Dreaming about silence after a loud event
What does it mean to dream everything goes quiet after a crash or a bang?
A distinct group and described as the most unsettling version of this record.
Something happens, an explosion, a collapse, a crash, and then nothing. Dreamers describe the aftermath as soundless and describe that as worse than the event.
Part of it is expectation: a loud event promises consequences, and consequences are what dreams are least good at producing. The silence is the absence of a next thing.
It shares that structure with the fog that delivers nothing and the chase that never ends in capture. Dreams sustain the moment before very well and the moment after hardly at all.
Where this reads well
Placing it with the other non-arrivals explains the specific quality of the dread.
Where it is harder
Among the more disturbing auditory reports, and dreamers describe it as difficult to convey.
Worth asking yourself
What happened first? How long did the silence last? Did anything follow?
Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.
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