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Apocalypse: A personal apocalypse is a dramatic way of saying that a person\u2019s life is headed the wrong direction. It\u2019s next-level trouble, beyond the ordinary tribulations. The dream author observes how we use figures of speech and says \u201chello, metaphor!\u201d when the situation is right, like when something is beyond control or comprehension, or your world is falling apart. It delivers a dream about an apocalypse because the metaphor sums up the situational and personal dynamics.<\/p>

The most common overreaction to an apocalyptic dream is to assume it\u2019s going to come true. Countless false prophecies and predictions are uttered by well-meaning people who completely misunderstand their dreams, which are full of apocalyptic imagery because their minds are full of it. They dwell on fear, negativity, and worst-case scenarios. Even for people who are not so inclined, an apocalypse nightmare can send their thoughts in the wrong direction towards assuming it\u2019s a warning about the future. The world is going to end or something like that. But the simple fact that millions of people have apocalyptic dreams, and the world is still here points toward interpreting them as figurative, not literal.<\/p>

Apocalypse is another word for a huge change, and apocalypse dreams are known to accompany situations in life such as entering puberty, leaving home, joining the workforce, retirement, relationship decline and breakups, and even marriage. The dream author finds just the right way of mirroring a person\u2019s perceptions and feelings, and if, for example, getting married or retiring is \u201cthe end of life as you know it,\u201d an apocalypse may capture the idea better than other symbols or themes. In that way it\u2019s the perfect metaphor.<\/p>

By understanding how dreams create symbolism, it\u2019s easier to make the correlation between an apocalypse dream and what it dramatizes. Reflect on what\u2019s happening in your life and ask if the metaphorical idea of apocalypse fits. You may find the source in the events, situations, and conditions of your outer life, but the dream author observes your inner life, too, and tells stories about it by using the same language of symbolism, and it may be trickier to discover the parallels between the dream content and what\u2019s happening inside you. Many dreams forecast the future and predict where things are heading, and you aren\u2019t as likely to see the connection until afterward.<\/p>

It may be obvious why you dream about an apocalypse when you are ill, in distress, or psychologically imbalanced, but not when you are entering puberty or feeling depressed. The dreaming mind, though, knows that we equate apocalypses with situations that have unknown causes \u2014 they happen, and we don\u2019t know why, which is what a teenager can think when their body changes, or anyone can think when they are depressed and don\u2019t know the cause. Apocalypse characterizes how they feel, and dreams respond more so to feelings than to rationality.<\/p>

\u201cI have no reason to feel depressed,\u201d the man said. \u201cLife is fine \u2014 no setbacks. I\u2019m in great health. In fact, I just got promoted at work to a coveted position.\u201d But then he dreams about an apocalypse and sees his name written on a tombstone, and he wakes up feeling like his world is not just ending, but over. It puzzles him because there\u2019s no rational reason that explains what the dream imagery implies. He\u2019s in his prime and doesn\u2019t fear death and has nothing but appreciation for his success and everything that led to it. He doesn\u2019t feel depressed; why dream about feeling not just depressed, but as low as a person can go?<\/p>

It\u2019s because tacitly he realizes this really is the end. He can rise higher in his career, but it won\u2019t have the same thrill. He can live a charmed life but it\u2019s only a continuation of what he knows all too well and there\u2019s no more challenge in it. He will meet expectations, great. He\u2019s 27 years old and his life is over.<\/p>

The social point of view says that he should feel on top of the world. He\u2019s been trying hard to convince himself it\u2019s true. It\u2019s not though, and his dream captures the idea with the imagery of the grave. His rise in life has locked him onto a path that can only offer contentment until his inevitable death. He won\u2019t consider a change of career \u2014 why would he when he\u2019s doing the high-technology job he set out to gain and beat the intense competition to get there? The grave symbolizes the idea that the life he\u2019s made for himself is also a trap he can\u2019t escape even if he wanted to.<\/p>

An apocalypse is the biggest sort of shakeup, and that\u2019s why the above dream uses it as a theme. The dream doesn\u2019t speak to what is happening or has happened, it speaks to what\u2019s needed. The dream really shook up the man. He needed it to see how he feels beneath his rationalizations.<\/p>

The experience of the dream is where the answer is found. It\u2019s a self-created experience, and we work backward by asking why he created it (subconsciously) for himself. The lack of apparent connection between himself and the symbolism of apocalypse requires him to dig deeper and ask existential questions. And when the answers start flowing, it makes sense why the dream chose an apocalypse as the story\u2019s theme and the grave as its main symbol. Now, with the lesson in mind, he has a new way of framing the most important issue in his life, that accounts for the other half of the equation he isn\u2019t honoring: his true feelings.<\/p>

Dreams amplify our little voices, and the man\u2019s dream is a prime example. Apocalypse, like most nightmares, is the volume cranked to 11. It\u2019s a desperate attempt to get the attention of the ego. It\u2019s the message that\u2019s screamed instead of spoken. There\u2019s only one level above apocalypse and that\u2019s Armageddon, the worst it gets, like war is to nuclear war. A dream has reasons for presenting an apocalypse that\u2019s felt as if the world is ending, and tracing those reasons is how you think like the dream author and work backwards to the meaning. You\u2019re looking for something happening in you and your life that\u2019s especially urgent.<\/p>

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Book Sample Know your nightmares Apocalypse: A personal apocalypse is a dramatic way of saying that a person\u2019s life is headed the wrong direction. It\u2019s next-level trouble, beyond the ordinary tribulations. The dream author observes how we use figures of speech and says \u201chello, metaphor!\u201d when the situation is right, like when something is beyond… Read More »Sample from my nightmares book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdebord.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}