Dragon Food

  Dream food is interesting stuff. I remember having dreams about food when I was growing up. No matter how much I ate I wouldn’t get full. I loved that in a way because I could eat as much as I wanted. On the other hand, I couldn’t satisfy my hunger no matter how I tried. More recently, I had a dream about a place in a food court that served sandwiches with potato chips stuffed inside– just the way I like them.

  But what about a dream with dragon food? To be more specific a dream where the dreamer’s feeding dragons,  and if he doesn’t keep up he becomes the dragon food? Consider the following nightmare.

     The Dream

In my dream I was swimming somewhere dark and there were three enormous dragon-like serpents in the water with me. They had enormous teeth. Spikes were all over their bodies. I had to feed them and if I ever stopped feeding them, or didn’t feed them fast enough, they would turn and devour me instead of the food. It felt like a race to get them fed as quickly as I possible.  I woke up curious and wasn’t afraid throughout the entire nightmare.

  In this nightmare, the dreamer isn’t afraid, which is something to take note of. You see, one of the main principles of dream interpretation is looking for things in the dream that are out of the ordinary. This is a big one. Fear is so associated with nightmares, that some might think it impossible that a nightmare can exist without fear. Thing is, nightmares can exist without fear. In fact, this is a tale tale sign of the dreamer’s power over fear. Yes, there is something greater than fear.

  What then makes this a nightmare if there’s no fear in the dreamer? The dark setting, for one. The problem with nightmares is that they’re dark. This nightmare has the dreamer swimming in dark water with dragon food. A dream that puts the dreamer in dark water surrounded by dragon-like serpents is enough to make this dream a nightmare, whether the dreamer feels fear or not.

The Interpretation  

  The next fascinating thing about this dream are the dragon-like serpents that make the dreamer feed them. These things are dangerous to begin with, but to be handling dragon food.. Not only are they dragons, but they have enormous teeth and spikes all over their bodies. I don’t find these dream beasts fascinating because they’re dragons, but because as ferocious as they look, they don’t threaten the dreamer unless he doesn’t feed them fast enough. In other words, the dreamer has to perform a certain way (feed them and feed them fast) or he will be killed. These dragon-like beasts are representative of performance. When I communicated this with the dreamer, he shared with me that being a workaholic runs in his family and the men are expected to work themselves nearly to death. Anything less means that they’re lazy. This nightmare was trying to reinforce the performance mindset within the dreamer.

  If this dreamer wrote this dream off as a ‘pizza’ dream it’s very likely that he’d get up the next morning and put his nose to the grindstone and work the late hours while his family suffers for it. But he didn’t ignore this dream, and it most likely saved him from all kinds of destruction. Ah, the power of a dream.

What’s Next?  Hungry Hyenas…  

EB