Anybody ever have a deep chasm dream?

[Th1onein]

I've been having the same dream over and over again. My son, who died seven years ago, of cystic fibrosis, is with me and he and I want to go to this one particular place (I don't know where it is, but I do know that we know in the dream and we want to go there very badly) and we start out and everything is fine until we come to a place in the road that is very narrow and borders on a very deep chasm, like a sheer cliff on one side of the road. For miles and miles, this chasm goes on and we are terrified of falling into it. We never get to the other side, we always end up turning around and going back, because we are afraid of the journey.

Does anyone have any idea what in the hell this dream means?

[seriousstan]

1. I have sentient dreams. Learn to control it and then you own it.

[Th1onein]

2. I don't want to learn to control it.

I just want to know what it means, and why my dead son is always in it, and why it is so dangerous for us both.

[seriousstan]

3. Because dreams are more you than them.

Your dreams don't mean anything, they are what you think. If you find yourself afraid of your own feelings, take control of them and channel them where you would rather have them.

[Swede]

4. The dream only means something to you.

Subconscious thoughts percolating up for you to interpret.

[Ariana Celeste]

5. Couldn't tell you what it means, but

I had a deep chasm dream recently, as well.

The beginning and middle of the dream dont matter, because it took a drastic turn. Starting where it matters:
I leave the place i was in to begin with, and it's dark. I am walking down a looooong stretch of deserted highway. I'm on the shoulder. To my side, there is a slope going close to straight down (the chasm.) so I know if anyone were to drive by, I couldn't dart to the left and hide. SO I keep walking, afraid that someone will drive by and take me away. Finally, someone does drive up, coming at me, so they are in the lane I am walking beside. I turn my face to the left, hoping they will ignore me, but knowing they wouldn't.
They stop directly behind me, and I start walking faster. I hear the car door open, and then I hear loud footsteps behind me- he is coming after me. I didn't have to look at him to know he was a large grizzly man. His footsteps get louder, and just as I know he is reaching for me-

I wake myself up with my own screaming.

Scary stuff, that was.

[TrustingDog]

6. maybe...

he is telling you to let go of the terror of the loss of him; that life is always dangerous and anything awful can happen anytime but you must go down the road nonetheless to find some of the beautiful things that await you.

I am so sorry for your loss. There is nothing more painful on this earth than losing a child.

[MidwestMomma]

7. I'm not a dream interpreter

But maybe it's about the one journey you couldn't complete with your son. Maybe the good part of the journey is your life together, the chasm is the death that now separates you and the turning back is the part of the journey you must each now travel alone.

Don't know your beliefs but maybe the reason you both know where you want to go and go there badly has to do with what you believe awaits you in the afterlife. Which doesn't scare either one of you. Just that the journey to get there can't be taken together.

But it could mean something completely different. That's the crazy thing about dreams.

Peace.

[hickman1937]

8. Who cares? You get to spend time with your son in the dream.

A psycologist would interpret for you, but in the end, so what? I can't begin to imagine the horror of losing a child. I just know that once in awhile my mom shows up(died two years ago) and I'm learning to just appreciate it.