I sometimes have those KH or assembly dreams. Though I have not been to one in 3 years. I figure it is just memories of my 30 years as a JW. They are not unpleasant dreams, but in the dreams I feel disconnected for those around me. I see people I haven't seen in many years. I don't think it is weird or abnormal. I still dream of being in high school sometimes and it has been 3 decades plus some since I graduated. LOL
Do you have dreams that you're still in the org.?
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jt stumbler
Thats weird. Just in the past few days I have been having dreams about being at the hall and also being disconnected from everyone aroud me. I also felt pitty for them. At the end of the dream I felt like what the hell am I doing here?
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undercover
Normally I don't have dreams about the org or JWs, but....
The other night I had one. A lot of my old friends from when I was in my late teens and early twenties were in it. They were trying to coax me back into coming to the hall. The were using the same old rhetoric, "the end is close", "satan is a roaring lion seeking to devour", etc etc. The weird part was that the people in the dream who were trying to talk me back to the fold are all ones who have been DFd since my youth. Some are reinstated, others still out, but all are people that I haven't seen in years. Of course in the dream they all looked exactly like they did twenty years ago, especially one guy who had surfer blond hair that all the girls loved but has since gone completely bald. In the dream he had all his hair back.
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Narkissos
I have a lot of people and situations mixing in my dreams, for instance JWs and people I later met in various churches or other religious circles. Sometimes I'm in Bethel -- a couple of pastors or theologians can be there too -- I know I am df'd but the people around don't seem to know... I'm glad about that... at some point I casually take my pipe out of my pocket and light it up, suddenly realising I shouldn't be doing that here -- and I wake up.
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xjwms
Not any more, ... or at least not for a while now.
This last week, someone I studied with left a meaasge. That just starts the thinking again.
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ohiocowboy
Strange that you mention it, I just had a dream about going to the Kingdom Hall that I grew up in. I was inside, looking around, and went to the Information board, and I remember making sure that it was not called the "Bulletin board" as that would have pagan connotations. I then went into the back, and checked to see if the old Rainbow vacuum cleaner was still there, I used to use that danged thing constantly, and sure enough it was there. There were people in the hall, but it was as if I were invisible to them. I went to the water fountain in the back, and had a drink. I then went outside, and looked around the parking lot, wondering if things were still the same. It was the weirdest dream.
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lilbit
I dont dream about meetings much. I do often dream about being at witness gatherings and inevitably either I walk up to my mom with a lit cigarette or she smokes one with me. weird huh
Lilbit
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LyinEyes
Dreams are one of my favorite subjects , as they can tell you so much about yourself, and trying to figure them out is interesting.
When I first left the borg, my dreams were very sad, painful, about the "brothers", I cried, would wake myself up in the deepest sobs, so sad that I was being shunned and talked about.
Now my dreams consists most of being at a big JW convention,,,,,,,,seeing all the "friends", and sometimes I am d/a and sometimes I am not.
The dreams that confuse and bother me are the ones where I am trying to get back in , get reinstated, and still I know in my heart that I dont believe it. I just want to go back for security, just to feel the way I used to especially at the conventions. I always loved the conventions and if there was ever a happy time growing up it was there. Now that is scarey to dream of going back when for 99% of the JW crap brought you grief...........it just shows me the cult issues of being a JW that are still stuck in my head, and probably to a degree always will be.
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GermanXJW
Yes, sometimes but not often.
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Honesty
As a professional exorcist, I am willing to purge all the WT demons who are giving you faders and ex-jw's problems. Contrary to WTBTS theology Jesus said, " You recieved free, give free."