Can somebody tell me the meaning of this reoccurring dream I'm having?

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Well, I'm an artist, 19, currently studying fine art painting in University and over the past few years I've really improved in what I do. My reoccurring dream is of my grandparents, they live in the south of England and I stopped seeing them about 4 years ago (due to a complicated situation with them and my parents). I only saw them about once or twice per year before I stopped seeing them altogether due to how far apart we live from each other.  My Grandmother was always interested in my artwork and my ability to draw and I think the reoccurring dream I'm about to explain may be to do with me wanting to show my grand parents how much I've improved. Now this dream is never exactly the same, but the situation always is, its of me finally going to see them and finally going to show them the paintings I have done in a the past few years.
It started by this one dream I think, it might have been a few months ago, it might have been longer than that I can't really remember, but I was on my way to see my grandparents, doing the long drive there like old times and I knew they were gong to look at what I have done and achieved. Of course though, before I got there I woke up. Now, another time, same situation, I was on my way there, I actually got there this time yet I had forgot to bring my stuff, and could only show low quality pictures of my work on a small screened device, atleast I could finally show it kind of though right? No, I didn't get round to it before I woke up. There was another similar one were I was going to show them my art work and it all got ruined because it all got wet, different things like this started happening and after a while the fact that I kept having similar dreams about me showing my grandparents my artwork was really confusing me. I kept having dreams like this though, and I ended up in my dreams, thinking of how great it was me going showing them all the stuff I have done since I had last saw them and this time, it wasn't a dream.... yet, it was actually a dream and I would wake up. That dream were I thought I wasn't dreaming that time because everything seemed too real to be a dream to me has happened a few times, Everything a little bit different each time but the basics still the same. 
These don't happen every night, they are completely random when they choose to happen but that last one happened last night and i'll explain what I can remember now. 
I was sat in my house, with my family and they had come over to visit us. While sat with them i all of a sudden remembered that all my artwork was here and I could finally go and show it to them. Actually, one piece of my artwork was on the wall, this one actually: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=316474421714546&set=a.316474348381220.92479.316060995089222&type=3&theater 

anyway, that was on the wall in a frame, and we was sat at the other end of the room looking at it, and I think i brought it up. 'do you like my painting?', i can't remember what she said but i knew it was positive. The painting wasn't the same though and i knew it wasn't while in the dream, it wasn't as sharp as it was in real life, the detail from it had gone and to me, it looked rubbish. Then an argument broke lose about something completely different with me in the middle of it, I can't remember what that was about but I woke up, realising it was a dream again soon after. 
I don't know if i can fit in much of any situation into this, I've got about 1300 words left. But it's to do with my aunty (who moved into my grandparents house and basically made half of it her own), her boyfriend (some person from new zealand) and the something about how my dad has had a theory of that he's after money they will leave with the house they own after they die, then he'll go and take it all from them. He's lived there for about 8 years now, and since then hints of this has been coming truer and truer but they haven't realised it. It got brought up nicely, stating obvious weird things, the fact that he was on dating websites and stuff, and he's sort of made everything really bad between my family and my grandparents.. well, my grandmother or my dads mum. The money when they died was supposed to get split between my aunty and my dad, now I don't think my dads getting any of it which means that him and my aunty are going to be heading towards £200,000+. Recently we've discovered he lied to us about his second name, we have found out what it really is through the internet and have noticed he's been on websites purely to meet people to have sex with. we've sent letters and stuff and nothing has really happened in reply. My grandmother has stopped contact between my dad and my granddad (my granddad seems to have nothing to do with this, he might have been fed some bull **** story).

Auberon · Accepted Answer

Hi mate, first off I am from Auckland so I was probably the "some person" from New Zealand, creepy eh?

Kidding xD

IMHO, what you describe sounds like a daydream or would you say it was like an actual hallucination? Were you aware its a dream or just that something doesn't feel right, because I have daydreams all the time but never something of that magnitude.

I think maybe you're upset at your dad's and possibly other people's behavior, so thats winding you up considerably. Also, you are missing your grandparents greatly and want to improve greatly at your art, so sub-conciously that gets mixed in. The fact that you are critical of your work and happy for your gran's approval hints at both. You are also perhaps sub-conciously worried about your grandparents' eventual death, as you sound like you have a bond with them. 

The monetory bit follows naturally as anyone would be stressed about that kind of money, or it could be the other way around, the sublimial stress about money is creating a desire for it, but since you don't want to conciously wish your grandparents ill but you know eventually they ll go, your mind is dropping them off already in your fantasy.

That's my theory anyway!


The closest I can think of in my personal situation isn't really close or helpful at all, but its 7.30 am, am still awake so I might as well, heh. I lived in the upper-storey with my grandparents of my folks' house, they lived on the ground floor.

My grandmother unfortunately got paralysed for years, the docs said only physiotherapy could be done because there was little hope and the grandpa had to take care of her mostly, me chipping in next, not an easy task. Little did I think it was to remain that way for four years. 

One day in the morning the nurse didn't turn up and my grandpa was pleading and stressed, I told my mum I feel quite disturbed, seeing grandpa like this, like I feel extremely sad today morning (the situation had been same before also, but I didn't feel like this then), 2 days later, exactly same time in morning, grandpa collapsed and died right in my arms by the time I could run across, natural death, and serene as face.

I had to change nations, grandma was left alone with caregivers and family, I didn't particularly miss her because I had had enough of taking care of her, I was young, had just moved abroad. One evening, I again get this unnerving feeling, and started crying, as in literally crying alone, tears and all for no reason and thinking I should talk to grandma soon, she's missing me. 2 days later, yup, call from home, some hours here or there but around the sameish time I missed her, grandma died of renal failure.

That's the only umm I guess extra-perceptory or paranormal experience Iv ever had in my life.

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