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I dreamed my dead stepdad came on to me in a dream and hit my mom with a belt.
Sorry please intrupt my dream
Dear Julie,
This sounds like your mind is a bit haunted (remembers) some of the negative aspects of your dead stepdad, and then affects your ability to move forward in a positive way in your life. The work you need is to let go of the negative memories of him and then see and move toward a very bright and positive future.
That’s the crazy thing though he never was bad to me or my mom
Can you please interpret my dream,
I was running away from a person i loved and that loved me but for some reason i felt like i was doing it for their benefit. And everytime i ran away they would catch up to me and convince me to not run away from them.
Dear Zahrah,
It sounds like you believe that you are not good for the person because you feel like something is terribly wrong with you. If you go inside and reflect, you will see that you are like a treasure full of gems that is good for the other person to be with. The work seems to be to get rid of the negative way you think about yourself.
Not so much 1 dream but three consecutive dreams. By dreams I mean visions on an inky background. The first was a large dark red almost brown cat with yellow stripes. He wore a grin like the Cheshire cat but was nice and caring. The second was a dark stone arch dark grey. I never saw who passed under it. But I woke saying God. Experience a few seconds of sleep paralysis as I woke. I wasn’t scared but I was sad. The last symbol was a golden bird with an orb in it’s claw. Thank you for your help.
Dear Alexander,
The first symbol of the cat means that as you set out on your path, you first need your own independent mind. Cats represent independence, which has a lot to do with knowing your own mind and not acting out of what others say especially what tradition says you should do. Second is that you should take the doorway or archway that is spiritual, not material. And third you need to have set really noble and lofty goals which is represented in the golden bird with the orb. When you do those three things, life will be amazing. The sleep paralysis means that you have somewhat of an issue taking action, that you get paralyzed in some of your actions.
I had a dream of my dad visiting me. but he passed when i was five years old. I barely knew him, but it seemed so real. I felt like i knew a lot about him. It felt so weird in the dream. I dont know why, but in the dream he was a zombie. but he looked normal, didnt smell funny, and wasnt falling apart or anything. he actually seemed like a normal human being. i want to visit him again, but i dont know if i can.
Dear Aeris,
When your dad visits you in the dream, it means that there have been things that you inherited from him, that you are now ready to develop in yourself in a positive way. Being a zombie means that you are like the living dead, which is a unique way of describing what being depressed means. What your father really needed to develop when he was alive was the ability to live fully out of his true self, but he couldn’t. Now, when you start to get down and feeling a bit zombie-like, then it is important for you to think about who you are and act out of it letting go of the tendency you inherited from your father, then you will be able to live out of your really really positive self more fully.
Hello my name is Angelic and i had a dream last night about a house of Kaos and soul stealing and mind stealing happening to people i know but they said. They didn’t want me.what does it mean
Dear Angelic,
When you are in chaos where people are losing their minds and souls in a dream, it means that you need to do the things in your life that are consistent with who you truly are and be ordered about it. For instance, a lot of the material pulls in the world will put you into chaos and then you will not be able to act from who you truly are inside with authenticity and integrity. Think about who you truly are in a positive sense, and act out of it.
Hi! Please interpret my dream. I was on the bus to school on the first day after the Christmas holidays, in my uniform, but when I left the bus I accidentally left my coat/jumper on the bus. But I though I’d just call loss property later. As I walked pass the school car park I realized: I couldn’t see anyone I knew and everyone was wearing non school uniform and they were all year 7’s/ younger than me. So I called my mum as I stopped in the middle of the path, ‘I wasn’t supposed to come to school today’, I said, and I felt relieved because I could then immediately call lost property.
Dear Olivia C,
The dream seems to indicate that you have a tendency to get ahead of yourself about things and then you lose stuff. Getting ahead of yourself means that you have some unnecessary worry about what lies ahead. It tells that you that what you need to develop is the confidence to be fully present in what you are doing in the here and now and let the future take care of itself. Then you will have an amazing time and learn much more.
me and a new guy texting (we do text in real life) and I think we made plans to meet? Or I just told him I’m going somewhere I don’t know I was in a stream next with a bathing suit on and so were some friends of mine.. .i was a bit in shock but my friends kept telling me it’s safe to play here there’s no crocodiles or anything…then I remember seeing my phone, opening my Instagram and seeing that my boyfriend (who left me recently in real life on a break or permanently I don’t know) has unfollowed me…i woke up in real life shocked and checked that he does still follow me
Dear New,
The dream says that you won’t dive into the relational world with confidence, like swimming in the stream, because you are worried about crocodiles, which represent people who lurk and are ready to pounce on you in a negative way. If you are more confident in the relational world, then relationships will begin to go much better for you. You can think of relational abilities as a set of skills that when you use them well, produce great results. Most people who are young do not put the time and effort into learning how the relate in same way that they would learn other things like math and science, but relational skills take a lot of learning.
First setting I recall is this slum Walmart I was cheekilly nabbing items from. Then I climbed up to a room with a “trap door”, or another door that was locked and sealed with cereal box cardboard. {Lock wasn’t fully locked} I had chosen to see what was beyond the door, so I tear the seal and undone the lock. It was a dark dim lit room… Filled with multiple broken dead babies. I didn’t count them all, but most were scattered onto the floor. There were four piles/slabs for “beds”. I had three thoughts. 1.who could I take with me, 2.leave, or 3.end every other life in that room. I call out to see if any would give a cry. One broken disabled little girl awoke to me in tears.I gave the girl a caress to her cheek, but then “someone/thing” else was beginning to awake too with a stuffed chiuaua atop of its blanket. Then I awoke.
Dear Sky,
The interesting thing in the dream is that you are showing behavior of a mixed character. On the one hand you are nabbing things which is the negative part, and then, on the other hand, you are considering what help you can do in a pretty dire situation. The context of being in a slum and taking things that are not yours means that you only partially believe that you are a person with a lot of worth. However in the face of the negative situation you begin to open up your generosity of spirit. So the dream wants you to continue your generosity of spirit, but first you have to realize that you are a person that has lot so wonderful gems inside as if you are an amazing treasure. Do the self worth work and then you will be able to do amazing things for humanity.
I had a dream that I went to college after long, but my college looked kinda different. Anyway I met my friend outside the building and her hair texture had changed… It went from type 3 in real life to type 4 in the dream. She saw me and I saw her so I basically couldn’t avoid her and she was happy to see me yet sad… She broke down talking about her uncle and aunt because of some domestic violence which had happened recently… In real life we haven’t discussed this particular uncle and aunt of hers in YEARS. Moreover she did tell me they have an unhappy marriage but nothing about physical violence. I don’t know why they suddenly became a topic in the dream.
Dear Strange,
I don’t know what type 3 and type 4 texture hair is. Can you explain?
Oh type 3 is like a curly hair pattern, while type4 is much tighter curls and coarseness, like how a lot of black people have, along with some other ethnicities and people of color. You can google and see the images
It seems like the college that you are entering is the college of being able to deal with people who have issues around trauma. Going 3-4 means going to more intensity. It is a really interesting way to present it. You must be ready to start learning about how to deal with people with intense issues.
I suddenly awoke from a dream now that was getting too weird to handle. My friends maternal grandparents lost their apartment in a fire. They were evacuated and unharmed then shifted into a new similar apartment with a smaller garden. But my friend (keep in mind we are both female, and she is a real life friend) , came to me to seek comfort in me about losing the house… . Sexually. And I didn’t understand our anatomy in the dream. We both had erect penises but instead of a scrotum we had our vaginas under it. And no they were not dildos or strap ons…it was so weird…so we had sex and my friend was telling me it’s not weird, nothing happens…but I mean it was weird, but I couldn’t deny her…she tried to do anal after that I told her that’s taking it too far & refused it. Then she was making me try to tell a couple of her male friends what we did, but I was obviously shy about it… They went on to say one of those male friends was getting married the next day, but I don’t know how that would make a difference… And I was just done with how weird it was, I woke up…
Dear Weird!,
That was a pretty weird dream! Losing your dwelling in a fire means losing your mind because of a temper or anger. This is what your friend has inherited in her family, the tendency to lose her mind because of anger. She tries to get comfort through trying to get your love, but she goes to a more domineering place to try to manipulate you into giving her love like it is what you are supposed to do. The purpose of the dream seems to be to teach you where to draw the line with friends in terms of giving support. When the support becomes more like an obligation that the other person imposes, then it is no longer support, but the other person refusing to take responsibility for her own issues.
Hi there again!
Last night I dreamt that my partner and I were making love and I ended up pregnant, with a big belly to top it off. We were so happy and we even scheduled a prenatal visit.
When we got to the visit there was an ultrasound/sonogram done on me but the nurse did not find the baby. There was no baby in there but I was pregnant.
I looked over at my partner and he was crying. He then looked at me and told me he can’t have kids.
I started crying and screaming at the nurse the give us our baby back.
(My partner did tell me in waking life that he cannot father a child)
Dear Cora,
Despite not being able to have real children, when you make love to your partner, you produce a baby. This means that when you love someone and they love you back, it produces a third energy that is brand new like a baby. The baby that is produced by your love with him is going to produce amazingly positive energy together, but you always seem to be in some conflict over the fact that he cannot have children. It is something you will have to resolve one way or the other.
I’ve been having a recurrent dream for the past 9 years. I don’t have it night after night, sometimes it’s months apart from the previous time I’ve had it. The thing is this last time I had it, it came with several details that left me a bit confused.
The dream always starts the same. I’m staying at my mom’s friend house with my cousin then I get out of the house and this tall caucasian guy with black hair tattoos and piercings is waiting for me. He can shift into a sort of angel and always takes me away flying. For some reason he is being persecuted and is always hiding a little. The thing is, this time it has been almost a year since I last dream this so in the dream we were hiding and he gave me a kiss on the forehead and said “it’s been a long time”. After that he called a friend to let him know we were going to his tattoo parlor, and when he said I was coming the guy said “oh that’s ok she is always here”. (Recently I cut my hair in real life and I have a boyfriend at the moment.) When we got to the place all of his friends said hi to me and then one girl was just staring at me telling me how beautiful my haircut looked.
This is where the dream changed for the first time. The guy I was with left to answer a phone call and two of his friends started asking me questions about us, they were all referring to him with a name (everytime I wake up I forget which one it was). All this years I’ve been able to make a small description on his friend group except for one of them, but this time he was a guy I met last year at a party.
He came back and we left to sit somewhere and we were just holding eachother talking. I told him about his friends asking me how long we’ve been together and one of them saying it in a questioning way; then he just started saying how it bothers him that they all treat him as a kid and how they were acting weird today. During the conversation I called someone who nowadays I don’t talk to anymore.Then I woke up as I always do after that dream, with a feeling of happiness but sadness and anger for not being able to keep seeing him.
Dear Isabella,
The guy with the tattoos and piercings who angel-like seems to represent the positive energy inside of you. He has the energy of not being afraid to be who he is. What the dream says to you is that when you are not afraid to be yourself fully, then you will have the kind of close relationship with a man that you have always wanted. It appears that after 9 years you have made significant progress, but it still seems that you have some more work to do. You probably have to overcome fear what other people think about you.
I have had an odd couple dreams over the last few nights….
a few nights ago I had a dream I had a little baby girl. For whatever reason the first couple days I did not feed her. I do not know why, I just know it was a couple days later and I was like OH WAIT THE BABY!! and went to her. She looked so exhausted and weak, I began to breast feed her and she drank all the milk from one side and I moved her to the other breast and she drank most of that milk. When I lifter her up and burped her she was so happy with a smile and looked so precious. I was so happy to have this little baby girl.
Last night I had a string of weird dreams but I only recall the last one. I was outside my house with my 3 daughters and 1 son and they had this little friend over. In waking life this friend is a bad influence. In the dream this friend was suggesting my kids do things they know they are not allowed to do. I told this friend that she was not welcome at our house if that was how she chose to behave. During that time my son ran off into the side yard toward the front yard. Then out of no where this adult male lion comes walking up the side yard where my son just ran to and was walking toward us. I told all the girls not to run, to walk slowly away. They all started screaming and running in circles. I began to walk toward the door and the lion jumped up into the air and I made eye contact. for whatever reason it missed me and was right in front of me. I had my side turned to it and slowly kept walking toward the door. Then I was inside and was looking for my son. I went to the front door and there was this black cat with a large scratch mark on its belly from the lion…this cat was my son. I asked what happened, but I felt so sick that I woke up.
Dear Christine,
In the first you can consider the baby girl as a new feminine energy that is growing in you. You ignored it for 3 days which in real life is more like 3 years. Now you are nurturing it and it is growing. There are lots of feminine qualities that are very outstanding. Here are some of them that may be growing inside. (compassion, inclusion, closeness, friendship, warmth, beauty, love)
In the second dream tells you that you need to be the lion of the house so that your son can be a cat. The lion means that you need to have firm boundaries for your children. It is like you have to have the courage to have firm boundaries, then your son can develop his own independent mind (cat). Boundaries are important for your children’s growth. When you have the boundaries, then the first dream will be so much easier.
I became a famous musician along with my step-brother and friend. We were playing a gig for about 20 people outside in what seemed to be a forest. After my step-brother, it was my turn to sing. I sang directly at a cute girl and I was obviously very bad, so I played it off as a joke and started rapping amazingly. The crowd went crazy, but the girl didn’t seem to care much. She didn’t know whether to choose my step-brother of me (probably to date) so I felt that I had to win her over. She went to a nearby picnic table and sat down with some other girls and young alien boys. I sat next to the alien boys, thinking that would help me win her over. I sat next to the ET lookalikes. One had a red sweater and one had a blue. I sat to the left of the one with the red and the one with the blue was away for a second. The one in the red sweater was very depressed about being an alien. He asked why I even wanted to talk to him if he looked like ET. I told him ET was rad. That didn’t help. This is when the younger ET boy came over and sat across from me. A lot of the things I said made him laugh. He seemed more optimistic. Eventually I left. I was in a cartoonish town all of a sudden. My friend and I were running away from a God. The God couldn’t go on the sidewalk. He could only walk on the road, so I told my friend (who now was a girl) to cross the road, cause I had really good hearing and heard the God coming. The God made very strange noises as if constantly murmuring to himself. We crossed just in time before the God arrived. If he caught us on the road, he would kill us. He asked the friend where someone went and I told the God I was fairly certain he went somewhere far behind us. The God immediately believed us and dashed off in behind us. We continued on. Eventually we ended up at a hotel / aquatic center and now I was with two friends. I recognized the lady at the front desk to be nice and passive, but once we got our towels and started walking down the long halls, she started following me with blades.
I called out to my friends, but they were too fast. I was too slow and the desk lady caught up to me. I hid as close to the wall as I could, because everyone knew that no harm could come to you if you hugged the corners of paths (such as sidewalks on roads). This didn’t help me which made me scared and with two blades, and two swipes perfectly synchronized, the lady cut my head off and cut my stomach open.
Dear Sketcher,
In the first part of the dream you have this idea that if you are famous and perform well, it is going to help you get a cute girl. It doesn’t work. The next two things you do are more like what you should be doing. First you help aliens, which is a symbol for people who feel like they are so different that there is no way for them to fit in. Then you help someone avoid being taken over by negative energy. When you get to the hotel, you meet your real fear which is the fear of being cut to pieces by a woman. The blades are metaphoric meaning that you are fearful that women are going to turn on you and cut you to shreds with their words and actions. If you do what you did with the aliens and the girl, and then you find positives in girls and say it to them, you will have lots of positive relationships with girls.
Please help me interpret my dream.
I dreamed my mom, brother and I (we are very close but now I’m married and have a family of my own, but they weren’t in the dream.) we were in a mouse infested place and then we saw a big brownish-gray rat. We tried to catch it and finally did. My brother and I kept trying to kill it but kept failing. It was detailed and gruesome. Instead of it dying it suffered. Finally my brother found a dull axe and tried to behead it and only did it half way, then I took the axe and after several attempts, was able to. I could see the splintered bones from the dull axe. Then after it was beheaded, it turned into my beloved calico cat. It was a horrible feeling. And then it started flopping around, still suffering horribly. Then my mom says “we shouldn’t have done it ourselves, next time we need to take it somewhere else.”
It was a deeply disturbing dream. Any ideas what it could mean? Thank you
Dear Alice,
A rat, when it is negative in a dream, means that there is someone in your life who has bad intentions that is very difficult to get rid of. In killing the rat you also are harming the cat, which is a symbol of your independent thinking. The goal of the dream is for you to have really positive intentions and then to use your independent to get to where you want to go. Rather than having to kill the rat, it is a more useful strategy to get out of the are where the rat thrives. That is stay away from the rat rather than killing it. Get into an environment where the intentions are purer.
Thank you so much!!
I’m running from someone and I’m trying to get out of this house I don’t recognize, and as I get to the doorway, an empty infant car seat is blocking my way.
Thanks in advance
Dear Shae,
Running away from someone from their house means that you are trying to get out of a relationship with someone’s self. Because you don’t recognize the person, it means that they are certain types of people in the culture. I am not sure exactly who they are because the dream is not that involved. The infant seat probably means that the people you are running from are acting childish. You don’t have to be fearful of them. You have to be more clever or wise with them.
Hi,
I was having my right palm read. The reader exclaims “fish-out-water” and something else I cannot remember. She quickly grabs mt left hand, my fingernails were dirty. I’m shocked, thinking or saying “they’re never like that”.
That’s it.
Many thanks.
Dear Liam,
When you are having your palm read, it means that you are curious about your spiritual state of being and how it may play itself out in the world. Being a fish-out-of-water means that when you are new or unfamiliar surroundings, you are not very comfortable. Basically the process you need to learn is how to deal effectively when you have a lot of unknowns. The best way to learn this process is to get your “hands dirty” (hence, the dirty fingernails) which means giving yourself a lot of experiences in new types of environments that you have not been in before.
Wow! Thank you so much.
Weird bus journey speaking about chess pieces, Queen e.t.c happily with a friend called Miriam, so maybe we were going to play some kind of game, we arrive and the city highstreets are packed full of people, we discover the royal family are walking in a small park in the middle of the road drawing huge crowds – Miriam is excited to watch them while I’m dismissive, they’re basically there every other day walking around the grass for everyone.
Later at my childhood home I have an acquaintance and am aware my mum is around, so I hide my friend in my old bedroom, the acquaintance sees old photos of her and I start to feel guilty so I go back to find her only she’s turned into a scarf amongst a whole pile of scarves, I wear the one I think she is and try to encourage her to become human again but it doesn’t work,.
I walk out with the scarf into the living room where the acquaintance is. I admit what happened, she says thats a shame – as she would have liked to see her again. The scarf, the acquaintance and I watch a movie together, I still hope she’ll become human soon.
Probably just another caring about what people think of you dream, I remember the acquaintance from school, same with the name Miriam- I also remember those scarves! Never seen the friend before, probably made up, she had a very striking appearance though. Any thoughts appreciated, thanks
Hmm actually could it be about trying to shut away something that was like a friend in childhood? Or more depressingly treating people as objects. Still pondering this one.
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Dear Khi,
While you have detached yourself from the world of image by not regarding the royalty as important, you carry your mother as an accessory when you are trying to get close to someone new. It is positive that you do not think that royalty is a big deal, but whatever your mother’s issues are in relationship, you carry them with you. To get to the next level of closeness you have to discard your mum and be really free and relaxed to embrace others.
this isn’t one total dream but one thing that keeps occurring in my dreams. when something in a dream i’m having where i get worried or distressed i go into this igloo in (i’m guessing my room in those dreams). it’s an igloo with two floors, it’s bot that cold to me in the dreams but it keeps occurring, so you know what this could be?
i worded it weirdly but this igloo isn’t my room it’s just in my room and i’m guessing it’s my safe place, but it just keeps showing up
Dear Francis,
Your igloo could be your safe place if you feel positive in the dream. If you are using it to hide from the world, then it is because you have some kind of fear about being out in the world. The positive image would be more like being cozy inside while the world is cold outside.
Ok I don’t exactly remember everything I am gonna make it short
I was in some kind of family reunion and there was a boy called Jin(I don’t know him in real life) and his family were there too. It was a garden or forest or park (Everything mixed up)We gathered their for my elder sister’s daughter birthday. So before we started whatever we were doing. There was a game that was going on in there So Jin insisted me to go and play with him. It was like a maze in a extremely Deep forest(it was looking strange foggy and glowing) at the end of their we can meet our families and party and also we needed to collect 2 glowing vials present in there. So I and Jin entered their together but got separated by something at a place . I got tensed for where to go. And after sometime I heard a voice saying that I need to find my soulmate or die being here forever. I got scared and started going towards the Direction where my intuition told me it would be right. At between I dunno many kind of obstacles came(like witches,trolls etc) and I got hella scared but somehow I passed them because I could do magic too. After that there were a series of doors. In Every door there was written in red “Every door holds your fate, Find your way out.”I choose a door that was purple and sparkly and after crossing few more doors with some kind of puzzles (after solving them I used to get a vial of white sparkly transparent liquid which seemed like water but I dunno if it was water because it was sparkling) I came out and saw Jin sitting there with other family members. I got so happy seeing him I shouted Seokjin-aah(maybe it was his full name) I got you. He got so happy hearing my voice that he ran and hugged me tight and said where were you I was worried. Other people their were whispering like who takes so much time to go through a simple maze. I got sad that they won’t believe me what happened in their. And I glanced up to see Jin smiling and he said Don’t worry I would beleive you. And he kissed me (on my cheeks) and I too did the same.
And I was in his arms like that for few more seconds when I felt a peck at the same place (in reality) and I got up as soon as I felt it and my hands automatically went up there. And I didn’t knew how I felt. My eyes were teary. I was smiling at the same time.
Dear Crystal,
What this dream says is that getting to a place of family unity or closeness with others is like going through a maze where you have to overcome a lot of obstacles and challenges and use your intuitive powers. You have strong intuition that will help you in the process.