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I had a beautiful dream. The sun was setting and I was in the back of a van with wide clear windows all around the back. I have no idea who, if anyone was driving because I never looked, but I felt like it was just me in a moving vehicle on a long stretch of road in the middle of nowhere. A purple jellyfish floated and swam gracefully around the vehicle, following me, as if it were speaking to me or connected in someway. I felt like it was my angel or something. For like an entire 30 minutes it felt like, I was just following and in awe at this jellyfish swimming around as it made a show just for me. I could see through it and inside the head, there was lightning patterns and colorful fizzles like fireworks. I was recording it the entire time as it danced around for me. Then toward the end, it went far off into the sunset, then came back and just floated near the side, and actual mini firework patterns started forming in the head as actual fireworks simultaneously starting shooting into the sky behind it.
Dear Patricia,
What you are experiencing in the dream is the virtue of awe, which is the virtue that allows you to be fully immersed in the spiritual realm. The jellyfish has something to communicate to you, which probably mostly is that you can allow yourself to be immersed in the ocean of the spiritual realm and allow the Creator to take you where He would have you go because it is a much better place than you could ever do by yourself. I like the thought of having a jellyfish as an angel. You can go back into the dream and speak with your jellyfish. It has a lot to tell you.
Hi Richard, this dream involved a few things- I remember mostly a guys sister dying, she had very white Lacey underwear that I put in the fridge, quite a bit of it, when I wanted to put food in I would just smoosh her undies to the side and put the food in, the guy was quite upset when he discovered this, wondering if you have any thoughts on what this might mean, thanks
Dear Khi,
That is a really strange image. The best way to deal with this dream that makes very little apparent sense is to change all of the symbols to opposites in a positive way. For you to become alive (instead of remember someone dying) you need to warm up (instead of putting things into the fridge) your outer garment, which is your positive role in the world, by nurturing yourself to become more competent in the role. I see you have some other dreams so maybe this will get clarified.
Undies are quite private & intimate and then the fridge makes things cold it’s where you put things off for later so I thought maybe the dream was saying ‘you are too cold or you keep putting being warm off for later’, but then what about the dead sister and upset guy? Now put together like this it makes a lot of sense.
Becoming more competent and having a positive role in the world is apt, maybe the garment dreams are showing how to do this as I feel very incompetent and incapable in daily life and with people, not always, just very often. I say this because the undies dream was only the first, then the scarf dream, then a pair of shoes and then last night I dreamt of a coat.
I’m going to put this dream together with the scarf and other dreams and reflect, I’ll try that opposite positive idea as well, thank you as always for your help.
Actually after the shoe dream I dreamt about two dresses, then last night was the coat dream, so clothes one after the other, I wonder what I will dream tonight.
Excellent work. Your mind is putting things together very well.
I was dreaming about a massive bald eagle sitting just few feets away from my house, looking around everywhere and at the same time thousands of young eagles flying in swift towards my house.. We were trying close the doors but not the open space at the backyard and grills.. I was running inside the house by seeing them coming.. But I felt like they are coming inside through holes in grills and them feathers few falling. After the very next day of this.. I dreamt seeing three white candles.. Lit by my sis and I.. Where the third candle is quite far from the other two.. What it is all about???Awaiting your response!!!
Dear Jemi,
Eagles are symbols of having great vision. Because they fly so high in the sky they can have a very distant vision about the future. On top of that they are able see detail from far away which allows them to go after their prey. When you are a positive eagle, you have great vision and can go for achieving with great skill and courage. When an eagle is negative like in your dream, it means that someone else’s negative vision that other people follow is threatening you so you run and hide in yourself. In that dream you should become the eagle of your own positive vision and let go of the negative vision of others. The candles represent guidance which is what you need when you have a clear vision about where you are going or what your goal is.
my dreams are always repetitive(4 dreams) , but it’s always in my room. I’m always waking up from my bed, like it’s happening, but it’s a dream. Some event always plays out and then, i end up waking up in my bed again, basically getting thrown into another dream. Again, something happens to end up waking me up. Whether it’s getting scared, or something like an alarm, i always end up getting thrown into a third dream. Which in this dream, a real event always happenings. Events from irl, play out in my dream. It interprets something going on, but it isn’t exact. It’s more hinted if anything. I then get woken up again, then realize that i’m dreaming and force myself to wake up. (dreams are always about somebody personal)
Dear Lesly,
What the repetitive aspect of your dream says is that you are trying to wake up in your life so that you can become the person you want to become, but then you fall back asleep to your old self. You never fully wake up to the new self you want to become. This is, no doubt, because a part of you doesn’t want to see who you are becoming because you may fear losing who you think you are. When you go to bed, ask for a dream that tells you something about your new self. Becoming your new self is not an all or nothing proposition. You have who you are now and then new things come out gradually over time. Something wants to come out now, but you are not allowing it.
(tw for anyone reading this, it gets kinda morbid) I wake up and i’m in my room with a french horn (i own a trumpet) i decide to clean this french horn so i go and fill up the bath, once it fills up i blow on it, a bunch of organs and eyes come out of it, i go outside and tell my mom to call the cops, she thinks i’m over exaggerating and won’t call them. this dream is the craziest i’ve ever had.
Dear Francis,
The french horn is a symbol of you making beautiful music. In order to get to the place in yourself where you can play beautiful music, you have to clean yourself, get rid of, morbid and negative thoughts that disturb you. Your inner negativity will prevent your musical abilities. You have to let them go which is what you are trying to do, but they just get too negative.
This morning my 10 year old son told me about his dream. Him and his brother walked into a house and there was a long dinner table, he recognized my grandma and my younger daughters dad eating at the table and a lot of faces he didn’t recognize but he told me that he knew everyone at the table were people who passed. No one talked except for him and his brother.
Dear Celia,
What this dream tells you as his mother is that he has a great gift and a certain responsibility to unite your family. He will get assistance from family members who are in the next world. You can start his training by teaching him how to find the positive in others. He is probably also very attuned to the spiritual world which you can help him develop more.
I saw my brother with his wife and his two friends accompanied by me and my fiance somewhere outside and we are walking probably on a treck. One of my brother’s friend gets a snake from some traveler guy we don’t know and the snake is moving on this hand and around his shoulders while it is silent while everybody is marveling on the creature. While in the moment he looks at me it hissed and suddenly is outrageously furious and he attacks my brother’s friend To which my fiance gets his palm between the snake and my his neck and saves him and the snake bites his palm. At the moment the snake seems to have got back to the composure. But then the very next moment as he looks at me again snake hisses at me and jumped onto me and wrapped himself around my neck and bit me just near my collar bone while his lower body is is on my breast and his tail is inside my t-shirt and on my belly.. It is a black and yellow colour snake with a hue of red or orange to it while he has a triangular head he has eyes of a cat and seemed extremely agile and deadly.
In the second one I saw it hissing and his tongue against my cheek but it didn’t bite me on the cheek but spitted the venom on my cheek which dripped to my collar bone and turned into an acid burn mark.
I have seen this dream consicutively three times in a row in one night’ s stretch.
Dear Amelika,
What this dream says is that there is a poisonous snake that affects you and others in your attempts to relate to each other in positive ways. You have positive relationships generally, but you also have a snake around that is going to poison your relationships if you do not deal with it correctly. The snake is malicious gossip or criticism especially from people who might be jealous of you. The remedy for this dream is have your focus on the positive qualities in others and then acknowledge them. When you are married, your only road to happiness is stop the culture of negative criticism and develop the culture of positive encouragement. I cannot tell you how powerful this is. In your culture, because of the shortest of resources historically, and the lack of equity, jealousy is a huge thing. Finding the positive in others is the antidote to the poison.
Thanks for the above interpretation. I probably thought it is a one time thing and may pass but I have been seeing the same dream every night now since I first saw it. It is really terrifying and also I feel my heath detorating as I am constantly having abdominal pain and stinging sensation near my collar bone since the day I dreamt of it.
How can I get to know who could be the snake and how can I battle it ?
Dear Amelika,
Snakes are people who are usually very critical and often gossipy.
I have exceptionally long hair turning steel grey partway then back to black with shiny white silver strands running through. Inside an old empty house is an old woman explaining that its like that due to neglect. I think she’s my grandmother.
Later that place is torn down and she’s moved to a home except its for children with disabilities and they’ve allowed her to stay. Inside is a room with a raised platform set up in front of a giant screen of Disney media and lots of babies on top of it, one lady is with her 7yr old son who like the babies seems to be learning from the big screen.
When I talk to the lady I let it slip that my grandmother also lives in the home, upset she wonders if she can get the staff to let her grandfather stay too, later someone tells me my grandmother only has a set time to be there now and will have to move on.
I don’t a know any of my grand parents, any thoughts appreciated
The platform is like a stage which the babies are lying on while watching the cinema screen not sure if that was clear. And that my slip up probably led to the grandmother getting kicked out.
Dear Khi,
Hair in a dream is about the power of your own inner beauty. When you neglect it, as your grandmother says, it turns grey. It seems to go back and forth for you, which means that sometimes you act out your inner beauty and other times you don’t. Your grandmother represents the lineage through which you get your inner beauty. The way to solve this is to remember your positive amazing self inside and then to act out of it. Your beauty seems to be in a state of instability and impermanence.
I was dreaming where. I was wearing a long redish-purpleish cardigan I was with my friend. I saw the place we were in was my ex boyfriends old place I didn’t know why we were there. My ex was wearing a black top and grey track suit he was holding a baby boy. Then there were his friends and his wife in the dream they only person I spoke to my friend. Then in the dream I saw the baby my ex put him down he came crawling he was at my feet outing his hands in my foot. He was bowing down to me asking me for forgiveness he was looking up and bowing so my friend was like look down I saw him my heart was touched I felt like crying so I picked him up and I blessed him saying god had beautiful destiny for you you will be successful young man. He was listening to me. This isn’t the first time this baby boy appearing to me in my dream he appears in different dream with my ex. But note in the dream me and the baby were the only time wearing colourful everyone else was blur.
Dear Lydia,
This is a very interesting dream. What it basically says is that, despite you not being together with your ex, something positive happened to him that is only in a baby form. In time it will produce something positive. It shows you that you have an effect on people that you are not consciously aware of even if the relationships do not last. It is not clear what the virtue or capacity is, but it is good that you showed a lot of graciousness to the baby.
In my dream I remember going into a cave like thing inside this big old rundown falling apart church. Outside was chaos but u dont know why, And there was this.. old humanish looking thing. And we had a conversation, i don’t remember much of it but I remember seeing two painting.
I dont much remember the first one.
But i don’t remember much of the conversation, al I remember is i said “so hell is real?” And he said “oh yes”
Pointing to the second painting
And its not a painting ive ever seen before. It was demons and humans, but no hell fire, it looked like ancient Jerusalem or Egypt, like in the bible when people forced the jewish into slavery, the demons had whips and where laughing, and the humans where in robes and torn skirt like things, carrying big rocks, and it looked almost like they where building something. But i asked if there was a way to simple become a demon, and it said no, so then i asked for two free passes into heaven, and it gave me them. And I remember giving one to someone who in my head I recognized as my girlfriend even tho in the dream it didnt look like her. Then i woke up
Dear Jazmyne,
The key to understanding this dream is you going into a cave of a big old rundown falling apart church. This is the church who says that you can get two free tickets to heaven and it is hard to become a demon. This is the promise of the kind of church that has become lazy and lost its way because actually it takes a lot of work to get to your heavenly self, but easy to get to your satanic self. The new church believes that the getting to your heavenly self is a combination of belief and daily effort to better yourself and help others. There is no easy road for anyone.
I was tricked into being kidnapped by a big guy and because i was kidnapped my friends who were with me were also stuck. The kidnapper was a big black guy but he looked friendly. There was another old white guy. Throughout the dream i was not scared at all but i was looking for ways to get out. I delivered the white guy’s daughter’s babies which were twin boys and so i was allowed to move around freely. I tricked the old guy to tell me his last name. The kidnapping itself took place in a big garage but we ended up in a house/apartment but i dont remember traveling there
Dear G,
The dream is about being beguiled or as you say “tricked”. If you take out the being tricked part of the dream, you can see that you are very competent and resourceful in the rest of the dream. This is the positive sign. The weakness is in being tricked. Beguiled means that you are unaware of the negative intentions of a person before they happen. Most of us have gone through this kind of period where we cannot read the true intentions of a person when they are negative because they are good at charming or hiding them. When people are tricking others their non-verbal communication is not in sync with their verbal communication. There is a mismatch. You have to get good at reading the non-verbal communication because it is actually more important than the words.
Last night I had a dream that was quite…funny, to say the least.
The first thing about it that I remember is my dad called me to a window, in the middle of the day, and told me to look in the sky, because he clearly saw a “UFO”.
When I came to the window, I saw that sky was perfectly clear of any clouds, and the “UFO” my dad was talking about, was in fact the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars, whose pilot is actually a human.
When I told that to my dad, he laughed a little, and went to his and mom’s room.
Meanwhile, I went to kitchen, that is attached to our balcony, and saw a female figure standing behind the glass door, wearing a black cape with a hood. And suddenly it was still a clear sky, but it was like 8PM in summertime.
The woman looked alien, like the Asari from Mass Effect, but they are very human in their apperance and look nothing like the stereotypical aliens I am afraid of.
I walked up close to the door, rolling my eyes, and with a slightly annoyed voice asked who is she and what did she want.
And from up close I saw that she actually was wearing a costume, and said “I can see from here that it’s a makeup! And if you are trying to scare me, next time, pick something more frightening.”
Before I turned around to go back to my room, she wiped her make up, and introduced herself, said she was my downstairs neighbor (I don’t actually have that girl as a neighbor in real life), and that she just wanted to talk to me, for reasons I don’t really remember, something about sounds comming from my window, probably TV. She said she got to our balcony from the fire exit.
I invited her to my room for some tea, when she took down the hood she had long black, slightly curly hair.
I asked her if she saw the “UFO” earlier, she giggled and said she didn’t.
When I asked why did she dress up as an alien woman, well, I woke up. The dream just ended.
Dear Arty,
I love this dream. It is about the way we are in the world with others. When we think of people from distant places or other cultures or just different races, it is as if they are aliens and when we take a closer look we can see that they are sometimes just protecting themselves because they are just as afraid as we are. Really they are just like neighbors who want to have a coffee or get to be friends. This is how we should be with the whole human race. Then it will be a really friendly place.
I was thinking of a man I was intrigued by I open a door there is a windstorm outside I see a wolf appears and a cat the wolf attacks the cat I close the door to hide but the wolf never come s after me.
Dear Rebecca,
When there is a windstorm in your life, like things swirling around you, you see the aggressiveness (wolf) of others attacking the independence (cat) of others. You are not attacked, but it probably keeps you from approaching the person or things you are intrigued by. If you stay with being intrigued and ignore what is going on around you, then you will get to the thing you are intrigued with, but it you stay focused on the windstorm, you will get nothing.
I was visiting my in-laws and they were having a birthday party for a young child. I had my kids and husband with me. We went to their house and I stayed with my kids and my husband went across the street to the party. I was laying on a futon and then wandered to the basement. In the basement it was odd. There were like two rows you walked down then cement squares everywhere else. I remember feeling frustrated or angry or something then I had 4 or 5 men, but they were like young child size and I had a knife and was cutting them, like slicing their arms and legs and faces. There were on their knees with their hands in their laps. They didn’t fight me but also was asking me why. At some point my son came down and I didn’t hide what I was doing and he wasn’t phased by it. It was like it was normal. 2 of the men escaped and idk what happened to the others. later I went and saw my son had left bloody hand and foot prints all over my inalws apartment so I went and was cleaning them up.
Dear Tm,
Going into the basement means going into your lower self. Your lower self is trying to kill your masculine qualities in the basement and this is going to affect your son. It means that you have something against developing these aspects of yourself like courage and strength. You probably believe that those qualities are for a man to develop, not a woman. It shows you need some work on how to value those aspects of yourself so that you can become a well rounded person with a lot of abilities.
Richard, I am going through some transformation in waking life and my dreams are of the wall insane to me.
I was on my way to my ex’s house to see his new wife (in waking life we are friends). When I got to their house (this house was different than their real house in waking life) there were a couple people out front listening to music and hanging out. My son was there and I was chatting with the wife. She was telling me her and my ex were having communication issues and I offered to help. I sat down with the both of them and we talked through what their issue was and it seemed to have worked. I went to tell my son goodnight. In this dream his room was the only room on the 1st floor, while everyone else had a room on the 2nd floor. His room was all glass windows and this made me uneasy. He also had a door in his room that led to the outside and I did not like this one bit. I gave him hugs and kisses and tucked him in and made sure his door was locked a handful of times. I then went back outside and it was chaos. there were people all over the place and it smelled like a car crash outside. I walked down to my vehicle I parked on the street and the back doors were open and so was the passenger door. All the windows were busted open tires were flat and I could smell this smell that smelled like a recent car crash. I was saying “What the F***” over and over again. My husband had no idea I had even left the house and now this?! I went back in to check on my son and people were in the house (not causing chaos, just strangers). Once I knew my son was okay I went back outside and my husband was there. I asked how he knew and he said the police called him regarding his vehicle and he asked me what happened, I told him and he was like WHAT?!?!
Then it cut to some weird roads that were set up like hotwheel tracks high in the sky and I am scared of heights and I was sitting at the top of a tree watching people drive and crash, then there was water (like an ocean) under the roads and I swam away?!?!?!
Hi Christine,
So the first part shows that you can be really extremely detached and help bring people together in a positive way. It is impressive that you can do this with your ex. It shows the level of ability and the level of detachment.
Your son being a glass room (transparent) makes you really fearful for his safety because there is so much chaos out there in the world. What you should teach him (this is why you had to first part of the dream to show that you are a good teacher) is the relationship between transparency and wisdom and how you need both qualities. Basically it is knowing when you can share what you know or feel. It is your responsibility to teach him. For what you are doing with your son you need water qualities, which are relational qualities. You don’t need air qualities like courage or risk taking.
I dreamt that my my father and step-mom had invited me to a lunch with my two sisters, when we arrived at the location it was a broken down bar, which was still serving food and drink, I went inside and sat at the table with everyone, my father and step-mom decided to order a pizza which they really liked as well as my youngest sister, when the food came my younger sister (middle) had become upset because she didn’t like the pizza that was delivered, so I got up to find a menu so we could order something separately and I would eat with her instead as well. By the time I had returned my sister looked very sad and I sat down to go over the menu with her when I realized all the pizza was now gone, and my father and step-mom were standing to leave, I tried to explain that neither my sister or I had eaten yet and they made an excuse that they had to go because they were meeting friends, this made me really angry so I stood up and yelled at my father that he had better give me some cash so I could feed my sister (mind you were both in our late 20’s so I should seemingly have money of my own), and he threw $30 on the table and walked out. I grabbed the money and told my sister we would go down to our moms house to use her car, for some reason neither of us had ours. We go to the corner of the street where my mom used to live and she was standing in the road chatting with neighbors who I did not recognize. I explained what happened and she handed me a large key ring and said to take her old car, which was at my buddies house having had some work done to it. My sister and I go to get the car and I struggle to find the garage, which is in the middle of the house underneath a platform that moves up from the floor (think like an elevator), I push some buttons until the car finally pops up and I get in the car, start it, and pull away with my sister to go get food, once we hit the road I woke up.
Dear Derrick,
The dream is a metaphor for your sister not being able to get what she needs emotionally from your father and step-mother. They give themselves what they need, but she is left out. You are trying to take the responsibility for what they are unable to do. It seems like what your sister needs comes more from a combination of you as the brother and your mom. You are going to have to be detached from your father and step mom, make sure you look after yourself well, and then see that you can help your sister a lot along with your mom. Try to let go of the anger. It won’t serve you.
I had a dream about one of my friends, but this time he was replaced by an Internet model who I know personally. We were doing what we normally do, but out of no where he kissed me and we were about have sex, but we did not get excited so we stopped. He turned to the other side of the bed where my feet are at and started watching videos. In my dream I didn’t notice that he was the Internet model until then so I told him, and he said he didn’t want to be around people anymore he wants to settle down. He pulls me towards him to make sure I didn’t think he was avoiding me. I remember my friend told me his birthday before but I asked again, but he told me a different one now, and then explain why he changes it but I forgot. In this dream my friend is replaced by a good looking guy I know so what does this all mean. My friend is good looking as well.
Dear Emma,
This dream teaches you that the real attraction and positive energy in life is with friendship, and not so much with how someone looks on a screen. When you have friendship and closeness, then you really always want to be together. When you have an image, it is only a temporary attraction that doesn’t last.
I dreamt that I kissed a guy on the lips and made out with them, we are both male and I’m unsure of my sexuality in real life, this is a dream that keeps happening for the past 2 weeks, it never changes.
The things I remember from it are still blurry so I’ll probably say some things wrong. In the dream, I’m sitting on a bench in a place I’ve never been to, there are bushes and lamps around me, and the bench is located in front of a small road. After a while, a guy approaches me and I just get up and walk towards them, they are wearing a grey shirt and sweatpants, they have dirty blonde hair, green eyes, and freckles. Btw I don’t know this person, and I’ve never seen this person in real life before, they pull me into a kiss and I follow, it feels very real, they are running their fingers through my hair, they are touching my body, I remember most of the kiss basically, after we stop the kiss, they smile and whisper something into my ear before shooting me in the chest, that’s where it ends.
Dear Vito,
Because of what happened in the end, being shot in the chest, this dream has nothing to do with sexuality. What it is about is about being attracted into something as if you are going to get something really positive, and then getting shot down like your heart is killed. As long as you have the fear of being shot down, then you will not be able to attract yourself to kind of things that you want to do in like that require masculine energy like strength and courage. It looks you have to do some work with getting over the fear of being shot down.
The dream took place at school 🏫 and all the students in the school were having a contest.. so my teacher put us into groups and she will tell everyone the winner of the group.. I won as one of the winners of the groups and my enemy surprisingly didn’t look that bothered about it. (she’s normally always jealous) when it got to her group someone else won and she all of the sudden gon insane!!! She looked furious!!!😳😣 and scary!😧 people were shocked by her behavior and the other teachers were questioning it.. she started to scream extremely loud (I remember how that was the scariest part) and even started crying as she was doing it.. the teachers questioned that as well. I remember being warned by my sister that she act like this before.. I also learnt that she done extremely crazy things like wanting everyone to die desperately and passionately and in a extremely aggressive way that made it even more terrifying than it actually was.. her hating Americans and me the most! Etc. anyways for some info in real life… she actually hates me because she was jealous of me because my crush ( that she also liked) liked me!! And ever since she found out she’s gotten completely obsessed with me and always tried to ruin my life!!! In the past, k gotten angry and tried to get revenge on her.. LITERALLY ALL I DID WAS SAY “EW” at her.. that immature action made everything worse and she still overly angry about it (even tho it’s been years AND she insulted me wayyy worse)
Dear Angelina,
When a person is jealous, it means that they really don’t want the relationship, they want the place or the title. You are more interested in the relationship and having a loving relationship with others. That is why you won. She is interested in being in first place so she is always going to be the loser. The purpose of the dream is for you to understand that when a person is jealous it is not about wanting the relationship, it is about wanting the title or place.
I dreamt that I was in a car crash and was rushed to the hospital and needed surgery. But the surgery was because I was pregnant with a full term baby. I had no idea I was pregnant because I didn’t gain any weight and I never stopped menstruating. It was a baby girl and the rest of my dream was mostly situations where I needed to breast feed her. She was a calm baby.
The baby in the dream is like the puppy in the other dream that you need to nurture. I am guessing it means that you have a lot of loving energy that you need to nurture in yourself.