What are hero dreams about?

INFP, F, 30s, Bi

Warning: Sexual violence, body fluids

Dream: I've never had a dream like this before and it hasn't happened to me in real life, but I dreamed I was raped and then 1 or 2 men tried to get their semen onto my body (skin). For some reason, I wasn't as traumatized as I would have been if I did not try to fight back. I felt shocked that such a thing happened, that I would end up in such a situation where such a frightening thing happened.

For context: I've always been hesitant or afraid of dating men, actually dating in general, even though I have dated 2 men in my life, because of the possible danger they represent, my dad always telling me and my sisters growing up that "boys are dangerous" and I think it was a warning to not get pregnant or something. In my last relationship, my ex tried to pressure me to sleep with him but I said no, because we only knew each other for a few months and didn't really know each other, and that's also not what I wanted - I felt like I was going to just be used if I gave in. Eventually we broke up, he dumped me because I wasn't willing to sleep with him, what I wanted was a genuine relationship in which we could get to know each other but I just felt like I would be someone that would be pumped and dumped so I said no.

I don't know if this dream was caused by the stuff I was watching last night, I was watching the first episode of Myths and Monsters on Netflix, where they talk about the hero's journey and where in an old slavic tale, Ivan has to rescue his wife, the princess, from the monster/tyrannical male figure. I was also reading some passages from Robert Johnson's "She" and Marie von Franz's book on feminine psychology in fairytales and some of these talked about how the most prettiest girl would often be still single because others looked at her as a goddess instead of as a human, and in the story of Psyche, that her arranged marriage to Death would be that she would suffer the worst fate of all. When I read that, I felt that it reflected my own personal situation as well, there have been many guys who liked me and said I was pretty but I often felt they weren't interested in me as a person or they wanted to move too fast and it made me feel uncomfortable so I backed out.

I feel really stuck, I don't know if there's something wrong with my animus, or fear of the tyrannical king archetype, I don't know if I have repressed something. In my family, it's me, my mom, dad, and two sisters. And like Psyche's situation, my two sisters are already married and have kids, while I do not. It bothers me because I do want to find the person that I am a match for and I would like to have a family, but I feel like some kind of fear is blocking me from venturing out. It's very easy for my friends to say just date! But I feel like something deeper is blocking me. It could be the fact that the way my relationship ended was traumatic for me and it still continues to bother me and I can't seem to figure it out or resolve it. But definitely, something is blocking me. I'm always terrified of bringing this up to the surface and telling anyone about it, I think because I don't want to be judged or to find out that maybe it reflects something seriously wrong or bad about me. I don't want to keep silent about it anymore because I know that Jung said, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Anyone have ideas, from a Jungian perspective?

I guess my mind figured it all out lol!

I was sitting in a cafe I usually go for a coffee and snacks. It has a large tv in the middle of the room where they play the news channels very often.

The reporter speaking got my attention by saying "And now as the investigation is complete, the Chinese authorities have finally identified the suspect behind the Corona outbreak. A monkey, also a professor at University there is suspected to have chemically engineered the virus! The Interpol already has their eyes on the fugitive!"

*I'm merely paraphrazing here, but she said something with that meaning

Next thing I see is police cars and helicopters chasing what seems to be a very lage chimpanzee (he was a bit bigger than police jeeps behind him)

One guy in the cafe comments as we watch the news "He's too smart.. they'll never catch him!", as he was sipping his beer.

I just try to process what I've just heard as I see a chimp running faster than police cars, but as if my logical part of the brain was completely numb I just go with it!

As I leave the cafe I see our local police making huge rings of bananas in the middle of the street in case the monkey comes here! (I live way far from China)

"Well that's kind of stupid" - I think to myself.

The rest of the dream continues with me going home and talking to my parents about some random everyday stuff, no mentions of the monkey whatsoever!

Suddenly, I hear gunshots coming from the park near my building. I ask the person I see through the window what happened!

"I think it worked, I think they got him, you know the monkey! What a shame, he was a good man", said the person as he walked away

(This is also stupid for many reasons since my window is far above the ground so no way anyone could hear my question from the ground without me shouting, but like I said my logic seemed to be turned off)

I immidiately tell my parents that monkey has been shot and they start acting all disappointed as well, saying he didn't deserve this, he was a hero blah blah..

I woke up shortly after and felt like a dumbass for not realizing it was a dream all along, but I guess it has something to do with many Covid conspiracies I have to endure listening!
I'm not sure if there is any symbolism in the dream..

Point is, it's not a bat, it's a professor monkey!

Okay, so in this dream, you need to have some background. In this dream, there was this world famous restaurant. It was known to only serve the rich the powerful, and celebrities.If you were commoner, you would be thrown out. But here's the catch: it was a superhero themed restaurant. There were 2 teams working: the hero staff, and the villain staff. Everyone vastly perfered the hero staff. There were 2 menus depending on what time you went, and everyone said the hero menu was way better. But here's the thing. Inside the restaurant, everyone knew that the hero staff were assholes. They would destroy the ingredients before leaving it to the villain staff, they would hide things and just act superior to the villain staff. The boss knew about this, but didn't care. This is where the dream starts. So, in this dream, I worked on the villain staff. And at that point, they were tired of being treated like that and proposed to become actual super villains and terrorize the hero staff. Everyone was on board with it, except me. So the entire dream is just them trying to convince me to join them. The dream ends when our first and only customer of the day, Shaq came in.

I had a dream that I was a villain living in a house full of Heroes and I talked to zoro from One Piece and for some reason boa Hancock liked Zoro and started to argue the argument went as so "How dare you talk to zoro so casually. Boa said. Hey i just said hi so leave me alone and tell me when dinner is ready. I said. Then i sat on the couch and boa got in a fighting pose and almost kicked my head off but i dodged at the last second then i woke up

Hey everyone!

I'm fairly new to having an actual account on Reddit, but I've used it for years to search for answers or peruse.

**Basically,** I'm just posting in here to see if anyone else is an experienced lucid dreamer, and wants to help motivate each other to take those skills to the next level.

I'm willing to help someone unlock their lucid dreaming abilities as well, if you're not very experienced, but it can sometimes take weeks if you're not accustomed to an "otherworldly" way of thinking. Anyone who can't suspend their disbelief in supernatural abilities will not be of much use in this thread, I'm afraid.

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For a bit of a background in my own experience, I first became lucid in a dream back in 2014, when I was 17 years old. I spent that entire summer sleeping in to get more hours logged in dreamtime. I have dozens of full recounts of spiritual encounters, epic battles, and strange worlds from that summer alone.

This won't seem all that uncommon for someone who has studied LD for quite a while.

My most accomplished feats so far have been meeting a personal spirit guide and one of my previous incarnations, meditating in a dream consciously, and a connection with Mother Earth and Father Time.

I'm more of a fan of DILD (dream-induced) myself, but WILD does work for me as well.

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**Who I'm looking for is someone who wants to attempt to connect in the dream world, practice daily, and eventually move into full astral-projections through the dream state. (My time zone is EST, as that may be of significance for training.)**

I have been out of active practice for a bit, with the current world situation, but it's time I refocus that energy into dreaming again.

I'm completely open to any other experiments or assertions you'd like to test.

I'm a 24 year old male from Canada.

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Ideally, would like to connect with fans of anime or sci-fi for similar shared experiences, should our training progress that far.

(Hunter x Hunter, Fairy Tail, My Hero Academia, Seven Deadly Sins, Naruto, Avatar The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Magic the Gathering, The Flash, Spiderman, Doctor Strange, are some of the most influential media for me.)

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Also, feel free just to share any of your coolest dream experiences! Feel free to brag as much as you want :D