Tornado Dreams
Article Summary
Kathie is in the process of writing her long-awaited book The Truth Bubbles Up. The book starts off with a story about a recurring dream she has about a tornado and her two boys.
Today we discuss what tornado dreams mean and what they represent in her world. Included in today’s article: Stop the Mind Screw Podcast Episode #69, the YouTube Video, and the article.
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Thank you! -Kathie Owen
Tornado Dreams
I have dreamt about tornadoes for as long as I can remember. These dreams have become warning signals to me that something tragic (or magic) is about to happen. And something is about to change forever.
The dreams are not always the same but when I see a tornado on the news I honestly feel like I have seen it before. And I have. In my dreams.
Sometimes I am very afraid inside of these dreams. But often times I see the tornado approaching and I feel or say, “Here it comes again. I have seen this before. Don’t worry we will all be fine.” To me this is funny. But they are always meaningful!
In the next story, I tell you about a very specific tornado dream I had and have had several times. And it is the very beginning of my book, The Truth Bubbles Up.
Kathie’s Tornado Dream
“When childhood stars shine always stay humble and kind.” -Tim McGraw, Humble and Kind
AN OMINOUS TORNADO is coming my way. I see it in the distance. Kevin and Koby are young children and I am headed to the cellar for safety. Objects are flying everywhere. I am able to grab Koby, he’s my youngest. I grab Kevin by the hand but the wind is too strong. The tornado strips Kevin from me. I am forced to make a decision. Save Koby and close the cellar door or go try to find Kevin and risk losing everything including my life. I choose to save Koby.
The tornado subsides quickly and we open the cellar door to find the sun shining on all the broken glass that is everywhere. It is eerily quiet and oddly beautiful. I step outside avoiding the broken pieces of glass with every step praying deeply that I find Kevin alive.
All of a sudden Kevin jumps out from behind a blown-over tree. He is perfectly fine. He even tells me, “I’m fine mom. Why were you even worried?”
I dream about tornadoes often. They have come to be warning dreams for me. Tornadoes are menacing characters. They destroy everything in their paths. However, there can be things very close by that go untouched. My tornado dreams symbolize change for me. Most often it is a good change. But that doesn’t mean the change will be fun! And just like with any tornado - some things change forever.
Watch the video here!
Listen to the episode here!
Tornado Dream Meaning
Taken from Healthline:
A tornado may mean one thing to you and quite another to someone else. Since tornadoes are typically frightening and destructive, they could symbolize:
emotional struggle, anxiety
feeling overwhelmed, fearing change
an out-of-control situation
something in your life that’s being destroyed
upheaval, major change
something big and powerful
a dramatic end to something in your life paving way for a new beginning
Watching a tornado from afar may signify something different from a tornado raging around you. And if you’ve ever lived through a tornado in your waking life, dreaming about them could be a sign of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
All of the above applies to Kathie
I was diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in 2004. This came from years of abuse at the hands of a man who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He definitely signifies living my waking life through a tornado.
Today I have deep compassion for this man, I oddly admit.
But there is something inherently wrong with the way this man treated me, not only while I was married to him, but even worse in the way he treated me and my children post-divorce. And we divorced in 2000. And to this very day, now 22 years later!
A narcissist will very rarely change. Because narcissists see the cause of their problems as external due to their defenses of denial, distortion, and projection, their ability to look at themselves introspectively is limited. <- I can testify to this. I lived it!
My tornado dreams definitely serve as warning dreams. But as you read in the previous paragraph I was the only one left changing. In fact, I changed so much that today I teach others how to overcome situations like this using Stop the Mind Screw Process.
In fact, my tornado dreams always represent a dramatic end to something in my life paving way for a new beginning. Sometimes that new beginning means leaving something or someone very dear and beloved in your life behind.
This happened so often that I now call it A GIFT OF DETACHMENT.
Tornado Dreams and Family Members
A tornado is a powerful and detrimental force. If your dreams involve family members caught in a tornado, you may be worried about someone close to you. Think about who showed up in your dream and what might be concerning you about them in real life.
I have the tornado dream about my boys often. It is the same dream, over and over again. And they are always very young.
To me, that is when the serious upheaval began. As I describe in the book, my oldest has always been intense. It is part of his DNA, he was intense the second he started moving the womb.
My youngest, on the other hand, had serious complications when he was born. I was pregnant with him for 9 and 1/2 months. Another great story from the book.
Why was my son so calm in the dream?
And why did he let go so easily? Well, you’ll have to read the book to discover that and so much more.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist though to figure out that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. And I have so much gratitude for those warning dreams.
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