My dreams are filled with unresolved hurt an anger. Before I went to therapy, I would have reoccurring dreams of cannibalism, gory dismemberment, and nightmares in which I was always in dark room at night with all these disembodied angry voices screaming, yelling, and threatening me. I started to get some the repressed anger and grief and I no longer have the angry voices in my dreams but therapy can only do so much. I felt I was making no more progress after a year. Since I have an art background and I've been using my dreams as therapy for many years, I am now starting to draw the images from my dreams. My dreams have changed so that I have a black floating shadow figure missing an arm and has only partial legs following me and screaming. Last night I dreamed that I was forced to live in a hut I was born with that suffered from a lot of violent abuse and severe neglect. I don't think I have to interpret what that means but the image that stood out to me in the dream was when I stepped on the front porch and the step collapsed beneath me. I drew this and I plan to draw more images from my dreams, like the Shadow Screamer. I hope drawing my dreams will help me understand and help me heal. I'll post them here and I hope others will also draw from their dreams or post images that appear frequently in their dreams so we can maybe help one another out.
