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Hi my sister dreamt that she was in a dark room with two beds and she was in the middle a shadow came she thought to knew the poeple in front but weren’t saw and they were praying to Satan and were trying to get her to part but she didn’t what does this mean
Dear Milita,
This dream means that your sister has a strong will to withstand the pressure of negative egos. When people try to take her away from her intended purpose, she will be able to be firm and keep going. To make the dream work better she can imagine herself moving with the light instead of being in the dark and going out for adventure instead of being in the bed room.
Yesterday i dreamt that i was sailing in the ocean looking for something i couldnt know what. There was a really strong storm too i ended up with my boat being sunk. I was stuck in the middle of the pacific ocean, after that i woke up.
Dear Anonymous,
Basically what the dream says is that if you put yourself out there in the middle of all of the energy in the world, but you don’t know what you are searching for, you are going to sink in your life. All you have to do to make this dream work is to have a positive intention because life moves from one positive end to another. Positive goals or intentions work as lures to draw you to them. You cannot be guided without the goal.
Hello. This dream is pretty weird, random, and gruesome.
First it started where I was on a beach trip with a lot of my friends and family in different areas of the dream and there was a part where I got mad and ran away from everyone. I was then in a floating man-made island thing hiding from everyone and I sprained my ankle, then my friend his name is Francis was the one who helped me with my ankle. Then suddenly all of my friends and family was across us in the other side of the water and they were all waving for me to come back and so I swam back to them but I was still angry at them. They were all in this organized arrangement (like a scene from a movie). When I finally got there they were apologizing but I didn’t mind them because I was still mad, I was shoving everyone off. I just noticed my best friend and grabbed her arm and tried to go away from everybody. (This is when it gets weird) So in that group of people there were 2 bisons and on one of the bison was a guy (let’s say his name was John, he and I are not very close in real life) was on it. As I was walking pass the bison and John with my best friend, the bison started acting up and John was trying to shush it and tame the beast. He kept making these loud sounds that would tame the bison and would punch it so it would calm down. But it didn’t calm down. It went wild, but the scary part was, John went wild and punched the bison constantly in a continuous pattern. I shouted at him to stop and get off. And there was this sound that I kept hearing as he punched the bison, it sounded like a fast shout or something. Suddenly blood started splashing everywhere and towards everyone and I ran towards the waters (this time I was hugging my dog) and I was swimming away and crying as the blood kept sprinkling everywhere. John never stopped punching the bison, and the bison tried to escape in the water and there was even more blood. And the sound was sooo mortifying and gruesome and he didn’t stop until the bison was already in half. I can’t remember what happened next, all I remember was waking up with my heart racing. (This is really weird because in real life John is a really nice person and we’re not that close, so I don’t understand why I dreamt of him in such an emphasized and gruesome manner)
I hope you can interpret this to ease my mind a little. Cause the details I’ve experienced in this dream is really scarring
Hi,
The problem in the dream is that when you get very angry at others, when you are supposed to be having a lot of joy and fun, you isolate yourself and go away from others as if you are going off to an island. When you are off on island, even when people are sorry for what they did, you hold onto it. So the first step in letting go of the anger you have toward others is to forgive what others did so you can continue the relationship. What makes you unable to forgive is that you feel weak inside when they act badly. In other words, when they act badly you automatically feel weak and then go to anger and then go off. What you really need is represented in the bison, which is a combination of strength and wildness. If you could feel the positive energy of a bison inside of you, as if you were a bison, then the things others did to you would not bother you. It is like you are not strong enough or do not have the quality of inner strength inside of you and you are not free and wild. When you have these two qualities, then the things people do that make you angry right now will not bother you so much. John represents people who do not understand the value of inner strength so they try to kill it.
I had a dream i was in a lecture then a rude guy took my place iwas mad about it but didnt say anything then i went to get Something another guy came and took my Chair but i was so mad this time and made a huge deal out of it then the teacher calm me down and i was like yea ill be the bigger person and stay in class then the same guy who took my chair started to be nice to me and seems like he likes me And started to flirt then the first guy who also took my chair started to hit on me as well so basically turned out they both like me but iwas confused why were they rude at first and iwas like seems like this year i am going to have so many love options and thats it that was my dream but idk who are those guys but they looked cute and 5 days later i kinda had a similar dream
Dear Zee,
The best way to understand this dream is have a different kind of understanding about time than what you probably have. Dream time is much much different than real life. In this dream everything happens as if it were a couple of hours that passed, but in real life, the processes that the dream indicates could take a very long time. First of all you were angry and kept it in, then you were angry and let it out. Both of these processes get you nowhere in life even though the second one often feels like a release. It was not until you started calming down, which is the virtue that you needed, but didn’t have, that you decided for your higher self. When you calmed yourself and went to your higher self with the help of your internal teacher, then people became attracted to you. It shows you how important it is for you to develop the virtue of calmness which is closely related to patience or peacefulness. They are amazing qualities to have and are very attractive to others. It will take work to get to them.
I had a dream that I was driving I accidentally tapped another car I got out of the car and then I started being chased by group of women who are trying to fight me I’m a female myself
Dear Jamila,
Basically, this dream is about the fear you have that if you make a slight accident, the whole world is going to come chasing after you and attacking you. This probably has to do with being raised by a perfectionist parent or having others who expect perfection from you. The solution is to see the world as a friendly and encouraging place.
left this in the “about section”. i’ve been having a lot of dreams so if this is not appropriate, please do let me know how else i can get them interpreted?
(a) husband’s entire family was singing as a choir whilst i was filming them. my father in law then proceeded to get everyone to look at me whilst i filmed them. the kids were laughing and running towards me and the camera;
(b) in the next dream, i dreamt that i was talking to my husband’s aunt, who was trying to dissuade me from divorcing my husband and i kept trying to explain to her that that’s not my intention. it was my husband’s idea. then i asked if his grandmother knew and i began walking towards the grandmother. however, the grandmother was presented in a child form in the dream and she replied i know.
(c) the next dream, i was in my own house and my aunts/mum were helping out in the house when my husband appears only to dash to the bathroom. when he first appeared, he was in the imagery of his current self – bald with a goatee. however, when he came out of the bathroom and walked towards me, he was with hair and had no facial hair (clean shaven). he then started asking me why i stopped updating him about our child.
Dear Zoey,
The first dream seems pretty positive with a lot of joy which is the state that you are seeking. In the second dream you are presented with some metaphoric energy that keeps you from getting to the goal of the first dream. There is something that is taking you away from your husband, that resides in him, not you. It seems like it something that runs through his family, some characteristic of his family that started in childhood with the grandmother. In the third dream it usually goes the other way around. People often lose their hair, which means losing their power. In this case your husband gains his hair, which means that he needs to gain his power. This comes from him seeing himself as beautiful or seeing himself as positive. I hope this makes sense. In short, he needs to see himself more beautiful for the family to be together.
Yesterday i had this dream where my hair was falling, im a guy btw. So the dream started with me playing with my hair and pulling and rubbing my head when suddenly i realized that alot of hair was in my hand. It was like really fluffy almost like a pets hair. I have hair irl btw.
Dear Anonymous,
Losing your hair in a dream has to do with losing your power. Loosely, the logic is hair is a symbol of beauty and when you lose it, you are losing your power to see and experience the positive all the time. When you can regain the positive focus and experience, then your power comes back. Power is in the positive seeing and experiencing of things.
I met a artist who made someone with tightly coiled hair on top and wavy hair on the bottom and when you touched the hair and looked up close it looked like hair from every nationality.
Khi,
Hair is the symbol of power in the sense that hair represents beauty, and beauty, being able to see and experience the positive in everything, is the greatest power you can have as a human being. In a sense you are seeing and experiencing the beauty in everyone and that will give you great power to do things.
Someone in my dream kept telling me to say,” nay nay omastaye “
Hi Claudette,
Do you what language omastaye is from?
I dreamt I was given a hamburger on a paper plate. I took a bite of the burger and saw that there was a note on the plate that the burger had been purposely infected with parasites. I threw up the burger and it was crawling with a bunch of hook worm looking parasites. The lady standing beside me said “Its too late, they are already inside you.”
Hi Thelton556,
Parasites are metaphors for people in your life that depend upon so that they do not have to make a lot of their own efforts. The hamburger would be more representative of you. You are the meat, the big source of sustenance, and they are feeding off of you. The question you have to ask is who are the parasites in my life then have boundaries with them.
A few nights ago I had a dream that I was sent to jail for some petty crimes that another group of people committed. I was not mad that I was taking the blame for these crimes (I dont remember what they were). It was a open jail with cots in a large room and a desk in the back where the jailer sat. Our cots each had a thick mattress and we were allowed to bring as many books as we wanted and were even allowed cell phones, although each time I needed my phone to call someone I could never find it, but I used it to play games and pass time. Also, in this dream there was a girl I was good friends with in High school. She got into a couple fights with newbies when I was in the jail, but her and I were just as close in the dream as we were back in the high school days. I could also leave the jail whenever I wanted to get food or ride my bike, but I was not allowed to visit or see any friends or family when I left. I had a time limit and if you were late then there would be consequences. But I would leave out the back door and ride my bike to walk around the town for the couple minutes I was allowed. There was only once when I was running back as it counted from 3…2…1. Then I woke up.
Dear C,
There are certain aspects of your life where you feel constrained as if you were in jail and as if you were blamed for doing things that you didn’t do. It only hinders you outwardly, not inwardly. The dream is actually pretty positive because you maintain your positive self and get close to others despite the constraints. It seems as though something is preventing you from being close to your family and friends. Did something happen where you were blamed?
In my dream…
My longtime friend, Dave was just moved into a new apartment. It was a house sivided into apartments (like his place in real life) except he was on the top floor instead of bottom floor. He decided he wanted to throw a housewarming party and ended up having around 20ish people around.
While Dave was mingling , i was standing alone until a male friend of his introduced himself to me and started chitchatting. Once Dave saw us talking, he immediately grabbed my hand and led me away. He was very mad and jealous (We are not dating in real life by the way). He kept going on about it and he was saying he heard all this dirty talk that never happened. I didnt get a chance to explain to him bcuz there was a knock on the door. Dave ran to answer. It was his downstairs neighbors.
I rushed to the window to make sure there were no problems or fights. Byt all i saw was dave smoking weed with his new neighbors (he does not even smoke weed in real life) . so I let him be and rejoined the rest of the party.
All of a sudden and only moments later, an exploding fire burst out. Everyone around me was panicked and there seemed to be no way out.
Then dave calls me on my cell phone and tells me to use his hidden fire escape but to not tell anybody. I didnt listen to him and led everyone to the fire escape. I let everyone go down the ladder first . at my turn, i glanced far down and saw dave staring at me with the most angry fave ive evet seen….
What does it all mean?!?!?
Dear Meg,
In this dream you are at a party at Dave’s house. In a way it is like going to a party inside of Dave’s self because a dwelling represents a self in a dream. Instead of being enjoyable you get to experience Dave’s issues as if you are in his head or body. He seems to want to control you as if you belong to him in the dream, which may not be about you but about how he operates in life. Also he deals with his issues trying to escape from them, but the big issue is anger, which is represented by the fire. So while you can maintain your friendship and support him, he would have a lot to overcome to be more than that.
I was in a military school gathered with a group of people in the yard waiting for our leader when zombies attack, I try to find people to help me look for him or at least I’m like we should call the corporeal everyone’s like no because then he would get in trouble-and when a decorated person passes with a secretary we all go silent-I think he would be very cruelly punished so I stick to finding him instead – getting one person to come along with me, I’m up ahead in the building trying to survive these zombies looking everwhere, he could be dead and this is all pointless or he could be in hiding especially if they’re after him, eventually I’m upstairs in this fancy dining spot jumping on tables scrambling to escape, I am elated to find small sharp knives as I pressume I can fight/kill the zombies with them, I get one for the person who came along. Then I woke up. Never been to any kind of military school btw. Any insights appreciated thanks.
Hi Khi,
Military school is a metaphor for how most schools are in the world. They are not interested in developing who you are as much as they are you learning how to be obedient and fallow orders so that you can do what people with power and authority want you to do. Zombies represent the result of that kind of education system. They represent people who do not know who they are inside, who their true selves are. They are dead to themselves. Killing them is not the answer even though they can be vicious. The goal is awaken people to their true selves to who they really are and what positive destiny they have.
Hi, last night I dreamt that I was sat by the beach with my mum. All of a sudden the sea gushed into the town and water was flooding everywhere
Dear Antonia,
When you are with your mum at the beach, the goal is peace and tranquility and joy. Your beach (inside of you) gets flooded by someone else’s negative waters (emotions) and then your peace and tranquility is upset. Another way to say this is that you have an association in your mind between peace and tranquility on the one hand, and being flooded by other peoples negative energy on the others. It makes it difficult to have the kind of love and tranquility that you are seeking. When you get strong in your ability to be tranquil, then other people’s issues and emotions will not affect you so much.
Hey, yesterday i had a dream where i was at my uncles house and my mother lost her legs and arms. I was crying in the dream and then i realized i was dreaming so it was kind of lucid. I made myself wake up because i couldn’t stand it. U know what could this mean?
Hi Anonymous,
The dream seems to indicate that in uncle’s house (which means being in his energy) that your mother (probably a lot of other woman as well) lose their empowerment and ability to move forward. It shows you that your work is to help woman become empowered and move forward. You must come from a very male-dominated culture.
Hello Richard
I had this really disturbing dream, were I would be in my room and watch people being tortured . My mom would call me to the the leaving room to be with the family and I would go, but find myself getting bored and going back to watch people getting tortured. I don’t know if you want the specifics of what I saw but, it would show people being boiled alive and being beaten Nd you’ll hear there bones cracks. I saw a woman and a man in white but they’re clothes were covered in blood walking in agony. Yet it wasn’t a nightmare in my dream I just enjoyed watching it than be with my family. It was when I woke up that I realized it was a disturbing dream. What does it all mean?
Hi Lily,
The problem in the dream, as I see it, is that you didn’t do anything to stop the torturing or help those people in trouble. It basically means that you have some kind of hurt inside that has been done to you at the hands of others. You want someone punished for it so you enjoy the spectacle of the torture. It is like pay back. When you deal with your hurts, you will start to replace them with positive energy that will make you more responsive and loving.
I dreamed of being in a store setting. I was so sleepy, I could barely keep my eyes open. As I was walking out, a black lady was right outside the door. I think she may have been coming in. There was a bright white light and I could only see he cheeks. They had tons of holes. I was trying to hand her something and was having a hard time because I kept closing my eyes. She didn’t say anything. I apologized and explained that I had work the previous night and was tired. After a struggle I was finally able to place a paper in her hand. I walked to look for my car and couldn’t find it. Next thing I remember I was riding with my mom and I ended up at a friends apartment. The apartment was definitely something I’m not familiar with. I walked somewhere to grab food and a guy asked me if I liked it there. I replied yes, it’s nice. He then asked if I wanted to stay. I told him no, I live very far from her. That’s all I remember.
Dear Ariana,
Basically this dream says that your true self (true spirit) is only partially awake probably because you work hard in the material world, but I am not sure about that part. When you are in that state, you can not make sense of things, or relate positively to others, or do your purpose. The goal of the dream is to get fully awake so that you can live fully what your true self wants you to do.
This isn’t exactly one dream, but multiple. but its happened so many times i need to write it somewhere and figure out what it means–no matter what i’m dreaming about, every once in a while, i’ll always dream about the same wolf. a huge black wolf who looks reddish brown in the light, with dark brown eyes that look human. He’s always in a forest, always alone, its always me either falling down a hill into a forest or wandering into one and falling, he approaches me after a few minutes. i’m always slightly cautious and anxious at first before becoming very calm, and then i feel safe. like i’m being protected. he’ll look at me in my eyes for a few minutes before rubbing up against me and either laying down with me or urging me to play with him. if he lays down with me, we stay like that for a little bit, everything feels safe, and like i’ve know him for years, before i wake up. if we play we romp around and tackle for a bit like we were both wolves but he never snaps at me or even growls, i still feel safer with him then i do with anyone. after playing we stop for a few seconds before he hears or sees something and runs off and i go on with the rest of my dream whatever it was before seeing my wolf its always just me and him in a forest no matter what. i always feel sad when i wake up, like im missing a friend,,i have no idea what this dream means because every source says people are usually afraid of wolves in dreams and im not except for the first few seconds of seeing him,
i forgot to add: sometimes i’ll try to tell my mother or a friend about my wolf and they don’t believe me. sometimes i’ll try to take a picture of him only for the picture to be blurry, or perfect and then completely unusable or destroyed before i can show anyone
by huge i mean h uge, almost the size of a bear instead of a wolf but definitely a wolf, but i always feel safe by the end despite his size
sometimes when were laying down hell growl at something in the distance, but never at me
i had one single dream where he did almost attack me, he started approaching me like normal and right when i was about to calm down he started growling and i was completely shocked, and was growling and walking towards me, but his tail was inbetween his legs, i know enough about wolves to know that means he was scared and not angry but still about to attack me–
i woke up after he lunged at me
but that version never happened again, its almost always me feeling completely safe and protected with him
these dreams are always extremely emotional to me and leave me either missing my wolf or happy i had the dream again
its one of my only recurring themes in dreams and one of the only things in my dream i can ever remember
so i feel like its important
Dear Sam,
You are so fortunate to have a dream like this. About a week ago I had a dream about a bear with a similar kind of relationship. Normally wolves are pack animals, but because it is a single wolf in your dream, you can focus on their individual qualities. When a wolf is positive (or even negative) in a dream, it means that you need to embrace the qualities inside of you that are wolf like and start acting out of them. You are lucky this is recurring. If you do not embrace them, then the wolf will go away and you will be attacked by negative wolf-like aggressive people in your life however they may appear. Wolves are above all else endurance predators. They get to their prey (in your case your positive goals) by staying with something for a long time. It isn’t so much that they vicious. They tire out prey. So when you embrace your wolf, you will find that you can suddenly last a long longer on goal related activities. You can sniff the clues and keep going. This is the important thing. Feel free to ask more questions. Like when I had the bear, which was playful in the dream, I knew that inner strength was calling to me in my life.
I had a dream where I boarded a public bus to go to work. The bus was filled with passengers but the driver stopped for whatever reasons…he got out of his bus…evaluating the bus and speaking on his phone the same time…I began to get worried that I was going to be late for work and I needed to be early but this driver continued talking on his phone. I then made an issue with the driver…I got off the bus and did not pay him. I ran to another bus stop,hoping the driver wont see me…trying to catch another bus to go to work. In doing so …I then saw my boyfriend walking by with another girl but then I believe the dream instantly switched to I walking into the home…catching him texting a girl on his phone…and I asked him why is he speaking to her more than he speaks to me…and he said it’s nothing….I looked at the messages and it seemed to be nothing but I still made an issue out of it….In my dream I felt very upset and I woke up feeling the same way,noticing that it was only a dream…What does my dream mean?
Hi Dee Dee,
If the bus driver would not have stopped, you would not have gotten off the bus and seen your boyfriend with someone else. It seems to me that the dream is saying that because you live your life in a hurry, worrying about being late, you don’t see what is obviously happening with your relationship. If you were to slow down and open your eyes, you would clearly see things. I think that this dream should act as an eye-opener for you.
I had this dream that really stood out to me.
I usually get very vidi dreams anyway. But this one feels some thing important I need to know.
In my dream I was in a physio room. I was sitting on the physio bench they always have. I looked out there was windows but been glaze over so people from the outside can’t see in. My partner was standing on my right observing what the physio will do. (In my waking life I fractured my ankle 2 months ago. I’ve been seeing a physio) in my dream I went to see a different physio because I wasn’t happy with my current physio. This physio was a man he appeared a couple years older than me. He had olive skin like mine but a bit darker. He looked like he was half asain and half European. He appeared maybe from Malaysia or Tailand. He had very dark black hair that appeared comb back and was very well built. He came across sporty meaning he did his own sports outside of his practice.
The physio man was standing at the end of physio bench observing my feet. He said to me “You have beautiful feet”
Next in the dream suddenly I was in this bathroom, bent over this long elegant white bath. Behind me was the physio man that wanted to have sec with me. I told him I couldn’t because I’m with some one else. Which he appeared disappointed or sad.
Then the dream changed I was in my living room. It was day time with the sun shining in brightly.
I was on the sofa and the physio man was there coming on to me. I told him I was with someone else. I said to him that you wouldn’t want to be with me anyway. I told him all of my faults. That I have OCD, anxiety, BPD and I don’t have a job.
But he appeared as if he didn’t care about it at all.
Then I guess the next day in my dream. The physio was with me at my house and got me to sit on my fours on this rubber mat. Told me to arch my back as a back streach. I knew he wanted me to do it out of his own sexual desire. I was then pull apart had conflict in myself. Because I wanted to have sex with him too and I found him very attractive.
I notice he pulled his pants down and notice his penis that he was going to do me from behind.
Out of now where, I was in my bedroom trying to call my therapist because I believed I was sexual abused. But it seemed I struggled to dail the number to my therapist. I recalled I left the phone on my unmade bed.
That was my dream. What does it mean?
Dear Jane,
The appearance of the physiotherapist in the dream means that your being is searching for some kind of healing that spiritually that you are not getting. Having sex with the physiotherapist in the dream world means being able to bring in some new energy into yourself that you are currently not getting. The “energy” really wants to be with you but you are resisting it. Because it is your ankle, the energy that wants to come is “enthusiasm”. The ankle is the area that keeps the body in balance so that it can go upward and forward. That is a metaphor for enthusiasm. There seems to be resistance inside of you for being more up, more enthusiastic, so you don’t accept the sex. It may have something to do with the fear that if you become more enthusiastic in your life, your husband will be upset. You have probably discussed with your therapist, but if you have not, you need to. It was not abuse. It is the desire of your being to be healed. Your ankle will not be fully healed until you resolve your issues with enthusiasm.