Hello! When I was four years old (I'm 17 now) I use to have these 3 reoccurring dreams. In the first dream I'm standing in the middle of an empty forest. To my left was Jesus Christ and to my right was Satan. Jesus was a glowing figure and I couldn't make out his face all that well but I knew who he was and that he represented all things good. Satan was not a person but rather a lizard or snakelike figure that was wrapped all in the branches in the tree. The tree he was on had no leaves and it kind of looked like it had gone through a fire or something, but anyway, on the tree there was one single apple hanging from a branch. Satan kept speaking to me but what he was saying was not in English but rather a bunch of hisses that only I could understand. I was so gravitated towards Satan and Jesus kept telling me to get away from him because he was evil. I remember really only focusing on Satan in the dream whenever Jesus would say that Satan was evil, he would hiss to me, "he's lying to you. You know what he's saying is not true" I looked at Jesus and said "I know he's not evil. Trust me, I'll be fine. This is what I want. I want to go with Satan. I'll be fine." Then that was always the end. I would wake up crying hysterically. When my mom would ask what my dream was I would always make up some kind of lie because I didn't want her to know what I was really dreaming. Then after I had that dream I would have this kind of follow up dream where I'm in Hell and I'm burning or being tortured I'm crying and I can feel pain (in my dream and in real life) and I just want to get out but there's no way out and I look and I look and I just can't escape it then I ask Jesus to help me and he says "this is what you chose for yourself. I tried to save you but this is the path you chose" Then the dream would go on with me being tortured and when I'd wake up I would just feel so worn out and drained mentally and physically My last dream is the one that scares me the most because they were just so vivid I would be dreaming that I could see my room exactly the way it was before I went to sleep. Like I was looking around and I would see every part of my room and either in the corner or on top of me (usually on top of me, though) I would see Satan. There was just so much darkness around him but once I looked at him I couldn't look away no matter how hard I tried. It was just so real and I remember he would say things to me and I would wake up just so out of breath and there would be tears streaming down my face. It was so emotional because I wanted to tell my mom but I felt like I couldn't because Satan was going to punish me if I did Then I don't know it's probably just paranoia but even to this today I still feel like I'm being watched the way I was in those dreams I don't have them anymore but I always feel the same EXACT way in real life like I did in the dream I don't know why I had these dreams at such a young age and they continued to be reoccurring dreams for about 5 years My family is by no means religious so I'm just confused I would really love to hear what everyones interpretations of these dreams are!
Do you remember when you had these dreams, if anything particular was happening in your life at the time you had the dreams? Could you have been feeling guilty about something or felt that you made a bad decision?
Maybe at the time you were worried about getting into trouble for something or about doing something wrong without realizing it and getting intor trouble for that. When you are very young, it can be hard to understand what adults expect of you. Since your family isn't religious, how did you learn about Jesus Christ and Satan? A lot of the feelings that we have in childhood stay with us when we're adults, which is why you could still feel the paranoia now, even though it doesn't have a rational basis.
Well dreams aren't litteral so don't feel guilty about "choosing satan." Maybe he just represents rebellion, and Jesus represented guilt and repression? A little rebellion is a good thing. Don't let dream Jesus make you feel bad, maybe if you have the dream again if you can realize you are dreaming try to vocally stand up for yourself. I've done that before in scary dreams, and once I learned how to do that I stopped have traditional nightmares.