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I had a wet dream about my cousin some time ago. I’m not going to get into too much detail, but, to summarize what it was: It started with me laying on my couch watching TV, while she was doing something behind my computer. Then she asked me something, I don’t remember what, but after that she gave me a soft smile as I walked up to her and then she pulled me in for a kiss. After that starts the sex part, but I woke up before it got too far. Needless to say, that dream left me…shocked. I feel weird just remembering it, and it’s hard to find words to describe how I feel about it. Could it have something to do with her being too self-conscious of her looks (she’s a gorgeous woman, and I really don’t like it when she calls herself fat and ugly or compares herself to Shrek), her being one of my first crushes (she’s 4 years older than me) or is there something else to it?
Dear Arty,
Despite her good lucks, there is something else that you are really attracted to about her that is more internal. She has a quality about her that you admire and would like to have yourself. The really bad tendency for most young men is to think that when you are in relationship with a young woman that they are going to give you that quality all the time by having physical relations with you, i.e. sex, but it doesn’t work. What you really have to do is to develop the quality in yourself that you admire in her. Then you will have all kinds of relationships and all kinds of possibilities. If you do inner work to keep developing yourself rather than looking outside of yourself for development, then things go really well for you and your relationships are amazing.
I had a dream (I was male in this dream) there was a group of people I was hanging around with who I was being bullied by, I remember eating the corpses of little girls, sometimes they would hang the corpses up in places, I really wanted to get out and get help, I remember vomiting a lot, and wondering if I was being used to get rid of murdered bodies, eventually I was in a city at night eating apple ice-cream with a little bit of rose ice cream, a girl sat beside me also eating the ice cream and we ended up sitting in a alley stairwell with trashbags at the bottom, we talked about a lot of things including I’m sure what I was doing, I don’t remember much of it, I recall telling her (in her own life anyway) that I don’t understand why she’s not being honest about wanting to have an open 3 way relationship, it ended kind of awkwardly and we parted ways.
I just remembered being a graveyard and watching one little girl die slowly than consuming the corpse, this dream was pretty gross to be honest, I don’t watch horror or anything like that so not sure where all that imagery came from.
Dear Khi,
What you are trying to figure out in your life is how to have a really positive and sweet relationship with others, but don’t know how to deal with some of the negative things that go on in the world like bullying. When you allow yourself to be bullied, you end up not only destroying your own life, but also the lives of other younger girls. Dealing with bullies is about being assertive, but not angry, and using wisdom rather than being reckless in interactions with them. Then you can a lot of relationships with a lot of people because your boundaries will be super strong.
That’s interesting can you tell from the dream how I might be destroying the lives of other younger girls?
When you allow bullying to happen to yourself or others, people get hurt. Assertiveness stops the bullying.
Okay I see now.
I havent been able to remember what took place in my dreams for about 10 years.. I can only remember the emotions i felt during the dreams. However 3 nights ago i had a nightmare that shook me to my core..
I had a very vivid nightmare about a man trying to get into my apartment to “take care of” one of the boys.
I passed out and didnt realize that i hadnt actually woke up bc in the dream i woke up in the same position, same surrounding, gavs snores, mavs breathing.. But i realized i hadnt double checked my door lock..i went to do it and i seen a shadow under the door and glanced under and seen the tip of a shoe..i said “whos there” he said “im here… to take care of your son”
I looked and noticed my unlocked deadbolt, Locked it as the handle jerked to open… Then i woke up..but i couldnt shake this feeling of dread.. Even though i knew that it was a nightmare..it felt like a warning and i wasnt wanting to go back to sleep. I sat up looked around attempting to ground myself then wanted to go check my door locks.
I quickly got the up ran to my door to see my slide wasnt locked but i heard what sounded like clicking and tapping… I listened and my lock unlocked and my door pushed open i ran into the door as hard as I could and started screaming and pushed as hard as i could but this person was strong.. All i could picture was both of my babys sound asleep..then he pushed through me and i woke up again…screaming..like actually loud screaming for help and sweating and legitimately scared to death..gavs snores and mavs breathing still the samed ..i felt something dark..i couldnt tell if it was internal fear or an external presence.
I really want to sleep tonight. If anyone can help me figure this out.. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Dear Mariana,
“Taking care of your son” I am assuming means to you that he is going to kill your son. That is what is terrifying because he obviously means it in the dream. The question I have for you is why you would be having the dream. It is obvious in real life that you would be protective as a mother, but there is a reason specifically that you are having the fear. It relates to your own history as a child where you “got taken care of”. This means that someone, probably a male figure, killed a part of yourself, so now you have the same fear for your own babies. When you deal with your own trauma, it will help you out as a mother. The first step is to believe in their potential and to everything in your power to encourage them.
hello i been having very vivid dreams lately last night i had a very bizzare dream i do not remember the whole dream but i was pregnant apparently with a boy i m not sure tho in my dream i was surrounded by people and i was trying to push out the baby because somebody told me the pain meant u r ready to give birth however there was nothing except alot of blood that came out i remember seeing alot of blood (like peeing blood) anyhow they reassured me that perhaps u need to wait till tomorrow maybe thats when the baby might be meant to be born after that i remember in my dream waking up still visibly pregnant the next day and not feeling too much pain but hoping that i can give birth to the child i wonder if u could make any sense of it i m not pregnant in real life either and dream about pregnancy often leave me with an unexplained feeling
Dear Mona,
Sorry I am so late in answering you. I had a virus last week.
Being pregnant in a dream means that there is new potential growing inside of you. It is as if the new part of you is being ready to be born. It is more in the development stage rather in than the actualization. In the dream you think you are ready for the birth of the new part, but when you push nothing happens but loss of blood. This shows that when you try to go too early for the actualization of potential into the real world, then you lose some of your energy like your enthusiasm. It is going to come. You are going to have a new part of you realized, but only when it is ready. You have to have patience along with the anticipation. It is a hard combination.
I’ve been having dreams recently of marriage. Specifically I’ve been being forced to marry someone. In each dream it’s someone different, and they’re all strangers (except for one dream when it was someone I liked as a child). In some of the dreams, I hate being married, I’m even a bit terrified and am willing to hurt others to get out of it. Sometimes I get physically ill before the wedding. In some of my other dreams, I have been indifferent to my husband, and only got along with him because I wanted to have children (but the dreams would end before I got pregnant). In this last dream I’ve had, I began to love my husband after a few months of marriage and later discovered I was pregnant. We were both really happy and when I woke up my arm was in a position that it was in the dream, I was holding onto his arm.
I’ve had repeating dreams before, but they’ve always been the exact same dream. I’ve never had a repeating theme on my dreams before, so I’m curious as to what it means.
Dear Arias,
In this dream you are trying to deal with the issue of having choice in your marriage or even choosing your marriage partner. You do not seem to have a problem with your partner if you are the one doing the choice. You have to believe and be strong in the energy that you have the choice on the person you want to be together with. This is also true of your friendships. Don’t get overly involved until you really choose the person.
I have had this exact dream reoccur for the past week every night. it never changes by a single detail. it starts out in world war 2 and i am a middle aged man, there is a young teenage boy with me and we are in a plane. we are at the edge of the door about to jump and then the enemy opens fire. the boy jumps in front of me and is shit multiple times and falls to his death, the dream is very gory at this point so i won’t go into that but i wake up at this point feeling very guilty and upset. This dream is odd because I am a 17 year old female.
Dear Hannah,
This dream is best understood as a metaphor. It is as if you are a soldier in war or in the middle of war ready to jump into battle and then you see the gore of it. This means a part of you thinks it is going to have to go into the middle of conflict in the world. This, no doubt, is happening because the culture is so extremely at war with itself. People have taken sides and are fighting. You think you are going to have to join the fight, but the dream says it will end up in gore. What you need to take up is the cause of unity. You can do this by helping people to see the positives in each other and work together for common welfare. You do not have to get into the middle of war.
I had a dream about me n my husband having sex and I looked up it was my dead father
Are you saying that your husband turned into your dead father? And I guess it was not with you. Right?
More like his face turned into my dad.. I have other dreams where I would be walking past a room and I know my husband is in the room I walk past n see him once I walk back by the room I get a flash of my dad as if he is sitting in the room
This indicates that the way your husband acts reminds you of the way your father acted. You see your father in your husband.
Hi I had a dream my father walks into my room asking me to leave because he has to Anal cleans my wife of 11 years and 2 kids when I asked I’ll do it my father says he has to do it because I won’t be able to do it and my wife says nothing but lays on her stomach naked and I start to leave the room my father has anal beads with him and a dildo and starts to masterbates my wife by shoving his hand inside her and bring her to orgasm and she ejectulate he then starts to have sex with her and she know on all fours facing away from him and she allows him to have unprotected sex with her allowing him to cum inside her womb ( not had proper sex with her 4 a year after the the birth of a 2nd child and always have to cum in the bathroom
not in her) and they are all sweating and she starts to give my father oral sex and then swallows all his cum ( which she wont do for me in real life) and the ask my father to pop her anal cherry. They were to busy they did not realise I was still in the room the as they finish my wife hugs him close to her naked body then I leave the room confused and shocked .
Seems like since you treat your wife disrespectfully during sex in real life, God is showing you how wrong you are doing by showing you an exaggerated dreams version of what you are doing. If he were to show you what you were doing to her you would think it alright since you (like most men) are so used to mistreating your wife sexually. So he has to make it seem more dramatic. Turn to God and beg his forgiveness for your sins, and repent. And beg your wife for forgiveness too.
Dear Lavina,
Most people’s issues in the modern world have to do with true intimacy, which is spiritual in nature. They hope to get their needs met in a physical way like through sex and money, but it is empty. God wants us to have spiritual intimacy which is based on closeness and love. Your example of course, is Jesus. He lived a life of love for humanity which He commanded of us. While forgiveness is a part of the necessary dynamic, it means nothing if it is not replaced with kindness and love. God is ever-forgiving but relationships do not change until people actually start loving each other and working on their intimacy. Begging his wife for forgiveness will not change the relationship for more than a short period of time.
Dear Suki,
This dream is about your own sexual frustration with your wife which is natural when you have two young children. Your mind goes to the worst possible place when you are frustrated and has a hard time letting it go. It keeps you in the same pattern which doesn’t work in your relationship. The goal when you have sexual frustration is to change your orientation. The way you need to be oriented with her is true intimacy (non-physical) first. True intimacy is always the precursor to physical intimacy. When you can get close to your wife in a loving way, then the sexual frustration will disappear.
Hello, i keep having a dream of my husband leaving, ignoring me. Last night it happened 3x the most i had and this is the only kind of dream i have of him. I’m thinking maybe the hurt i felt or fear of it happening as he broke up with me 11 years ago when we were dating? Then I kept dreaming of a guy friend who i haven’t seen in 25 yrs.
Dear Gjones,
The fear of your husband leaving or ignoring you relates to the fact that you have a tendency to ignore your own needs. You would like him to attend to them, but he is not available for that. The guy friend was probably more attentive. What you really need to do is to learn how to attend to your own needs completely independently from others. It is a much different way of thinking about a relationship because most people want their partner to take care of them. When you start attending to your own needs, your relationships actually improve immensely.
Hello,
I had a dream last night that I have never had before and none of my dreams ever really rose concern like this one.
I dreamed that I was in some sort of thrift store shopping for shoes and my cousin who is a female corrections officer was trying to help me. I could not find what I needed so she gave me a phone number 710-945-9546 and told me to call it on a day but I don’t remember which day. As I was leaving the store it was dark outside and I walked to my car, my cousin mad a statement “see you later and something along the lines of they say its dangerous out there.”
As I went to get in my SUV, a guy ran up to me with a weapon trying to attack or kill me. I quickly closed the door and had a hard time trying to lock it with the buttons in the vehicle. I finally woke up and I quickly jotted down the phone number in my notes on my cell phone and I googled it. The number comes up no where no history of it, so I googled the area code 710 and I REALLY got a shock. That are code is only used by the government so the numbers are not listed. I called the number and it asks me to enter my pin. I quickly hung up. What does this mean?
To top it all off, last night I dreamed about a pin number and it seemed to work when I tried it this morning. I am freaking out.
This is very interesting please keep me updated
Dear Cora,
The structure of the dream is that when something bad happens in the dream world, you are trying to solve it in the waking world. The problem is meant to be solved in the spiritual or dream world, not necessarily in the waking. The phone number is metaphoric. The fear is that if something bad were to happened to you like being assaulted, there would be no protection for you. The thought of this seems to freak you out. What I surmise about you is that you are not a person who is careless. You have an aspect of yourself that is like your cousin. What is more important is to think in the opposite way. The opposite means that when you begin to think about positive possibilities being realized, you can begin to connect to the resources and means for getting the possibilities to happen. Connecting is like the phone number only in a positive manner. You are shopping in a thrift store, but really your life wants to go in a direction that gives you a lot more wealth.
So I was dreaming about something that I dont remember but all of a sudden the dream falls away and I’m standing in a white blank mist. Out of nowhere, a man I used to be close to drives up in my childhood vehicle. He stops and tells me to get in. I get in but I tell him to wait. He stops and we exchange heartfelt glances. He apologizes for past transgressions. He hugs me and asks me to go with him. He keeps saying to come on I need to show you something. I freak out and keep repeating that I cant leave my current spouse. He says “I have toleave soon.” And he eventually drives away. Then I wake up. Since then I have not remembered my dreams. This was 2 months ago. Any chance you can give me some insight to what this means?
I dreamt about potential partner whom I haven’t seen in 4 years , he came to support my family during a funeral and he slept on my right side of the bed and on the left was my mom , he was then later seated with make family members outside supporting the family and then my friends asked me if we should look for some token of appreciation to give him as s gesture of our appreciation x
Dear Rito,
The friend in the dream is acting in a very supportive and caring manner which is exactly what you want in a partner. It is probably the best quality you can think of in a relationship. There are two ways to think about it. First is that he is a good potential mate and the second is that you need to be the way he is to your own self. You can be like him to your own self which is supporting and caring to yourself.
I was waiting for my friend while he went to the shop but he forgot to come back to me, he used another road and while I waited for him, the 2 thieves came and stole my bag
Dear Patrice,
The problem in the dream seems to be that you have a friend who is not very trustworthy. When you are in that kind of friendship, it is as though you are being stolen from all the time.
I Dreamt I was hanging with family and I just kept wanting to be nasty with my boyfriend but we kept getting interrupted and then he asks another girl and guy to join us and then the dream switches and we are walking out the house going to the car to get some (be nasty ik ik) and mom called my man from the kitchen window and all the kids were standing at the window wanting to get in I’m not sure how they got there or when I just turned and they were there. They get in and the car rolls into a pond or some body of water it was surrounded by land. the car wasn’t on or anything but I feel the water splash my face and some how I’m out the car and spinning in the water and Look and see all the water spinning but I’m the only one spinning and logs all around me almost everyone is hitting me, then I feel myself lifted and idk what has me so I try to see and it’s a stork holding me by my clothes horizontally and I’m scared trying to break its neck so it lets me go all the kids are in the pond still just staring at me fight to break the neck of the stork and the stork bites my fingers but not enough to make me let go and I hear a small crack in its neck and I drop and I cover my head to drop so I don’t get hit in the head by a log when I hit the water then I watch the stork fly away and I wake up.
Anyone has any ideas on meanings?
Dear LOL,
This dream is pretty straightforward. You are trying to go for sex before you go for actually relating to people and that gets you into trouble one thing after another. The sex is more avoidance of actual relating. It is a kind of warning to you about your relational life. You have to take care of all of your relationships and learn a lot about the relating process before you are anywhere near to having sex.
I dreamed when I was with a group of people I don’t know and we had conflicts with other people of which some seemed foreign. I particularly remember a Chinese man we went to see,I had a heated argument with him, before I knew it, we had killed him then one of the people I was with said we also have to kill the other man but I didn’t know who we were talking about, suddenly I found myself in the bathroom with some of the group members and one of the girls was at the sink cleaning herself from like watery feaces, let’s say diarrhea off her body using water from the sink tap while she was crying. I turned and looked at the toilet and saw she had popped almost like diarrhea in it then all of a sudden I also squatted on the same toilet and started popping. I came out of the dream as I was popping.
Dear Eli,
The dream says that when you meet people that are very different than you, you have a tendency to kill the relationship. The pooping part is that you let of the situation to rapidly rather than staying in the relationship and appreciating the differences. The goal of the dream is for you to start really appreciating people who are different than you.
I dreamed that I was a passenger in the back of an open classic convertible being driven by an uncle. We were cruising along a coastal highway and the the sun, sky and lake were postcard perfect.
I was sitting upright in a backseat, wrapped snugly in a quilt blanket while half awake, nodding off.
Suddenly, I sensed my uncle had lost control of the wheel (possibly fallen asleep) which caused the car to careen off the road, hurtle over a bank and then submerge into open water.
We both managed to paddle and steer the sinking car towards a nearby tiny island, just in time to climb out and clamber aboard.
From here, my dream lapsed and jumped to a cutaway scene in which I found myself standing back on dry land (alongside the highway) and looking out towards the tiny island on the lake, where my uncle lay on his back.
I couldn’t make out whether or not he was alive but was taken aback how I had survived and made it back to shore.
Dear Afaluko,
The purpose of the dream is for you to get to the state of awe in your life that you felt in the back of the convertible. The problem in the dream is that you are not driving. Your uncle is driving which means that he is in charge. When you let others get in charge, they inevitably lose control and you end up in a difficult situation. The goal is for you to be in charge of your life so that you can get to the experiences of awe all the time.
I had a dream I was in a sword fight with two other people but with machetes. One of them were myself. The other person ended up killing my other self by slicing him in the neck. The both of us then continued to fight. I dont remember who won when the two of us were left or who the other person was.
Dear Peter,
Being in a fight with yourself means that you are fighting with your ego or your negative self. You are trying to kill that part of you. The same thing that you do with your own self is what you do to others who act like your ego self. You end up killing the relationship. Life is not really about killing relationships, but mostly about finding a way to get into harmony with them. it is only in abusive relationship that you need to cut off relating and that is only until the person stops being abusive. Mostly you need to improve relating skills as if you are a highly skilled swordsmen in a positive way.
Sorry, that last sentence I mean “I don’t recall if we/I FOUGHT him or not” as in fight
I was sailor moon (she is a cartoon superheroine) I looked nothing like her in the dream (but nothing like me) I am standing at the end of a train carriage underground and looking into the dark glass I see visions of my future. I remember darkness and spot light, I got really excited because I saw that I got new powers and wriggly pink hair, I feel like I was called to see the vision and that it was a warning that it won’t be easy and that I will have to accept something to get there. There was also a part where there was a block of flats (looking back I don’t think we have flats like that in this country) there’s a number of us inside and we are trying to do music lessons but there’s this giant (physically huge) bully that keeps sweeping back into the room – I don’t recall if we/I thought him or not (I think so?) I remember being angry about it though.
Dear Khi,
This dream is pretty straightforward in the metaphoric sense. A new kind of fearless part of you is developing inside that is capable of achieving all kinds of things. The road to getting what you want will have challenges but when you feel your courage and act on it, you will be able to do almost anything.
I’m planning to break up with someone (it’s platonic) and I think the dream is about that, the same day before that dream I dreamt about lizards – I woke up thinking the words cold-bloodied. I believe breaking up is the right thing to do but I wonder if the dream is warning me against it, I was also thinking the same day how the person is often like a mother to me and wondered if that influenced the dream.
Dear Khi,
If you think about the last dream, there were holes in the way you were raised by your mother so you would naturally attract someone who is more like a mother to you. Unfortunately it does not bode well for an equal partnership. It is not being cold blooded to break up. Any relationship that is not a marriage means that you have not fully decided on a long term commitment so you are free at anytime to break it off. It is best for both of you to break it off if it doesn’t work out for either of you. Otherwise, you both end up unhappy.