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I’m so sorry to inconvenience you but I feel pretty uneasy towards this dream I had last night and I was hoping you could help me out. I would really really appreciate it. Last night I had a dream that I was at a beauty salon and there was a line so I decided to go to the restroom. While i went inside a stall I felt uneasy and something told me to get out. All of a sudden I hear a baby frantically crying I thought maybe the mom was changing the baby or something but still I felt uneasy so I got out the stall and the stall next to mine was going off opening and closing pretty fast and the baby crying just got more sinister. I had never felt that scared in my life. I ran out of the restroom and the beauty consultants were asking me what was wrong and I told them what I heard. At that point I was crying and trembling and couldn’t talk as much I was too terrified. They called the cops and they checked just to confirm what I already knew it was. It was a ghost. Now I have this gold ring of our lady of Guadalupe and it was in my dream because I remember people asking me where it was and how authentic it looked. That’s all I remember but I know I woke up scared and just felt uneasy after waking up as well. I would really appreciate if you could help me interpret what it all means.
Dear Abby,
The context of the dream is you going to a beauty salon. This means that your intention is to get more beautiful. Of course you probably already know that there are two types of beauty. There is outer beauty like what you go to a salon for and inner beauty which has to do with your character. When you dream about beauty in a dream, you can assume that it wants you to work on inner beauty first and then outer beauty in moderation afterwards. Most people do it the other way around only they skip working on their inner beauty. Going to the restroom means that you have something to let go of before you can get to inner beauty. The thing you have to let go of is your fear of ghosts. You cannot get to your inner beauty (the amazingly beautiful and talented person you are) until you let go of the fear of ghosts. The fear of ghosts is the fear that invisible energy is doing to do you harm. People who have this fear hold onto it because they do not know how to relate to their own really positive invisible energy which is all of their positive qualities like love, warmth, honesty, courage, etc.. These are things that give you inner beauty. Most cultures have the fear of ghosts because worldwide very few cultures know how to truly see and relate to the beauty in each other. When you can see the beauty in yourself and others, then ghosts have no reality.
My mother (deceased in real life) turned into a water filter jug – full of filtered water she/it cracked/pieces broke off it. I can’t remember if the water spilled or not. Any insight welcome and all the best taking care during this time.
I was walking down the road with a friend she was complaining about her doctor not giving her what she wants, I made a huge pot of various foods to help her to which I added sound – and porridge? but she wanted a flat screen tv which I helped her shop for, when I looked up there was a person in a cage.
Dear Khi,
It seems like what you are doing in the dream is the right process which is supporting your friend. It seems appropriate when you think about what is happening in the world that you are being reminded that it is the most important thing you can do because people generally are in a heightened state being trapped in a cage of anxiety and fear. Keep supporting others.
My current dream is that I’m able to jump and gliding over buildings, threes, streetlights, cars etc etc. Sometimes I’m escape, some time I’m looking for something or someone. The things is in both situations I have this ability that help me to succeed, you know sometimes we aren’t able to run in our dreams, so this ability is very useful in my dreams.
Thank you very much for the interpretation.
Dear Adrian,
I notice that your email address is from Italy so this dream comes as not surprise to me. In the material world we see that many of your fellow countrymen have succumbed to Corona which attacks the lungs of human beings. In the metaphysical world lungs represent the organ that allows us to feel light and airy. When you are in this state of feeling uplifted, you are capable of overcoming obstacles in your life easily. When you can overcome obstacles, you can do just about anything you desire. This is what the world and your countrymen need. You have it in you. Now is the time to bring it out.
I saw the dream about godess I dont remember exactly but I only remember it shows that the goddess in garbjun ….what that mean
Dear Anchal Arora,
I am not that familiar with the traditions around Garbjun. However, every goddess has a particular positive quality, a virtue, that is positive and beneficial. When a goddess comes to you, it means that you need to change your life so that you can have the virtue much more present in your life. My sense is that the quality you need is inner wisdom which is the ability to unravel deep mysteries.
I have dreamed several things since the beginning of this year. Yesterday I have seen a small Buddhist monks are playing.
Before then I have seen last days parrots , turtle, small sneak like that
I am waiting for a job. But there are no any progress
Dear Oshini,
The dream tells you all the things you need to be able to get a job. First you need to be more playful in your life, to take life more lightly. Then you need to be cheerful like a parrot, patient like a turtle, and in a constant state of trying to change your life for the better like a snake with a lot of flexibility.
I had a dream that i was with three girls i didnt know in waking life, but i was friends with them in the dream but se and my crush in my house. he was so off the whole time and all of a sudden the setting switched to an empty desert. the sky was blue, the sun was incredibly bright and the girls were gone. i was now walking across it with my crush, the girl everyone says he would look good with and three of my other friends (whom i knew in waking life). however my friends were far behind and i was struggling to catch up to him (crush) and the girl who everyone ships him with, and in conversations i was falling behind. we finally reached our destination which were incredibly high cement stairs which looked like my school grandstands. behind these grandstands was a big house, and fields of green and a stage full of instruments they climbed them with ease and i had to struggle to catch up with them. then they sat down and held hands and she lay her head on his shoulder. i asked “are you two dating?” and they both answered, “well now we are” and people from my school showed up with drums and someone started singing (she was very rude about it though) and i went to talk to the three girls (who somehow reappeared but now there were six)
Dear Jen,
The problem that the dream presents is that you cannot get to your crush (love or relationship) in your life, because you feel like you have to catch up to others, like you are behind where others are. The goal of your inner transformation work is for you to be able to see yourself as a person that has unlimited beauty and gifts, like you were a mine full of gems of inestimable value. It will probably take some work and you will probably need some help to see yourself that way, but believe me, you have huge gifts.
Dream
My family and I were attending a mass.
I fell asleep and when I woke up, my family wasn’t there anymore. And the mass wass over.
So I went out and thought maybe they were in the car waiting for me.
Then I saw them coming towards the church and told me “oh you’re awake now, we were just here roaming around.”
Then we walked together to get back to the car.
Somehow I turned into a little girl again about maybe 6 years old when I was walking next to my dad.
Then a priest was walking infront of us
The back of his cloak had words in spanish “avenerus de something”
(I forgot) but my dad told me that it meant “healing the something” (I wish I remembered, anyways)
Then, I don’t remember how this transitioned but then I was inside a curtained dressing room.
I was hiding, and outside, I could hear people fighting.
When I looked down, I was holding arya stark’s sword, needle, from game of thrones.
Then it was suddenly quiet. And I was found.
I was facing jamie lannister. From game of thrones as well.
We were on a one on one sword fight.
But I was clearly going to lose.
He chased me out of the church.
And then I started to notice, that the more I fight, the more his sword gets stronger and stiffer.
Then his sword started to appear wobbly and bent.
He even said “play with my sword”
When I came to realize that he has been manipulating me, I ran as fast as I could.
He chased me on his white horse and rained arrows on me.
I ran towards the woods.
Then I heard something like a narration that said “arya was good at hiding”
So I thought, yes I am. Then I climbed up the trees and ran from tree to tree. Then I stopped to hide inside one of the trees. I was panting. I tried to control my breathing so I won’t be heard until I fell asleep.
After a while, I heard rustling. Someone found me.
There were two characters. A guy that looked like Zelda from the legend of zelda and his beast-like friend. The beast looked like a big boar and a wolf but he had this friendly and timid type of personality. So the zelda-like character invited me over to share a meal with them.
Then there was this narration again that said “He cooks different types of dishes from snail broths to stone soup… etc”
And then I said “is this snail soup?”
Then the beast nodded his head.
And zelda-guy said “why yes it is. Sorry that’s all we have”
And I said “no, thanks alot” then I ate the snail soup.
Dear Arya,
What this dream says is that you were looking for your inner strength and courage from the church, but you couldn’t find it. That is why you fell asleep. If left you in a vulnerable state as if you were in Game of Thrones outmatched by an overwhelming force. It is only when you find Zelda and the beast that you begin to find those qualities. When you find them, then your soul can be nourished. The qualities seem to be strength and courage. They are in you. You have to find them inside. The church doesn’t seem to be able to teach it to you.
I had a strange dream the other day, and I’m stumped on what it could mean because I really feel like there’s a meaning. So in the dream I’m outside in a windy storm with my brother. I have three dull blue bowls filled with bones. I was grinding the bones in the bowls one bowl at a time. Each time I got to the next bowl, the storm got winder and more violent. Eventually, I got to the last bowl, the third bowl. And I started grinding but storm and winder was so bad. The wind was really blowing and howling. So my brother turns to me and says something along the line of,” You should stop.”
The wind was so loud, it actually sounded like wolves howling, so I look up at the clouds and see 3 black wolves howling. Then I wake up, I look at the time, the time I woke up was 3:03 or 3:05. I find really strange how the number 3 keeps showing up.
To understand this dream you have to understand the metaphors that are presented. Wind is a metaphor for the movement of the spirit in a positive direction based upon the vision of your inner true self. When the wind is out of control, it means that the movement toward what you really want is completely out of control. It is probably because you are grinding bones. Grinding bones means that your working too hard as if you are grinding. What you need is energy that flows more to get to your vision rather than grinding. Grinding means that your ego is overly involved and not your spirit. Feel free to ask if you want more elucidation.
I had a dream I was texting someone on Instagram DMs for the first time, and it was on my laptop which in the dream was a bigger and different model to the one I own in real life. It was some random guy and we just said hi hello how are you I told him good and how he likes hacking, which is what he’s doing to me right now… It didn’t make any sense to me, so I just ignored it and sent him a picture of the swimming pool outside where I was because I had come there to go swim. Suddenly the chat became very weird and it was like my gallery opened and merged with the chat…. I was so shocked that what is going on I scrolled endlessly and saw a lot of d photos, documents… Then I scrolled up and there was a message from him saying told you I was gonna hack you. Hahaha byebye and I was freaking out trying to see if my phone was hacked too or not I also went near the swimming pool yelling and screaming…. In real life I don’t save anything on to my laptop, except for study material, but no pictures of me or any personal/fun stuff… So it’s not even scary if it happened in real life, but it was in the dream since it had everything on it
Dear Hacked,
Being hacked means that someone takes some information that is personal to you without you giving any kind of permission for their own person benefit. What you can think about doing is kind of like the dream about the stray animals. You can get involved in positive activities that benefit others. When you do so, you are not bothered by people who are interested in their own selves only because they never go near service to others.
I had a dream that and my sugar daddy met at a party (can’t tell if it was in a hotel or house) either way me and him met up in one of the bedrooms… He gave me a paper with typed questions in which he had filled out the answers in pen. He told me he was a judge in one of the party programs so we quickly had sex (I mean it didn’t take him more than a minute, taking his pants off, putting a condom on, ejaculating, cleaning himself, and dressing up again, all in a minute) then I was leaving the party and saw him as a judge with the same type of questionnaire that he gave me, just different questions. On the paper he gave me there was a question about how much money he’d give me that day for meeting him, it said 15000 but he hadnt kept any cash with this paper so I went up to him from behind to ask for it, that’s when I realised that the question above the money question had the answer “I have the corona virus” with disgusting looking pimples/warts kind of things stuck to the paper in a line after he wrote that… The question he answered that to had no relation to his health or the virus by the way, his answer was totally unrelated to the question. I freaked out and started asking him about it repeatedly right after I asked him about the money calmly.
It’s crazy because in real life, he said he would not travel to see me until this corona virus pandemic settles down.
Dear Weird,
There are a whole lot of things wrong in this dream. First there is the concept of a sugar daddy. Then there is having the sex before you have time to enjoy it. Then there is being judged and finally get infected with a disease.
In real life sugar daddies are just a really bad idea because they are relationships based upon inequality. Don’t stay in it. There are consequences just like the dream says.
Hi,
When i was 17 years old, one of my friend’s brother had a crush on me and wanted to ask me out. But before he could ask, i got in to a relationship with another guy. I am still together with this guy even after 10 years. We are going to get married in 2 months. I am still good friends with that girl and only met her brother about 3 times over the last 10 years.
Today i had a weird dream. In the dream i went to see my friend and her brother was also there. I sensed that he was still interested in me but i didnt communicate much with him. Then while i was sleeping he kissed me on the lips. I was kind of aware of it but didnt stop him. In the dream i was a virgin and this guy told me to come to him if my fiance hurts me physically (i think he meant sexually).
So in the dream, my fiance did hurt me and i was crying. Then i went to my friend’s brother and told him how much i was hurt. He was consoling me.
Afterwards i woke up.
What does this mean?
I didnt even think of this other guy for a long time. And i have not considered him as a potential partner.
Dear Mia,
When you have a dream like this, it means that the person who came to you in the dream has a particular quality in himself that you need in order for you to be successful in your marriage. It is not that something is wrong with your fiance. It means that you need a quality in yourself that the other guy had. That is why he came to you intimately. When you think of him, you can ask yourself what was positive about him and then begin to think about how to be the quality you admire. Of course every new quality that you add to your life will make your marriage better, but this one is especially important now.
I was in a kitchen, it looked a bit like a mash up of everywhere I’ve lived, especially my childhood home and my current place, there was a blender that looked like a glass oven dish and I was trying to blend food in it (I think wholewheat fusilli pasta??) it looked perfectly blended however everytime I stopped and took off the lid, it looked just like it had before, like it hadn’t been blended at all. Side note: If it was pasta then blending it makes a sort of sense since I get indigestion from eating it in real life and so rarely do. Any insight appreciated.
Dear Khi,
This dream tells you not to blend pasta into your food for the obvious reason that it causes indigestion. Metaphorically it says to not blend things in your life that are not very comfortable with. There are things that you are not ready to blend in.
The first dream I had was about me and my two real life best friends joking around and enjoying ourselves staying together in some big house all alone.
The second dream was about me and my mom feeding some stray animals on the side of the road some extra food we had, and they were eating it (I think a cow and a dog) we were happy and discussing it then when I tried to take a picture from my phone in front of her she saw my gallery open and got a glimpse of a nude/topless picture of me which I didn’t even remember taking (this particular picture does not exist in real life btw) and she got so angry I was just trying to explain that maybe I took it for someone but I obviously cropped my face out before sending it but still she just had the ugliest scowl on her face.
Then I don’t know if this is part of the same dream or I had another dream but I dreamed I dressed/styled Cardi B (the real celebrity Cardi B) and I would dress her in a dress where the neck was low cut she could show off her breast and cleavage but her nipples would be covered… And after I dressed her I left and she showed up to the red carpet event I dressed her for in a really low cut dress with her nipples OUT but she put dark sparkly paint/pasties on them and she posed so adamantly I was so shocked did the dress not fit or did she change her mind… It was the same dress I gave her
I mean to say she was still wearing the dress I gave her. But she managed to put her nipples out/lower the cut and/or I was wrong with the measurements.. That’s what shocked me
The reason to lower the cut is to attract more attention.
Dear Dreamy,
The second dream is positive in the beginning because you are doing acts of service. When you switch to things that are recognition oriented, then you get into problems. It shows that while you generally can be of service, what you need to work on somewhat it letting go of the tendency to do recognition seeking. In the first dream it is showing you your positive ability to relate to others.
I had a dream that my brother was building something , it turned out to be a toy carousel, first him and everyone were saying it would be like my toy carousel (I had one in real life) then in the end he said it wouldn’t and I was disappointed because it already looked kind of like how mine was. I also kept remembering the wrong carousel music in the dream, when I woke up I realise I can’t remember the carousel tune, or was it the same as another wind up toy I had?
Dear Carousel,
This dream is teaching you about the negative emotion of disappointment. Disappointment comes to you when you have wrong expectations. The process that you forgot because of the wrong expectation of him building your toy carousel was honoring and encouraging his work. If you could have remembered to honor him instead of being disappointed, you would have remembered the tune in your old carousel, but as you were caught up in your own ego, your mind forgot.
I had a dream where i was in the midst of christain worshippers in a church, singing and praising God and some of them told me that the man of God is powerful and i replied then that seeing is believing. As the man of God appeared, there was applaud and he stood in front of me broke something like a crystal shell and a surge suddenly ran through my system down my throat as if my spiritual eyes was opening but i started choking and i called “JESUS, JESUS all i wanted is to worship you” i stopped choking and a roman catholic priest appeared beside the man of God. They both stepped aside and started discussing. They stopped discussing, faced the congregation and started dancing to the tune of the worship praises. I woke up.
Dear Paschaline,
True worship of God has a lot to do with serving others in the way that Jesus served people. He preferred living among the poor and helping them with their lives in both words and deeds. When your deeds can exceed your words, then you know you are truly worshiping Him.
I was in outer space in a large spaceship and my child’s father was there along with our child. There were tons of other people on this space ship too. Then there was something wrong and some weird outer space creature got onto the ship and it could only hear via noise, it had no sight. Everyone was in a panic and I got separated from my child and ex. I was in this mechanical area when for whatever reason I let out a scream on purpose so this thing would come my way (my thought was that if it is after me then my child will be safe). It came and I hid and it passed and was terminated. Once it was safe to come out I went looking for my child and ex and someone told me they took one of the smaller space ships and left the space station.
I do not remember feeling any fear during this dream and it was all pleasant until the creature came on board. In fact my ex and I were trying to make up so we could give the best life to our daughter.
I had a dream I was exploring a large library with no people. There were different levels of the library with many staircases and ladders. In one of the hallways there was a large archway that led into a large area with a glistening temple area – resembled the silhouette of the Sydney Opera House. As I walked around I saw a figure standing there, and I can’t remember anything past approaching it.
Dear C,
Exploring a library means that you are interested in raising your level of knowledge and understanding about the world. As you do you will increase your wonderment which will lead you to deeper experiences.
Dear Leslie,
The metaphor of going into outer space means that you are going way out there in your imagination and action where most people do not good. Although it is safe to do it with yourself and your ideas, when it comes to your daughter, you need to be more grounded to earthly thinking. You can save the outer space thinking for things not related to your child. Because of the separation she will have a tendency to feel apart from others. By being grounded with her she can feel much closer to you.
I had a dream that a girl a called up yesterday (her line came busy) texted me back on my number on whatsapp and picking a fight with me. I promptly texted her back calling her out for it and cussing at her and blocking her while she was still typing. I believe I also told her that she’s wrong which is easily proven in our chat I only called her once and it was busy even the call recordings will prove that I’m not at any fault here before blocking her or after blocking her when she came face to face to me I said that and walked away. After that I was hanging out with various crowds of people in classes, activities, some where even my real life best friends were because I didn’t want to get caught or whatever if she complained about me. At least not publicly I mean, I didn’t want her false accusation to ruin my image. I wasn’t afraid of having the whole conversation in public though if they did find me, because I believed everyone deserved a transparent process to know the truth, I wanted to prove my innocence in front of everyone. In the dream I didn’t get caught even though there were a couple false alarms like the teacher pointing in my direction but at the kid sitting behind me, etc. When I woke up I was shocked not to see any messages from her after my call then I realised it was all a dream. I actually barely know this girl in real life I just met her once and asked about classes that I am new to, and that if I have any further query I would call her and she answered my questions and gave me her number a few days ago. Apart from that we have seen each other at a distance in public.
Hi, The problem in the dream is that when she picked a fight with you, your anger immediately arose and left you in a position of fighting back and then being concerned about what others thought about your actions. In real life being right or fighting in a relationship have very little value because they do not produce anything positive. Fighting or seeking to be right don’t work. It is not taught in school because relationship knowledge is not taught. What you should have done, but you haven’t learned yet, is to remain calm under that find of provoking. Being calm and tranquil, like what you are taught in martial arts, allows you to have choice so that you can go forward. When you do get into a relationship, which is why you have the dream, at some time or another your partner may do something that is provoking you. When you remain calm, you can find the way to deal with the situation that actually works so that you don’t lose the relationship. In most circumstances, the best course is to do whatever it takes to keep your relationships positive.
Whenever I was younger (5-7 years old) and I had nightmares something weird would always happen near the end. Before I could witness the jumpscare/climax of the nightmare a pair of theater curtains would cover my vision with the question ‘do you want the nightmare to continue?’ and the options ‘yes’ and ‘no’. If I picked ‘yes’ then the nightmare would indeed continue, and likewise if I picked ‘no’ then I would instantly wake up.
I guess what I want to know is how exactly that’s possible, if there’s a term for it/if you’ve heard of it before, and why it would happen while I’m a kid and not anymore.
Thanks.
Dear Shelby,
When you are in the 5-7 year old age, you are not able to process the nightmare like an older person would unless you had a parent or older person who could help you understand it. As you get older you don’t have that choice because the responsibility to deal with really difficult nightmarish type issues is your own responsibility which cannot be given to others.
Last night I had a dream, that one of my favorite people, Lucas Steele, died in a fire. I don’t know Lucas in real life. Im really worried, and don’t know if I should be or not.
Dear Rowan,
When you are dreaming about a famous person, it means that you are wishing that you could become like him. When he dies in a fire, it means that the hope of becoming like him has been burned away in you. What you need to do is find out what you admire about him and then rekindle your desire to have that kind of quality in you. Oftentimes a person like has a very high standard of excellence so it could mean that you need to rekindle desire for excellence.
I had a dream last night that I was in my drama class playing a game with my classmates. It was some type of rollplay game. But throughout the game I kept seeing my crush looking over at me.
Dear Ryker,
Basically whenever you are seeing a crush in a dream it means that you spend a lot of time imagining a positive relationship, but very little time in the relationship itself. The virtue that is needed is the ability to be courageous or take risks. You have to take a risk and then you can be fully into whatever you are doing, not only relationships. Courage is the energy you need.