Erika is my daughter who passed away in January, 2022 from a brain disease. She was 45 years old when she died. In the dream Erika and I along with some family members are at some kind of fair. There are lots of people around. Instead of being in the state she was in when …
Last night I was running with my wife in a park. We had a really nice pace and had a line of animals like geese following us. Then I saw someone who was shot by a gun, at which time, i organized the people around me to get him some help. The overall feeling was …
The dreams that have recurred the most for me in my life are the ones that I had when I was attending the US Air Force Academy, a university to train young people to become officers in the US Air Force. I was there from the age of 18-21. As I have changed over the …
Last night my wife and I were running a marathon in my dreams. When we crossed the finish line, i was told that I did one minute faster than my fastest marathon time ever. I was really amazed and wanted to tell my other running mates. In real life my life doesn’t run at all …
A couple of nights ago I found myself in place where I was running and hiding after there had been some kind of nuclear attack. I know. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. You cannot run from a real like nuclear attack. You are just dead pretty instantly. Lots of people, if they would …
Last night I dreamed that a young woman wanted to meet with me about transforming her life, and others also wanted to talk to me. I realized that being able to make internal changes, changes everything about how management is carried out. It is such a threat to past styles. Before I learned how to …
Last night in my dream there was a female intruder trying to attack us. I asked myself who was she in real life and how did she affect me. The answer that came was that she was a former supervisor who fired me. The experience in real life with her made my ego brain really …
Last night I dreamt that the leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, was holding the world hostage with big negative weapons, and that I was in the middle of it all being threatened and used by him in an attempt to get what he wanted. All I could think about was that we had to find …
In some of my previous posts about New Year’s Resolutions I was trying to emphasize the importance of starting small with new habits and activities so that they can be maintained for a long period. This post is about a type of dream that dis-empowers action making you hide away in a small self. Being …
In the last post we looked at individual symbols as stationary objects such as a bear or a lion or a mountain. In this post I am going to show you how to understand behavior so that you can see how important it is for a dream. Suppose that you have the following dream. ” …
In this post I want to tackle the challenge of how to get meaning out of the things you see in the metaphoric world of dreams. Dream dictionaries have their place, I suppose, but in the 30+ years that I have been dream interpretations, I have rarely opened them, and found them mostly disappointing. Here …
There are basically three steps to any personal change in your life. 1. Remembering the strengths that you already have. Growth is building a process that relies on the foundation of positives that you already have. It is helpful to make an inventory of positive strengths because these are the foundation for your current success. …
Nightmares by definition evoke fear. This means that when you are facing that big snake or being bitten by one, the negative emotion you are feeling is FEAR. It is not anxiety or shame or guilt or grief or any other one. It is fear. To be good at changing a nightmare into an asset …
When you wake up in the middle of the night because you have just had a terrible nightmare like a poisonous snake ready to sink its fangs in you or you are about to fall off a huge cliff, your heart is usually racing and your mind may feel some relief that the dream was …
As I am writing this post the news of the day is that 12 children have been killed in a Texas elementary school and many more will be casualties of an unnecessary war in the Ukraine. As my small part to achieving world peace I wanted to write more specifically about the process I use …
Imprisonment Dreams Feeling imprisoned as if you are in jail is a very common dream theme. Generally speaking when you have a prison dream, it means that you are stuck being controlled by forces outside of yourself. You are jailed inside, while a prison keeper has the key or control to your freedom. It can …
Last night before I went to bed I had a combination of chills and hot spells. I could barely keep my eyes open when watching TV. Then when I slept, I dreamed of being in a car that had rats in it. I could even grab the rat in front of me. When I woke …
Have you ever dreamed of an animal? Animals are great as symbols because they are fairly easy to interpret. Here is what you do. Say you are dreaming about a dog, and the dog bites you. This is a negative dream so you have to start with how you feel. When you get bitten, the …
There I am looking down the barrel of a gun. I am about to be killed. I start to beg for my life and try to get away. The person with the gun laughs at me in my humiliated state and let’s me go. This dream is followed by a series of other ones where …
I am currently in a small town in northern British Columbia in Canada after having done a workshop with some young people on the weekend because our car had some troubles as we were leaving town. It just so happened that this area was hit really hard this past summer with raging fires on large …
This is where I spent the first three years of my university education. It is called the Air Force Academy. Its purpose is to train young men and women to become officers in the U.S. Air Force. When I was a young person and they started recruiting me because I was a good student and …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a Baha'i and currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Read more...
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