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In my dream it was like real life. My daughter’s were on my bed and there’s a broken window next to my bed. A cat climbed thru the window. She was so gentle and poised if that makes sense. My daughter picked her up and she was purring. I grabbed the cat and cuddled her really tight. I can still see the pattern in her fur and it seemed almost as if she told me to find her in real life. Now I’m searching for a striped female cat with a white patch on her chest. I strangely feel like she’s looking for me to find her.
Dear Cdw,
While having a cat may be really satisfying for you and your family, in the dream world cats represent independence of thinking and being. This is because cats truly are much more independent than many animals. Since the dream is so real, it means that your own independent thinking is really close to you, that is, you are able to access it and use it.
I would appreciate it if you could interpret one last dream to me that was very intense and memorable. In my reality, my lover and I cannot be together.
In my dream, I was running in a desert and from a distance, I saw the back of my lover. I started to run to him, but as I got closer to him, he turned to me, held his finger to his mouth signaling me to hush, and fell back. I screamed, and when I looked over the edge of the desert, it was as though the Earth were flat. He instead fell into the sky and the sky cracked. I tried to reach him again, but a glass screen wall separated me from reaching him. I started to pound on the glass and cry, but as he walked towards the crack in the sky, he looked back at me and put his finger to his mouth, signaling me once again to quietly calm down. He then climbed into the crack that was in the sky and the light blinded me from seeing him. I woke up in darkness.
Dear Endee,
Being in the desert in the dream means that you are in a barren place, which means that you cannot get to the fulfillment of your desire to be with him. He ends up in the sky, the air, which means that he is only a vision that has a crack in it, that cannot be fulfilled. You end up in darkness when you think about it. What is the reason in real life why you cannot be together? Is it cultural?
I had dream of one white bull unties its rope and running towards me….suddenly a cow appeared there with frightened face looking at the bull which was standing beside the bull
Dear Riya,
This is a dream about being bullied and then have the fear of being bullied because you are not protected from them. To have had this dream you have had to have been bullied at some time in your life. If you become a bull inside yourself in a positive way, then you will be able to protect yourself well. Being a bull means that you have inner strength. So the work for you is going to be to develop inner strength.
I had a dream i was pregnant but i had him really early because some one was trying to kidnap me and he beat me so bad that my baby came lucky i was so close to a hospital i ran to the hospital and i thought i lost him i was crying so hard , he wasn’t moving or anything so i dropped my head and started praying and the nurse started yelling he’s alive and i asked to hold him and i held him and said “hey stinky” and he smiled at me . A hour later he met my grandma and mom and i said “stinky look” and he smiled at them.
Dear Keta,
Being pregnant in a dream means that there is a new part of you that is growing inside of you like a new self. When you are pregnant it is in a potential form because it has not been born into the world. Being kidnapped and beaten means that your old self or your current self was unprotected in its development that would leave you fearful at times. The new part of you is masculine since it is a boy and it has come early because you need it. It is the part that protects you which means it has something to do with inner strength. It is what you are going to have work on in yourself for some time to come. When you get stronger and feel protected, then other parts will awaken in you.
I had a dream we were preparing to go to bed and the mattress were right on the floor in the same room (one for my mother and the other for me and my wife now separated) and blankets.and we suddenly had a slight disagreement with my mom i cant remember what the disagreement was about
Dear Zoi,
The reason that you are separated from your wife is that you have metaphorically brought your mother into bed with you. This means that your wife is married to your mother and not you because you have no boundaries with your mother. If you want to get your wife back, you have to have really strong boundaries with your mother. You probably need a fair amount of professional help to get to that state.
In my dream there was an open room, unfinished, just the wooden plywood and an old bath in the middle, there was also a shower head coming out of the wall. It didn’t have a curtain or a drain. I was trying to get my son to shower and when it was his time to shower we were in his room and the shower head was next to his bed and when I went to turn on the shower it got all over his bed, so I moved it to a new wall. When I turned around I was now in my room of the dream and looking into the master bathroom, it was completely finished but the shower was on and the curtain pulled back and my husband was showering naked with another woman I did not know. They were holding each other and we all made eye contact. I wasn’t angry, but when I turned back around I was in that unfinished room and trying to find a way to shower but I was worried about their being no drain or curtain. Then I pan to work and I’m there with someone I’ve never spoken to who works down the hall and she tells me she’s interested in a woman I work with and wants me to talk to this girl for her. I wake up.
Dear Cynthia,
The dream is about not being able to get the new aspect of yourself represented by the unfinished room, to function the way you want it to function. This is because you are resigning yourself to the way they are rather than actively getting your life to way you want it. The new aspect of yourself that wants to come into being is the you that can have things the way you want them. It looks like you are going to have to get over being resigned which may take some work. You will need a strong vision that comes from a strong self.
I had a dream when I took an hour long nap earlier today. I was at a cookout with some people I know and the rest were strangers. My child was there. She’s 2. She got out of my sight for what felt like only 2 minutes and I found her in the bathroom with blue cleaning chemicals everywhere and the tub, sink, and toilet all overflowing. Her mouth, hands, and feet were stained blue. I remember trying to tell everyone there but no one would pay attention. Like I wasn’t even there, like they couldn’t hear me. And then I woke up. I was wondering what this could mean.
Dear Cam,
One of the important things to understand that time in a dream is different than time in the real world. In the real world 2 minutes is two minutes. In the dream world 2 minutes could be more like 2 months or 2 years. It is a short period where you lose sight of where your child is developmentally. It is as that point that she gets into difficulty and becomes stained. What it allows you to do is to realize that attending to her developmental needs is the most important job you have right now, one that you will not have ever again. For better or for worse you have one chance as a parent at any given developmental level. If you miss it, then the child misses out on a lot. If you think about the opposite, which is the consequence of being attentive, then it is well worth every effort that you have with your children.
I had a very dark foreboding dream where I was in my house alone and it was like a sinister presence trying to invade me and I would call out for my dog he would appear and drive the presence away temporarily all while I was looking for my wife but I couldn’t find her and while the presence was around I found it hard to see, move, or speak
Dear Aron,
What this tells you is that when you do not have enough love and friendship in your life, which is represented by the dog in the dream, then you live in a state of fear of being invaded by a negative force. Love is the force that keeps your self in a positive state without fear. The way you have to deal with this is to let go of the fear and bring more friendship and love into your life. Invaders or ego forces are afraid of love because it is a powerful force even though it doesn’t seem like it.
Good morning. Last night i had a dream that i was at a zoo. My conscious life spilled into my dream. I was crying about not knowing what to do anymore and feeling lost. I was riding in a golf cart thru the zoo with a worker, headed to the exit to leave. He stopped at a back gate and said to me, since you’re feeling so down how about you come help me with some animals back here. I went with him and all i can remember helping him with were hermit crabs lol. There were a bunch of them in a bird cage for some reason and i kept crying about how cute they were. Idk i just felt like the crabs were trying to signify something to me. Do crabs and having a feeling of no self worth go together?
Dear Celia,
When you don’t know what to do and you are feeling totally lost, this dream tells you exactly what to do which is actually two things. First is to be helpful or of service with what seems like a smaller task and second is see the beauty in what you are doing. In this case you are admiring the hermit crabs and being helpful. When you start moving forward with helpfulness like this, you can find your direction. When you love what you are doing, you get fully guided.
hello. my dream begins as i walk through a big house with my mother with all its lights switched off during night time. I take her to a big terrace outside where one can watch the sky. i say to her “look up there” and the sky is lit with stars, mostly blue colored ones, with some yellow and red here & there across. At the same time i see this huge full moon which is quite close to the terrace. Although i cant see that its a full moon because we are standing at an angle, and because the moon is so close physically to the terrace, but somehow in my dream i know its a full moon. Next i say to my mother “look at that star”. That star is much more bright than the rest, and is very close to the moon. I look at my mother next. And she has a satisfied expression on her face. But instead of looking at the sky, she is smiling and looking down at the floor of the terrace. And throughout i am the only one talking in the dream.
Dear Tanveer Maryem,
This dream is about the virtue of awe that you share with your mother. The big house represents your big positive self. What you are doing together is experiencing awe, which is the ability to understand that there is beautiful larger force that creates such wonder. It allows you see yourself in a new way, full of wonder, and begin thinking of possibilities that you might never have seen before. A full moon is a particular feminine sign. It allows you develop qualities that are receptive in nature.
I had a dream where I stabbed my brother with a knife several times, I even stabbed him in the neck a couple of times but he wouldn’t die, even after all the wounds I gave him he just picked up his briefcase walked away while bleeding and acting like what I did had no effect on him at all.
Dear Jake,
In this dream you have the intention of hurting your brother, but no matter what you do he is unaffected. If you were hoping to hurt him, then the satisfaction is him crying out in a lot of pain. To do that to someone else you have to have been hurt yourself by him or someone else and then desired to lash out as a kind of revenge satisfaction. When you look inside and feel your own pain, then the first step is to be like your brother, not have it bother you. The second step is open up the capacity in you to be really loving toward others and to the things you do. You have to let go of your own hurt so that you can find your loving capacities.
I had the strangest dream. I had a dream that a man knocked on my door and that it was a very bad storm outside. I opened the door and the man ran away and had left something bundled in a blanket. It was making high perching sounds and cooing. I took it in and a little black nose peeked out from the blanket. To my surprise, it was a baby fox. Everyone in my home was scared of the fox. They kept telling me to get rid of it and I loved the fox, so I hid him in a box under my bed. The fox was attached to me and wanted me to give him milk (it wanted me to nurse him!) The fox kept growing and as he grew, I could not hide him anymore. And so I took him to a forest, and I told him that he had to go and when i would walk away, he would swiftly run in between my legs. I woke up when I thought I felt something furry run across my leg in the middle of the night.
Dear Endee,
This is an awesome dream to have. You can consider yourself fortunate for having gotten it. Foxes represent the quality of being clever, which is the ability to use your mind to help you get through tricky obstacles. You get the fox when it is young and then you nurture it which shows that the quality of being clever is just beginning to develop in you. As you nurture it, it will stay with you even if others don’t want you to be so clever. It helps you in really stormy situations. The reason others would not want you to have it may be because they do not want females to have that ability.
In my dream I’m in a street I don’t recognize (although it feels like my street) where almost everything is on fire as my neighbour’s and I try to put the fire out the devil appears 100ft tall he reaches through a window and pulls out my wife who has just a towel on he laughs and I’m forced to watch as my wife takes off the towel and starts to have sex with other men and she is enjoying it then I manage to find a remote control toy car and put a spear on it and drive the spear into the devil using the remote control car to kill the devil
Dear Suki,
What this dream is trying to say is that when there is out of control anger, it is like a playground for the people’s egos. In the dream world a negative fire like in your dream represents out of control anger and the big devil represents people’s egos or their selfish side. Anger is like the playground for the ego. It causes you to act with anger to try to get rid of it.
The solution to anger is not aggression because it is a bit like trying to fight fire with more fire. The solution is calm and peacefulness. People that have a lot of anger want you to act out of control with rage so that they can put the blame back on you which is what they do. When you are calm and tranquil, the solutions that work come to you.
I cannot see and keep bumping into things and breaking bones like my wrist and fingers. I can only speak a few words at a time. I’m taken to the hospital, can feel surgery performed on me and wake up to find out I have cancer that will get worse unless I better my life. I woke up gasping for air and terrified.
Dear Mallory,
This dream shows you the kind of negative outcome you get in life when your thoughts and focus is either negative or non-existent. When you are in that state, you go from bad do worse. When you do the opposite which is to have positive focus, think positive thoughts, and relate to the future in a positive manner, then the opposite happens. Things go from good to better. The dream wants you to change the habit of thought that you have to a more positive one.
In my dream my husband and i were going to a party at his work in the summer and were sitting in a front area, He was drinking a beer. I looked to him in the dream and said “please don’t drink too much because you turn into a slut”. His best friend appears and my husband said “no I don’t” so I look to his best friend and ask, “doesn’t he turn into a slut” and he replied, “yes he does”. So we go to the party and at the party this girl walks up and she is telling me that my hubs and her had talked and that she is going to start spending every other Saturday at my house when my grand children would be there. Then suddenly her and I were in my bedroom and she was writing something on a paper on a nightstand. I could not see what she was writing but that the writing was fancy and nice. During this time my husband is in the closet packing a back and when he comes out of the closet he is my Ex husband not my current one. Then he went to his truck with his bag and this other woman goes to his truck and takes his bag and tosses on the ground. I walk up to grab the back and she was kicking it so I grabbed her foot and she fell on her back. Then she got up so angry and started to charge at me, but I moved and she fell again. Then my husband (who is not back to himself and not my ex) says “What the hell are you doing?”
Dear B,
This dream shows you that when your husband is at a party and starts drinking, what you think about him is actually the truth. He starts leaving the real world of his relationship with you and goes off into fantasy land with others. He has a hard time being positive and probably intimate in the real world, so he goes off and tries to escape through fantasizing and maybe acting out. It seems like a pretty strong indication that your marriage has some issues that have to be addressed.
I had a dream last night where I was shaving my armpit with a razor, later I went back and looked and there was a whole section of hair that had not been shaved and was about 2 inches long and it was straight, smooth, and shiny. I thought this was so weird because HOW COULD I MISS ALL THAT HAIR. So in my dream I shaved it off and woke up.
Dear Christine,
This dream shows you that in the spiritual dimension, like in the dream world, time does not function the same way it functions in real life. What seems like an instant can be a long time. Somehow, which is a process that are finite minds can comprehend because of their limitations, time is more elastic or flexible in the spiritual world. When you come to understand it positively, it shows us that when we make spiritual changes in ourselves (process changes) then a lot can happen in a shorter time than it used to take when you didn’t have the particular capacity. This kind of dream is about being curious about time in the other dimensions.
Hello. I saw a dream yesterday night and in that dream I saw that I am in a hilly area with my class mates from University along with some of our teachers,I don’t know why we were in the hills because,so I was explaining a lesson taught by our teacher to one of my classmates,we were in a very beautiful place and suddenly a the weather got very windy and our teachers instructed us to quickly go inside the building nearby to where we were chilling. The place was covered with trees all around. Then me and all of the students went inside the building and went to a room. Suddenly we saw through the windowthat trees are being uprooted and there is a huge storm outside and everything started getting destroyed,it was such chaos outside and everyone in the room was so afraid and the hills outside started cracking and the huge trees started falling all over. Then suddenly we saw the trees which surround the building started falling on the building and we all went under the desks to save ourself and then suddenly all the trees fell and the windows of our room got cracked as the trees fell in them. Then the storm stopped and then all our teachers instructed us to go out and leave the place asap. I went out and lost touch of my classmates,everyone was running and in that chaos suddenly out of the blue my mom appeared and she took me through a road so that we could safely get out of there but as we reached one part of the road she said we should go the other way because the other path is the right path and her and me went on the other path and then I woke up. What does this mean? Thank you😊
Hi, (sorry for any grammar mistakes nd all that)
i’ve had almost the same dream twice now and
the dream is i find out im pregnant and i dont know what to do so i try to get an abortion but, in the first dream when i try to get one my friends yell at me and tell me im wrong and say im not allowed to do that. in the second dream when i go to get an abortion its already too late for one.
im just wondering what these mean because i find it odd im having dreams about being pregnant. thank you so much for your time it really means a lot to me.
Being pregnant means that you have a new ability growing inside of you that you are not aware and didn’t ask for. You do not need an abortion. What you need is to nurture the new ability growing in you so that when it is ready to come out into the world, it can be really positive and productive.
It was night time for all of the dream.
I was sitting on a wall talking to someone. I remember the treasurer from my workplace (in real life) was part monkey (to me in the dream she was just monkey) she scaled the metal fence behind us humming an adventurous tune and landed in front of us to hand us/me a pair of 2 small golden keys. They did this several times as if on call I think. The moment on the wall was very serious and the ridiculous humming they did threw the mood off and hurt my ears I said something and the person I was talking with said, ‘but it’s traditional’, and I said ‘just because it’s traditional doesn’t mean it’s resonant’. Most of the dream involved me leaving very different looking notebooks for specific people to find or just giving these notebooks to people-which they read. I was in some facility the floor was covered in ice/snow and so was the ceiling, weird short (people I don’t know if they were alien/bug people or what) were in the ice I don’t remember what I did but they were up and moving and I was explaining to them saying I ‘m supposed to wake dead people/ghosts when in a place like this, I figured this out because of other similar past situations in the dream that I don’t remember now.
Dear Khi,
The main thing about this dream is that you do not seem to have much control over what is happening to you. You are being acted upon rather than you being the main character creating what you want. The goal would be changing from “monkey see, monkey do” kind of mentality to taking control over your life and work and where you want to go with it.
I just had a dream of me getting out of a car, dressed as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, entering some building. After I got in, I started walking through a long corridor that had doors only in front, and on the right side of me, and I felt like I was being chased by some people, presumably from mafia. At some point they started shooting at me with pistols and Tommy guns, but they never hit, I continued walking in straight line, never entering the doors on the right, closing the doors that I entered right in front of their noses, saying “you will never catch me, suckers!”. Eventually, they stopped chasing me and I reached a reception. The building turned out to be a hospital, and the head doctor came to me and said that I’ve been needed there for some time, and pointed me to another door, with the word “Kindness” spelled on it. When I entered the door, I saw an infant laying down in bed hooked to an IV, holding a toy of Fluttershy from My Little Pony, with toys of some other cartoon charachters heavily associated with kindness standing on the table to her left. When the child noticed me, she started smiling and giggling and I started doing some usual “guy in a cartoon character costume stuff” that I know, like clowning around and making my voice higher pitched. She was laughing and smiling saying things like “More!” and “Cute bunny!”. At some point she asked if I could get her down on the floor to walk and have fun with me, but I refused saying “sorry, kid, the doctors said you’ll need a bed rest for quite some time” as I closed the door on my way out. And then I woke up as I walked away.
Dear Arty,
This dream shows you how you can use the part of you that cartoon-like funny to benefit the life of others. It is pretty straightforward in its meaning. When people are in difficult situations like ill from life threatening problems, humor really helps to bring joy to them. You evidently have this gift and should use it.