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I did dream as a child, but upon adulthood I stopped seeing dreams often, and lately I’ve had only one repeating dream.
In the dream I am apparently a military man, leading a group of people through dark, probably night environment. I encounter a dog on my path, that possesses no threat. Despite this, I shoot the dog, and watch it slowly bleed to death. Later my teammates blame me for my actions, confused why I shot the dog. I however find no fault on my actions nor feel any guilt.
Laata, Sorry this is so late. I have had a hectic week or so. The reason that a lot of your dreaming process stopped is that your mind has blocked your memory for protection sake. Normally when there is no protective things going on, it is relatively easy to remember dreams. Being a military man in your dream means that you had a time in your life when you had a function of protecting yourself and others. You needed to be so careful in leading people through the metaphoric night (the dark situations around you) that you had to kill friendships. You were ok with shooting the dog (killing possible or real friendships) because the circumstances required it. The reason you have the dream now is because that time period is now over and you need to transform yourself so that relationships become the main thing in your life. As humans we need to be close to people. It is our nature as a species. The process work for yourself is to let go of the military man inside of you. You can retire from the military in your head and know that if you ever need it again you can be that person. Now you need to be friendly.
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Hi I dreamt of spits. I was in a haunted house many storeys high up, with everyone forced to spit into a hole for some salvage. It was loathsome seeing so much spit and that the spit had to reach to the last floor from a continuous hole on each floor. Everyone spitting from every floor into the hole but I was struggling to spit I had to use my finger to dig out my spit and dig open my mouth. An exhausting dream and woke up with saliva all over my pillow and feeling exhausted and depressed and awful.
Jane,
Spitting is considered to be unmannerly because spit contains a lot of bacteria that can be picked up by others. So in a dream it is more like a metaphor which means putting your bad stuff out there which others can pick up. When you are in your haunted self (the haunted house) it means that there are scary aspects of it that make you do gross things.
So the key to the dream or the solution to it is to be in your really positive grounded self. Instead of spitting out gross stuff you can produce positive actions that will help others. The first step is to let of any feelings you ever have of being haunted which means being controlled by bad energy around you.
Hi, Whenever you have a jail dream, it is helpful to immediately try to take responsibility for the situation you find yourself in in your life. Being in prison is a metaphor for being in the prison of your own self, the prison of your own ego. It is not good or bad. It just shows you that the situation you are is your own doing. Getting out of the prison is not that hard. The main thing you have to do is to absolutely completely stop blaming others for anything. It is so unbelievable how your life changes when blame leaves.
Some questions that help are things like, “How did I get myself in this awful mess?” You don’t have to go public; just go public to yourself so that you can begin to have a lot more freedom in your life. Freedom is based upon taking responsibility for the messes you put yourself in.
I have had a recurring jail dream myself two or three times. It was so helpful to see how I got myself in there. Really the purpose of the dream is just to show you how to take responsibility rather than blaming. Then a lot of great possibilities will immediately show up.
I had this dream last night:
I was in a jail I was facing a life sentence for driving without insurance, I had on a Grey jail outfit and it was way too big. I kept seeing other people keep getting out. I remember I had to take medicine at certain intervals. I was carrying around an older model flip phone, I was trying to call my parents to help get me out of jail but they just kept saying they wouldn’t help me and deserved to be there.. my parent’s were watching my children I could hear my kids yelling for me in the background…. Then I called my fiancé to see if he could help get me out I knew he didn’t have the money like my parent’s did… but my fiancé suggested that he help me break out of jail.. I remember talking to him in codes on the cell phone so no one could understand us… then I had to take the medicine again.. I was trying to call my fiancé again when he woke me up out of the dream
The problem with this dream is that your husband is metaphorically married to something or someone else beside you. You are just playing around like playing cards rather than seriously dealing with what is happening. You are in a tough position, but you have to start acting either to get your marriage back on track or end it.
Dresm that woke me at 4ish am.
I finally had enough I yell at my husband (have not been leaving together just seeing each other very seldom) while we are playing cards in garage. I ask if he was st wedding he said yes other neighbors were st wedding too not me. i asked if she was there he said yes. I say I have had enough tell me. He says fine. I say have u sleep with her he says yes I say how many times he says twice I ask if he staying eith her he says yes while looking down ashamed. I get up from folding chair push it in still holding deck if cards and say well make up ur mind thank uou for telling me it is all I wanted now do u want to stay with her or come back yo me and I will forgive snd forget this. He looks at me like really u would do that. I put cards down. He says come back to u. I say fine but u stop all communication with her snd u tell her now u are meeting to get things he says ok. He texts to meet at north town. I say let’s go he says few minutes. I sit and pass out 11cards for rummy. I say again this means no communication he says that’s fine I don’t like new girl she is with anyway. Guy sitting next yo randy not sure who gets up and says what she go back to being with women again. Everyone neighbors there is looking at us like wow when yelling at him.
Colors bown chairs white tables.
Dresm that woke me at 4ish am.
I finally had enough I yell at my husband (have not been leaving together just seeing each other very seldom) while we are playing cards in garage. I ask if he was st wedding he said yes other neighbors were st wedding too not me. i asked if she was there he said yes. I say I have had enough tell me. He says fine. I say have u sleep with her he says yes I say how many times he says twice I ask if he staying eith her he says yes while looking down ashamed. I get up from folding chair push it in still holding deck if cards and say well make up ur mind thank uou for telling me it is all I wanted now do u want oy stay with get or come back yo me and I will forgive snd forget this. He looks at me like really u would do that. I put cards down. He says come back to u. I say fine but u stop all communication with her snd u tell her now u are meeting to get things he says ok. He texts to meet at north town. I say let’s go he says few minutes. I sit and pass out cards for rummy. I say again this means no communication he says that’s fine I don’t like new girl she is with anyway. Guy sitting next yo randy not sure who gets up. Everyone neighbors there is looking at us like wow when yelling at him.
Colors bown chairs white tables.
Dream interpretations please: a golden spider of normal size crawling on fingers and trying to tie my fingers with its legs… tried to kill it but it escaped.. I managed to cut down 2 legs. I am 30, an entrepreneur and a bachelor.
This is response to Mady’s dream. Usually a spider has to do with feminine energy because it is about weaving a web. In this case the feminine energy is trying to tie up your fingers. The fingers usually represent really fine technical abilities. So it seems like there is some kind of feminine energy like maybe a female who is trying to tie up your abilities so you try to get rid of her.
I don’t remember most of my dream last night but I remember this: I ha to tell my husband who was not living with me for some time that big john from camping had died. I texted him as I didn’t know where he was staying an said just wanted to let you know big john you know coleens husband died. Than when I finally saw my husband again I noticed that his upper arm tattoo of black an gray clouds with my name and kids names was lighter gray and you could no longer see any if the names.
Any idea if what this means
The is for sweetzlynn’s dream,
So basically, your husband who is far away from you heard the news of Big John dying and then his tatoos start to fade. Tatoos often symbolize aspects of your character that you have a lot of confidence about. When he is far from you and also hears bad news, he begins to lose his confidence. You can help him regain his confidence by bringing him closer to you by telling him really positive things about himself.
Leo,
The full moon in real life is a full reflection of the light of the sun onto the moon that we see. This means that your focus in life should be to become like the reflection of the sun. The sun is like our great source of light and warmth which is like being illumined and giving out love and warmth to others. So when you are trying to be a reflection of the sun, it means that you realize it is important for you to become illumined with positive knowledge and then to give out love to others. It is actually a life long process so that fact that you are getting it in a dream means this is the path that is most important for you.
Dear richard
I have had the same dream four or five times now. Its not always the same but during my multiple dreams each night it always includes a part where i lie down at night for sleep and look up at a full moon. Its big and detailed enough that it fills my entire vision and that is the only thing i can see. Thats about it but its about happened miltiple times its strange.
Thanks.
My boyfriends 10 year old son is having nightmares of serial killers chasing him. He doesnt watch horror films or play those killing type games. His mother passed away last year sept 8th. What do or can I do to help him get good sleep
I dream I was kneeling beside a pool and lifting children out onto the grass. They were wet and cold and I wrapped them in towels and we smiled. Later, I went swimming too, with one other. There was a sense of waiting for someone and when they arrived we three were going on a hike or bike ride. Then i had my bike in the pool with me. I had to borrow clothes from someone, or she was giving them to me, to swim in – i tried on a pair of white swimming shorts and said no because it seemed they would become see-through when wet. Then she gave me a black pair and a long-sleeve swimming shirt that was really high quality. I liked it. In the pool I was doing tricks with the bike. I liked the way the water moved against the engineering of the bike. The other guy and I just played in the water. When it was clear the other person wasn’t coming I got out of the pool and when i put my shoes on I discovered someone had accidentally taken my shoe and left theirs. The camp owner recognized the shoe and said she’s contact the woman to come give mine back. There was also another shoe there from a person in my past, GB. The shoes I was wearing were bright orange and the one the woman left for me was identical in colour but it was long and narrow.
I was glad she was on her way to bring my shoe back.
Being outside means being outside of yourself which means that the focus is more on action rather than developing yourself. In order to have action you need energy (life force). It all starts with healing. Exercise is a good form of healing and the most important exercise to begin with is cardiovascular.
When you are comfortable but others are not, it means that people around you need to get comfortable with who you are before you expose your true self to them. It is a matter of first gain rapport and then gradually helping them to open. You don’t have to do it all at once.
I don’t recall my dream from last night, (although I vaguely recall that it had something to do with being in a garage and protecting a little 2 year old from having things that weren’t hers transferred onto her)…so when I don’t recall a dream then in morning dreamwork I just look back to yesterday’s dream and keep working on it, figuring whatever the message was still applies today. Yesterday I dreamed that
I was in recovery from operation on an area in my lower back (think it was organs/intestines). The area was stiff and it was awkward to get around.
The setting was outside. People were going somewhere and I was trying to come along but was slow. Amazingly, I felt okay about that.
Inside the building, a school I think, was a man who was watching me closely. There was blood on a part of the area of incision. He was offering to help me off a table, to get through door ways, etc. I was just having to take slow steps and was hunched over a bit, holding my back and abdomen. (there’s more to this part but I don’t recall)
It just gave me the feeling he had seen this type of recovery before and I was comfortable with the situation. It required surrender because I really wanted to go faster than what I was able to do and had to be okay with others seeing this too.
* After doing dreamwork I recall ** A loving mother sitting with her baby on a lawn chair on grass. The baby and mom is wearing green and I see it is the same colour as their aura. I tell them the colours look good on them. The mom smiles.
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The dream seems to want me to get to a feeling of being okay with being outdoors…but I’m not sure what that means – if house is “self” what is outdoors/outside of Self?
It was a good feeling because I didn’t expect the man to help or heal me actually. I felt responsible for my own recovery and that is why I felt so good and no pain at all just the annoyance of moving so slowly.
Blood means life force right? So is this about connecting with my Life Force?
I like the image of a happy and healthy mom and baby and being okay with seeing their happiness. Green is growth, I understand.
So the big problem in the dream is that I want to go faster than what I am able to do because the big work is actually recovery and is the solution is…??….to be okay with seeing beauty through my own eyes, allowing for connection with others and relaxing in the process?
To apply this, I know the biggest challenge in my life right now is that I am not getting enough physical exercise to maintain an optimum level of health so that i can do the things I want to do in life and I seem to be resisting scheduling time for that, even though I know I love it and always feel so much better afterwards. Maybe is the dream just telling me to start out slow (ie. make one physical-activity related commitment/step) and just take it step by step?
ohh!…before I sent this post another part of the dream came to mind ** I dreamed I was walking around everywhere wearing shorts but with no top. It was so comfortable but everyone else was feeling very uneasy about it. I wanted to tell them it was okay and natural but didn’t know how to explain it. Only one person could understand it was relaxing to move in this way and he just looked at me in the eyes and asked me if I wanted anything, like a glass of water, and I said sure so he went to get water and I was glad I didn’t have to put my shirt back on. *** what does it mean please?
Me and my fiancé Daniel went to a fair but never ended up inside.
We seen a dark coloured child in a car, sweating so bad you could see the sweat running down her face, so took her out and took her with us. I took the car and drove to the house I used to live in with my ex boyfriend and close friend of mine and I peeked in to see the furniture looked familiar, as I was about to leave, and I see my partner, best friend and someone else I don’t know turn up, I then look back into the house and my ex walks out the bedroom and looks at me. A girl walks out behind him (she looked about 12-13). We all went inside and I was talking to my ex and he said he was sleeping with this 12-13 year old. He pointed to a friend of mine and also his ex, who was sitting on the other side of me and said that he was sleeping with her aswell.
This is a reply to Kate’s dream.
The purpose of the dream is for you to get to the fair with your fiancé, Daniel, but you never get there in the dream. The dream shows you why you don’t get there. The metaphor of getting to the fair means getting to the joy or lightness of your relationship.
The problem is that you are haunted by the memory of your ex-boy friend who seems to have been completely in relationships for his own gratification. It was never about you. The metaphor for you is like being trapped in a car as a young child overheated.
The way to deal with it is to realize that you are not in that kind of relationship anymore even though your mind has a fear of it. Then you can kind of awaken the child in you and enjoy each other together. It is kind of like your mind is fixed on it. So, you can realize that you learned to stay away from selfishiness and then be in a truly mutual relationship.
Thank you, it actually makes me feel better. Made my day 🙂
Awesome.
Hi Richard, I truely need some help as to understand a dream that I had last night. I must say that it has me extremely scared and filled with anxiety as well as stress. I dreamt of an old friend that had passed away due to cancer. Prior to her passing she had her leg amputated. In my dreams her leg was in tact but she was on crutches. As soon as I seen her I reached out to her as she did also (reach for me) and she said ” the time is close” I asked her what does she mean? She responded back to say “it’s someone you know”, I then asked her if there is anyway to stop it. She responded back and said “there are many ways to prevent it”. Just at that moment I was grabbing her arm trying to get her to talk to me more (she was going up a stairwell) then someone from behind me called my name and I turned my head around to see who it was … And just that quick she was gone. Please, please please I need some understanding as to what this dream means. Is this dream signifying that I’m going to die soon or that someone closely around me is going to pass. I need to know the truth! Please be honest. Thank you!
This is for Verona Lynn’s dream.
I can see why this dream is so distressing to you. The nature of the dream world is that what it says in terms of time is often metaphoric. For instance a day in a dream could be like a year in real life. It is also generally not for us to know when we are going to die. Our purpose really is live our lives fully here and make a difference while we are on the planet helping others in whatever way we can. What we do in this life translate into where we start in the next life. It is not an either or like a thumbs up or down but rather like what we do here affects where we start on the next part of our journey.
For that reason when someone from the next world communicates with you in a dream, you only get partial messages usually and they not necessarily to be taken literally. So for instance, your friend’s leg is healed in the next world, but she is still on crutches which means that she is not yet fully functional in her next life. So the reason you get the message is that the time is short for you to make the changes you need to make in order to be really functional in your life and do really positive things. It is like you have a window of opportunity to make some big changes. If you wait, the opportunities will go away and it will be much harder to change later. It has a lot to do with moving forward in your life.
i dreamt i was giving my mum oral (sucking her tits) then everyone was like you did that to your mum your sick and i walked into some dream room that records my dream and it turned out i dreamt it. so i dreamt i dreamt sex with my mum
This is for Brendan’s dream,(superman)
The only way to really appreciate a dream like this is to realize that the dream world is mostly metaphoric which means that what you do in the dream world has almost nothing to do with what you actually do in the real world. In this case what you are dealing with your mom is trying to get closer to her in a relational way. Sex is the metaphor. You want to be close to her. It is a natural thing to do because we all want closeness with our mothers. It also teaches you that the important closeness in life is not sexual.
I had this dream and puzzled to know what it means. I dreamed I was in some kind of campus or venue and they had huge stairs; long and numerous, like a lot! and I was on top and I jumped them down fearless! skipping many each jump and was happy about it and felt so great. some people were looking and I wanted to be photographed. I did that twice. What could it mean?
This is for Lailadualibes dream,
The purpose of this dream is show you that getting to where you want to go is a lot easier than what you may think. It requires being fearless and then just jumping and then it will all happen. Usually this dream happens when you are thinking the opposite like things are going to be so hard and uphill.