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A beautiful article in such short and simple words. Those points which you have mentioned in this article are very useful. Thanks again and Keep Sharing.
Hi,
I had a very vivid dream last night. I was in a restaurant and the waitress came to tell me that I had to go look in the men’s bathroom, because someone had dropped 200 euros on the floor there. I was confused, because I didn’t understand why she was telling me. She insisted, and another person at the table (who I think was the father of my kids), also said I should go look. I felt awkward, but went to the men’s bathroom to look. I saw various notes on the floor, crumpled up in the dirt. I picked them up (and they were suddenly clean), and went back to the table. The notes were in my purse,there were suddenly many (and in two different currencies) and I looked through them amazed at my luck, and thinking how much would be fair to take out to thank the waitress. Then I woke up.
Dear Eline,
The first thing you need to understand, which is usually the case with dreams, is that the dream world is not the same as the real world. Even though your dream approaches the real world, it is unlikely that something like that would happen. So it is much better to read it in a metaphoric way. You can first of think of the money as the way your life is going to be enriched. In your mind probably the men’s bathroom is the least likely place where you are going to get enriched. So you have to ask yourself what is the men’s bathroom in metaphoric language. It is the place men go to let go of negative things inside of them. When you to the space in men where they let go of negatives, then you become enriched. What does that mean? It means that you have some kind of role to play in helping men unload their negative emotions. When you get there and do the work, then you become extremely grateful and generous. It is very interesting. God knows a lot of men hold in a lot of negative emotion and then lose a lot of friendships and relationships because of it.
Hey its me the guy who had the dream about the murmuring demon if u remember a month ago. Yesterday night i had another strange dream. I was waiting in a line with demons, they all looked like the demon from my dream which i had a month ago. So me and those demons were waiting in line to get executed. Ive been having alot of strange dreams and ive been trying to get rid of the negative energy and im still getting those weird demon dreams.
Hi Anonymous Demon Guy,
Here is what is going to help you a lot in your work with demons. The goal is not to eliminate demons, to kill off the negative energy. The demons are like messengers inside of you that tell you that you don’t have a certain positive quality. The demons appear when something is off in your life because the goal of life is perpetual transformation, constant development. Everyday new positive energy is lined up waiting to come into your being. If you kill the demons, you won’t know what energy wants to come in because there is no message. It is the discomfort or fear or other negative emotions (demons) that tell you that you need some work so that you can change to become a better more evolved person. Embrace the demons, find out what they want to change, then they will go away by themselves as the new positive energy comes in. For instance, if you feel jealous ( a big demon), you know that you need to let go being so protected and attached to an ego possession. Then you can be free to develop true love.
I had a dream where i was in my kitchen and my mother was there, she was banging her head on a wooden door… I asked her whats wrong, and she told me that she had 4 years and 2 months left to live and she will die afterwards. Can i pls get an explanation or something about this.
Dear Anonymous,
The dream shows you that when you have a negative voice in your head about the future, life can become very frustrating and stuck. What needs to happen in the dream is for her to hear a positive voice about the future, which is also what will benefit you.
Thanks for the answer. I had another dream a couple of days ago it was really strange. I was in an old fashioned room with a group of people i didn’t know. There was a demon tied up on a chair and every person should come up to it and talk to it. When it was my turn i went and sat next to it and she started murmuring words i couldn’t understand. Then i started putting rotten food in a bowl she had (like a pet’s bowl). Suddenly she became so mad and the chains on her broke and she grabbed me and started whispering in my ear. My ear became warmer and warmer it felt like my ear my burning. When i woke up my ear felt painful and sore. This is one of the strangest dreams i have ever had.
Dear Anonymous,
This is a fascinating dream. It makes so much when you think about it in the context of the previous dream. What we think of as demons is really just negative energy that expresses itself in metaphoric way. Since a great percentage of the population insist on thinking literally with regards to demons, it is difficult for people to make a lot of progress dealing with the energy. What further propagates the literal approach are religious groups making it part of their belief system. Think of the demon you are talking to just negative energy. In your case it appears as an angry voice in your ear (head) that causes you pain and probably makes you act in ways you do not want to act. When you feed it with rotten food, which would be something like criticism or angry speech, then it gets worse. What you need to do instead is to turn off the demon’s voice, the angry or negative voice in your head, and turn on the really positive one that tells you all kinds of positive things about yourself and others. Most people have this kind of demon in their head because the world culture is largely critical in nature. It is not built on positive encouragement. This is what you can start learning how to do.
I saw a black caterpillar it was large and hairy, it was crawling along my bed, after it’d crawled across I started pulling up the sheets to look for it.
A caterpillar, when it is positive, means that transformation into a butterfly is imminent. When you think about what you are transforming into, rather than being stuck in who you currently are with all of your issues, then life can become very magical.
I was carrying 1 of 3 bars of gold that belonged to me, each too heavy to lift with a number on each one like a price tag. Lots of zeros. I was to sell them to pay my debts off. Someone tried to steal one of them but was unable to due to the weight.
Dear Jason,
This dream is about the importance of being debt free. When you are full of debt, life weights you down so that you are just thinking about getting out of debt. When you are debt free, you can live life much more freely. The culture is organized to keep you in debt for a long time so that you will just buy things all the time and get more tied to the materialism.
I had a dream last night that I was on vacation with a group of wealthy people. Where they took me had a lot of natural beauty. Suddenly were invaded by robotic looking people… they were geared up in white shiny armor. they were killing everyone… people and wild animals. It was awful…The group I was with learned how to avoid being detected. we learned by watching: if you froze you would get killed; if you try to run you would get caught and killed but if we moved in synchronization with armored men they wouldn’t be able to detect us and we would have a chance to live. So that’s what we did. We faced them without making a sound and mirrored them until it was safe to go. I was so afraid. At one point I froze and the killer was looking right at me… so I moved and mirrored his motions and made it out…. we were directed to go to a safe zone up on a balcony. We had to step over so many dead bodies of people and gorillas, bears and even a lion….. I remember thinking “how did I make it but not these amazing and powerful animals…. “ then I woke up….
Dear Marian,
This dream reflects the problem in the world when the materialistic forces get out of balance with the natural more spiritual forces. The robotic nature of the materialism with its greed destroys all things beautiful and then you are in run for your life. The solution to this type of dream is to be detached from materialism. It is not an easy thing to do in the current world because so much is driven by greed. When you love nature and unite with others that love beauty then that is when there is true wealth in the world. The goal is not so much about destroying the robots, but more about loving natural beauty and uniting with others who also love it.
I need help please I’ve been wondering about this and my past life since I can remember….
I had a dream when I was a child I met a man in time of war. We we’re running through the woods as children/teens. We later got married. I was a nurse and he was a soldier. He passed away in war in my dream. Is this or could this be mine and my twin flames past life?
I’m convinced because he loves war games, camo and from what I can remember looks similar to the man/child in my dream.
He has a digital camo bed set and this dream is all I think about.
Thanks in advance any feedback is appreciated.
Dear Stephanie,
It is easier to think of this dream as you having a masculine and feminine part to yourself. The masculine part is like a soldier and the feminine is a nurse. At one point your two sides were married, that is, they were connected and integrated, but then your masculine side died. If you revive your masculine self, then your life will be amazing. It will especially improve your relationships, but it will also have an effect on every other part of your life.
A couple is telling someone about their being together, the person is listening to them and at one point turns their back, I say to the person I figured out why they turned their back, they disapprove but they want the pair to be happy so they turned their back and said nothing, I think this person could be a mother to one of the pair. I also think they might be the guy I talk to in the next bit.
Later I’m in my childhood home, in the kitchen, I’m making cereal, I’m using milk I’ve spiced and for some reason I’ve got it poured out in glasses and bottles all over the table, there is a guy I know in the kitchen (I think he’s washing the dishes) telling me about changing the tiles on his roof, I’m like ‘wow that’s so cool I didn’t know you were picking up the tiles on your roof’ I make a pick up motion, ‘you have to show me how you do that’ then he says ‘not everyone figures out you have to pick up the tiles they normally pull the tiles’ (and I guess fall off the roof?) and he is praisey about this.
I can’t remember who the guy is exactly, I think its someone I know who keeps annoyingly telling me what to do whenever I see him, or someone else I wanted to get hold of to ask a few questions, I think it’s the first guy, could be both or either though that bits fuzzy.
How do I figure this one out? The mother, childhood home, kitchen and milk seemed connected and make me think of a childhood issue, a recurring one because I often dream of this setting, maybe dependency because that’s what comes to mind when I think of milk. Maybe I have to learn whatever ‘changing roof-tiles’ represents from this person? A recent time I dreamt I was in this house there was a crack in the ceiling, now it’s about changing the roof, actually no roofs were changed I didn’t actually do anything in this dream, this dream is about how much I suck isn’t it (if it is please please just skip this one) even the guy was doing the dishes, anyway I’ll finish here as not sure how to read it.
Dear Khi,
In the first part of the dream you are figuring out relationship cues that give you key bits of information. In the second part of the dream you are being annoyed by having others tell you how things are done. When that type of person is around, you tend to turn off, which will keep you from the first part of the dream. The goal would be to simply let go of the annoying people because they really don’t matter and focus on the first part which really does matter.
What of I have a dream I am at Walmart and I steal some food from outside. Apparently the person in charge of Walmart in my dream was someone different so lots of people took advantage of that and started to steal. There were flowers and foods and things outside as well as inside but I stole from some food outside like some wafers, milk cartons, and I can’t remember what else but I had quite a few things. So I go inside and there’s this dude that’s in charge of the place that’s helping me buy groceries and things from inside. I don’t remember if I asked for his help or what. So anyway at one of the water bars I think (the one I stole, not the things I was actually buying in the cart) I was holding it and he said something like “hoooold up why in the world did you hesitate when holding that? I SAW that hesitation girl, hand it right here” and I was kinda nervous but I handed it over. Appearently tons of other people had the idea to steal since it was a different person working there (I didn’t even know it was a different person, I just stole) so anyways everyone’s carts are being checked and whatever and turns out some of the guys in my class and a grade younger stole a few things too. The guy working there never found out that I stole, but he was telling me that when he checked the cameras, some people would walk past the things the thing they want really slow and afterwards it’s not there (meaning they hid it with them while walking past) and he was telling me a few other situations with these people that stole. I remember one of the kids in my class hid a few items in his sleeve or something. Anyway that’s all I remember from my dream oh and also the people that stole hid there items in their clothes or somewhere but I kept mine out in the open on the cart for some reason, thinking to myself that scanning them won’t even work because they were outside. Ok that’s my dream hopefully you can translate it
Dear Yeet,
It seems that the justification for you stealing in the dream was that the person there was different. I am not sure what you mean by different. Can you explain it. Was the person a different race or culture?
In my dream, there were a few people, mostly people I don’t know. We were in a strange house, and my friend had taken off to the bathroom. I assume it was to take a shower because she looked like she had just gotten back from the gym. She was wearing a grey t shirt and white shorts with blue stripes on the side. She had been gone for a while so I went to check on her. I had found her in a bedroom tied down, arms and legs outstretched with cuts and bruises all over her body. She was still clothed. However, her shirt was bunched up showing her stomach, which had been severely cut. She had something stuffed in her mouth, which was taped up, to keep her from screaming. My brother was standing at the foot of the bed just starring at her and smiling. I threw him out of the room saying stay the f@#$ away from her. That’s how it ended.
Dear Nat,
This dream shows you two different realities of the same person. There is the outer appearance, which in the dream appears healthy and strong, and the inner self, which has been abused and hurt. Your reaction was the appropriate one in that the first thing needed is protection from negative abusive things happening and to feel safe. The next step is the longer healing process so that the inner self can develop as it was meant to develop. It is a much more involved and difficult process. It shows you why in a relationship with others the qualities of patience, compassion, and listening are so important. In dealing with longer healing you have to put yourself to the side as if you are becoming invisible so that the other person can be get the care and be vulnerable.
Thank you for helping me with an understanding. Since this dream I have had four others like it. Each getting increasingly worse. There was one somewhere in the middle that was heartwarming and easy. These other dreams have been taking a lot out of me, to the point where I wake up more tired than when I went to sleep.
Make that 5 now
keep sending the dreams and then you can gradually turn them so that they become positives.
I had a dream where I was in a desert with my family. My aunty was leading us and we were walking behind her. I wanted to stop but she kept telling we need to get where we are going and then we can rest. After we got there, she asked me to turn around. As I turned around the mountains that were dusty turned into greenish mountains full of trees. Later, I heard my brother scream. And he told us that a worm was going to bite him when he stepped on him.
Dear SJ,
Your aunty seems to be giving you the lesson that sometimes you need to go through the desert to get to the green pastures which is analogous to working hard without a lot of results for a time before you get to the goal. Your brother is in a bit of panic. Worms don’t bite. He needs to be ignored when he panics.
I had a dream that I went to heaven and hugged a grandfather I have never met, lots of happiness and tears. I woke up feeling great, but looking online it seems to all mean bad things 😦
Dear Mel,
Going up to heaven means going up to your higher self, which is a good thing. Hugging a grandfather means embracing the old knowledge that is still valuable which is also a good thing. If you had a negative experience with a grandfather then it would be bad because you would be embracing the old stuff that needs to be discarded. Some old things need to stay. Others need to be discarded. Like male dominance needs to go. Hard work and determination need to stay.
What does it mean to have a dream/nightmare of an animal you didn’t know existed? I’ve had two instance where this has happened. One I had about two years ago of a rare black fox with white/yellow eyes and another I had just last night of what I think may have been a quoll (when I woke up I thought it was an orange, very fluffy squirrel with big white spots). When I woke up I looked up the animal description on google and found these animals. Didn’t know they existed.
Dear Sapphira,
When you have a dream of animal, the first thing you should try to figure out is what their metaphoric meaning is. Generally a fox is a symbol of being clever. Black means it has a kind of stealth quality and the eye color has something to do with having penetrating vision to figure things out. The squirrel is a symbol of being able to store things for a later time, which is the ability to not use up all your resources in the present so that you have a future.
But is there any significance with dreaming of something you had no idea existed?
It just means that you had no idea that the possibility of developing certain aspects of yourself existed.
This dream woke me… I saw an Asian man sitting on a box, he held up 2 fingers at me like the peace sign and told me “you have 11 days.”
Dear Reyna,
The world of dreams is different than the actual world. Time has a different meaning. For instance when he says you have 11 days, it doesn’t mean 11 regular days. It could mean 11 years or some other measure. And it could mean that you have a certain time to achieve what you need to in this phase of your life before going onto the next phase because the achievement of future goals depends upon what you can achieve now.
Hello, I have dreams frequently- the most recent few left me a little puzzled.
Last night I fell asleep for a little bit. I don’t remember have a Dream per say. I was woken up from my sleep by a voice that sounded like my wife. I kept hearing “I think he is breathing.., I think he just started breathing”
Two nights before that, while I was dreaming I was in a place that was similar to how I would stand outside “earth” everything had a purplish/bluish haze. When I looked up at in the sky… what normally would be a moon looked like it was earth.
The last weird dream I would like some help on is regards to me hanging out with friends in this dreams. I kept talking about going to “seminary”.. when I woke up, I quickly googled it because I have never heard that word being used before.. my dreams feel so real sometimes as if I am in another world. I’m getting to a point where I’m nervous getting to bed.
Any insight would be great…
Dear MB Howard,
What is interesting about your dreaming experience is the intensity of feeling you have from what you are experiencing largely because of the lack of understanding about what is going on in the dream. The dream that explains what you need to do is the one where you are looking back at the earth. This dream is about gaining perspective by having distance from an event so that you can see what is happening and feel more positive as you work through it. When you are hearing the voices you are completely associated in your body so you don’t have enough perspective to understand it. You can step outside of yourself and then get really curious about what is happening. For instance, you could have an inner meditation with your wife and ask her in the state about who she is talking about. You can also wonder why seminary would come up. So the messages are that you need perspective and curiosity to gain meaning.
So I’m at my friends house. We don’t kiss, we don’t have sex of any form we just cuddle. So we’re cuddling and i fall asleep and I heard someone say “chug a chug a choochoo chug a chug a choo choo” and i asked my friend if he said that, and he said no in his voice
Then he said it sounded like someone said it
And i said no someone said it
And the voice changed and it for distorted between his and a scary voice and it said “ no you said it” and i felt the breath get taken out of me like someone punched me and when i looked up there was a mans shadow over me and my friend was asleep. I tried to scream but the air was gone and my eyes started rolling in the back of my head and i started shaking really bad (kind of like the hag) while he hovered over me and i watched him
Then i finally blinked and woke up and my friend said i was talking in my sleep before i woke up…
Dear Jazmine,
What this dream says is that when you try to get close to a guy, you have a fear that you are going to be assaulted. It may be that you don’t feel comfortable in setting boundaries in a relationship like you are going to have to go forward to do things you don’t want to do. It will hold you back from having really close relationships. There are two skills you need. One is how to get close to someone which you seem ok with and the other is setting boundaries firmly which you need help with.
Hi there I was having this short dream
I was with a person which is dear to me in and their eyes was missing -they were black
like black holes with black air coming out of them
is it posible this dream to have any meaning
Hi,
My dream was pretty weird because it had revolved around me getting proposed and engaged to my uncle (my mother’s brother-in-law). I see him at least 2 or 3 times a week because he lives close by, however, I’m not close to him at all and our conversations mainly consist of just saying hello or bye to one another, so when he proposed to me in my dream I was weirded out because he was still married to my aunt. In the dream I had accepted the proposal but I was crying to both my sister and my mother and telling them I did not want to get married to him. The dream ended with me asking my mom how to break it off and then I woke up.
Hi Ashatan,
What this mean is that the person who is close to you has difficulty with vision in her life. She cannot see where she is going in her life. The quality she needs is vision.
I’ve had 2 dreams of late the first one was regarding my boyfriend sister who really has nothing to do with do with me and doesn’t want to know me. Anyway in the first dream she had a stroke and couldn’t do anything for herself and and even though she has a partner who she has been with for for 14 years he just walked out on her and wanted nothing to do with the situation. Anyway me and my boyfriend (her brother) had to make all the arrangements of putting her into care and looking after her. In the dream she wasn’t very happy as doesn’t like me anyway and having me to take care of her was not what she wanted.
In the second dream she again (the sister) her partner just left her and she wasn’t coping so wanted her brother (my boyfriend) to come and live with her and be with her.at the time we were trying to get a bank loan and she tried to boycott this and wanted her brother well away from me.And when I tried to help her out and encourage her to stand on her own two feet and be independent she screamed at me and said his my brother and l want him. After that dream I woke up in a sweat
Dear Leanne,
This dream is about dealing with people who have a lot of jealousy, specifically your boyfriend’s sister. Your response is to be kind and compassionate with her, but her behavior doesn’t change, even escalates. She, basically has a hard time developing herself so she looks for others, your boyfriend, to take care of her needs. It is up to your boyfriend to set boundaries with her so that you can have a meaningful relationship with him. If he cannot set boundaries with her, she will ruin the relationship. You need to tell him that.
I dreamt I was walking down the surgical floor hallway at work. I stop in front of trauma room 7 and I am suddenly struck by lightning. A surgeon comes to see if I am alright. I stand up as if nothing has happened and I walk to the staff lounge TV and change the channel. There is a huge meteor flying through space. A voice on the TV announces “Go to your positions.” I walk out the door and leave.
Hi,
I really love this dream. Basically, it tells you that you are really good in the trauma units or emergencies because the bad stuff that happens to you or others does not affect you badly. You can take a blow (lightning) and then get up and keep going. Basically its like you can keep calm under fire. Since I work with a lot of people who are in relationship crisis, it is the same thing that I do.
That was a dream I had back in October of 2017. On Halloween night that year my partner was brought into the same trauma room I was working in and dreamed about being struck by lightning in front off. I reacted as if he where just another patient and I continued to do what I could to help as I watched him die.
It’s an important dream to me as I feel they are both connected. I think about the part of the comet and broadcast over the TV “go to your positions”. It seemed a mass message for many others rather than just a message for me. Oddly, there was also the first known interstellar comet Oumuamua that passed through the solar system that same month….. also, while writing this and googling how to spell “Oumuamua” I discovered that the second known interstellar comet will be passing through the solar system this December.
As someone who receives a lot of dream data, do you feel that objects in space can have an effect on the collective unconscious? Do you think itd be possible to find similar themes in a population of dreamers during space anomaly events?
Hi,
Really great questions. Since everything is connected to every other thing in creation, there is no reason to believe that we are not affected cosmic events. My wife, for instance, doesn’t hardly sleep with a super moon. My work is much more on the metaphoric level because I am more interested in the messages for people’s inner beings. I love your curiosity. Ok, Halloween night, trauma unit, being struck by lightning, dying. This would be an example of a worst case scenario for you and because you are dealing with them all the time, it is natural to have a mindset toward them. When you have them and you have fear-related emotions toward them, then you can believe that your spirit wants you to move in the direction of going for best case scenarios. If you think of the future in terms of best case scenarios (even though the reality of worst case exist), you always get the better, much better results in your life. I can share examples, but there isn’t time. During the time of the 2004 tsunami lots of people later told me that they had had tsunami dreams just prior to the real event.
I dreamt my crush and I were sitting on some table and we were doing something for work. We had people we know from work with us but it seemed that we were waiting for our transportation to take us to a different building for a meeting. While sitting down together, he grabs my hand and interlocks our fingers but doesn’t say a word and acts naturally about it. In the dream, he never confesses his feelings for me but continues to hold my hand and be really close and flirty throughout the rest of the dream.
Dear Bianca,
The dream is positive in nature which gives you a green light to approach him and develop the relationship. It isn’t a guarantee that it is going to work, but you are needing something to give you courage to move forward with him. Relationship always take a fair amount of risk taking and the ability to let go of rejection easily. When you have those two skills, then you can work on intimacy or closeness, but without those two, you cannot get in the door.