrating and sad, especially 'cause I had painful things going on and there seemed to be nowhere to get help or even recognition that something was wrong.

Could those dreams mean that you feel like something is wrong in your family, and everyone else is blind to it? There is something they are sleepwalking past?

Or the dreams of zombie strangers could mean that you feel the world, the culture, the society is half-asleep and crazed. Conformist, rigid, dulled-out, etc, and you're scared it might happen to you, too?

Just some thoughts. Exploring your personal associations with zombies- what they mean to you- might help you understand those dreams.

I believe some dreams are meaningful- the mind is trying to understand or resolve something symbolically- and some are not.

Dreams aren't always "true" though- they're just expressions of feelings and ideas. Before I went into therapy, I dreamed I walked into the office and it was a veterinarian's. Then they grabbed me, shoved me in a cage and stuck me on a shelf with the other animals! I think the dream meant that I was afraid the therapist wouldn't respect me- he'd stick me in a box, mentally (stereotype me) and treat me like an animal. Turned out he was decent...

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Usually recurring dreams don't mean as much as people like to read into them. Many will say that the zombie attack represents something larger and more abstract. However, if I am not mistaken , the modern research on dreams has shown them to be random firings of the neurons in your brain that really don't make sense. But our brains don't like nonsense; our brain are set up to process information so what they do is take all these random neuronal impulses and interpret them into something with more order - and what results is your dream.

With recurring dreams, usually what happens is that you develop a mental map of these electrical impulses and they - in your brain - happen to be associated with zombie attacks.

My good friend once told me about the same sort of dreams where there is a horde of zombies after him. Jokingly I told him to go rent resident evil or some other zombie video game where he can kick some zombie butt. Well he did and turns out his dreams are more entertaining than frightening now. I think what happened is he began to perceive zombie attacks differently and it effected even they way he dreamt about them.

I am plagued with reoccurring zombie attack dreams please help interprut!?

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