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I was in my childhood home but as my adult age now my mum (who’s passed away in real life) was there and she said to me “I don’t have to worry about you anymore (or what you can do for me anymore) I’m going to have a child of my own and I’m going to call him Jaspers (that’s the name of a fictional cat that died and came back to life), I’m finally normal like everyone else I’m going to have a round stomach”, I was hurt and shocked but not surprised I thought to myself – well at least she’s happy, I remember lying on the settee, looking out into the garden, we were in the kitchen and then the spare room when she told me this, back in the kitchen there was pizza left in the oven for me, there was so much of it, I worried about my skin but didn’t want to waste it, well I can have clean eating after this, I told myself.
Dear Khi,
This dream indicates that your mom could not think for herself or be independent when she was alive, but she is developing it now. It also shows that because she didn’t have that ability you had a lot of worry that kept you back from really enjoying yourself. When you let go of the worry, then you can begin to learn how to have a lot of joy.
Okay so I had a dream about my pet scorpions and I tramped that I had some ants in their caves and so I scooped them up the ants and put them in the microwave and started it and it turned out that my pet scorpions were in there and I didn’t want them in there and I felt so bad after I did it can I seen them split in half when they were in there in the microwave and I stopped it real quick and that was when I woke up I would love to know what this means
Dear Mark,
The ants represent the quality inside of you of industriousness or working really hard. You are trying to kill that quality in you and when you try to kill it, then the thing you love, the scorpion, is also killed. You need to see the value of the quality that ants are for you in your life. Ants represent the ability to work really hard to achieve a goal. They have huge strength for their size. When you value the ants, the scorpion will be kept alive.
My boyfriend has been having weird scary dreams lately so I’m curious to know what it means.. he dreamed that he went to jail , another one was he got shot multiple times
Dear Tatiana,
When a person gets shot in a dream, it means he feels shot down or put down. This puts him in the prison of his own self. He cannot be free to act in ways that are consistent with who he truly is. If you want to help him, you can begin to see who he truly is inside and continually tell him. Then his true self will be released from the jail he is in.
My dream had my Grandmother and my Uncle in it. My Uncle is still alive but I don’t really see him much. My Grandmother passed away in 2009. I was raised by my Grandparents and my Uncle lived with us also helping to raise me. All I can remember is I never saw my Grandmother’s face. We were together in her house just laughing and so happy but no talking. When I looked around the house I saw many reminders about my Grandfather who passed away in 1997 but never saw him just material memories. The mood was as if he was still dead. I even almost went into a room my grandmother made in his memory after he died but I never opened the door. When I went to open it I was all of a sudden back with my Grandmother in the kitchen or living room. The whole time we were just so happy but I don’t know why as I didn’t see her face and we never spoke. Then we started going up the stairs to the second floor again just laughing and so beyond happy. As she went up I followed behind her but stopped to look over the banister and saw my uncle. He just stood and smiled at me. I turned and continued up the stairs behind my grandmother and never reached the top before I woke up. My biggest memories are my Uncle’s smile and how happy my grandmother and I were.
Dear Raymond,
The reason that you have this dream is so that you will remember your grandmother and uncle’s energy in your life right now. When you remember them, and integrate their positive qualities in your life, it will give you a great deal of joy which will help you in almost every way in your life. Call them to mind and imagine their energy is in you and then you will be happy.
I dreamed that my mom was laying face front in water, like a river…like she was injured or pushed in there….but she was just floating face flat in the water…and i just had a feeling that she would be okay….what does this dream mean?
Dear Dee,
Your mom, in this case, represents your own inner parental figure. Your parental self does not function very well in water which means that it doesn’t function very well in relationships. Water stands for relationships in dreams. While quieting your parental self is normally a good thing in relationships so that you don’t have an abundance of shoulds, you need a strong parental self as well so that you have boundaries and no when to say no.
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I had a dream that I went back in time in a period when i was younger but i went back as my present self. The part I didnt get was if the people that I knew in it saw my as myself today or I’d they viewed as if I were the age of my younger self
Dear Mark,
The reason you have this kind of dream is that you actually need to go back in time to see how your current self would’ve operated if you would be who you are now. You would be very different and probably a lot more competent which should give you a lot of motivation to keep growing and changing as quickly as you can.
I dreamed that a friend of mine from work betrayed me. I can’t fully remember the dream but it was something she said to me…indicating that we were not friends and i felt hurt and deceived. What does this dream mean?
Dear Dee,
The dream is pretty straightforward. You have a fear of betrayal that is pretty strong because your friend betrayed you in the dream. You have the dream because you have been hurt by betrayal in the past, and you have to move past it as in letting it go if you want to have really close and intimate relationships now.
So I had this strange dream in which my parents faked my death suddenyl and kept me in a basement room or something, it was so empty and kind of dark like there was only a candle light, and very quiet as well. I had my laptop and mobile phone though, but mostly my communication was restricted even though I never understood why and it made me feel both scared and lonely. I could contact my boyfriend through texting, he was abroad in Japan, I don’t really remember how he discovered that I was dead and he was devastated, but when he learned it was fake he was relieved. I didn’t text him much, like I’d stay days without talking to him and he didn’t as well because he was worried he might cause me problems or something, and that feeling was killing me and made me really scared as if I was accepting the fact that THAT was going to be my life from now on and that I’m dead to the world and that I’ll have to let go of him. Suddentl in the middle of the dream i was having a different boyfriend ( the guy is actually my friend in real life, but we’re not really that close, we don’t even talk much and we’ve never met ) I tried to text him but my messages weren’t getting delivered as if I was blocked I was trying to tell him that there was something important I need to tell him (the whole fake death thing) however my mom was the one who received the messages as if she redirected my messages to her phone instead of him or something like that, and that got me worried that she might discover that I’m trying to contact people or get help, but she didn’t do anything, she actually disabled that thing with the phone and I could contact my friend and he was relieved that I was alive and learned the truth and that was all about him. Now back to my original boyfriend, I called him by mistake which was a stupid idea because I might have been caught , I tried to cancel the call quickly but he answered and then I forgot all about the danger and everything, I was actually happy I could hear his voice again. I could hear strong rain so I asked him if he was in the street and he said no he’s just by the window that’s why I could hear the rain, he then said he’ll fix this fake death problem when he returns because it’s not sane and I can’t be deprived from my life. I’m not sure about this next part because I was waking up, my boyfriend returned and I could sneak out to meet him but I don’t remember very well if he actually came back with me to that basement room or not but I guess he did. Now the weird thing is that my boyfriend didn’t actually look the same as in real life, he looked exactly like a character I used to draw a lot (a fictional character) but everything else was the same, same voice, same actions etc. After I woke up I had an uneasy feeling and I was so glad it was just a dream.
Dear Emma,
Your parents faking your death is a metaphor that shows that there is a part of you or a part of your life that they are dead to or that they don’t want to relate to. You are trying to let others like your boyfriend know that this part of you is alive, but they are always shutting it down in every way. The dream doesn’t necessarily communicate what the part of you is that they are dead to, but usually it is in the area of creativity or love as in a relationship. You are going to have to do your own work in this area and not county on them for any support because they are going to try to keep it dead.
Tonight I had another nightmare. It started with me feeling “sleep paralysis” and thinking about “I know where this is going!”. I started resisting by frantically moving my limbs up, down, left and right, waving fists and legs, yelling “YOU WON’T TAKE ME ALIVE, YOU LIGHBULB-HEADED FREAKS!” and then standing up on my feet. In front of me a stereotypical grey alien was standing by my TV. He tried to run, but I kicked him in the eye, knocking him unconscious. Then I dragged his body to my parents room as evidence, and an advice on what to do. I shaked my mom’s shoulders until she had woken up, while gripping the alien’s neck so it won’t attempt anything funny if it wakes up. As my mom has woken up, instead of the creature I was holding a baby doll akin to “Baby Born” dolls, meaning it probably, somehow, escaped, making me look crazy in front of my mother. Then I’ve woken up somewhere in between 1 and 2 AM.
Dear Arty,
The dream shows that you become paralyzed in your life and a bit frantic when you are faced with people or situations that are alien to you. This refers to things that are very new and different. Instead of being curious and excited as if they are new babies to you, you believe they are going to be harmful. This could be a combination of the culture you grew up in and/or experiences you have had in new situations. The goal is be excited about new experiences and meeting people from different cultures and having different ways because it is going to expand your abilities.
I saw a green hummingbird. It was easy for me to catch it despite the fact it’s a hummingbird. I caught it to let it go in a safer place. Of course it didn’t understand this and was scared at first, and I was worried about handling it properly so as not to hurt it. There were people around like family and such and they were mumbling their opinions and concerns but I just focused on what I wanted to do, though they were low-key causingme some anxiety. I was able to let it go safely and it flew away just fine.
Dear Myrrha,
The purpose of the dream is to remind you of your hummingbird qualities inside of you so that you use them in real life. The fact that you are sensitive to the needs of the birds means you are sensitive inside to what the hummingbird inside of you needs. Hummingbirds, unlike most birds, know how to hover to get the the sweet nectar. They can stay in one place and then quickly move to the next. In social situation it means that you can hover with people and find their sweetness and bring it out of them. A lot of people know how to make a social situation negative by gossiping and finding the negative, but your ability that needs to be cared for in you more is hummingbird like. It is bringing out the sweetness in people. Find the sweetness in people and acknowledge it.
So.. it was like a special event for me I think.. and we go into this like cafeteria area and everyone is in groups of three and we start doing a trivia game. There is one person calling out questions.. my team and I (which one person was someone I haven’t seen since high school) we are using a small white board with a blue marker to write the answers and holding it up. My team was getting almost every question right. one answer I remember writing down was 2014 and I got it right (after debating myself whether it was 2013 or 14) the person calling out questions said something about how my team was doing so well.. the next part was like a crossword puzzle, we had to get one word and we were trying to figure it out. I dont know if I ever did or not, the next part of the dream I remember is I’m driving through my apartment complex while on the phone, trying to find my friend who I’m on the phone with to bring him back to my apartment. (I dont know this person in real life, I made him up) and I see him driving straight toward me in a white car and told him it’s me in front of him, to follow me.. then I see a big flat screen TV on the side of the road and I told him I want it for my apartment, that after we park we need to go get it. Then I see someone I used to know walking in the road and he continued walking by as someone ELSE I used to know from church comes up to the passenger window of my car to say hi, and I told him it’s crazy to see him.. that I had a dream about him the other night. (I never did in real life) Then I go into my apartment where my brother and dad are using machines that copy credit card information? And I told them I think I saw two credit cards on the street outside I was going to go grab them so we could copy them! What does all of this mean??
Dear Heather,
The first part of the dream tells you that you have a both a strong memory for facts and you can figure out things like puzzles. These are two great qualities that you can apply in your life like you were doing in the rest of the dream. You were using your memory and figuring out puzzles. When you come to something that is problem like or a goal, you will be able to find your way there because of your abilities. The dream is just showing you what you have so that you will be confident in your abilities rather than nervous before going for something.
So I’m a spiritual person, and have lots of different types of experiences, but last night as soon as I close my eyes this dream started. Was in a house alone when several men busted in and started attacking me,there was an unlimited supply of glass objects around me so I used all I could to escape and managed to do so to hide in the woods, successfully managed to hide and they all passed me unfound. When I came out of hiding there was a black wolf about 20 feet away from me staring and growling at me, my first instinct what’s to run so I did as this wolf chased me I decided to stop and face it, has a slip by me and turned around to attack it lunged at me and I woke up so I’m a little curious I’m with that dream means
Dear Tj Abdo,
The dreaming is about people invading your space, yourself, which is represented by the house. When you are threatened by aggressive people, who are wolf life, then you run and hide, only to find them again in a different form out in the world. To be able to maintain your spiritual space, you are going to need the qualities of a wolf, the qualities in a wolf that are positive. The two really strong qualities that they have is that they go aggressively after their prey (which means going aggressively for your goals) and having huge endurance. Wolves usually tire out their prey before they go in for the kill. This means that if you want people to stop invading your space, you have to invade theirs in a positive way and not be fearful of them. It makes sense if you think about your goals as spiritual in nature such as creating unity or getting a project moving forward. You are the positive invader rather than the recipient of invasion.
Hello Richard, it would make my day if you could interpret this dream for me? Someone kept coming back from vacation and i had bought too much bread (brown sliced from the supermarket), some of it was old/stale so i needed to check the dates on the stickers but while this person kept coming back i knew they expected me to eat it all as it would be a waste to chuck it, so i hid some of the bread under the bed when they returned so i had time to work out the dates and keep switching them around until i had only bread with new dates in the fridge.
I think i am on vacation the someone may be my sister, i keep calling where we are one thing she gets annoyed and corrects me its cavase she says, she tells me were in the restaurant bit even though we seem to be on some sort of round patio?
I did ask for a very simple dream on what idea needs to go/change or what habit is behind all the other terrible ones. I got this dream. I think some of the dates on the bread were April and November.
Sorry if this is a double post the original comment is not posting for some reason.
Dear Khi,
You are supposed to be on vacation and your sister keeps giving you bread and expects you to eat it all even though it is way too much for you. The problem in the dream is that your sister feels like she can just tell you whatever she wants and you are expected to obey her. She is pretended to be generous, but really she is just interested in using her power and control over you.
The solution of the dream is to just tell her to stop and then say no to her unreasonable demands. The dream is about standing up for yourself. You cannot get to a vacation-like feeling inside of you that is full of joy until you can stand up for yourself.
Though it took 1 & 1/2 decades (4 months from this interpretation) this is done now, thank you for interpreting.
I had a dream of a character stepping out after landing a submarine. At first he looks cool, then when he walks he falls flat on his face, vomit seeps out from where he lay, another character comes in, crouches down and amusedly asks if he needs help, the floored guy groans in the negative. I’m 100% sure this is my unconscious mind telling me how much I sucked at and probably botched attempting to do the above, or that said attempt is going to bite me in backside somehow.
You are not in the dream. You are looking at it so yes, it is horrifying for you to think that this might happen to you. Because of that, you would tend to get reluctant with doing cool things.
I dreampt that I was at my old junior high and I was dead.my desk.was in the.middle of the hallway.with an orange big.manilla envelope standing up on desk.it said ginas sick on the front of it.in my half sisters handwriting
Dear Regina,
What this dream means is that something in you died in junior high like a part of yourself that made you feel down and dead. Now that you are no longer in junior high, the energy that died wants to come alive again in a new way. To awaken that energy you can let go of whatever the conditions were that caused the death to that part of you and feel the positive energy instead. When you awaken the energy in you, your life will come alive in new and unexpected ways.
I had a dream last night around 2:07am may 24, 2019 friday. I was lying in a dark room together with my husband when suddenly a strong wind just like a tornado roaming around and i felt scared . I hold my husband’s hand because i was very scared. Until it dissappeared. And woke up 2:07am.
Dear Cynthia,
Air is the environment where you get positive qualities like enthusiasm and feeling uplifted and free. When you experience a tornado, it means that, while you are supposed to enthusiastic and free about going for new things, you have in the past had a negative wind that has blown your plans to destruction. What you can believe now is that a new wind is blowing in you that is freeing you to do great new things. When you let go of the fear, you will have some amazing new things happening. Tornadoes are always short-lived. They come with a lot of destruction, but blow out quickly. They never last. You want to be a positive wind that goes forever.
I just jumped up from a dream that i was asleep in my bed with my daughter’s, very realistic, like the dream was happening in real time, and my youngest baby girl woke me up reaching for a black widow on my headboard. I scream and pulled her away from it, it crawled on the wall and started glowing. I jumped up trying to find something to kill it, but when i tried to turn on my light, the light wouldn’t come on. I was panicking cause my baby kept reaching for it. When i went to grab my phone to use the flashlight on it, i looked again and there were 2 crawling on my bed towards my girls. I could feel my heart beating thru my chest. Right when i was about to shine light on them to kill them it woke me out my sleep. I have a huge phobia of spiders but these were huge black widows specifically.
Dear Cdw,
Black widows represent negative energy that exist usually in women’s culture, where women spin negative webs out of jealousy to try to bring others down so that they can get what they want. You have more than one which means that the negative energy around you of spinning negative webs is strong and threatening. The first thing you have to do is to identify who the spiders are in real life so that you know to steer clear from their negative webs. Then you have to begin spinning a positive web that is full of positive energy and connects to people’s positive qualities. The first step to creating a positive web is to focus primarily on the positive qualities in others and acknowledge. Imagine that you are a positive spider spinning a positive web for your babies. They need a positive mother who weaves a strong positive web so that they can grow up feeling encouraged and supported.
I am a female 19 years old about to turn 20. I have been having weird dreams that are all linked with this same image. I don’t often watch scary movies or things anymore as I do not get scared easily and find them more amusing. However, I am asking for any meaning cause I have looked for a general definition but it does not match up. The first dream was 2 months ago started off weird but normal weird when suddenly I was in a theater with my family. I walked to get food when the room turned red and all around me I could hear screaming then saw red eyes everywhere I turned and ran to get my family. Though I had just seen it I told them to look away from it though it caught up and I was surrounded in darkness by these red eyes and woke up thought a mere nightmare. Till the next month, I was in a forest and all of it was peaceful the land was beautiful like a painting. Then everything started to get tinted with red falling and the eye just in front formed from a rose, that leaked red and made everything turn grey and dark like the life was sucked out of it, but I started to glow a light blue with crystals then nothing I woke up to sound of glass shattering in my head and had to check everywhere but found no glass broken. Once again I thought it was weird but another nightmare started to look around. Till last night, I have no memory of how I ended up in front of a mirror but I felt a sting on my head so went to check. I saw these horns that were broken surrounded by red skin that was only growing till it removed everything and when I looked back I looked not like a demon but my blue eyes were now that same red. I did not wake up right away and was able to touch the mirror when it shattered and I fell and woke up. I am wondering can you help me figure out what this red eye means I have not found some to match with the feeling and constant link that keeps appearing in my mind. Sorry for the long winded story.
Dear Derek,
In these dreams what is happening is that you are in places where positives things should be happening like at the movie theater or in nature or looking in the mirror at yourself. What happens instead is you have a lot of negative energy around you represented in the red eyes and negative energy. This means that the two energies are existing side by side in you. It is not that you are totally overcome by the negative, red energy in real life, but that you cannot fully feel the positive in your life because the negative is around you and in you. The process of getting to the positive like really having a lot of joy is to identify when negative thoughts and feelings come in and then work to let them go. That they are red means that you probably have anger, but it is hard to say for sure. Anger always means that you have to let go of something like when someone hurt you or when you hurt yourself.
It was a simple dream, but startled me a bit. It went like this: I was brushing my teeth in my bathroom, scrubbing my teeth like I normally do. I looked down into the sink to spit out, but instead I spit out blood. It wasn’t purely blood; mostly water with little red streams. I looked at myself in the mirror to see where the blood was coming from, and found out it was coming from in between my two front teeth. I kept trying to rinse it out, but the blood kept gushing to the point where there was just an absurd amount of blood coming out of my gums. I panicked and looked into the mirror. The odd thing was, the blood wasn’t flooding out of my mouth, it was going into my throat instead. I wanted to call my parents for help but I couldn’t talk, and could barely breathe. I turned to the left where the door to the hallway was but then I woke up.
Dear Kianna,
The two front teeth, in a dream, represent the way you bite into things, like biting into new ideas or a new project. Your front teeth have blood, which means that you have somehow been hurt when you try to bite into new ideas. The blood going down your throat means that when you are hurt, the life goes out of you. To solve the dream you have let go of the hurt as in forgiving whoever hurt you, and get stronger so that they don’t affect you anymore. Then you will be able to bite fully into things because they won’t bother you.
My boyfriend works away from home but he will be back home next month. Lastnight he dreamed that he was having sex with a female colleague that he works with….he said he cant remember anything else but that….what does this dream mean?
It means that he needs to learn something positive from her. She has a quality he needs to make his life work. He obviously cannot get it by having sex with her, but he can get it by interacting with her and learning from her. When he does learn how to do what she can do, then your relationship with him will get even better. He obviously is not supposed to have real sex with her.
So what I remember of my dream is, I was sitting in a kitchen and noticed this sucker fish was attached to my thigh and I immediately thought I need to get it to the water. So I rush outside and across the road and just over the road is a good drop to the water. Very muddy water. I pull the fish off my thigh and throw in the water. The gravel was very slushy so I struggled to get back up to the road. And when my hands reached the edge of the road it started turning to slush and then It was solid again and with my arms resting on the edge ready to pull myself up a car almost hits me. But I still pull myself up and run across the road and into the green yard and I run into a few naked trees like you might see in the jungle. I remember starting to climb one but somehow knew there were snakes so i thought best not to. And when I stepped down there was a snake skin in front of me. And i looked to the left and there was a python very large wrapped around the tree. I couldn’t see its face just a part of its body. I reached down to feel it and once i felt it i ran off and immediately found myself surrounded by pythons I was bitten by 3. The first bit my leg as I ran by the other two struck my wrist and held on. I remember thinking if I can pull them off I can get to the hospital and I’ll be alright. I started to pull one off me and had it gripped underneath the jaw and noticed there was one right beside my face hissing ready to strike. And then I woke up.
Dear Kiri,
I am not sure by the way you wrote the sentence what was slushy. Was it the fish or your hands?
The road was slushy.
Dear Kiri,
The sucker fish is a symbol of what you need to learn on the road ahead. The road is slushy and then firm. The slushy part is the difficult part of your life road where you are going to have to learn how to deal with pythons. Pythons are people who will strangle the life of you for their own selfish gain. You need this lesson probably because you are somewhat naive in the ways of the world. We all have to face them. They are not fun, but once you learn how to deal with them, the road will be firm and you will be able to do almost anything you choose. Lots of opportunities will open for you if you can deal with pythons. You need super strong boundaries with them and even refuse to be around them at times because they strangle and suck the life out of what you are doing.