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This is a response to Tyler’s dreams.
A hallway in a dream is a symbol for how you get from one part of your self to another. The metaphor of the self is usually a house or building that has a lot of rooms which or symbolic or the various parts of yourself. The hallway is the connecting link between to various parts. It kind of serves as an integrative link. So when you go down the hallway you enter the room where the dragon part of you lives or exists. This part of you is the part that is courageous. The dragon symbolizes the powerful forces that exist in the world that you feel like you have to battle in order to get somewhere. The key to solving the dream is becoming a positive dragon. This means that you recognize yourself as being a powerful person inside that is capable of doing amazing things. In the ancient mythology of dragons they were seen as positive forces that transform life. This was the mythology of the East. When the Mongul invaders reached Europe in the 12th Century they were like the dragon that turned negative. So mythology of dragons in the West tend to see them as negative rather than positive creatures.
In the second dream with your truck the big key is to realize that despite the truck being your baby, it is represents the way you get around in the world that is inherited from your father. It is not that that is bad and cannot be used in your life because it seems positive. However when you are going forward at this point, you need something else. That energy is the energy that is unique to you and you alone and has nothing to do with inherited qualities. Your truck breaks down because and you meet the zombies in the school and then try to get away from them because the inherited qualities don’t work. The zombies represent the large percentage of the population who just are dead to who they really are like they are living but dead inside of themselves because they haven’t chosen their own direction in life, they just follow what everyone else does. The high school environment should teach young people to follow their own uniqueness in life, but it mostly teaches them to be zombies and repeat the past. When you meet that energy, it scares you so you run.
The important thing is find out that unique energy inside of yourself that makes you uniquely you and then courageously move forward with it in your life.
Hi Richard
I sent a message 3-4 weeks ago about my dream, it was every time I put mascara on it would run down my face leaving me with smudged,black streaks running all over my face, while my sisters looks perfect.
Since then I have had another dream of one side (left) of my face looking like black and blue bruising, it always seems to be black and or black and blue on my face, where as the mascara was my whole face, the bruising was only on the left, please could you help me to understand what this is saying x yours Claire ty x
I had a dream recently, about a month ago and it was quite short. It was like I was my pet dog, I saw through his eyes in a way like I was in his body. I then couldn’t move but felt as if I was awake and I’m still not sure if I was, I then woke up and my dog was right next to me in the middle of the night. He sleeps downstairs with my other dog and he was just in my room next to me. It was insane. I need to find out about this, there’s nothing on the internet.
Thanks
thank you so much for that mr richard. i have a couple others i want to know the meaning of. the first one was a repetitive dream i had several times as a kid. it starts out im in this long hallway that seems to go on forever. and a big part of the dream is walking down this hallway. finally i turn to the right and stare at this door that looks just like all the others. when i open the door i can see myself and the room around me as well. i look the same except im holding a sword. then this dragon comes from nowhere and we start fighting. im desperately trying to kill this dragon and the dream ends with the dragons mouth coming straight at me. my second dream i had just last night. it starts off im driving my dads truck to school.(i keep seeing it in my dreams for some reason. but when i lived with my dad that truck was my baby. meaning i took care of it) i get to my parking lot and it stalls. so i push it to the auto shop in my school. the teacher who is also one of my football coaches asks what was wrong with it. i didnt directly answer him but i said get me an OBD2(on board diagnostic) code reader. he then directs me to grab a tool bag from his class room. i get the bag but then the dream goes kinda funny. somebody some where screams out the word zombies and i turn around and there are zombies everywhere. way too many to count. there eyes glow red. i turn ariund and run and theyre chasing me.i end up out front of the school and at some point i picked up this device that knew would distract them. but anyways i saw a building with a fire escape on campus that isnt there in my waking life. i ran towards the building and jumped on the fire escape. i then run around the cat walk thats attached and find another building. i run down some stairs in between these two buildings and look back see that theyre still chaseing me and throw the device. i didnt stop to see if it worked i just kept running. i jumped up and caught myself on a window. i pulled my self up to see that the window was boarded up with 1 by 8 boards. i set my foot on the window sill and jump up and catch myself on the roof and the dream ends when i see the roof top.
Tyler,
What you can think about in this dream is that the cave is a symbol to mean that you need to go deep inside of yourself to find out positive “Snow White” in you. Snow White is the like the positive energy that allows you to connect with all things.
I can’t tell whether or not the experience with your dad seeing the girl was negative or positive or whether or not the experience with your father in your life is generally positive. It seems like it is probably positive and supportive, but I can’t tell from what you have written.
The girl in the dream is someone you need to connect with in a deep way because your paths have crossed. This means that, at this time in your life, she and you are probably going through similar things and can benefit from each other.
The really important thing is to find the Snow White in you that connects with others in a deep way. That is your journey of discovery.
i had a dream that i was hopeing you could help me with finding the meaning of. i dreamt i was in a cave and went down a side passage where i found an old spanish colonial castle or missionary thing that was underground. i then got the feeling that snow white lived there. then i was in my dads truck with him and he was driving. we were talking about the law in different cities. then and this is the part i really need help with i saw this girl that i know and keep regular contact with cross the road right in front of me and we were staring at each other while she crossed. i woke up after this. this has been bugging me for two weeks now and i cant find anything on it anywhere. if you could help me out id greatly appreciate it.
This is a response to Suhaila’s dream,
The purpose of this dream is to remind of you of the pattern you are in with your family. According to the dream there is something about them that makes you feel really uncomfortable and uneasy. So what you do as a result of the uneasiness is get away from them and then they vanish from your life.
To solve the dream you first have to understand why you are so uncomfortable around them. You probably already know this. Then the process that you need is detachment from them. Right now you feel uncomfortable and then you get away from them. When you are detached, you can maintain your joy in every environment in your life regardless of the behavior of others. Then you can stay in it and bring a lot more joy to the world.
Detachment is not necessarily an easy road because it means letting go of whatever hurt is there in the relationships. It is easier to let go when you realize how powerful joy is. Joyfulness that is detached from the behavior of others changes everything around you. The goal of the dream is to help give you wings of joy so that you can transform life around you.
Happy detaching!!!
This is a response to Sarah’s dream,
So when you have a baby in a dream, it metaphorically means that you have given birth or are going to give birth to a new part of you. Normally what happens in a lot of relationships is that you are attracted to something in the other person that you don’t have in yourself. When the baby is born, it means the energy that the boy friend has, which was in potential inside of you also, is now born in you also. Usually when this happens and the relationship is not going to end up in marriage, the boy friend becomes an ex because you don’t need him in the same way anymore. There is also the possibility of gaining positive aspects in yourself in another way which you also do in the dream. That way is to learn new qualities from your friends. The advantage of having new energy from your friends is that you don’t have to go through the agony of breaking off the relationship.
The mistake most young people make, which is pretty hard not to do, is that they get into relationships that are “as if” you are married. Then it often becomes ugly when the break up happens which is inevitable. The best relationships outside of marriage are close friendships because they are the most enduring and you gain the most as well as give the most in them.
Anyway, you have learned positive energy in both ways and as a result you can go for things like you did in the race in the dream and win.
If should be a model for you for living. When you are attracted to someone or become friends, new stuff is growing in you that is going to make your life really amazing if you understand what the energy is and develop it in yourself.
Hi there. I had a dream last night that I gave birth and the father was my recent ex and then shortly after I gave birth again and this time the father was one of our friends. I didn’t see the babies for the test of my dream cause I was at uni or some place competing in a obstacle finding race and our team won, but a all I wanted to do was tell my ex about the babies. I would just like to know what this means
I dreamt of a somewhat large gathering of people, family I recognized and others I wasn’t sure who they were. I felt uncomfortable with everyone and was uneasy (I don’t really maintain any relations with my family). I definitely wasn’t there by my own will, but I can’t remember how I got there. At this gathering we were in a large dark space, maybe an old abandoned school gymnasium or theater, I can’t remember. Something happened and I got upset and wished to leave. I wasn’t sure how to get out, I just knew I had to trust myself and get out of there so I started looking for a way out. Family members were talking to me and following me while I searched but I completely ignored them. Nearing the exit, I could see the door and light through the glass window in the door. Within the last few meters of me exiting, EVERYONE turns into black ash, piles of dead rotting fish and maggots. I seem to be rather indifferent towards the whole situation and just exit the space and then I waked up. There was a really dark and macabre tone to the dream, usually something like this would disturb me, but in the dream I was pretty unfazed and unattached.
Awesome, I am glad this helped.
Thanks that helped a lot dreamsforpeace finally I found someone that helped me. I will recommend you to my friends if they need help 🙂
Klaudia,
The metaphor of a negative ghost in a dream is that of having negative thoughts or beliefs that are imagined rather than real. So in your old school you have an imaginary thought or belief (which is the ghost in your mind) that if you would have done something different, then everything would have changed for you. The ghost of my high school days used to be in football games where if I just had played a little better it would have changed the outcome of the game and then had a positive outcome in my life, but the truth is that I played the best I could at the time because that is who I was.
So to leave the ghost behind it is important to accept the person you were in the old school, believe you did the best you could with who you were, and then start developing the qualities or capacities that you wanted to have them but couldn’t. When you develop those wanted qualities or capacities, they will have a very dramatic impact on your life now.
It will be incredible. Right now I am living in Asia where people have strong beliefs in ghosts. This is because they are unable to actualize their potential the way they would like to mainly because they give too much power to the leaders or heads of families and don’t take their life in their own hands and go for it.
Hi I had a weird dream today of a ghost or entity chasing me in an old school and whenever I failed to run away to the exit it grabbed me and the dream restarts can you help?!
This is a response to Sona’s dream,
This dream shows that you have a compassionate nature and a yearning for service to humanity by caring for important causes such as animal welfare. It shows that a lot of service we do starts with thinking we are doing one thing, catching a mouse, but then turns into something else, saving turtles. The problem the dream presents is often what happens in a situation where you are doing service. The project gets too big too fast and then it gets a little bit out of control and you cannot handle all of the work.
The solution is usually to do whatever you are doing on a smaller scale at first with a lot of quality, then expand when you know how to replicate the work. The turtle is a good metaphor because it moves slowly and methodically, but gets where it wants to go all the same.
This is a response to Diana’s dream.
The main reason that you are having this dream is to realize that when you have the courage and faith to just jump into things even though you do not have all of the abilities, one thing will lead to another until it feels like you are on a cruise. Every ability and every new enterprise starts with your type of dream because everyone has to jump in to develop themselves and get things moving forward. You can’t do it by sitting back in life and waiting.
I had a dream where I thought I had a mouse running around my living room. I started to chase it and then when I finally captured it, it turned out to be a small turtle (size of a thumb) with an orange/red shell. It was dried up and looked unhealthy. I filled up a bath and put the turtle in the water and it seemed to make it healthier and it started to swim around. Though it looked healthier, I remember thinking that the turtle still didn’t seem happy to be captured.
Then I found more turtles. Much smaller than the first (size of a finger nail). I felt like they were the babies of the bigger one. I don’t think the big one liked it when I took the smaller ones and put them in the bath too. It seemed to upset it, or her(?) The big one then escaped the tub because my sister wasn’t paying attention to it. And that was it.
I’m very curious what it could mean! I would appreciate some insight 🙂
I had a dream of jumping off a bridge that was hold on from chains into sea. After I jumped off, I remembered I couldn’t swim yet I didn’t sink nor panicked. I was told to be careful yet a couple of people also jumped in after me. When I decided to go back onto the bridge, there was a red carpet, and tunnel that led into a luxury cruise. What does my dream means or trying to tell me?
This is a response to Amanda’s dream,
The purpose of this dream is to teach you that when something is going on inside whether it be physical or emotional, it is important to be able to be detached and take a good look at it so that you can find out what it is, either positive or negative. In the first part of the dream you feel queasy and disgusted and this keeps you from knowing what is happening to you. In the second part of the dream you go to a place where you can find out what is happening. This is a positive move because you see that they are like a queen and king.
The most important state to be in when something is going on whether it be positive or negative is that of curiosity. Curiosity allows you to discover things about yourself and what is happening to you so that you can keep it is positive and change it if it is negative.
This in response to the Anonymous Dream,
This dream speaks to the idea that if you use positive speech in an encouraging way you can help bring about peace in the world. What is important to realize about the dream world is that it does not exist in time. The actual process of encouraging someone that conflict is not the way to solve the situation may take a lot longer than the amount of time that it took in the dream. The important thing is to not give up because in the end the more people are encouraged, the less likely they are to resort to violence and conflict.