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dear Richard , Hello again. would you like to hear my latest enigmatic dream? ill type it in,only this one is a bit more enigmatic than usual. this dream starts with a train-an elevated train.. i could see from the train window into a room ,4 incense burners . 1 copper 1 brass 1 silver 1 rhodium. in front of them was a large statue of Shiva,the god/goddess of creation and destruction. and regeneration. one hand grasped a sword, another a round object. this statue had 6 hands then the train continued on. i saw a man in a brown business suit and a boater hat say “how could i have anything against him when all i know about him is second hand” the train sped on. i saw a confrontation between 6 people . the trained slowed down. i could see one of the men had a black mustache and wore a coffee colored shirt . then the train went on and turned right. from a city environment i now found myself in a desert environment. i could see the outline of palm trees,-this was at night-and i could see something else. 2 warriors of light. literal light. one glowed light blue, the other dark green. the 1st warrior had his sword drawn pointing outward,the 2nd one pointing to the left.they were about 120 feet apart. and that is one my more perplexing dreams. if you cannot make sense out of it, no one can
Dear James,
Actually this dream was a little bit easier for me to understand that some of your other epic dreams. The key to this dream is that you are on an elevated train watching things happen as you by them quickly. However, the first step that you need to do is to go to the end of the dream where the warriors of light are. The first step is to become a warrior of light, because that essentially is your spiritual identity as a human being on the planet. When you are a warrior using light, then you can step off the speeding train, and go right into the heart of every difficult situation, do “battle” with it, and get spectacular results. The warriors of light have the power to transform a dark situation into a beautiful one like turning a desert into an oasis. You seem to have to get off of whatever single tracked train you are on.
it is very interesting that you find this dream which i consider one of the most perplexing,to be the least so. perhaps the shades of colors are also important.light blue and dark green. and the fact of the 1st warrior has his sword pointing forward , while the 2nd warrior has his pointing to the left. it is very encouraging to realize your destiny is to be a light warrior. i look forward to reading your reply
The warrior to pointing forward is the light warrior in you who is forging your future in a positive manner, while the one to the left is the light warrior that deals with forces that are trying to take you off your path. If you can do a meditation with each one, you will be able to discover how they do their work inside of you. Very cool that you have these forces.
Richard, hope you are doing well in these crazy times.
I just woke up from a dream that was all over the place. I was seemingly at work, home, vacation or out and about all at the same moment, but also not. It was weird, However whenever I came back to my car from where I was it was wrecked. I never crashed while I was driving it. But I would come back it would be wrecked, wheels bent, metal cut to where the whole car was bending one way. glass broken, trees going through it. I was upset each time but it was also fixed each time, the same car not a new one. Well the last situation was I was at McDonalds with coworkers, who I dont actually know in waking life and we were done eating and I go back out and JUST got my car back that day or the night before and it was crashed, wheels bent, tree though the windows, car buckling at the back bent wheel and a note saying sorry. I was very upset this time because I just got it back and I was thinking about how much my insurance was going to be. This time though I got to see myself communicating with the girl who did it. she was trying to get it fixed dirt cheap and didn’t care about the quality of work and it was making me mad, then I woke up from an alarm.
My current car is new, I got it less than 6 months ago and it was not been in any accidents. Just so weird my car kept being totaled, like daily for about 4-7 times in the dream.
Dear C,
Cars in a dream represent how you get from point A to point B in your life. It is not necessarily long term, but more like how you get your daily and weekly goals achieved. Your ability to get to where you want to go is being compromised by others, not yourself. At first you are not aware of who it is, but over time, it becomes obvious, and it is also obvious that they do not want to take full responsibility. It seems like you may have an issue with allowing people into what you are doing that are parasites, that is, they want to feed off of you, but not do their part. You will have to let go of having them a part of your life with some pretty big boundaries.
Hii :), I had a dream i don’t remember some parts. I was in a event and it was like a game but there’s a black figure that shows up in your dreams to signal that you’re his Target. If it happens, it means he’d kill you the following day. So the dream was going on and suddenly I dreamt of the dark figure. And when I woke up everyone said you’ll be gone, you’re next. They dressed me up in a yellow saree and adorned me with white red and yellow flower jewelleries before they took me to Lord Krishna’s temple. It was like Vrindavan but I never went there so I don’t know. I prayed and bowed to him about my family and cried to him about how I wanted to live but my time came too soon. When I came out , I came through a field of yellow flowers and then I reached a village house where the other people who were with me sat outside because someone else was killed too. Then I saw it, the dark figure approaching me with a weapon. I was scared and went in and sat in the corner, my eyes closed as I started crying. But nothing happened. And I woke up right after that where I was about to be beheaded.
Dear Hritika,
This dream is a metaphor for what happens to you when negative energy or bad things shows up in your life. You feel powerless to do anything about it as if it is a death sentence for you. You even pray that it not happen. There is something you can do when darkness tries to enter your life and ruin things. You can build a light-filled world around you that is full of your loving kindness, which is surely what Lord Krishna would have you do. When you build a world full of light through your loving kindness, darkness cannot enter. It is only where there is a lot of darkness already that dark people thrive. Spend your days bringing light to others with your loving kindness.
hi Richard good day…my ex and I have been broken up for almost 2 years and we don’t speak.. he has blocked me from calling but we are cordial with each other if we do randomly see each other out in public. I do not miss him and this could mean nothing but last night I dreamed he bought me a brand new blue van. The shade of blue was not cute to me ..it was like a dark baby blue and it had a number on it. In the dream I was happy but confused as to why he is buying me a vehicle. And I think he asked me if I like it … that he bought it for me..dangling the keys to hand it to me. What does this dream mean?
Thanks Richard
Dear Dianne,
This dream is like a warning to you when you meet new men. If they dangle the keys like dangling their love, then really they after something darker like control. If you have your own love internally and then give it out, you won’t be fooled by people like your ex.
Hi Richard, I’ve had a weird dream that I have a hard time understanding. I’m hoping you’re able to help me see it more clearly.
I dreamt i was out with old friends i barley talk to anymore. We passed a big tent in the city, there was only a table and a man standing there. He looked at me and my friend and told us to come over because he wanted to give us a cleanse. He makes us pee in cups (without actually peeing, our pee was just in the cups). He then takes the cups and chants in a language we couldn’t understand and then he pours the pee out. He goes on to tell us that we’re now clean. After that the dream repeats itself but this time when we pass by him he only stops me to tell me I’ve been lying to him I’m still dirty and he needs to give me a cleanse. He does the same thing with the pee in the cup and chanting in a different language, he then pour the pee out. But this time there’s sand in the cup so he separates the pee from the sand when he pours it out so the sand is left. He gives me the cup and tells me I’m clean now. I look down on the cup and see the sand. My eggs from my ovaries are on the sand, there’s at least 100 of them. Small tiny eggs from my ovaries on the sand in the cup. I look back up to him scared because I can’t comprehend the fact that my eggs are there infront of me.
Hi Tamara,
What is really strange about this dream is pee in real life is how you get rid of impurities so it doesn’t make sense that he would try to cleanse your pee after it has been expelled. And then you listen to him you lose your eggs, which is a metaphor for losing possibilities in your life. To realize possibilities and do more it seems like your being wants you to develop a stronger questioning mind, one that dispassionately seeks for the truth.
this dream begins with me in a department store ,frantically searching.finally i decided on the bookstore . i bought a book, all enthusiasm to learn what i came to learn. as i leafed through the book, i realized it did not contain the information i wanted but it was an interesting book for that. as i looked out the window watching the snow fall, the train pulled into a station . the conductor said *we will be back in 2 hours to pick you up* i looked around the station . it had a rundown,rather dilapidated appearance, but it was a fascinating place for all that. there were several people there. i noticed a woman in a white satin dress with a green leaf pattern. there was an elderly lady whom i will describe later . and a man in a derby hat and a light brown vest. he had a gold chain watch which he would look at from time to time. soon we struck up a conversation,. which was about time space,gravity and matter and anti-matter. i saw a concession stand and walked over to order what i thought would hit the spot-a hot fudge sundae. when he heard that he laughed uproariously,as though that was the funniest thing he had ever heard. i repeated the request. his answer:: why would you want a Sundae when you could have a Saturday. i was very surprised. was this his idea of a joke? maybe he was a little bit touched in the head? i finally decided on a mineral water,which he gave to me but refused payment. i told this to the man in the derby hat who nodded his head but said nothing. now as the conversation progressed i happened to glance in the direction of the elderly lady. she wore a hanfu robe,worn at the court of imperial China, with 2 dragons embroidered on it . 1 green and 1 gold. the man in the derby said *she was grand mother to an emperor and played a key role in shaping his policy. then he suddenly glanced at his watch. Man In The Derby Hat: it is time for my train to arrive and yours too. do you know where are? ME; yes. i am in the station waiting to be picked up. MIDH: do you know which station? ME: no, here you must enlighten me. MIDH: you have reached the station of infinity. from it you can access 100,000 yesterdays, 100,000 todays and 100,000 tomorrows ME: i do have one question MIDH: yes? ME: could you give me a name for her? MIDH: she was the empress dowager[here the noise of the two trains pulling in drowned out all conversation. i waved .he waved back. and that is one of the most enigmatic dreams i ever had. i wonder if you and i can make sense out of it. i am looking forward to learning your evaluation of it
Dear James,
What would I do without your dreams? They are always so cool. From what I can get out of this dream, which may be totally out to lunch, is that the space you are trying to get to in your life is “infinity”. To get to infinity you have to suspend the need for things to make sense as if senselessness is highly valued. It is the place where time is suspended and, for instance, where waiting is going forward. The simplest way for me to get to that space is when I go into a positive memory, see it, hear it, and then feel it like feeling the textures, temperature, etc. When I do this, especially the feeling part, it has the sensation of leaving time and space and the need to exercise my will. The same is true when I envision the future. It gives me the experience of being taken down the river of life rather than making efforts.
yes,thank you for the compliment. one friend of mine says that the empress contacted her in dream state. so there is something more to this than one persons dream. so far, i have unable to find out if this was an Empress Dowager who actually did live and influence history,or is a dream archetype . overall, the message seems to be “don’t take linear time or this plane for ultimate reality. ” i am looking to see if there was an Empress who wore a robe with that motif (it ought to be very distinctive) and the response of the vendor has been interpreted to mean passing over sweet indulgences in favor of genuine nutritional foods. on this, i am still not quite certain. but i look forward to your response. i know get down to the deeper meaning of things,as always
Dear James,
Try answering these questions. When is going backwards, actually going forward? This is a prime question of the dream. And when is the mirage, the real river? And the reverse. When is the real river, a mirage?
Need help with a disturbing dream. I feel something under my skin near my eyelid. When i rub, the surface skin falls off revealing tons of dark seeds packed in rows. When i pull the seeds out they leave big gaping holes in my skin. Its gross and scares me.
Dear Lori,
When you have a dream about something getting under your skin, it means that something about what others are doing is bothering you. It is as if they are under your skin causing discomfort. Because it is under the eyelid, the things that people are doing are affecting your vision probably in how you see where you want to go. You can begin to get clearer vision, by letting go of the anger or irritation from others. It is usually a matter of not allowing them to get to you.
In my dream I was in a bathroom. I was standing there and could physically feel my uterus cramping like I’m on my period. I reached between my legs and pulled out the shedding of my uterus in one big chunk and blood started dripping on the floor. All I could think was, my period came 2 weeks early. But I could feel the actual cramps in real life.
Dear Celia,
The uterus is the part of a woman’s body that houses fertilized eggs and nurtures the growth of new fetuses. In the dream world this mean that you are having a hard time nurturing the growth of new parts of yourself. It is like something is off about the internal environment that supports new development of yourself. You would want to work on how you nurture yourself to new growth, which probably has a lot to do with being gentle and loving with yourself.
dear Riichard, merry Christmas and a happy new year. i thought i would share my latest perplexing dream. it begins on a pathway of light. white in the center. magenta in the center. it moved like an escalator, slowly at first ,then faster, and finally at supersonic speed . houses,trees, and buildings all raced by. to focus on them was out of the question. first forward,then backward,then up,then down, at a slant. then spinning in a circle,first clockwise,then counterclockwise then both simultaneously . then a triangle at the apex . finally it slowed down then came to a virtual stop. i use the word virtual because it was always in motion.. only now not perceptibly so. i looked around. on the right there was a counter of solid cherry. there several objects on it. a blue stoneware dish , a basket of woven straw and a white porcelain with 5 mint green rings in the center. some wooden figures a bit beyond. on the other side across the roadway were wrought iron gates. and tombstones and mausoleums as far as the eye could see. suddenly i noticed movement between the trees. presently a group of people arrived. they all stood with their backs to the wrought iron gate. and to me,too , and were gazing at upward at something i could see but nevertheless feel. they were an interesting group. no 2 were dressed alike. and from different eras ,too. one woman in a mulberry dress might have stepped out of a painting by sir Joshua Reynolds. one boy in blue about 12 years old might have been lifted straight out of lithograph by Currier & Ives. there was one exception ,however. a man in an ivory turban with a gold pedant in the center. i saw his face in profile. he wore a light gray robe, with silver lining. he was gazing up like the others,but from a different perspective. as i contemplated the meaning of this, i grasped the dynamics at play here> the contrast between life (the teapot) and death (eternal life ?) then the pathway began,first slowly then rapidly,then at the speed of light. and that is my most recent enigmatic dream. i am looking forward to hearing your opinion of it
white in the center, magenta on either side.
Hi James,
This is really a strange one. It made sense to me when I think about the concept of enlightenment. When you are first enlightened by new ideas or understandings that application of the enlightenment is slow, but as you gain competence and confidence things can move a lot faster in any way that works. It is a principle for now, but has always existed, like seeing the people who appear to be from the past. I don’t understand your reference to the teapot. Can you explain it? Happy New Year.
why certainly.after typing in the dream i realized j had omitted the reference to the teapot,which if completed would have been a white porcelain teapot with 5 mint green rings around it. since i have been an avid tea drinker all my life to me tea is the symbol of peace and calmness.
The teapot (peacefulness and calm) is the essential energy necessary in oneself to receive enlightenment. When we are in a peaceful state, the messages can enter into our consciousness. The light in shown when you are in a peaceful state.
one other correction: they were staring at something which i could not see but nonetheless feel. and yes, you are right about that. tea,to me is part of the essence of life. but i did not perceive this as a choice between life and death but rather how they interact. as one other dream interpreter put it, life and death are not linear but layered
Richard, it’s been a while! Hope all is well with you. I have had this string of dreams this last week that I feel pulling at me to dig into so I hope you can help provide some clarity. All of these dreams occurred on different nights.
Dream 1: I was going to the airport and this airport was WEIRD! You arrive and they make you sit down at a restaurant for a full meal until they check you in. Then they take you to this baggage area to check baggage. My husband and I were arguing about the luggage because I was bringing like a wooden pallet, but it was metal and another huge item that I “needed”. I lose my husband and the 2 kids we were traveling with. They head to the terminal and I get caught up chatting with friends (who I don’t know in waking life) and end up rushing. When I leave to go to the terminal I am outside and it is like an amusement park and get on a bike for a while then run. I make it to this boat dock – because you have to take a boat across a huge body of water to get to the terminal- and I am crying and freaking out. I look at my phone and I see a huge count down from 15 in red and watch it as it goes to 10. Then I ask the worker to please take me or I will miss my flight. He starts to take me and I wake up.
Dream 2: I was going on a flight again, but I was with my husband and all our kids. We get to the airport and this time once you check in they take you to this waiting area where you have to stand and these small 2 person tables and wait for your flight, but you get to board in the order you arrived and we were in the 2nd and 3rd rows so I was excited about that and glad I got to the airport early. I woke up before we started to board.
Dream 3: This time I was the pilot of the flight and the co-pilot was in the back of the plane. The flight attendant came to me and said I just needed to sit back and relax and the co-pilot would do all the work. We were in the air and I stretched out in my seat to lay down and pushed the gears with my feet and sent the plane light 90 degree angle straight up in the air. I can hear the people on the plane screaming and I am trying to fix it but I don’t know how to fly a plane and we are about to be upside down in the air and the other pilot is trying to help me and I wake up.
Note – I don’t dream about planes often, have not been watching tv about planes, not going on a trip, right now nothing in my waking life has anything to do with planes and I have dreamt of a plane terminal once before many years ago so I find it odd and also intriguing that this theme would not leave me this past week.
Dear C,
So whenever I have a dream about flying in a plane I think about vision. Air travel is about getting to a long term vision. So you have 3 dreams that tell you about some of the challenges with getting to a vision. In the first dream you are tested by the challenge of what other people want out of you. You can look through the dream to see all of the places where people are trying to get something from you without any thought of what you want. So this means that you have to detach from other people’s needs if you are going to get to your vision. There is something very personal about where you are headed that has nothing to do with anyone else. This does not mean to abandon your family or social world. It means to focus on who you are and what specific path you are on.
The second dream means that you can get to a vision if someone else is in charge, the pilot. Those visions are ok.
The third dream tells you that when you are the pilot of your own vision, you are not so sure about to commandeer the plane (the vision). If the vision you are moving towards is unique to you, then you have to fly your own plane. There are two things that are key to get to a vision. First is to remember all of the positive strengths that you have because you are going to carry those forward with you into the future. The second is that you trust in God that you will be assisted and guided along the way.
Wherever you are headed is amazing!
Richard,
that makes so much sense. So I have just completed my first year of graduate school to become a licensed professional counselor. I have 4 semesters left! I currently work a corporate job that has nothing to do with counseling and I have 2 interviews set up next week for positions with counseling. There is an excitement to leave my current position and transition into my new career field but also a nervousness because I have no idea about how I’ll fit within the company. With the third dream I thought perhaps it had something to do with quickly excelling in the counseling field and handling it poorly from not having the knowledge I need, if that makes sense. Then I became worried about crashing and burning in this new career that is my passion and what I few my calling
Hi C, It is so outstanding that you are making the transition to being able to do what you are passionate about and being employed to do it. To be good in the counseling profession requires a lot of skill building and experience over time. If you hold the vision firmly and keep moving forward, then you will always be guided by higher sources that will lead you on your path and give you success. Trust in them.
Hello dear Richard,
This will be a complicated Situation, since there are a few dreams involved and a few individuals involved as well but I think I have to tell you everything in order for you to understand the situation better. My mother and I live in the United States and we are neighbors. My mother had two similar dreams of my late grandmother, my late old uncle and my other uncle. The three of them were together, and it seemed as my grandmother was not very pleased with them for some reason. My mother was elsewhere, but she could see them. This happened three weeks ago. Then my mother had a dream of my grandparents, her parents, And in that dream my grandmother was pregnant. They were in our house in Iran, and my aunts were there as well. Again, my mother had a dream of her parents, and both of them went to our house in Iran and they gave my mother and my aunts a lot of potatoes. I also had a dream of me going back to my country, Iran. I cannot go back to Iran right now since I am Baha’i. but in my dream I was in Iran and it looks like I had just gotten there and my mother who lives in America with me right now, was there as well. She was adding me to a safety deposit box. I remember seeing the safety deposit boxes. I work in a bank in America in real life. So in my dream, I was thinking this system is a little bit different than our system in the United States. Then we went to a house and I did not know that house at all. We went to the second floor and the second floor. I saw both my maternal grandparents. . I hugged both of them and I remember that my grandmother had something like a notepad and she was showing me certain things, but I do not recall what it was. My mom and my aunts (mother’s sisters) were there as well. I also saw a Mander in one of the rooms and I did not know him, and I was thinking he was not supposed to be there. I was very calm and happy in that dream.
A few nights ago, my aunt (my eleest uncle’s wife) was going to have a small eye surgery and she has a lot of a stress word on. The same night my mother had a dream of her eldest brother, who was my aunt’s husband and he passed away about 21 years ago), my youngest uncle who lives in England now and my aunt (my mother’s sister) who lives in Iran. In that dream, my youngest uncle had fallen into a small swimming pool and my mother wanted to get him out of there. He was not in danger, but my mother wanted to get him out anyways. And he asked my uncle to help. But my uncle had his head in between his hands and he was leaning forward and he was not responsive. My mother got scared and got close to my uncle and realized he had passed away. My mother started crying and screaming, and asked my aunt to go over and help. At this point, my mother woke up. I told my cousin (my eldest’s uncle daughter about the stream, but no one else knew about it). that surgery was canceled and was postponed for another day. My cousin called me today to tell me that her mother who was my late uncle’s wife, had a dream of her own father who passed away many years ago along with my uncle. In that dream, my aunt’s father gave her a piece of meat that was considered exotic and very rare, but she does not know what type of meat it was. The same night, my boy cousin had a dream of my uncle, the same uncle. In that dream, my cousin was riding a horse and suddenly he saw my uncle who was walking and was going somewhere. My cousin has stopped and asked him, hey dad, where are you going? My uncle told I am going to see my sister. She needs me and I am going there. My cousin asked him which sister. My uncle gave him my mother‘s name.
now a little bit of background about my family : I am currently on medical leave due to two chronic conditions which had been flaring up and I know my mother is concerned about it. Due to a lot of stress at workplace I had the flareup and I’ve had a lot of anxiety and I know my mother is really concerned about it. We have one of our houses for sale and I keep on asking my aunts and my mother for prayers because I really want to sell that house and I want to move out of where I leave now. My husband is American. And he is also concerned about my health, but he was not in the dreams. My maternal cousins and their mother live in Iran. My mother sisters, my aunts, both live in Iran as well. I was extremely close to my maternal grandparents and so was my mother. I asked my mother if there is anything that she has asked for from God in her prayers, and she says she didn’t ask for anything specific. So I’m not sure what the problem could be that my uncle was in such a rush to resolve it and that has gotten me really concerned. We are religious minority in Iran, Baha’i, so we can never go back because I will be prosecuted because of my activities in the United States so I am missing my aunts every single day. I am not sure if all the streams are related to each other or not, but it looks like there is some sort of connection in between them. Would you please tell me what they mean? My cousin told me about you, since she wrote you a few times few years ago when she was going through a very hard time in her life. I really appreciate your help. And thank you for reading my very, very long comment.
I forgot to add this part which might be important:
And a dream that my cousin had and saw my uncle, his father, going to My mom. He saw my uncle entered at school and my other girl cousin was standing at the door of the school. They told my cousin that he cannot take the horse inside the school so he asked the person who was at the gate to take care of his horse so he can go inside and find his father. This was the end of his dream.
In this dream your cousin cannot take his horse into the school, which is a symbol of his strength and enthusiasm, because the system in Iran is threatened by people who act out of their own positive selves. They want to make you into what they want, not what your own unique abilities are. if he can remember his strength and enthusiasm, good things will come to him.
Hi Sara,
Your mom’s dream about her mother not being pleased with her has to do with your mother having a difficult time manifesting the positive qualities that she inherited, maybe because of anxiety. Anyway, where the grandmother is pregnant is about developing a new quality in herself, your mom’s self, probably something related to having more empowerment or courage. The potatoes mean that she has a rich inheritance, which you also have. In your dream going back to Iran to the bank means that you have a rich inheritance and that to get to your inheritance you have to remember your grandmother’s positive qualities and live out of them. What your grandmother was not able to do in Iran because of the lack of equality between men and women, you are not able to do in America. It is important that you remember your grandmother and live the life that she would have lived had she not been living in a masculine- dominated world. Your mother’s next dream is about the way the men are drowning in their relationships. This has to do with the fact that they have not begun to do their inner work yet on spiritual intimacy. In the next dream the meat symbolizes inner strength, which is the quality that the women need internally if they are to advance. Your mother needs to develop inner strength, That is pretty obvious. Your issue with anxiety related stress means that you also need to develop inner strength. Anxiety stems from feeling alone and disconnected which probably began when you left Iran. To develop your strength, you can imagine and feel that your grandparents are with you, especially your grandmother. If you can hear her encourages you on to do important things especially in the cause of raising the status of women, then your life will turn from stress to empowerment and achievement.
Hello
I have dreams of versions of myself trying to talk to me. One would advise me and another would verbally abuse me. Some are men and some are women but they all look like me what does it mean?
Dear Emma,
Basically we all need voices that are encouraging inside. We do not need abusive voices. It the ones that are advising you are positive, then you can keep those. The ones that are abusive need to be turned off and replaced with an encouraging voice. Imagine that you could turn off the negative voice, and then turn to volume up on a positive, encouraging voice. With encouragement inside people can do almost anything.
dear Richard:i now submit this dream for analysis. it has me puzzled and many of my friends have a very different outlook about it. i am interested to learn yours. in this dream i was in a place not so much an apartment complex as a series of rooms, all connected to each other by enclosed hallways and secret tunnels. the tunnels were used for communication purposes. they would secret coded messages between these rooms by trolley. as soon as the trolley reached its destination a light would go on at the other end. then the recipient would open the door on the trolley,remove the message and return it to the room it came from. this was accomplished by pressing a button on the trolley. the place itself was almost like a pueblo village,with a similar layout but all on one level. the people were, for the most part,very friendly and those few who were not simply ignored me. i did not often understand their conversation with each other because they only spoke to each other in coded messages . i felt they did this around me,because i was a stranger. only when speaking to me was their meaning clear and unmistakable. now an interesting thing was one of the passageways forked off in a Y pattern. at the end of one was a door which could only be opened by entering a code of 4 letters. these 4 letters were all from different alphabets combined to form a single word in English. only those with special clearance knew this code. once inside, in the middle of the room there was a door, octagonal in shape. which could only be opened by an even more complex code. behind this door were 3 boxes,the first being lead,the second one tungsten,and the third one rose quartz. both lead and tungsten are anti-radiation and tungsten has the highest melting point of any unalloyed metal. rose quartz has the ability to absorb electrical energy. i never was able to find out exactly what it was the three boxes contained, but this system was devised to avoid the necessity of constantly guarding it. in this complex i heard a strange conversation. i heard a knock on a door. i turned and saw a large,powerfully built man in an olive green sweater and blue-gray trousers waiting at the door. after awhile it was answered by a tall, thin man in a light blue vest. the first man had straight brown hair almost the color of gingerbread. the second man had red-orange hair. the conversation between went like this: 1ST man : are you going to pick up that load. take off for Charleston 2ND MAN: no need for that yet. we cant be sure. besides, DELTA 2 has to send his acknowledgement 1ST MAN: all right but-[here the conversation was interrupted by a light flashing on] the second man opened the secret doorway and examined the message,which he showed to the first man. to judge from their pleased and satisfied expressions this must have been very good news indeed. they were both aware of my presence and not in the least bit put off by it. the second man even held up the message for me to see. it consisted of 4 pictographs. bird (egret) ship(frigate) dog (greyhound) fruit (lemon) i smiled. the first man looked at the second ,who nodded. the first man waved “see you later” i found myself in front of the secret room. some sort of dispute was going on. it was about whether or not the boxes should be moved from their present location i heard a mans voice say “i see no reason why they should be moved. they are more than safe where they are” a red haired woman who had been standing next to me said “if you knew what was in those boxes you would agree they should be guarded day and night” i was about to rely when i woke up. and that is one the honester and most enigmatic dreams i ever had. i look forward to your analysis
one of the shortest and most enigmatic dreams typographical error
Dear James, Sorry for the delay. Had a virus for several days. The overall theme of the dream is protection, that is, a group of people are acting protective of something, the nature of which is and remains unknown to you. They talk in code and do whatever it takes to not allow the secret to be found out. It is a bit like the way corporations and governments have secrets so that they have a competitive edge over others. The only recent time where the protection came down was in an attempt to find a Covid vaccine. The dream begs the question, what if we could live in a world where there were no secrets, where we had true, open and honest communication, and that the people shared resources and information. The way the dream reads or suggests is that they are guarding secrets that could cause mass destruction. What if we could let out the secrets that cause mass positive enrichment and development.
very insightful. i had the feeling that it was something that could have terrible consequences for the world at large, if it was unleashed. usually i do not have continuation dreams or see the same person twice,but this has been an exception to the rule. i saw the prayerfully built man in the olive green sweater (olives, interestingly have a healing and soothing effect for me) he said “don’t just concentrate on the boxes. look there” he pointed to 2 parallel,thick beams of light ,running diagonally from the ground to sky 1 dark green the other light green. <now look at the ionosphere ” when i did so i saw something unforgettable. a sight that is with me even as i type these words. an immense field of light expanding outwardly very slowly..3 colors,bright yellow,copper,bright green . there were more,but these were the predominant colors. then i saw something else. have you ever seen something explode and implode at the same time? because this is what i saw. noiselessly ,on the left side of the field. it was so thick i could almost describe it as solid light. and the description would be not be an inaccurate one. can you imagine what something exploding and imploding simultaneously would look like? i saw it and to say it is spectacular would be an understatement. i told to one friend. she has her own view on it. i am looking forward to learning yours.
powerfully built man in the olive green sweater. i do not know what is happening,that i am making so many mistakes
Hi James,
Exploding and Imploding are part of the same process, that is why you see them together. It is like the issue of equality. The old prejudices are crumbling while the new ones are building built. In the dream world time is not linear like in earth time. It also seems like your healing happened when you turned your attention from the boxes to the beams of light. There is something about healing and creating new potentialities that requires you detach from the material so that you can see the non-material (invisible). Then the good stuff will happen. It is always so unique and dramatic for you.
I had a dream that someone was beating me but the blood that was coming out was not mine. In fact there were no wounds on me but there was blood all over me. I felt emotional pain however.
Dear Emma,
This dream happens because you probably have a tendency to take on other people’s negative energy. You feel the pain of what is happening to them. What will help you, if you can do it, is to learn how to read people’s feelings without taking them in as if they are yours. Staying detached from someone’s feelings by reading them, but not taking them in helps you to really support them through difficult times or stay away when needed.
The man I love is in the process of a divorce but in the dream he and his wife went to Paris and she deliberately told me that he drunkenly kissed her with a smirk on her face, he couldn’t deny it.
Dear J,
This dream is about the fear you have that he may go back to her even though he is getting a divorce in real life. What you can do is to ask yourself what happens in your mind when you have this fear, like what to do you see, etc., and then ask yourself how you behave towards him or other things. What you need to do is to replace the fearful images with really positive ones about your future.
Dreamt I was in a cart with a friend. Dressed up and using to go out somewhere. Not motorised just using the flow of the streets. Someone gave me two small teddy bears which are not mine. They sit in front of cart with me and I keep a close eye on them so they don’t fall out
Dear M,
This dream tells you that when you want to get to being able to connect better with others, you need to go slowly like in a cart that is not motorized, and to have a lot of sweetness or softness like the teddy bears.
dear Richard, this dream, is another hard-to-figure-out-one .i think you know me well enough,by now to know this is hardly unusual for me. well, we will see what you and i can make of it. this dream begins in a place which is like a combination of therapy center,resort and hospital. as far back as i can recall in this dream i was at first in a dark,dimly lit part of the building in conversation with 4 other people. i do not recall any of the conversation,but i do remember one of my friends in real life joined me as i was walking through the hall. then we came to a lounge area. with people sitting and talking,some of them right from the therapy baths. this place offered many kinds of therapies, including mineral baths and hot and cold baths others were looking at a screen above eye level which depicted many of the ancient gods, such as HERCULES,the ancient super-hero of antiquity VULCAN,the god of industry hammering on his anvil, and HYGEIA the goddess of healing from whom our modern word hygiene is derived, and also THOR, with his hammer but not hammering on an anvil, THOTH HERMES, the god of healing with his emerald tablets dispensing wisdom,ATHENA the goddess of wisdom but also capable of engaging in combat when necessary and SEKHMET also a goddess of healing but also a participant in combat whenever necessary. all these gods and goddesses were capable of communicating on the screen with the people here on certain occasions. and imparting information too, to those who needed it. some of the people present did communicate with them,others not i saw a fan-not a modern fan a circular shaped ancient one-begin to glow,then saw the light expand in all directions. some of the people were paying attention to the cats. this entire place . was literally swarming with cats. of all kinds. HERCULES and THOR were both active, both showing feats of incredible strength. so we went into the next room,which had as many cats as the next one. i can remember stroking the neck of one and almost feeling the purring. 5 this room had a wide window almost like that in an airport lounge. we could see the whole panorama in front of us. it overlooked a beach , with a lot of motels along the coast i was looking at the scene when suddenly i saw a strange green and purple glow coming from the beach in back of one of the motels my friend turned toward me JT: see that? that’s the signal to go into action ME: for what? JT: for commando squadron XP-125 to go get em’ ME: get whom? JT: haven’t you heard? that building has been taken over by hi tech terrorists. they’re both the staff and the tourists there hostage. just then a truck pulled up silently in front of the motel. this truck seemed oddly familiar JT: look. we’ve got ringside seats suddenly i knew why it seemed familiar. a stealth vehicle. a few minutes later another vehicle pulled up silently suddenly the doors of the vehicle swung open and a device about 7 feet high rolled out. it looked like a huge movie camera. 2 men came out. a switch was pulled and the muzzle of the thing spun around until it was pointed. directly at the rear entrance. then a lever was pulled and a long white beam hit the back entrance. instantly a group of men began quietly approaching the motel. one of them aimed a weapon and fired. a beam the color of white grapefruit hit the back door. it sliced through the rear glass door like a knife through the glass door the way a knife cuts through butter. my friend was excited as a sports fan when he sees his favorite team about to win. then they all began firing at once. rays and beams of every description hit the motel. the terrorists were taken completely surprise. some of them tried to fight back but they were surrounded and overpowered. then a voice announced over the intercom TERRORISTS IN THE BUILDING COMING UP BY THE EAST ELEVATOR PREPARE YOURSELVES now if my friend had been excited before he was almost in a state of euphoria now OH YIPPEE THEY RE HERE I GET A CHANCE AT SOME OF’EM in the process drawing out a rod shaped weapon and pointing it at the elevator (my pacifist sentiments are not exactly shared by this friend) soon the elevator door opened and the terrorists inside were greeted by energy blasts and force beams . my friend captured two of them .i saw a beam blast knock over 2 of them i said half jokingly “DOESN’T”T that constitute excessive use of force?” JT: James, when it comes to this there is no such thing as excessive use of force. the terrorists had lost the advantage of surprise and were outgunned and rapidly overpowered. as i began to think about all this and why the terrorists chose to attack the building (one of them told the reason for this. they had been told there was a blueprint for a secret weapon hidden in the hotel, which was a pure fabrication0 as i began to ponder the lessons for this, in a flash something occurred to me-the interaction between the human and the superhuman! becoming aware of your own potentials and hidden abilities and evolve into something beyond all this. as one author put it power VS force. or to put it another way ,Balance. harmony between opposites. where you are at peace with creation. once you have set your mind to achieve this state no power on earth either internal or external can stop you. i had no sooner reached this conclusion than i heard a MEOW behind me. i turned and saw a cat behind me wearing a pleased and satisfied smile on its face. i knew this cat. we were good friends one remark before i conclude: the designation squadron XP-125 is also that used in a previous dream i submitted to you for analysis you recall the one in the city street with the woman who escaped from the so-called hospital. if you do not quite recall just scroll back a few pages and you will find it, but i think you will remember. and now to see what you and i can make of this
Dear James,
What is interesting to me about this dream is the contrast between the healing resort, which seems like a positive place where people are getting healed and transformed, and then terrorists in the hotel. The terrorists are trying to find a super weapon conceivably to making themselves materially strong so that they can get what they want through the use of material power. The people in the healing center are developing their inner powers through more positive means. The terrorists are trying to take the easy way out, while the healing people are taking a longer road. Your friend wants you to become a commando to stop the terrorists. It seems successful. It seems that the truly superhuman powers, where nothing can stop you, come from energy of the “gods” (the inner worlds where the positive energy exists in abundance) The cats appear in both the healing center and after you realize what the true inner force is. Cats are usually symbols of independence of thinking and action. At least part of the understanding that this dream seems to bring is that doing away with terrorists does not necessarily get you to where you want to go. It makes a temporary equilibrium at best. The true power is in the inner work. I love this part. “…where you are at peace with creation.” It seems like that is where you are headed, the place where you are at peace with creation. It is like your previous dreams. You don’t have an issue with courage and doing battle. It is more about how do you get to a state of peace.
Dear Richard,
Hello. I was wondering if you could help me interpret a dream I had that has been worrying me. The dream I had contains a lot of recurring elements, I think the 3 biggest ones are water, a car (I work as a shuttle driver and the car in the dream is the van I drive), and a prison.
I don’t remember a lot before this sequence in the dream. I somehow wound up getting onboard the shuttle van and someone else was driving. We drove to a prison and walked inside. I’m not sure where the driver went but I went to the bathroom. I wasn’t sure why we were there and I felt uneasy. As I looked around, the inmates were like giants compared to me, they were taller and seemed like they possessed strength. That is all I really remember.
I have had a lot of dreams about water and cars lately. I often find that I have a hard time controlling the vehicle when driving in the dreams.
I had one recently where I almost crashed into a source of water. I had another where it was raining and I fell into a lake, and witnessed an older woman drive into it. I tried to rescue her by pushing the car out of it, and when I was able to get it out, she just drove right back in.
These kinds of dreams have really been worrying me and I get the sense that they mean nothing good. I hope that you see this and could help me to understand them better. Thank you!
-Nico
Dear Nico,
Being in a vehicle driving forward, when it is positive, means that you are moving forward in your life to where you want to go. It is usually problematic in a dream when someone else is driving like your dream because you can end up in a place like where you ended. So conceivably when you have tried to get to where you want to do in your life, you have had experienced where others were in control of how you get there and then you end up in situation that feels like you are in prison and everyone else is much bigger. When you do the work of letting go of what happened to you in the past, like maybe it happened when you went to school or a new job, then instead of others being big you become big or strong to the things you need to do to get where you want to go and you are in charge of it.
When you are in water in a dream it has to do with your relationships. You have probably had experiences where you felt out of control in your relating. This is because relationships are fluid in nature, with a lot of give and take. Relational behavior is more about going with the flow, which is completely different from the prison dream, where you need to be big and in control. Relating flows because you are dealing with other human beings.
The one with the older woman is about trying to rescue someone in a relationship when they have no will to change. They end up repeating the same behaviors. Relationships work when there is a lot of positive acknowledgement of each other and the people involved take responsibility for their own issues.
Let me know if you have other questions about the dreams. You can also email me at dreamsforpeace@gmail.com.
I have dreams were a group of people at a networking event bully me but they are wearing my clothes, what does it mean?
Dear Emma,
The purpose of a networking event in real life is to make connections with others so that you can eventually do business together. When you are being bullied, it means that another person or group is trying to have a power advantage over you so that they can get whatever they want. Wearing your clothes means that they want to take over your role, your position. The dream shows that this is probably what you are fearing when you are trying to connect with others. If you have strong boundaries, which means not allowing others to use power against you, then you can connect with almost anyone. The work seems to be to strengthen your boundaries.
i had a dream my crush who was also my teacher bought me two perfume one sphere shaped that is white/clear and one that is rectangular shaped that is a golden yellow. Idk why i am here for this, i just like my crush lamo.
Dear Yuuooo,
The problem with having crushes in real life is that people live in the energy of hope, but do not a lot of action connected to the wishful thinking and imagining. When you can combine action with the imagined positive outcome, is when relationships flourish in really positive ways.
an error of omission: i meant to say she did not seem surprised to see me.