Nightmares Haunt Foreclosed Americans
The Americans are living through a housing crisis. It is following them at night. Nightmares are haunting foreclosed Americans. Disturbing dreams are being fed by foreclosures, evictions and an uncertain future. The home has a special place in everybody’s psyche – it spells security, peace comfort and also an identity.
Fear and angst are taking on a collective character. More psychologists are reporting that people are suffering from stressful dreams that invariably circle round the home. Fear of becoming homeless is one of the most primal emotions. It is giving rise to deep disillusionment, feeling of being betrayed and a growing attitude of mistrust. These are the results of the mortgage crisis and these symptoms are gripping the nation.
Henry Seiden of New York is a psychologist who will be publishing his paper next April. He said, “People are trying to make sense of this big unknowable, overwhelming, insecure world. On the Longing for Home.” In the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, he argues that the issue of home has not drawn enough attention from scholars in the field “beyond the classic Freudian interpretations.”
Many shrug off the interpretation of their dreams while others interpret them to be pointers. Susan Cohen aged 31 practising nursing in Salt Lake City began to suffer from troubled dreams. At that time she was thinking of purchasing her first house. Other people have nightmares about living in places they dislike. Cohen describing her mental condition observed, “I had heightened anxiety because of everything that’s happened. Was this an appropriate investment for me to be making at this point? Am I going to look back in five years and find out that I’m in a similar situation as all these other people who have had their houses foreclosed? And I didn’t know if I wanted to be part of a system that is so morally corrupt.”
These nightmares became so persistent that it ultimately influenced her decision in making the bid! She did not want to be unjust on the seller and started having dreams about his mortgage amount. While talks went on, vivid dreams began to nag her – some cheering her on and other dreams giving her dire warnings. She took them to be messages to guide her. From one apparently disjointed dream involving, ice creams, vending machine an aggressive character with a hypodermic needle she concluded that that all those participating in the game of buying and selling houses were selfish and she was not sufficiently armed to protect herself.
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