A nightmarish dream? It's recurring and it bugs me...

[Wishes]

Over the past few days (about 3 or 4) I had a dream that keeps changing JUST slightly, otherwise it is the same. I always bring different people to show them it and something different always happens to them. The last one (that I had last night) happened to be my grandmother. My dream was that I took her and was explaining the dream to her (in my dream) as I explained it it recreated itself. We were on a long strip of sand with the ocean around us. There was this gigantic tree and creatures kept coming out of it, but I can't really describe the creatures as they were all different. Then if you hit the tree on this rectangle spot with something these spiral stairs would appear. We walked up them and you would see a door with a ton of bees and a pineapple in it. There was also another room with a green creature in it...like it was creating the other creatures. The next thing i knew we walked down stairs and were in the woods. We kept walking and soon we found some water snakes and some toads. Then a snake bit my grandmother. I turned around and when I looked back she was a frog. I walked further, there I saw these huge frogs that had their two eyes, and on the top of their head there was this very large eye. My grandmother (who was now in frog form) jumped to them and I screamed "NO!" I tried to get her but as I did the large frogs asked her if she wanted to be one of them. She said yes while I was staring at her, on the verge of tears, pleading her to not do it. Then some shiny rings of white went around her and she became one of them. I ran back to where I came into this forest where I got bit by a snake. My skin started to feel weird, and then I woke up.

[sylphaxiom]

A very interesting dream indeed! Have you tried any standard forms of dream analysis? I am not the best at it, but I usually go with my general impressions about things. First instinct seems to work well for me. My guess would be that it seems you are encountering something that is making everyone around you change and "go with the crowd" and you are afraid to join them. Either because you just don't want to or that you disagree with what they have become (my guess would the the latter) And you only want to try to tell someone why you don't like this trend that someone is setting and gathering followers for but that you are afraid that whoever you tell will just join the group and you will lose them. And that you will be sucked into it as well.

That is just my impression of the dream.

If you decide to look for traditional dream analysis, I would avoid Freud and try to look for guides more related to Paganism or every day things. Freud seemed to be quite pompous and obsessed with sexual insecurity issues.

[sylphaxiom]

As an added note:

One thing I always have believed is that dreams are the subconscious' way of trying to tell you something. Your mind wouldn't use imagery you couldn't interpret to at least some extent. I would suggest, the next time you have that dream try to open up to it and feel your emotions and impressions as you are there (sounds absurd but just think about it and review it all when you wake up focusing on those feelings and emotions) Then interpretation might be a little easier.

[Peregrine]

The reference to frogs and water snakes was interesting, too. It can vary depending on the person, but sometimes water can refer to feelings of instability or too much change (the type of change that is not for the better in this case).

The creature creating other creatures and the pineapple are a puzzle. I'd be interested in seeing what the possible conclusion would be. The bees, maybe a feeling of being surrounded and this threat could be swarming around? Feelings of threat from all sides, from the water (frogs and snakes), from the air (bees), from the earth (tree with creature that makes creatures).

My input as not as good as sylphaxiom's, and I agree with a lot of what sylphaxiom already said. This grabbed my attention for some odd reason.