Dreams: Have you ever dreamed you were of a different race?

TillyTrotter, thank you for thinking so. I live alone in the boonies. It's nice to interact with others who have minds, hearts and spirits who are open and caring.

Thank you for starting an interesting thread.

Thanks to all of you for your comments. If I had a dream where I was killed on a train, I wouldn't ride one either. My mother-in-law introduced me to the idea of lucid dreams. I've had a couple, but at this point I don't remember them. I studied Jung in college. Psychology was one of my majors. There are so many theories about everything. It makes for a good way to develop a person's awareness.

I have just followed my own suggestion and googled Carl Jung dreams and archetypes and dreaming you are of a different race .....
"In Jungian dream analysis, dreaming of becoming a different race is generally interpreted as a powerful symbol of profound internal transformation and the emergence of new aspects within the dreamer's psyche. This dream imagery often relates to integrating repressed or unacknowledged parts of the self, known as the shadow".
It was AI so could be wrong???? but I know a very little bit about Jung and I would say it has the ring of authenticity.
There's much more.......
Good Luck if you're interested.
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At one time I was on anti smoking meds, it was like going to the movies every night!

I'm only ever me in my dreams though, if that helps

My dreams are like films and i have absolutely no idea how my brain comes up with them

One of my most common ones is to do with the rising sea and roads disappearing into the sea

Sorry , Transcend, no idea.
I rarely remember my own dreams and when I do they are incredibly boring and obvious for example , being chased or "keeping on top of the pressure " type dreams when I was working.
Yours sounds very interesting.
Have you thought of googling Jung on dreams and archetypes ? Just a punt.
There's no guarantee it will be a good interpretation so don't 😊😄😉🤞take it all too seriously.

No

I also had a dream about a really bad rail crash. It was the sort of train that goes right through Australia , The Ghan, and many people were killed. I was on it with my whole family. To this day I will not set foot on that train.

No

I rarely remember dreams - which I find a bit of a shame. I've had a couple of lucid dreams (after a how-to course I did one time) and one featured me politely asking one of my own dream characters if I could have a chip from the bowl on the table (ie because I wanted to see how it compared with a real world chip - answer = on the soggy side/cold/tasteless). There was another where I was in a mansion and I was thinking "This is mine/must be a past life home of mine - so I'm entitled to the furniture in it then and let's see if I can find a way to get it back into the 'real world' as it's probably valuable antiques now"

Apart from that a snippet of me living on an alien world - which I identified as "mine". I just remember a very large low-hanging moon in the sky and we were pretty technologically advanced and pretty humanoid in appearance (??maybe an explanation as to why I find Earth technology very primitive?? - though I don't basically like a lot of the most modern technology and "pick and choose" what I'm prepared to use).

No I’ve not but I dream several nights a week. Never scary ones but a hotch-potch of things from my memory.
Rarely can I remember details later in the day after waking.
Odd things, dreams.

No.

nanna8, so you have predictive dreams too. Interesting. I started having a recurring dream when I was around 5 and it lasted until I was around 9. It terrified me and I learned to wake myself up earlier and earlier in the dream until finally it stopped. The events that were happening in the dream were what is going on now in the world, end of the world violence. We didn't have a tv and I didn't go to movies. I've had some really strange ones. My sister, now deceased, told me I was weird.

In the dream of me being a black woman, I wonder if in fact I was one in another life.

No idea what it means but it sounds very interesting. I used to dream of a very old house with stained glass windows. About 40 years later we bought it down at the beach and I recognised it straight away. Also, when I was a young child I had a recurrent dream about parrots and a railway cutting in Australia. We emigrated there and it was just what I had dreamt. No thoughts of going there whatsoever until I was grown up.