Dark Dreams

May I ask in your dream did the mutants have black skin that was so that you thought it was burned
Also what is your definition of mutant in appearance

May I ask in your dream did the mutants have black skin that was so that you thought it was burned
Also what is your definition of mutant in appearance]

It was from a while ago that I've seen them.

More of a presence that I felt. These specifically where almost giants. They lumbered around with great arms and large maws. They ate people, so much so that their stomachs seemed to distend and rot.

As for how I define a mutant, well, that's a difficult definition. I suppose a short answer would be anything that looks unnatural. Something that does not belong and has come into existence by rather spontaneous means through manipulation of their genes.

Although, these days, many people are mutants. People who drink milk past infancy are part of a genetic mutation afterall.

So, these mutants were something of a human fault. At least how it felt in the dream.

And no, black skin they did not have. Pale and lifeless almost, perhaps a green/grey pale sheen to it.

In that dream I was an outlaw in a civil Apocalypse. I'd scavenge the wastes for weapons and ammo. Food and supplies. More for the thrill of exploration than profit, might I add. The military that was there didn't take to me 'exposing' myself to what stalked outside the walls. They eventually hunted me down, a woman who was a captain in the force almost had me, but I escaped to a rooftop and watched as their tanks ran about, securing the area.

Such a climber I was in that dream.

Sorry I can't help the only pale giant spirits I know of are sylphs and I doubt that's what you saw in the dream
So idk

Dreams originate within your own subconscious. Their imagery comes largely from things you have experienced directly to some degree, concepts you have picked up at some point, and the rest is combinations to fill gaps. Whether the dream comes from the workings of your own mind, or you believe it comes from some source outside yourself, the imagery and meaning can only be sourced from your own mind.

I think, for a good example, is the place you found which is like a sanctuary. It still shared imagery of the rest of the dream experience, but was a place of peace to you in that environment.

If you have been playing a lot of video games, reading a lot of fiction, watching movies and shows with these sorts of elements, then it is quite possible that the imagery is being incorporated into your dreams in a phenomenon called Zelda syndrome, named after the video game. It is named such because a lot of people experience differing degrees of continuing to replay repetitive actions or inputs while they dream. For example, I used to play an online game, and remember a night when I dreamed nothing more than entering the same dungeon over and over, my character dying (and sometimes I was the character, but of course it was a dream), then returning to try again.

The mind is interesting alone in the one regard that your subconscious remembers faces very well, and can see a face but once and recall it -- or elements of it, to recreate different faces within dreams -- for the rest of your life. Faces are remembered as tropes, and not as literal faces. It's much more efficient for storage space.

Similar can be said for important content, such as the danger of explosive devices, and some things are possibly instinctual or even 'genetic memory,' such as a fear of snakes, types of insects, and human deformity. In a lot of people, it may not be expressed as an actual phobia, as much as an aversion. It is largely believed in the scientific community that this is because these things became associated with a risk to survival. Venomous snakes, stinging and biting insects; these things can kill, maim, or otherwise hinder a person. Similar goes for very different-looking people (such as the mutants in your dream): diseases and injury of a severe nature can be expressed physically, leaving a person possibly less physically able, possibly mentally stable, and potentially more dangerous. It is but part of the reason the Uncanny Valley effect is a known phenomenon in psychology.

But moving back to the actual elements of your dream: It could be as simple as your subconscious having a time to explore some concepts, as realistic or unrealistic as they might be. It may also be some bizarre expression of emotions such as stress, fear, an unknown future. Sometimes dreams are simply experienced because the hippocampus is reorganizing things, reducing concrete memories of some things to tropes and concepts, eliminating unnecessary memories, deciding what should go into long-term storage, and what should be overwritten. A dream can simply be an evaluation of these things.

If you do believe the dreams are something more, their meaning can only be found from within. Sometimes elements are in dreams to fit within a theme, so not everything has a specific meaning. Sometimes they do. But the meanings or lack thereof, of the things in your dreams, can only be found by you.

I personally doubt any of the people and creatures in your dream are representations of spirits or actual people.

My opinion is that, being somewhat new to all of this magic stuff, your mind is rife with unknown possibilities, and the dreams are a series of "what-if" questions, possibilities, and unknowns. A lot of imagery and concepts are crossovers from things like games, movies, and other sources of fiction and fantasy, as I suggested above.

But I can very easily be completely wrong.

Or it could be that a psychic spirit is trying to communicate
Or its just a dream but you said it was growing in intensity
So that's why I thought spirit

Hmm... I have considered my dreams just being my mind acting in a stead of simulation.

In fact, i'm quite certain about it. Being able to see colour, taste, smell and all the sensory data that is put into my mind, all the detail I can see.

However, the persistence of it is what has me confused. I'm trying to find answers for it, but as I try to grasp it, it's taken away. A merge of quantum and neural superposition almost.

In the past I've tried to lucid dream and astral project, and that seemed to of been the cataylist for what is happening now.

But, i've fallen out of the practice and still it becomes more intense and full of pressure.

I'm just not quite sure. Why, and such questions like that.

And that girl and the constant appearance of images of apocalypse and conflict along with the magicks and implications perceived.

Its... confounding but also quite interesting

But, back to what you were saying with the mention of Uncanny Valley and of things like that.

I enjoy the concept of those schools of thought and concepts like primal fears. Very interesting stuff of study.

The subconscious indeed is a playground of interest.

But, its no longer an abstract realm of immaterial and innate notions. It's taking solidity while I dream.

Again, much like a simulation.

I'm never scared in the dreams. Sure, I act in a matter of self preservation if a danger arises: Soldiers shooting at me, a maniac slaughtering people in a plaza as I try to escape his blades, things of the like in fighting against forces that seek to eradicate me.

But I've never felt fear. Maybe a notion that I should be scared, but I've had a second filter for the emotion, one of vicious curiosity to the events ahead.

Like i'm to be shown something, perhaps.

These "mutants" could be nephilim. According to the book of enoch giants who were born from angel and daughters of man. They were treated as gods and fed but humans run low on food for their appetites were too large, so they began eating humans. These beings were large and powerful. God called them abominations. "For the christian religion" while these are most likely fairytales if they did happen most likely someone wrote this down with their religion mixed in. Just another possibility?

Possibly.

I must say i'm not wholly knowledgeable of such things. Much of my life has been a devotion to scientific pursuit rather then spiritual and mystic grasping outside of my own personal reasons for 'why, how, and where do I go?'and such questions. More for reasons of curiosity rather than belief.

At any rate, the mutants are not exactly my concern. More or less, I've had adjusted to them as well as other things that have attacked me... including last night and other nights.

I have to say, its the appearance of covens and witches that has me a bit concerned. Its not something I commonly think about, and I only think about concerning a dream I had at the end of the last year. And those don't line up to any literature, whether fiction or what have you, that I've read.

More importantly, why in my dream do they wish to attack me.

I can understand monsters, restless spirits, the undead, and such like that attacking me. But... witches? That I don't understand.

Dreams are most likely that of your subconscious. You are probably worried about others harming you spiritually or physically using magick. 9/10 you are not psychic and are just experiencing internalized turmoil.

I don't believe I am psychic or have any sort of spiritual/magical connections to anything.

I'm rather... mortal, to put it in a single word.

I don't have any worries or fascinations about someone being out to get me. Its the dreams that cause this worry.

Attacked, either physically or in some other form, I'm confident I can deal with even though I've had no instance of ill blood to form between anyone I've known or met.

This is why the dreams are so baffling.

And I'm decently sure that I'll be getting no answers from any source. I suppose it's just a weird quirk, but thank you for your assurances.