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So I’ve been having a recurring dream about this beautiful woman. I’ve been having them just about every other week for the last 5 months. The weirdest part is that I just now noticed that this woman I met 3 weeks ago and asked out this week is the woman in my dreams.
In my first dream she had a dog with her but this dog wasn’t normal, it had red eyes and had a demonic presence to it. In this dream she came home with me to stay the night because she didn’t have a place to stay. I told her the dog had to stay outside, she was very hesitant but agreed to which the dog grew angry and tried to proceed towards my door. In response I told it to stay pointing to a sheltered part of my yard and it immediately stop and almost cowered away doing as commanded.
In future dreams the dog has not been present. She now seems freed, where in early dreams she was meek and hesitant she is now outgoing and open. In early dreams she would follow me around, but now she pulls me along wanting to do new things. In my most recent dream we flew to a jungle village tourist spot and while there I lost her. I was terrified, but finally found her in waders fishing in the river before the dream ended.
I am wondering what these dreams mean and how to proceed with this person?
Dear Richard,
I had a dream in the early hours of the morning. Me and my wife purchased 2 tickets for a car ride. Was waiting for our chance to get into a cab. Suddenly, from a pool just beside me, I saw a man washing a big black female buffalo. This bkack fatty female buffalo and man came out of the pool. Moved out of the pool, came very close to me, but beside. The man continued moving but the animal came beside me, touched my body by the left side of me , stopped there and laid down on the ground at my feet, beside me.
Appreciate if you could interpret the same, if it is of relevance.
Best regards
Biju
Dear Biju,
Buffaloes are animals that have a lot of strength and a lot of contentment. You are getting the dream because you are probably being called to the develop the quality of contentment. Contentment means that you don’t have to go searching for things that are not propitious at this time in your life. This usually happens when you need to be focused on one thing and sacrifice other things that you may want to do but are not timely. Later on the things you want now, but are not timely will reappear. If you go for them now, nothing will work out for you.
Hi Richard,
You had helped me out in the past so I wanted to reach out to you again. Last night I had a dream that I keep thinking about. In the dream I was in my house and standing in the open doorway there was a large frog (about the size of a medium dog) when I reach out to shut the door the frog bit me on the arm. After that I stepped backwards and down on the ground by my feet was a dead snake, it was headless but the tail was still moving a little. Very interested in what this dream might mean…
Hope to hear from you soon
Thank You!
Hi Ryan,
The dead snake represents your efforts in the past at trying to change yourself so that you can be more frog-like. This is because snakes represent change and yours is dead. So first you have revive the snake which just means believing you can transform and develop this ability. A frog is an amphibian which means that is equal comfortable on water and land. This means that you have to spend time in the water (relational element) and land (the responsible or down-to-earth element). Half of your life should be devoted to personal relationships and half of your life should be devoted to your responsibilities like in a career, for instance. You have to be comfortable doing both and switching from one to another like a frog does. So for instance, when you are at work, you will have one set of abilities, but when you are home you would have another. To be successful in life you will need both. The frog bites you because you aren’t good at the transition yet.
Thank You!
I was hanging out with my friends and family until a couple of hours later it started to thunder heavy as i see the water rising i quickly told my cousins who were with me and he drove i told him to just keep going straight but it kept coming after us and when we hit downtown it started to come faster and i checked outside of the building and sure enough it was huge and already hit the place where we were at and now i went back and inside to tell them and we only had a couple of minutes to take coverthats when that dream ended my second dream was when i was with my parents and aunt both had died due to the flooding different situation but same dream this time it happened when we were in the house when it was over my aunt took off and i was left alone my third dream was when i was older and i was in college and the same scenario i went to this Asian place where they had a place where it prevents water from going in and me and three friends quickly go in and she the waiter locked it as soon as she did i told them if water comes in hold there breathe as long as possible but the only different part about this dream was it had fire with water coming towards us and i told everyone to go to the edges and hold on as long as you can so they wont hit the door open and when we were quite all we heard was we were floating in water the sound of the water pushing towards the thing we were in my heart was pounding fast and i said as long as we keep staying still and dont move it wont break but then water started cominng in and i confessed ” guys i cant swim” while water is coming in and that was that dream the 4th one i had was when it hit every no matter where i went flood was happening but its weird because rn where im at its thundering bad and have been raining alot country on the map and i saw the news with my own eyes and the water coming i couldnt speak in this dream though and when i woke up while i was drowning in water i woke up where i couldnt speak at all for about 3mins it was scary
Dear Fjjjfk,
Flooding in a dream means that you are flooded by emotions like fear or hurt or jealousy usually about relationships with others. You try to get away from the flood, but it overcomes you because you cannot run away from the flood of negative emotions. You have to deal with them until the storm becomes calm. The fire happens at college because your mind is overstimulated from too much study as well as the flood. All of the dreams have the same solution which is to be able to deal with the negative emotional state so that waters become calm and tranquil. The flood is an internal phenomenon that can be worked with to get to a peaceful state. You probably need help in learning how to get to that kind of calm.
I dreamed about a large fish aquarium; I think in a school or building of some sort. It was dark, yet calming.
I remember walking to the end of a narrow hallway. I saw a janitor cleaning fish tanks, I don’t remember what his face looked like. I waited for him to leave before looking at the different fish in the hallway.
In this hallway was a very large fish, bigger than a bedroom door. I had a feeling it was a salmon at the time, but I am not too sure.
The fish wasn’t in water and it wasn’t lying on the floor. It was held against the wall by something(maybe wood). As I walked towards it, it kept trying to jump out and tried to get to me. It never did escape, and I eventually left to look at the other fish.
I would go up to fish tanks and pull them out of the water with my bare hands to look at them more closely. This continued for a while until I reached a tank with a small fish.
I reached into the tank, where the small fish was. Before I could grab it, it bit my fingers/hand and wouldn’t let go. So I then panicked and walked to another tank with it still attached to my hand.
I then tried prying it off with another fish from another tank, until it eventually let go of me and landed into the tank with the other fish I used to pry it off.
It ends there, or I forgot what happened afterward.
I hope you can help ease my curiosity about the meaning of this dream. I would really appreciate it!
Dear Roslyn,
This dream is mostly about learning. The positive thing about you is that you are curious about everything and trying to learn as much as you can. You are curious about everything. Some things are really pleasant and some are not. This is the way of learning. Some lessons that you learn are like the big fish out of water trying to get you or like the small ones that bite. Every time you have an experience and are curious like you are, you learn something new about how to be in the world and had to deal with challenges. Nothing seriously bad happened to you which should propel you to learning all you can about everything and especially about human relationships.
So I saw this very terrifying dream yesterday night. I love animals a lot in real life. So in the dream I saw that I have four or maybe give pet puppies whom I love a lot and in the beginning everything was so good and I was letting them,feeding them and loving them and I was so happy in the dream. But suddenly I saw that they are in a dustbin,battered,hurt and bleeding and half dead and I saw my mom beating them and trying to shove them in the dustbin and I screamed and started crying and wailing and asked her why is she doing that and she said that we don’t have enough money to feed them so we have to kill them. I was crying and screaming so bad and then I told her that she did the same with the pet cat we had and she said yes and I cried more and I was so heartbroken in the dream. In real life though my mom is very compassionate and loving towards animals. What does this dream mean?
Dear Suzie,
The puppies in the dream represent your ability to have and nurture new friendships in your life. You are really good at the process in the dream, but the parental figure inside yourself represented by your mother makes it all go bad. The parental figure is the part of you inside yourself that believes that you do not have enough internal resources to sustain a lot of relationships so it kills them. The dream shows you that you do have a lot of internal resources. Your life is calling you to really develop lots of new relationships and treat them like they are puppies.
I had a dream last night. I feel that it means something important but I just can’t pinpoint what it means…?
I had a dream where I was in another world after having an accident where everything went black and I saw myself as older and I was eighteen years old and after that I was forgotten, I was gone out of everyone’s lives. What is my dream suppose to mean can someone interpret this?..
Dear Emma,
This dream shows you that you have a fear that something bad is going to happen and then you are going to be forgotten. The reason you have this dream is because the process you really need in your life is not developed yet. The fearful dream happens because you are vulnerable to that kind of experience. The process you need to work on is seeing positive things happening in the future and then going for them. Whenever anyone has this kind of positive attitude toward the future, it attracts a lot of positive relationships. Fear keeps people away from you, but a positive future attracts them.
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Hi. I dream about a boy. I don’t know him in real life but it seems that I really know him in my dreams. I have friends and cousins in my dream and they know him too. It is really weir because in my dream, he is the one who stole my virginity. I don’t if we have a relationship but in my dream her sisters know me well. They also have a very big house. They have two houses which means they are really rich. It’s weird that I have also dreamt of that house before but I did not see him in there. He always wants me to be by his side. He wants me to sleep in their house specifically in his room and I said Yes but I don’t have any clothes to change, then his sister gave me clothes and her sister said that I could sleep wherever I like. It seems like they know me very well and I know them too but I can’t remember their faces when I woke up but the feeling is there. Then I said to him that I should go home instead, if I will sleep in his room, we will not have sex. So, he said that he will accompany me to my house to get some clothes. We ride his big bike or something like that, it’s like the most expensive motor in the country. Then my friends, classmates and cousins saw us together riding that, it seems like he doesn’t want to have an issue so he increases the speed of the motor. It seems like he also know my friends and cousins. My shoes fell because of that, so we stopped the vehicle in a somewhat like cemetery and my cousin give my shoes to me while saying something I can’t remember anymore. What is the meaning of my dream? I have never had a boyfriend and i don’t know that guy. I can’t remember his face.
Dear Clara,
When you are in someone else’s house in a dream, it means that you in someone else’s self. When you are in your house, it represents your own self. So when you contemplate being in a relationship, it is like the other person’s self dominates with you having very little will. At some point your will awakens because you want to get your own clothes, but he still drives the relationship. You are probably having this dream to show you that when you get into a relationship, you have to have a stronger will so that the relationship is mutual and you can set your own boundaries and have things go more as you would have them go. In this dream it is more like you are victim of not having a strong will. It wants to awaken and be stronger.
In my dream I was seating with a guy on the floor. I was on the left and he was on the right. I held his right hand using my left hand. When I was trying to retrieve my hand, he didnt let my hand go. I tried again for the second time, but again, he didnt let my hand go. Later on I realize, I am already sleeping with my head on his lap and still, he was holding my hand.
Thank You! I am really curious about its meaning! Also, I know the guy in my dream..
Thanks!
Dear Ruth,
It is a bit on an unusual way to hold his hand because normally you would hold the hands closest to each other. He is telling you in the way he is holding your hand that he doesn’t want to let go of you. You seem to be comfortable or you would not have fallen asleep. It seems that he wants to be connected to you in some way and hold the connection. It seems to benefit both of you. You can maintain the connection in real life and see where it wants to go.
This was a dream I had as a kid but I’m still curious as to what it could’ve meant.
It’s very simple, I was chasing myself (and my younger sister, that was with me). I don’t really know if I was the one chasing myself or if the dream was in the point of view of someone else who was following both of us.
Hi Ines,
Chasing yourself means that you are outside of your own self trying to catch yourself. Usually in a chase dream a person is running away from someone else, but this dream does not have any fear. If is more like you are trying to catch up with where your true self is going and you are behind. It is an interesting perspective because from a chasing perspective you won’t feel the really positive feelings ever that your higher self would have you feel. You can re-live the dream in your mind and feel what you and your sister are feeling then you will know what the energy is like that you need to have to move forward in your life.
Hello,
Im just curious about this dream. I recently a had dream of a woman that was dress in caribana costume but saw only her back. When she was trying to put on the bottom piece of outfit but it wouldn’t fit. The woman kept trying to fit and it just wouldn’t go through.
My boyfriend is away on work business and because of this job…hes gone for 8 months….but he had a dream that I left him amd ran away with another man to another island….that’s because we live in the caribbean…what does this dream mean?..p.s apparently he had this dream and while he was having this dream…I was dreaming that he came back home from work to surprise me and my ex and I were sitting in my bedroom ..talking on the floor..also this ex and I dont even speak in real life which I am okay with.
Dear Dee,
This would be an understandable fear for him since he is going away for a long time. It is especially fearful for him because you have such good energy when you see him and miss him a lot when he is gone. Both of you have to work really hard on keeping your relationship fresh despite the distance. 8 months gone does not help the relationship at all.
I dont speak to my ex but for some reason he was sitting on the floor in my bedroom talking to me.. and after some time after I heard a knock on my bedroom door and it was my current boyfriend..he came back from work cause he travels…I was so happy to see him that I jumped on him and began to kiss him and scream cause I have missed him so much but to the sight of my ex he said nothing….he was just happy to see me as well…what does this dream mean
Dear Dee,
This dream shows that you are enthusiastic about your new boyfriend, but you still bad memories about your old relationship that come into your space that may affect you and the way you interact. It doesn’t seem serious. The important thing is to go for your new relationship the way you did in the dream –
Ok so I’m single I had this dream about haveing a boyfriend I’m at his family’s house every 1s there his in the shower I’m playing with some baby not mine waiting for him to get out the shower this little girl gos and opens a door and I look it’s the boyfriends dad getting dressed so I run away and tell the mum what’s happed she laughs then boyfriend gets out the shower sets on sofa putting socks on then more family turn up no 1 talks I just keep playing with this little girl
Dear Mary,
So in the dream you are being treated as if you are not even really there. They let you play with the baby probably because it is not something that they would want to do. It shows you what kind of relationship you absolutely would not want to be in. What you are looking for is a relationship where people are attentive and interactive, where you are part of the family fully.
Dreamt of stairs but don’t remember much, in the middle of white clean stairs yesterday, something about stairs again today,
Then this dream:
From behind and above I see an older lady with a bluewhite head covering sitting, she says “I really liked Bourdin”?? in the dream I guess to myself it’s a place in Europe, I see what she describes “there’s monasteries there. I loved the way water flows down” there’s a lady rushing down stairs “don’t worry there’s dishes down there for her”, at the bottom some ladies are relaxing in hot baths – part of where some of the water was going down too. I remember the place being round and stone and in a cleared wood.
just had a dream I was talking to a lady I know in the empty church hall about how I feel etc she seemed fine as we talked, the moment we were done she sagged on the sofa and seemed kind of I don’t know the word like thankful a chore had been gotten out of the way and hopeful that’d I remove myself, stuff was left about the place not sure if some or all of it was mine, I had to look for some of my stuff, so I cleared up and she didn’t move to assist me in anyway, near the end of the dream I found two square timers someone had put ontop of some tall furniture that I owned, that was it
This dream shows you the kind of person you don’t want to help you through your feelings. You don’t want someone who feels it is a chore. What you want is someone who is attentive and enthusiastic about being with you and helping you through whatever you are sharing. It just shows that you should make an active choice about who you get help from.
Dear 81dais.
This dream is about taking the steps (doing the necessary things) to get a place of relaxing and rest and maybe healing. Stairs usual indicate take steps sequentially to get something done.
I have had a dream that friends were hanging out with me my friend randomly said u arnt yourself lately u are pregnant I got shocked then it ended
Dear Briann,
Are you a woman? Brian is a male name so I am thinking it must be Brianna. Being pregnant means that something new is growing inside of you like a new potential. You are not yourself because when pregnancy comes in your inner self it usually is uncomfortable because of negative emotions that you have to face inside just like a real pregnancy has morning sickness.
I dreamed that I was holding a baby girl…I remember she was mine but I dont clearly remember giving birth to her
…when I brought her home …I was afraid to place her on the bed because I didnt have any baby things for her….I was afraid to place her on my bed being that she is a new born baby….but I kept looking in here eyes feeling happy that I finally had my baby…also I believe there was a friend of mine in the bedroom with me but she wasnt of much help to me….
Dear Dee,
The baby in the dream represents something that appears small right now that has been born inside of you. It is like a new virtue or a new capacity. When you nurture it, like you are doing in the dream, it will go an produce a lot for you in your life. Right now you are unprepared, but that fact that you love the creation, means that you can be with it and work with until it really is fully grown inside of you. Think about what is new inside of you.
Im driving and i see a fork in the road and i see two women walking the oppisite direction catch my eye
Also if it helps…she looked a little tiny but I knew she would have been okay cause I would more than take care of her…I just had a feeling of happiness that she was mine…while I continued to sway her in my arms….couldnt stop staring in her eyes
Dear Edward,
A fork symbolizes a decision. Actually your decision is whether or not to keep going on the same path you are or do a U turn in your life and go for what you are attracted to. Do the u turn!!!
Hello Richard!
I just want some validation actually… I searched the meaning of my dreams and apparently they shared common meaning according to google xD.
The other week, I dreamed about a dog biting my arm. And just last night, I dreamed about having a conversation with a friend and then suddenly, a gecko showed up crawling in her face. These two dreams highlighted in my mind I don’t know why. Maybe because they really shared the same meaning? Please enlighten. Your response is highly appreciated.
Thank you and have a great day.
Dear Gina,
A dog biting your arm means that a friend has done or is doing something that hurts you. The gecko on her face means that although she is a bit reptilian, she is fairly harmless. The fear is that you are going to be hurt in friendships so it will hold you back from really going for them and make you see the negative, rather than the positive in others. When you let go of the fear and just go for a lot of friendships and see the positive in others, your life will become really rich.
Hello I was hoping you could interpret a recurring dream I’ve been having. About once a week I dream that I am an FBI agent working undercover to expose an illegal street racing ring. As my dream goes on I come to know some of the people who participate in these activities on a personal level. Sometimes the people in my dreams are good friends or family, sometimes I do not know them. Sometimes the dream end here, but often times it continues on to a point where I’m conducting thrilling heists and robberies with these people. A large portion of my dreams are ALWAYS me driving around in sick whips. Th weirdest thing though is that I almost always end up dating my new friends sister. What does all this mean? I want to stop having these dreams, but I always feel that I shouldn’t turn my back on family. Any insight you may have would be appreciated, thanks.
-Brian, 28 yo male
Dear Brian,
The problem you have in the dream is that you are confused about the difference between right and wrong and doing thrilling adventurous things. It is like you have one side of you stopping the thrills and another going for it. In the end it will be take all of your energy away and all your adventure. The quality you need is adventure which is a combination of courage and enthusiasm. Working with the FBI means you want to be on the right side of the law. When you marry the two, you will have an awesome life. There is no conflict between them because when they are together you do amazing things and it is beneficial to others. When you are adventurous and outside of the law, it is thrilling, but it is destructive to others. In both cases you get a thrill, but the long term results of outside of the law are always bad.