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i had a dream and i feel like it came true in a way? I like this guy and we’ve been hanging out for quite a bit but he isn’t aware of my feelings. In my dream, I was in a mall with my family and then I separated ways with them to buy my own needs. While doing that, I saw the guy and then I saw students from my school behind him as well. After seeing each other, I asked “why are there students from our school here in the mall too?” I don’t remember his reply. We then hung out and just the two of us. We went around the mall and hugged (?) as well as confess to one another.
The thing is, this happened a few weeks ago.
And then a week ago, I hung out with him unexpectedly in the same mall and then we were with other friends from my school (which i guess represents the school people who were in my dream) and although not everything happened, it was a close thing.
Dear Kath,
This means that, for the time being, you need to be in a relationship with the guy. You are going to learn a lot in this relationship. It also shows the process that when you set your mind on a target and go for it, then it can be realized. Keep your expectations moderated, that is, don’t have extremely high expectations with him but be fully present in the relationship. It is a good thing. You should be impressed spiritually by the fact that the dream world already had anticipated what would happen to you. This should allow you meditate on how it is possible and live in the positive mystery of the dream experience. How is it that it was already known ahead of time?
but the thing is, the guy and I aren’t together at the moment. I haven’t confessed and although there are lots of moments which show how we may have feelings for one another, i’m afraid to confess and he isn’t doing that either. But the cool thing is how it was at the same mall, same circumstances, same people and happened a week after i dreamt about it. Can this possibly be a sign?
Pursue the relationship and see what happens.
I can’t remember much of this dream but this just keeps replaying in my mind. I am in my room and a small very cute i mean extremely cute tan/gray bunny was running around my room. I tried to catch her and she squeezed thru a hole outside. But it’s like i also remember catching her and hugging and kissing her. I cannot get this bunny out my head!
Dear Williams,
The bunnies represent the quality of gentleness and the value that gentleness has in your life. Holding it lets you know how important it is. It is actually a very powerful virtue and capable of achieving a huge amount.
Hello,
I’ve been having a dream for most of my life and can never find any meaning of it. The dream is me going fall speed towards a wall but never reaching it. It’s like as soon as I get close enough to touch it it starts all over again so I never actually hit the wall. Is there any meaning to this.
There is one other thing, when I’m dreaming I always find that somewhere in the dream there is always the same person. The person is a Male, I have never seen him before but his very pale, bald, has green eyes and looks like his in his 40s or 50s. The unusual part about it is that his face is always half burnt off, as well as always having a blank expression like he has no emotion. He usually points at something but I can never see what. This is also something I’ve dreamt of for years. From what I remember I first dreamt of him when I was around 6 years old and it was like an introduction dream that I never will forget.
Dear ikkinayanimations,
In the dream going full speed ahead toward a wall means that you are going as fast as you can in your life toward a meaningless target or goal which is probably a result of living in the culture you are in. The man in the dream is an image of the person you are likely to become like pursuing the first part of the dream. The solution is slow way and decide for yourself based upon who you truly are what your life’s goals should be and then you can pursue them. Don’t go after meaningless things because it is the way of the culture.
I dream of “something” either holding me back or pulling me back when I walk down our passage at home, I cannot see what it is and I cannot scream as my voice is paralysed, it is always dark. I fight whatever it is but get nowhere and eventually wake up. Last night it changed and I was in a different place and I walked out of the bath room into a dark kitchen and I remember wondering why all the lights had been turned off, before leaving the kitchen I noticed a light under the lounge door. When I stepped out of the kitchen something grabbed my hair and was pulling me back, I spun around but could not see anything, I fought it and it clamped my wrists and I fell to the ground fighting to get free (it was not on top of me, sort of to the side) and I was trying to scream but was not able to. I woke soon after, I know immediately that it is a dream but I am really scared and freaked out
Dear Deb,
This dream tells you that there is something inside of you that is holding you back in life to getting to what you want to achieve or get to. You know it is from inside of yourself because in a dream, a house is representation of your Self. No doubt the thing inside of you that is holding you back is some kind of fear that you have. The fear represents itself as a presence, but really it is an energy inside of you that have learned from past experiences. When you let go of the fear, you will begin to start being driven with positive energy toward goals with a lot of energy. You can start the process of letting go by asking yourself what is holding you back?
Sorry to comment again, but I have 2 other dreams I was wondering about!
The first dream is where a bomb was going to go off and I was trying to dig a hole for me to lay in, having something heavy at the top to keep the radiation out so well I was going this fire was creeping up to my house and I was trying to dig faster, the guy beside me had finished before the nuke hit and then there was a lot of screaming, I remember looking over at him and yelling “How much time do I have before the radiation rolls in!?!” He said around 30 min so I just kept digging, my arms started to hurt and then I couldn’t breathe, because I was too late, I couldn’t breathe and I collapsed to the ground looking up as they sky turned a dark gray then I woke up
And the other one is kind a bunch of dreams together, but in each of them my mouth gets smaller and my teeth are forced to scrape together and always break and start to bleed and then I always wake up after it
Dear Marshall,
The first dream shows you that you are living in anticipation of big bomb going off in your life, that the time is short before you are going to be destroyed. When you have a fear oriented dream, it is based upon experience that makes you live in anticipation of it happening again. When you have the fear in the dream, it shows that the opposite positive process is actually trying to come in, which is more about having everything come to together in a really positive way. To do the transformation you have to understand that the old energy, the fear of things blowing up, is paired together with the new energy, things coming together. The process of change is about letting of the fear and living in the new positive energy. In your other dream when your mouth gets small and teeth break, it means that you are having a hard time thinking through things. Teeth are symbols of chewing on ideas which when you have broken teeth you cannot do.
Thank you for the help!
Hello! I had a dream that I decided to go walk around my neighborhood. I’m walking and everything is fine and then as I start my way back
Home things feel strange. There’s a group of kids that are walking alongside me and I don’t get the best feeling from them and I start running and my street turns into this broke looking street and a women in a bicycle passes and says this is no time for you to talk alone I’ll follow you
Home, and I realie that the weather severely changed and it’s raining with crazy thunder storms and lightning. I see a man walking and think it might be my father and I want to scream his name, but then that person turns towards another street and I have a need to get home and forget about that man and say to myself that wasn’t dad.
When I get home, I get to place that isn’t really
My home and there’s a lot of people around And I know there’s been an earthquake. I hear my brother say let me open the fridge and the man in charge says not yet or you will cause a power outage for everyone and that would be selfish. There’s a man working on that. My brother swears that my younger sister is in the fridge. He discreetly open the fridge a little and she isn’t there so he says, I knew she might in the freezer. And I say she can’t fit in the freezer and think about how devastated my dad will be if my sister is not found. Never dreamed of an earthquake before. I live in miami so not even an earthquake location. I did actually walk my neighborhood with my sister the night I had the dream.
Dear Galit Alter,
In the dream you experience two completely different states. In the very first part of the dream you experience what is normal for you, but after that you experience stormy, shaky, really unusual behavior. This means that the two parts exist within you. In real like they are probably just the opposite of the dream. You feel more normal more often than when you are in the fearful and shaky state. The purpose of an earthquake or a shake up is to show you that something is shake you inside so that you will get to a much higher state of development, a more advanced state. Mostly, because of the stormy situation and the freezer and fridge metaphors, it appears that you need to develop the ability to relate to people with more love and warmth because that is what is missing around you and probably one of your better natural gifts.
Things recently ended between me and a romantic partner after six months, he confronted me over text about something I’d done, then full on ghosted. I’ve been having a re-occurring dream that I sneak into his apartment while he isn’t home, and more often than not in the dream it isn’t his apartment but my old apartment from before I knew him and lived in a different state. Usually my goal in the dream is to see his dog, but rarely do I accomplish that goal because his roommates arrive home, I always hide from them in the room that used to be mine, and if I get caught, I lie, saying I was getting some things I had left, and I leave. I feel like my subconscious is trying to tell me something I am not picking up on and I’m hoping you may be able to provide some clarity. Thanks.
Dear Jennifer,
The obvious reason for the dream is that the relationship ended so abruptly without a lot of closure. You are trying to get back to the positive thing in the relationship like the companionship. That is why you are looking for the dog. You cannot find it because he just let completely. It seems like there is a bit of a shock on your part for the way he acted. The problem in the dream is that you go backwards, that is, you go back to the past to find him. What you need to do instead is go forward confidently in the future for new companionship without a lot of fear. He is gone, but there are other relationship possibilities waiting for you. You have to consciously go to the future, not the past.
Last night I had a dream about my husband who passed away 5 yrs ago. He was sitting at a kitchen table when I walked in the room, it kind of scared my for a second when I 1st seen him but he just smiled & kind of chucked. I smiled back at him & then woke up.
Dear Terri,
This is just my experience. Obviously is not scientific but when a person passes away, they have to go through a healing process in the next world. Often it takes about 5 years of earth time to achieve that. Now he is ready to help you when you need him. You can call on him for assistance. He wants to help you.
I cut off this friend for the past 5 months and I constantly think about her and the rest of the friends I cut off as well. last night she appeared in my dream. what happened is that i was walking and across the sidewalk she was there standing waiting for somebody. she looked uncomfortable when she saw me but waved. and i waved back and thought of carrying on with walking however i stopped to cross the road and say hi to her. it was awkward and it felt like she did not want to see me. it felt like we are not as close anymore as if we are strangers. it felt weird for me too because as much as i want her away from me i want her right next to me. i recall wanting to hug her but i think i did not. she was not happy, her face looked fatter than the usual and her eyes were droopy. after literally few words someone (the friend of her ex) pulled her away from me and then i remember seeing her ex. i do not know what does this mean or if this means anything especially that i know she is doing alright without me and in a whole new happy relationship. the look on her face when she saw me is on repeat in my mind since i woke up today. i feel guilt and worry for her. should i consider this as a sign or is this just hallucinations because i keep think about her all the time?
Dear Lilly,
The feelings that you are have for friend are mixed. That means that some things are positive and some are negative. When the balance got to be too negative from her, you felt like you had to cut it off which was probably the correct decision. The reason for thinking about her is that you miss the positive that she brought which was probably a certain amount of closeness. What you have to have faith in about yourself is that you can have the closeness with others if you just make efforts, but you probably are reluctant to reach out to others because of what happened with her and what may have happened with others as well. Just start reaching out to others and you will find that you are thinking about her less and less.
True. Thank you so much.
I had a dream I was pregnant with twins (I am not really pregnant). The twins were growing outside the womb. I was lying in bed, I think in a hospital, but had to go to a party. Can’t remember what party, but I think it was a wedding. The twins were taken out of my body and put in my partner’s body for me to be able to go to the party. When I was at the party, I felt anxious and sure I had killed the twins by allowing them to be transferred to my partner. I woke up feeling guilty and sad. (Background: My partner and I have two kids. We have been having problems for a few years, as he is emotionally unavailable and depending on me financially. I realized the stress of the relationship is getting in the way of my work, and feel guilty about this as people depend on me for their jobs. I had told my partner the night before the dream that I feel overwhelmed because I have to take care of myself, the kids, my job.. and I can’t take care of him on top of that. Maybe that’s what the dream was about? Or would there be any additional message in there?).
Dear Eline,
It is really interesting in the dream that the twins were growing outside of the womb and then you put them into your partner’s body so you could go to a party. The twins represent what you are trying to get by going to a party, a lot of joy. That they are twins means that you need twice the amount of joy in your life that you are getting now. You are giving him all of your potential joy by working yourself to the bone and taking care of everyone. To make your life work you need to develop your own joy inside and experience it much more. It looks like you need to get rid of him also. I am not sure what he adds to the relationship besides extra weight.
Wow, that sounds pretty accurate. And yes, I am working on getting back the joy (instead of focusing on improving a relationship single-handedly, or healing a person who doesn’t accept help). I feel that maybe me being more conscious of this, made me remember the dream.. It does help as a reinforcement. Thank you for replying!
My ex girlfriend is the main subject. It has been a while since I dreamed so vividly about her, I know I dream of her often but not like this. It’s been almost six years. It was me my father her and her boyfriend which I don’t recognize in my fathers old white dodge truck. Near and ocean somewhere I remember seeing a whirlpool with tiger Lily’s slowly circling the edge of the pool a completely non threatening whirl I remember thinking. Then we stopped and got in the water and extremely shallow and huge sandbar like coast but a huge drop off at the edge. Lots of people around in the shallows but no one in the deep, the water was all fairly clear even in the deep. I walked out the drop off and got ready to dive because I love the deep water, before I dove someone said watch for sharks but not really yelling just casually after I dove it seemed to be a very very long time before I finally hit the water I used the momentum to go down fairly deep and opened my eyes when I came to slow swim so many beautiful fish and plants, thousands just feet away from all he other people in the shallow. I keep looking and remembered the sharks I looked down and saw two non threatening mako sharks just swimming around with all the wildlife I used the last of my breath to look around some more and swam back to the shallow. As I was walking out I mentioned the sharks in the same casual manner started there was couple of makos down there but no one really listened. Right before I got back to the actually shore she meet me there and said something I can’t remember and smiled, her boyfriend walked up we all smiled and got in the truck and left, then I woke up and went back to sleep because I didn’t understand. This time we were at someone’s apartment I’m not sure who’s but it was definitely an apartment. More people were there but I don’t recall them just me her and him, everything seemed to be going fine I remember everyone smiling and laughing and talking. But something happened and he got angry he ran at the door and pushed her violently away to get the door and slammed the door, both of which upset me, I looked at her and just remember seeing he fear but also acceptance, completely numb. I rushed to the door and remember trying to break the door I swung it open so hard. And there he stood as if waiting for her, I didn’t say or do anything despite how bad I wanted to do both. Neither did he. I just remember looking at him and him me. I also have absolutely no clue who this man his or if she even has a boyfriend it’s been so long since we’ve spoke. The next thing i remember is later on everyone was back in the apartment and there was such a strong connection between us me and here stronger than I ever felt before. Her eyes her body language seemed like spirit itself and mine alike were completely at peace being with one another. Next I remember him and her walking up from behind and saying they were leaving, I was a little shocked and looked and saw not really anger but disgust and disappointment, but at her I saw false happiness I remember thinking of it as obligitional regret for some reason, but she was completely admittent so I sadly told them good bye and woke up
Dear Jonathon,
The positive thing about the dream is that you are able to dive deep, be in wonder, and not allow the sharks to interfere with your experience. The sharks represent the potentially aggressive aspect in others. In real life you can do diving and experience the peace and wonder, but you cannot ignore the aggression that easily. If you could have in the past, you would probably still be with her. You have the potential to be in a really meaningful and deep relationship if you practice what you can do underwater in the dream. If you can go back to the feeling, you can see how tranquil and at peace you are which is a really attractive quality for a relationship. If you practice it, there is no doubt that the right person will show up.
I had a dream about a girlfriend I just recently split up with. I the dream we were together in an unknown location then I heard a voice like a phone call of her asking if she can talk too me.
Dear Marion,
In a great many relationships the reason that your being gets into the relationship is so that you can learn something that the other person has. In the process of relating, however, where there is conflict, the relationship ends before you get a chance to learn what you need. She is calling to make the connection so that you can learn what you needed in the relationship. She has a positive quality that you need in your life to make your life work better. You can ask yourself what was positive about her that you need to develop in yourself. Often the negatives at the end of the relationship make it difficult to see the positive.
Hi
I had a dream that i was pregnant with my boyfriend (i’m not really pregnant at the moment). Then at night i have given birth even without my knowledge. I did feel somewhat like i gave birth but i didnt bother to wake up. Then at morning i woke up and saw that the child was dead. We rushed to the hospital and in the hospital i had a flashback of how he died. He had been suffocated by the umbilical cord. I felt an imense pain about the loss of my baby and cried everytime i talked about it to someone. I woke up suddenly due to the pain and realized that i have actually cried.
What does this dream mean?
Thank you.
Hi Whyworryweb,
Being pregnant and giving birth means that you have a potential that grows and then starts to appear in the world in application. It is as if you have a new ability and grows inside until it is ready to be applied in the world. Your ability dies before it has a chance to be applied because you have a way of strangulated your new abilities before they actually get a chance to be developed. To develop abilities you are going to have to give them air, breathing space, and let them grow gradually. You might have a belief that things have to be perfect from the start, but I don’t have enough info to make that kind of judgment. There is a reason that your new abilities don’t have a chance to develop.
I had this dream two years ago a few months after my father died. I was lieying on the sofa in our living room when he walked in briskly and asked me to follow him. I was punching my phone as usual he screamed very loud that he has asked me to follow him, I should do as he has said, put the phone aside and follow him quickly which i did. We went to my shop he pulled a ladder and entered the ceiling of my shop, came back down with a cartton in his hands with lots of documents inside. He said they are my grand mothers documents bank book with money in her account. I shouldnt take out the money now but should wait for a couple of years. He asked me to go and keep the box in a safe place very fast, I took the box from him, as I was rushing to go home and keep the box as instructed he remained infront of my shop cleaning my shops frontage. Well i got up from the dream sweating, I checked the ceilling of my shop, saw nothing in it but some old rubbish which the old tenant had left in there. I trashed the things. Have ever since been longing for the meaning of this dream.
Dear Irvin,
First of all you have a tendency to be engrossed in what is on your phone which sometimes makes it difficult to do the important things. The bank book of your grandmother represents her value to you. Your father is communicating to you that she has a lot of value to you, not in financial terms, but in her positive qualities. Her positive qualities are going to really help you with your business and your personal life the way they helped your father. If you can attend to them and start incorporating them into your life, you will see that they produce a lot of positive things for you. I have a sense that the thing she has for you is the ability to think and invest long term.
Several dreams Last night I think 3 and all had to do with something after me. It was confined in a house and the closer I got To the house the more evil I could feel. There were people with me like my son but he was little like 6-7 and my Mom who is passed for 12 years. It would change them so they would not know they were being held captive and that they were not in their right mind. I was in the house and went into her room to tell my mom we had to get out. She looked at the doorway and said well then why did you do that? And the doorway had two dressers ( recognized the two pieces of furniture as two pieces that were in my room growing up) in it like I had move them there to block us from getting out. I told her I just walked in I didn’t do that the house did. I think I said we have to get Cooper (my son) and get out. We got out of the house they want to go back for things and I said no.
At one point I guess a long time later after the house is been empty somebody I think it was mom wanted to move back in. Because she thought the house is OK now. I didn’t want to move back in because I said the house was fooling us as it was not OK. I Put some of my clothes in one of the closets I quickly realize that nothing had changed and I ran out. I wake up.
Hi again,
In dreams where there is a house it is a symbol of the self. There seems to have been really negative energy in your family’s self growing up that makes you feel confined or held captive. It is probably a lot like the other dream in that there was too much fear and not enough positive energy. You know enough to get out of the fear-like energy, but the others do not. From outside of the house you can begin to think about constructing a new house, a new self, that is full of positive qualities and positive energy with a lot of enthusiasm toward the future. The fear is confining.
Wow you are amazing. Thank you very much.
Dream something I can’t see is after me. I am on a boat in the ocean and every time I try to make this boat speed and go toward shore it creates waves the boat can’t get away from . I feel like it’s the devil.
There are a couple people on the boat with me. I find April and try to explain to her what is happening and who is after me. She tries to help and I manage to get off my boat and on to hers but this invisible entity knows and tries to keep her boat in the ocean. We jump
Over board and try to swim out and I am afraid April will drown but I keep pushing her out. We make it out of the water and end up in like a very busy airport we think I am safe but he knows I am there and I can feel it. April is running and telling me “come this way” we get separated but I still see her it is very crowded and it is still after me.
I wake up.
Hi Khiggins.
When you are on a boat on the ocean trying to get somewhere, it means that you are on a spiritual journey because the ocean is a symbol of the great vastness of the spiritual dimension. That you are being chased by a negative spirit which you cannot get away from shows that in your mind, negative energy has a far greater influence than attraction to the positive spiritual energy. Negative energy, which you label as the devil in the dream, are far less powerless that really positive energy. As soon as you begin to see and experience really positive energy all around you, then you will lose the fear and be able to achieve almost anything you set your mind on.
Absolutely amazing.
i had a dream that me, my crush, my best friend, some girl i don’t like, and some random people who go to my school were trying to be killed by someone with a mask and they would show everyone right before they killed them in our brains and i was about to be killed after the girl i didn’t like before i woke up
Dear Reese,
Killing in a dream is about ending a relationship. What this dream says is that relationships are killed when you or anyone else wears a mask rather than being truly who they are. You cannot try to be a fake in a relationship by trying to put on a face that you think someone else will like. The way to keep a relationship going for a long time is to be your own positive self and see the positive things about others. Faking it is like trying to appear in a certain way.
i had a dream of this boy who i like and theres rumors giong around saying he does, and his friends say he does. the dream was in the class room and he went to kiss me and gagged, i couldnt remeber the rest of the dream, but then i ran out into a hallway and saw him again and this time he kissed me and didint gag. i asked him why he gaged when he did it in the classroom with all the people watching, and he said “it was just too weird diong that in front of all those people”
and in reality, ever since i startted to stop liking him, hes been more nice and looking at me more. i feel like he hides the fact he likes me and i cant talk to him.
Hi Izzy,
The dream is pretty self explanatory. The boy is uncomfortable, not about being with you and relating to you, but about what others might say and think. He doesn’t want people to say anything about him that might embarrass him. It is a common thing with boys because they are not trained very well in dealing with loving emotions.
I’ve had this dream a few times, I was with my mom and dog sometime in the morning and we had stopped at a corner store and only I had gone in I saw a boy in there too and as he was walking out and I was walking to the counter the chashier had turned into a flying demon ghost type thing and began chasing me so I ran into my moms car and told her to drive as fast as she could because I was being chased and we were driving away and next thing I know I’m walking down the street with my dog and I see the same boy and he starts freaking out and saw the demon again the first time I had this dream my mom drove up and was yelling for me to leave the boy there and get in the car but this last time my dad (who passed away a few years back) popped up and was telling me to rush and get into the car but both times after that point I wake up
Dear Storm,
The same pattern actually repeats twice in the dream where you end up in fear trying to drive away from a demon. Being with your dog means that you are being with your own friendly self trying to connect to others in the world. The problem is that you see a ghost which is demon like. This is what happens in the imagination of your family when you try to be friendly and out there with others. There is a fear that something bad is going to happen that people are going to be demon like so then you protect yourself from being super friendly. The solution is to understand that the fear is an illusion. It is not real, but made up and passed on from one generation to another. Time to be really friendly.
I was walking in a shopping mall with my parents. I suddenly noticed that the shopping mall was dark and I was separated from my parents. I thought that maybe the lights were off the shopping mall as it was approaching the closing hours. I kept walking straight and saw a toddler walking beside me as if mimicking my movements. The place was too dark so I can’t identify if the toddler was a girl or a boy. When I tried to walk faster the toddler ran playfully beside me. After walking some distance with the toddler, I noticed that I was walking towards the wrong direction. I knew that I was walking towards the exit of the shopping mall but it was not the exit I was looking for. I decided to find my parents and walk towards the direction of where I came from. There was a path leading upwards and outside of the shopping center. I walk towards it and found myself on the rooftop veranda of the shopping center. There were many people there and they were enjoying the fireworks display. I took out my phone and began to take pictures of the fireworks. The fireworks were magnificent and it was in all directions of the building. There was also a white bird displayed with the fireworks (somehow it was animated as I can see it flapping its wings). The fireworks display ended and I found my parents in the middle of the crowd. The dream ended there.
Hi Kelly,
What this dream says is that if you let the little toddler energy out, the really playful and excited self, then you are going to end up in a lot of amazement and free feelings. You probably have a tendency to stifle the toddler energy in you so just let it out.