Dear Lauri: I consistently dream that the world is being overrun by zombies. I always manage to avoid getting bitten or whatever the case may be but they usually find a way to get inside and I find myself cornered in either an attic or closet and trapped. – Chris 31, Vicksburg, MS

Lauri: You may get these dreams whenever you feel like your personal world is changing or crumbling. The zombies are likely grudges you can’t let go of, issues that ought to be dead but that you are keeping alive. You are always cornered in a closet or attic. Both of these are places where we store things away in real life which—to the dreaming mind—represent the places in your psyche where you have stored away memories, issues, feelings you don’t want to deal with. Your dreams keep forcing you in there because you haven’t properly dealt with your feelings about this. Have you tucked them away in a nice little corner inside of you instead of letting out the rage? If so, this could be yet another connection to the zombies; they may represent the numbness and lack of feeling you are allowing to overtake you.

Chris replies: I’m having trouble letting go of my wife. She blindsided me, pretty much told me we lived a lie for the last few years and each time she told me she loved me was a lie. My life that I had is gone, swept away and hidden like dirt under a rug, and I don’t feel the forgiveness I need to yet. I deal, which is why I think I survive in the dreams, but don’t really “survive” if that makes sense. That’s the biggest grudge I have. I have trouble letting things go and this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through.