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Hello ,
I Had A Dream That I Was In A Clothing Store With My Two Kids My Older Sister & Her Kids .
My Sister & I When In The Store To Look At Some Clothes While The Kids Waited Out Side The Store In the Front When Out Of The No Where It started Shaking I Remember Seeing People Running Screaming Earthquake & I Remember Me & My Sister Was Trying To Get Passed Everyone To Get Our Kids That Was In The Front Store Waiting for Us .
I Remember Screaming Adrian Kayla Which Are My Kids Name I Was Able To Get To Them & All Of Us Running Into A elevator Where We Were All Together Feeling Save & relieve that nothing had happen to us
Dear Kimberly,
In the dreams the kids were left out while you went shopping. When the earthquake happened, then your kids were suddenly included back in your life. It seems to me that you are being asked to include your kids into more positive things that will benefit them in an amazing way rather than only really attending to them when negative strikes. You have to think ahead of time about the welfare of your children and really plan for them in a positive manner.
I had a dream there was a guy with a cat lying in his arms, there was a bunch of us standing in front of him, the cat looked rheumy and very sick, I touched my knuckle to his nose anyway as a kiss, the guy next to me very gently held it’s cheek, the person holding the cat told us that the cat had ticks, I jumped back and so did the guy next to me, I didn’t want to get sick and I didn’t want to give my own cat at home ticks, I’m not sure who, be it the man, a voice or someone told me I was being selfish and not compassionate.
Dear Khi,
The guy with the cat in his arms represents a person who has a difficulties mentally in having his own mind. Literally he is mentally ill. This is because a cat represents being able to think for yourself. When your cat is ill in a dream, it means that something is going on with your thinking mechanism. You believe that your mind is going to be affected by his mind so you go away. If you have a strong independent mind, other people’s minds do not infect yours. That is basically the message you need to get here.
I had a dream where I was outside with my family in our porch. My sister was eating some tangerines, which kept her distracted as she had to peel them, and my parents were chatting with each other, far too distracted to notice their surroundings. I however looked in front of me, and I saw a tornado touching down right next to our neighbors house in front of me. I was confused as I looked to the right, and I saw huge metal springs that were rotating as they moved on the road. Suddenly, they began falling on the houses, destroying them. One fell on our neighbors house to the left of us, crushing the house. My parents, terrified, rushed over to see if everyone was okay. I remember saying “I hope nobody was in that house, or else they’re dead right now.”
I had a dream that was over the course of 2 nights. The first night in my dream I was sitting on the floor of what was my house (a dream house). There were white and glass walls with a glass ceiling. I had a section of the floor boxed off with wooden 2x4s. I opened up a can of sky blue paint and began pouring it in the boxed off section of the floor. Just then through the glass wall my fiance walked in with my kids but my kids were a little older. He came over to me and I said this floor is gonna be great for the family room. Then I woke up. The next night I dreamt I was in the same house only now I was putting a gloss on the blue floor. When I stood up to look at it..it was like a lake that reflected the white clouds in the sky through the glass ceiling. But you only seen the reflected moving clouds on the floor not the metal beams that held together the glass panels of the ceiling. I was by myself just running my hands over the floor just happy and at peace. Then I woke up.
Dear Alysha,
In your dream, the floor is the reflection of the sky. This means that in your true self, whatever you envision comes into reality. Your floor, your true real life, reflects what your true dreams are. This means that your reality is in conformity with your intentions or how your life to go. If you challenge yourself, you could have a major impact on the world.
Thank you. I usually try to decipher my dreams by using different symbols in my dreams. But there were so many symbols in my dreams that had multiple meanings and didn’t quite piece together with one another to give me a better understanding of it.
I had a dream where I had been paid a tip of 28,517.78 rupees, my collegue had been paid a tip of 20,514 rupees, the moneys were in an envelope, some thugs tried to steal my best friends envelope and my neighbours envelope as well as mine, I beat the criminals up and gave my friend his envelope and walked away with mine, what does this mean?
Dear Sunji,
This dream continues the theme of the last one. Whoever gets money in your culture becomes a target and forces you to have strong protective measures. The real treasure is not in money but in friendship, which you seem to have.
I had a dream and I can only remember the very end…okay so I was in a kitchen/breakfast nook area of a house I’ve never seen before with my husband and some other female (who I do not recall) and her and I were arguing about something (she had wronged me in someway) but I did not feel rage in the dream. I remember feeling calm and collected but angry to defend my side/self and my husband just stood arms crossed in the background and never said a word. Her and I were still arguing when I pulled out a light pink 9mm. When I pulled my gun out she hit it across the room, knocking it out of its holster. I picked up the gun, took the safety off and loaded the first round in the chamber. Then I held the gun up in my right hand and pointed it at the roof (finger straight and off the trigger) and told her “My gun is off safe and loaded and ready to shoot” Then my alarm went off and I woke up. Can you help me see what this means?
Dear C,
What you are struggling to figure out in this dream is how to deal with the situation when someone has wronged you. What you have a desire to do is to shoot the person down. That is why the gun is loaded. The problem with shooting others down is that it destroys the long term possibility of the relationship normalizing or becoming positive. What is need is a combination of forgiveness and you being able to have strong boundaries and wisdom.
Wow, yes thank you! I have been wracking my brain trying to see where it fit into my life. I was looking at singularities and not the whole picture. Plenty to take and ponder about. Thank you very much!
I had a dream of a huge lava tsunami. Everyone ran from it and few survived. I survived and went with a few ppl that were brave enough to cross over (jump over) the lava lakes. (There were spot with places you could cross over if you had the courage to make the jump). I went and explored the strange but familiar land that I knew and it was all destroyed and I remember feeling just curious. I wanted to continue exploring but I went back to the remaining survivors to tell them what I saw. (Also bc my parents were among the survivors leading them and regrouping them) I don’t know what this means but it had such a strong impact on me when I woke up. I almost never remember dreams but this one was very vivid and I remember it quite well
Dear Bianca,
A huge lava tsunami represents big fights of ideas between people where people take sides get really hot headed and won’t let to go of their ideas. The people who survive are those who can remain unattached and stay out of the fight. They have cooler heads. What makes it difficult in a lava tsunami is that it just seems like you have to take sides.
I had a dream that I was at a party and then my cousin and I asked my dad for money, 4000 rupees, we split the money in half, I went to see my cousin’s mom, who is a healer who told me that they took the keys but they will bring them back? Who took the keys? What does it mean?
Dear Sunji,
Being a party means that you are looking for joy. You have an idea that money is the thing that brings you joy, but it is only limited. Your cousin’s mom has is supposed to have the keys to joy, but they have been taken by the culture that believes money bring you joy. The actual key to joy is to see and feel and hear the positive in everything.
I dreamed I was living at my mom’s house. I was looking at myself in her bathroom mirror when I noticed a very deep dent in the upper left side of my chest. It didn’t hurt, and there was no open wound or blood – it was just sunken in, about the depth and shape of a tennis ball. I poked my fingers in it and touched the skin on the inside, and it started to hurt.
I called my mom into the bathroom and she insisted we go to the emergency room. We arrived and I was told I would need surgery and that the survival rate was 98%. I laughed and said something like, “Well, I guess that HAS to be good enough,” but I sensed I was going to die, and I can’t even describe how that made me feel.
Then we went and sat in the waiting room and everyone was staring at the hole in my chest, so I tried to cover it up with my hair and a blanket. Somehow, my recent ex called me from prison (he’s not in prison) on one of the pay phones at the hospital, and I told him I had a hole in my chest. Then it kind of cut to me sitting down again. By that time it was extremely painful and I started to lie down.
Then the dream ended.
Dear Anna,
This dreams says that when you look at yourself or think about yourself (as if you are looking in a mirror), then you see yourself as deformed. Since you are in your mother’s house in the dream, it means you got it from living with her. What the dream wants you to be able to learn to do is the opposite of what you are doing in the dream. It shows you what you are doing so you can change it. The opposite is the see yourself as beautiful with a lot of wonderful qualities. You just have to change the way you look at yourself.
I keep having a reucurring dream that involves me turning into a woman, it’s either forced halfway through or it’s in process at the beginning. People in said dream either ignore the fact and pretend that it’s normal, or are super against it.
Dear William,
Becoming a woman in a dream is a symbol for developing your more feminine side. These are usually qualities like nurturing and compassion. It is natural to have these feelings because developing your feminine qualities will make you so much more empowered in your life.
Thank you
I have a recurring dream i had when i was about 15 the whole time i lived in a house and in the dream I would get out of my bed walk over to a really really old wardrobe that was across my room and i would open the doors to it and snap awake sweating and freaking out and it was not scary at all now that was ten years ago and the dream has come back but slightly different now im living in a different house and in my dream i wake up get out of bed and walk over to the little door thats across my room and open it and snap awake sweating and panicking for no reason
Dear Gabriel,
The structure of the dream is that you wake up and get out of bed in the dream. This means that the context is that you are waking up in your life. When you wake up in your life and begin to open new doors (new possibilities), then you begin to freak out somewhat. You have an association in your mind between opening new possibilities and panicking probably because of what has happened to you in the past when you tried to open new doors in your life. You will need to overcome the fear because it is no longer relevant.
I had a dream where I was wearing a tan jumpsuit like a jail jumpsuit and was in an all womens facility. It looked more like a school with bars instead of windows on the classroom doors. Over the loud speaker we were told in order to get out we had to go downstairs to “the chamber”. The chamber turned out to be a gas chamber where we were locked in for 10mins by a guard who’s back was towards me. I survived but needed help back up the stairs as I was throwing up everywhere. Not long after that the loud speaker told us to partner up for the last test in the boiler room. Downstairs in the boiler room was an obstacle course inside of a gas chamber that consisted of a cargo net, suspended planks, log rolling things and platforms. The course was broken in certain spots and if you fell you fell to your death onto hot water pipes below. I survived that too but some of the women did not. Anyone without a partner was sent to death. A women didn’t have a partner so I volunteered to go back in the boiler room for a second time so she wouldn’t be killed. She ended up falling to her death in a broken part of the obstacle course but I survived a second time. After this the big doors at the end of a hallway opened up and the survivors were told they were free to go. I then woke up from this dream.
Dear Alysha,
This dream is a metaphor for what people have to go through in life, especially in school. It is like a prison that can kill your spirit, where they make you jump through a lot of obstacles. You can survive it, which means that you have a strong spirit, but others do not. What you need to do instead is to think about what would learning be like if it really opened up possibilities and training for you.
Thank you for the interpretation. I appreciate it.
It started off with me and my friends sneaking into this house. Don’t know why we were trying to get into this house, but it felt as if I had a mission to accomplish. Once inside i surpassed many monster-looking guards. Soon I was far into the house and came to this room and that’s when She found me. (I call she She because She had no name.) She was this tall lady with dark brown hair and piercing black eyes. She told me that I’m the one. At the time I had no idea what that meant. Next thing I know I’m being told that She could tell who was worthy to carry the future king. She said there was a prophecy where a young girl shall carry the next in line and after delivering the baby to be stabbed in the uterus and then killed for sacrifice. After I’m being told this “plan,” all of friends walk through the door wearing red dresses and looking really scared and sad. No one says a word to me, just looks at me with pity.
Time flashes by through the next few months at this point. My friends are all responsible for chores around the place, making sure I’m kept in line and I have what I need, and any other tasks She provides them. It seems She and I are close at this point as she brushes my hair, helps me sleep at night, and makes sure I’ve had adequate food for the day.
Time flashes forward a bit more. At this point I’m texting a really close guy friend and it seems as if we’re flirting (which I’ve been single for 6 years, so this is new.) He tells me about this plan he has to save me and escape. Then She walks in and asks me about my dreams and goals as if I had a choice in life, knowing my fate in a few short months. Then I woke up.
Dear Victoria,
A house in a dream represents the self. You sneak into a part of yourself that is well protected that believes you are not going to have a really successful relationship like many other people, like somehow your life is sacrifice. It is only at the end where your true self starts flirting that some hope is engendered. The part of you that believes you can have a great relationship is what you need to wake up. It is definitely calling to you.
Last night I had a dream that I am the age I am now with husband, child and animals but we are living in my childhood home. The home catches fire. I never once see the fire. I can kind of see smoke but I never actually see the fire I just know it is on fire. I yell to my family to get all the animals and get out. Then the rest of my dream I am trying to gather as many important things as I can, my father’s ashes, pictures, trinkets, etc… everything I come across I was to save from this fire I can’t see. My dream went on all night. Even when I would wake up, I would fall back to sleep and pick right up where I left off in my dream. By the end my alarm went off I was still gathering items in the house. It seems that I had been gathering items for hours yet the fire never got worse and I never actually saw it. Somehow I knew it was there and I just wanted my family and my animals out and safe and I needed to save as many memories and items I felt were special.
Dear Carla,
The dream is about the anger or hot-headedness that existed in your childhood home and how it affected you. It doesn’t seem to be raging anger, but more like you know someone is always angry and trying to keep it under control. It makes you feel like everything is going to be lost so you try to save everything. What you are being called to in the dream is the virtue of peacefulness or calm. When you are calm in the face of anger, you can keep your head and figure out what to do. The fire requires coolness as in being cool-headed which is being calm.
I am in my childhood bedroom there is a circle or round crack appearing in the ceiling, the floor starts to crack and shift my cat who i own now is on the floor he looks emaciated and he’s body is twisting and stretching in weird places i am very distressed i try to reach him but he falls through the cracks, i cry and leave the room to find help yelling there is an earthquake but the rest of the house is empty and unaffected. I leave the house and find my neighbour from now talking either to someone in person or on the phone she comes with me to the room where my cat resurfaces smaller and thinner but not twisted/deformed as before, i am so relieved i hug him, she gives me a thinking model made of an acronym in case i deal with this again, slips my mind what it was now
I am at the supermarket they changed it so it looks like a convenience store smaller less goods, i cant find cheese so I give up, later when i tell a lady working there about the changes she takes me to the back of the store which i didn’t notice and it is huge it sells tons of things, clothes everything its so big as to include part of the city, i think i might have to come back, I may have started looking for a costume
Dear Khi,
This dream is about not being able to have your own thinking mind functional for you. The cat is a symbol of independent thinking and acting. The crack in the ceiling represents the crack in your thinking that is like an earthquake to your mind. Because of what happened to you the cat is smaller and thinner now, but it can be developed quickly. The tendency, probably because of the lack of independent thinking, is to give up easily, but if you show a little curiosity and go for it, you can open up a lot of possibilities and get what you want.
I’m very curious about this dream I had last night. I deliberately fed the lower half of my left leg to a Great White Shark. When I left the shark’s tank, I hopped about for a bit before I healed the leg and grew it back. Dream dictionaries tell me different things about shark bites, but I’m not sure how to interpret the fact that I willingly gave my leg up to it, or the fact that I was able to grow the leg back myself. Not sure whether to feel unsettled by the dream or comforted.
Dear Sarah,
Feeding a great white shark in this case means that you are feeding the part of you that goes aggressively for what she wants. It is so cool that your leg grew back. The lower leg has a lot to do with jumping or elevating. So in a way it is like giving the assertive or aggressive part of you energy to jump into things. That is why it grew back. Jump in and be aggressive to what you want to go for. No one will stop you.
I keep having dreams of receiving money. I’ve already had three within the past few weeks, and they all involve me receiving money and then me even deciding not to keep all of it to myself, which I’m fine with.
In the first one, I had received money that somebody gave me, I was chosen for some reason I guess. I held a bundle of hundreds and felt like sharing it with someone else cause there was more than enough, so I shared it with the first person I saw that I knew and was there at the right time and place. However, shortly after, I was thinking I should have split it with my best friend, but then thought “oh well, she should’ve been here 🤷♀️”, cause I already shared it with someone else.
I just forgot what the second one was, but I think I found a lot of money, but only took some of it, not wanting to be too greedy.
Then in the one I had last night, I was at an event building of some sort for throwing parties and stuff like that. It was my birthday, but I knew no one there, only strangers were there celebratinng it, and I couldn’t get ahold of my family members by cell. Anyway, before that, when I showed up, I went to a money machine of some sort, similar to an atm or change exchange. Well I was trying to get money out, and instead of a hundred, it was giving me 600, and I did it about four more times and kept receiving like 400 or 600 back. However, I wouldn’t take all of it, and only took some, for two reasons: so I wouldn’t be suspicious and get caught in too much trouble, and because I didn’t want to be too greedy in the first place and take too much…I’ve learned from previous dreams, that being too greedy, gets you in nothing.
Dear Patricia,
Actually getting money in a dream is about making friends and having lots of friends because in the spiritual world your currency is the the number of connections you make that are positive with others. The more friends you have the wealthier you can be and then it just seems like you are unbelievably wealthy all the time. I am really not sure why more people don’t get this principle. My grandfather taught it to me as a young boy because he was friends with everyone and gave a lot of money and just getting getting wealthier the older he got. The same has happened to me.
Hi,
Please help me with my dream. I dreamt I was pregnant and the belly was showing. Something like 5-6 months or so. I was excited and would worry about the baby, sometimes is feel like she was too quiet. No movement and I would place my hand on my belly, just above the pelvis and I would feel the Heartbeat with my hand and would feel relief as I would be certain she is still fine.
Thank you
Dear Lebohong,
Being pregnant means that you have some new energy or a new capacity that is growing inside of you. That you are pregnant means that you are developing the capacity inside of yourself as it has not come out into the world yet. When you are ready, you will be able to start giving birth to the new capacity in the real world. The dream doesn’t say what the capacity is, but the fact that she was quiet may mean that it is a virtue like calm or peacefulness.
Each one of the dreams had a, line that I could remember, which is why they say 1: and 2:
1: The battle of the temple
I was for some reason fighting a bunch of people main reason my brother had angered a group of tribal people and we had to run to a temple for cover, my family was with me but didn’t help, well i was fighting my top fang teeth started to hurt really bad, to the point where I could feel and taste blood in my mouth, I leaned over a bowl and wiggled them with my tongue and they fell out, along with almost all my teeth, it hurt, it hurt so much. I was trying to yell to my brother what was going on, I breathed in and one tooth tried to go down my windpipe, I was coughing, crying, trying to make it stop. I tried to wash the blood out but I couldn’t even get water in my mouth because it wouldn’t stop bleeding
2: sword and shields
I was one of many people fighting, my mission was to make it somewhere without getting hurt, as I was doing it I had to help someone. It was going good until I got to the door of the place, it was surrounded by sharp rocks, the person turned to me and said I need some sort of paint on me, I decided on yellow stripes and blue triangles. Even though I was save here, I felt panic run through me, it scared me. Somehow I got into the place, it was better then I expected, I was fed the food made me sick, even waking up i still felt sick
Dear Marshall,
The metaphor you are using to deal with your life that is not working is fighting. The first thing you have to do is to get out of the metaphor of fighting. You think that if you fight your way through life that you are going to be protected and safe, but the opposite happens. You just remain in a lot of fear and hurt. The metaphor you can change to is that of love. Instead of fighting your way through life and getting sick and hurt, you can start loving what you do and others and then life will go your way.
Life is not about fighting. It is about loving. It is better to avoid conflict, find friendship and love and let go of the negative things that happen to you.
I dreamed a familiar man was in my dream I was at his house he was saying nothing was working out for him and I noticed red stuff covering his clothes.what does it mean
Dear Angelic,
When you are in someone else’s house, it means that you are in their selves. This means that you feel what they feel and probably take on their feelings as if they are yours. It is not a healthy practice because you tend to feel sorry for them and then act in an anxious manner in your relationships. The goal is to keep their feelings separated from yours so that you can read their emotional state and then think about how to deal with it or even if you want to. The man was in distress so you can think about what is helpful for a person who is in distress.