Native American Dream Keeps Haunting Me

[DreamerSeeker]

I'm a 25-year-old white female. I had this dream when I was 8, and it stuck with me all these years and I welcome any thoughts.

The Dream:
I was an 11-year-old Native American girl. I had a 4-year old brother and sister (twins). Our father was the chief of our tribe and our mother died while giving birth to the twins. We lived in a teepee in a small tribal village of other teepees and near a river that was surrounded by steep cliffs.

One day my father decided to take me and the twins for a walk down the dirt path and just around the corner to a wooden bridge that overlooked the valley and the river below. The river was more of a stream, only about 12 inches deep at maximum. There was a waterfall behind us but it was fairly quiet (didn't make much noise as you'd expect for a strong flowing waterfall). I was leaning over the railing of the bridge and I flipped over it. I hit my head on the rocks in the stream and I couldn't move - like I was paralyzed. I could feel the water flowing around my head and I could sense I was bleeding from a head wound, but I didn't feel any pain whatsoever. I could hear my father shout my name (something like Kayah), he screamed my name and ran down some stone steps at the beginning of the bridge to a sand pit area at the stream and ran over to where I was laying. I could see the twins running back towards our tribal village which was just around the corner. We can't see the tribal area from the stream because there is a rocky cliff with some trees and shrubs (basically our village was at the top of that cliff).

The next thing I remember, about 5 Native American men in white lab-looking coats were surrounding me and one of them wanted to keep me conscious so he asked me to spell my name. I started spelling "K-A---Y--" and I lost consciousness from there. Then, like the blink of an eye, I was standing on the sand pit at the bottom of the stone stairs and I was looking at my body laying a few feet away in the stream. I was very confused. I wasn't aware that I had died. I was just standing there staring at myself laying in the bloody water and the guys around my body. Then I woke up.


Again, I dreamt this about 17 years ago and I still to this day cannot shake it from my mind. It felt so real. I tried searching for clues that this could be a true past life regression, but no luck. I would love to know your thoughts on this.

 

[Tinkerman]

Welcome, Dreamer! Your dream certainly has the markings of a past life memory. Standing outside your body and seeing the scene in a removed way is a common characteristic. I'm curious about the "white lab coats." Look around the forum and read up on the subject. Keep a journal too; that's a common suggestion, but worked for me over the years. Again welcome, and thanks for sharing with us. ~Tman

 

[fireflydancing]

Hi DreamerSeeker,

Welcome to the forum.
Interesting dream. It definitely sounds like a past life memory to me.

I was very confused. I wasn't aware that I had died.

What I learned so far about memories of past lives is that the 'fact' of dying unconsciously is one of the main 'unfinished businesses' for us to deal with in next lives. The girl from your past was not prepared to die in such an unexpected way and this confusion carries over. From a therapeutical point of view, it will be enough to tell this girl that she has died and that life will get it's closure.

 

[SeaAndSky]

Hi Dreamseeker,

This is a difficult dream to unravel. From a strictly historical standpoint, the events portrayed cannot be set very far back in time—unless some parts are being altered or combined by your subconscious mind in the dream state.

First, a wooden bridge with a handrail + stone steps leading down to the water does not fit in with the primitive past. These are not the types of things that were made by Indians who still lived in Teepees in North America (the Plains Indians of various tribes). In that environment they would only have been made by settlers, and settlers who had been there for a while already and had time and money for such construction. Consequently, this would seem to indicate a time, at the latest, in the second half of the 1800s and more likely even later. Second, men in lab coats, whether Indian or not, would also indicate an event that took place after such coats became popular with medical personnel. I believe this would most likely push it into the 1900s. Third, you were asked to spell as an “Indian” girl. This would also indicate a fairly late date as you have been schooled and are apparently familiar with the alphabet and how to spell your name.

Could they have happened in a more modern setting? Maybe. Actually, as I consider the matter I can’t help but be reminded of the state and national parks of the U.S., where such wooden bridges and stone steps are fairly common. Frankly, if I consider what you have reported as literal events, I am more reminded of a living history event in a park setting (or reservation?) where you were injured and died in an unfortunate accident than something that happened in a more distant historical period.

So, that is one approach. The other would be to consider that the dream conveys many things that happened in the distant past using more recent symbols. In that case, things like the lab coats would indicate the learned healers and elders of the tribe (and so forth). However, overall, I think this is one where you will need to get more information somehow before you can understand what this dream represents or conveys.

Cordially,
S&S