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Dear Marie, Thanks for sending the dream. The question in this dream that I asked myself when I received it was about the positive implications are about falling in love with death. The first thing that comes to me is that this dream only makes any kind of sense at all when you do not take it literally in the obvious physical implications. If you take it literally, it would mean that you are in love in dying and then would hasten your physical death. We know that that is not a desire outcome so it is important to think about the dream in a non-material way.
When you do to the inner, non-material world, the dream is full of possibility and excitement. The way you can approach the meaning of this dream is that when you fall in love with death and it is positive, it means falling in love with the process of dying to your self. Self always has two parts, an ego or negative selfish, old attitudes side, and a true self or positive one. So when you fall in love with death you are falling in love with the death of your old negative self, your ego. This is really a positive process and why it is so awesome to have in the dream.
When you need something to die in yourself, it normally means that whatever is old, like an old attitude, or something that your parents or ancestors believed that no longer serves you, then you have to die to the old attitude so that the new one can come in. Most people have a difficult time with this process because they are attached to the old attitudes and traditions. They are attached because going forward to new attitudes and opportunities always takes a leap of faith where you believe the new attitude is much more positive than the old one.
When your inner self wants to be able to have new experiences or start something new or have new beliefs, then it requires the death of something from the past, usually an old worn out tradition. It is sort of like standing on the shores of a beautiful lake that is wanting you to dive in and enjoy its waters, but there are people on the shore telling you all of the reasons why it is such a bad idea. The only way to enjoy the water is to give a death to the voices telling you how you shouldn’t go in. This is what it means to be in love with death.
Last night a had a very strange dream, I had a dream I fell in love with the grim reaper (death). I was not scared of him and never felt threatened by his presence but we fell in love with eachother! Also I don’t know if this helps but me and some friends a few nights ago were talking about how some people claim to see dark hooded figures at night which has really scared me because I believe in those sorts if things and fear them greatly so maybe that fear provoked the dream? Is it possible?
The most important aspect of this dream is at the beginning in the context. You were trying to escape an apocalyptic event with people you don’t know. Apocalyptic thinking is pretty big nowadays but it has no basis in reality. It is the fear of something big and horrific happening in the future and then feeling you have to somehow prepare for it to escape it. What it needs to be replaced with is the opposite, which is the expectation of a humongous positive future.
When there is a fear of something really bad happening in the future, it means that whoever is talking about it and predicting probably has already lived through apocalyptic events in their personal life. People don’t naturally fear the future. The fear is created. A really positive future is an amazing lure. It is what drives all change. If you are driven by a really positive vision of world peace and harmony, for instance, then everything around you changes for the better as long as you remain in the vision.
When you have a positive future, then you also lose your fear of heights because you love being on top of the world metaphorically. So really the thing is have a hugely positive future especially with people you know who are closest to you.
Trying to escape something, an apocalypticevent. I was with a group of people who I don’t recognize from my waking life. We had a cherry picker, and we were trying to get into a huge building using it. The cherry picker brought us up like 40 ft up and crashed thru a wall of the building. We realized that the place where we crashed was not a place we should be, so we brought the cherry picker to the left side of the building. The room we were deposited in was missing two walls and we could see down to the ground. I was on my hands and knees because I was so afraid of the hight. There was no way down from the room because the cherry picker left and there were no other ways down.
Dear Ivana,
The reason you have this dream is make you aware of the jealousy you are feeling and how it affects the way you think and act. Jealousy is a very damaging emotion because it makes you do things that you always end up regretting later. It is a protective emotion in that it is trying to keep something that you think you already have but is in danger of being lost. In this case the jealousy is about perceived closeness to another person, but a lot of jealousy in the world comes from leaders in power who are fearful of losing it.
Beneath jealousy there is always a fear of losing something. In this case you are fearful of losing closeness with your boyfriend because you fear he is having a relationship with someone else. It really doesn’t matter whether or not the dream is true or not. What matters is the way your mind goes to a jealous position full of fear. This is because your boy friend is no longer close by.
When you have jealousy, your focus is placed on the fault of the other person in the relationship and then you feel justified in doing something mean against him. This is where the problem is. It is much better to think that the problem in the relationship is with you and not the other person. This is because you can control and change your own self, but you have no control over the other person’s ability to change.
The big key to understanding jealousy is to realize that if you feel it, it automatically means that the relationship is in trouble. Instead of trying to act in a negative manner toward the other in the relationship, it is better to work on your own fear of losing it.
The fear of losing a relationship comes from having already experienced some kind of loss in your life. The past feeling of loss makes you desperate to keep whatever you currently have which usually ends up in negative action toward someone else. This is what happens to a lot of people who get into positions of power. As soon as they feel a threat to their power they are filled with jealousy which in turn causes them to act negatively toward others usually eliminating them in some way. Really they are fearful of losing power because they have already experienced major loss in their lives.
The problem with most people who have jealousy as an issue is that they never get to working on themselves because the other person is always the problem. When you deal with the loss, by mostly just letting it go rather than fearing another one, then it frees you to do all kinds of new things and get much closer to others than you have ever been.
So, in short, the purpose of the dream is to make you aware of the jealousy so that you can deal with the losses you have had in your life, let them go, and then open a lot of new possibilities for yourself. You will probably need some help in going through the processes to make this happen.
Hi Richard,
I had a dream about my recent ex boyfriend that just left to the airforce for 4 years…. In the dream i saw his old car and i opened the door and saw a purse and a cellphone i looked through the phone and pictures and saw that it belonged to a girl which clearly had a boyfriend. But she was going to california with my exboyfriend on a trip. I felt jealousy in the dream.. I also found his house phone in the back sit.. I picked it up and called my phone with it and ended up hearing his answer machine. I steal both the girls cellphone and his house phone. I feel bad and come back to return both and when i do the car is gone…. Why would i dream such thing??
Dr Zehra,
Thank you for sharing this dream. It is very important one, not only for yourself, but for others as well. In both dreams you are affected by your aunt, first when she comes into your home and second when her daughter comes in. Your home is metaphor for your self so what happens is that the when the negative energy of your aunt’s ego comes into your mind, it is as if you do not very much light. It is as if there is only partial light. This is because the energy your aunt has is dark and negative in nature. As long as she is inside of your mind (your self) or even in your real life, then she ends up acting in a cold-blooded manner like an attacking lizard. The reason that there are so many lizards and they seem big is because this relates to something that happened to you when you were young. A lot of children especially from your culture, who were rightfully told to be respectful of adults, feel like they have to let them into their minds, but then they act in a vicious manner. The solution to this part of the dream is detach your mind from the effects of the lizard-like memories and behavior of the past and then live in the light which will allow for very positive interactions with others. Your life especially needs inspiration or illumination to work for you, but when you have her energy in your mind, you feel attacked. The reason that you would have this dream is that you are probably trying to be inspired to do or write things, but your mind has lizards in them and so it remains in the dark.
In the second dream you are playing happily with the aunt’s daughter when your head is split open. She seems to delight in this. Playfulness is the energy you need to be inspired and productive because the energy of playfulness is light and non-judgmental. When you are light and playful, great things happen for you. The problem is that there is a certain element of the culture represented in the daughter who is trying to prevent the kind of inspired work that you want to do. They do whatever they can to stop it even by attacking your mind. The solution to this dream is let go of the attacks as if they had never existed and then return to the playful state of inspiration.
It is not often the easiest of work to let go of the negative memories because they serve as a kind of protective mechanism. However, in your case it might be helpful to think of attacks as like the foam on the sea that when it reaches the shore vanishes. The attacks are insignificant in comparison to the inspiration you can offer to others. The important thing is do whatever it takes to get back to the inspired work in a playful manner.
Attacks are made by cold blooded people who have no compassion or positive feelings for others, but they do not last. Attend to your great gifts.
I saw a dream in that dream my aunt came in my home nd there is no electricity only lanterns are working suddenly big lizards
appears they are after me attacking me and they are too many in numbers
I have another dream in that I was carried by my same aunt’s daughter and we are playing,happy suddenly I was throwen towards the wall nd then I started bleeding from head nd my head divided in two parts nd she was smiling
Thanks again, Verne. I am going to send you something by email that you might like reading.
Thank you Richard. it was not hard to see that the cat represented the dreamer’s inner self related to independence and freedom that were denied the dreamer by authority figures. But how to handle this idea is a tough thing and as you said has to be worked out with someone who is knowledgeable in the field of human emotions and feelings. Your response is right on target, as usual.
Nice comments, Verne. Cats usually represent the quality of independence, not in the sense of freedom, like a bird, but in being able to think and act with your own initiative and thoughts. In the first dream you do not who the serial killer is, but the important thing is that although you and your brother get away, the cats don’t. In the second dream they are killed in a gruesome way.
So the dreams indicate to you how you lost your independence, at the hands of a serial killer, your father in collusion with your mother. You and your brother may have gotten away, but the inner quality of independence was brutally murdered. The purpose of the dream is to show you why you don’t have the cat-like qualities by letting you know how they were eliminated in your life.
The process of getting your independence back has about three phases to it. First there is dealing with the way you were treated and then then allowing the independence resurface in your life. The second is to have some understanding and forgiveness toward your parents. And the third is having some kind of prudence and wisdom in dealing with them and others like them in the future.
It is a process you cannot do by yourself so I would recommend going to person you trust who has experience in this kind of matter. You can also choose to work with me on-line in skype. My fees are on the blog. It takes a number of sessions to do this kind of work, but the value is incredible to your future life. Imagine what you would be able to do with these qualities.
Is Flannigan you? Are you trying to work out your relationship with y our family and with your parents in particular?
Verne
Hi again! I have had a few dreams recently that leave me pretty confused. They both involved my favorite cat, Flannigan, being killed. The first one was where a serial killer was on the first floor of my house. I had trapped him into the living room and was keeping him trapped in there by holding the door of the kitchen, which connects the two rooms, shut. The serial killer had a bag over his head and wanted to kill me. My cat Flannigan was trapped in there with him, and even though I knew that the killer would hurt/kill him, I didn’t go in to save Flannigan. My other cat, Bob, my brother and his friend were in the kitchen with me. I told them to grab a towel to wrap Bob in so they could escape with him easier versus him not being wrapped up and able to move around. While they went in the basement for a towel I wrote up instructions on how they should escape the house without the killer knowing they left. It involved them running out through the back door, accessible through the kitchen, and outside to where my parents were with the car. I was to leave when they had gotten into the car, as I was holding the kitchen door shut so the serial killer couldn’t get to us. I felt bad over the course of the dream about leaving my special cat, Flannigan, in there with the killer. That was when I woke up. A week or so later I had a dream in which in addition to the two cats we have now we had an old cat, who was slowly dying. My dad was going to kill him so he wouldn’t suffer, which involved going outside to the yard and slicing open his belly and then cutting off his head. In my dream this was perfectly normal. After he did that I found out that in addition to killing the old cat he had killed Flannigan as well. I was heartbroken and sobbing about this. My parents told me that they had done that because they couldn’t afford taking care of any more cats. I was mad that they had only killed Flannigan and left Bob alive. That was about when I woke up. Thanks so much!!
This is a dream I had in early June. I wrote it down the morning after, because it was really vivid. I had recently been banned from seeing my BF and I was under a lot of emotional stress at the time. This dream really stuck out to me and I would like to know what it means.
Me and my mom were driving through the country side, all the trees leaves were bright orange, it was autumn. I had three dolls in my hand, the king and queen and prince of winter. They were small (all three easily fit in my hand) and they were wearing blue clothes and had silvery hair. I was confused, thinking that it was winter out, even thought it was clearly autumn. We were slightly lost, because the directions we had on how to get home from the country side were vague. They were written on a witch’s hat-shaped drawstring bag, that my mom’s late friend, Pat, who is Native American, wrote for us. (The bag-directions don’t make an appearance until later in the dream). Pat wasn’t dead in my dream. I don’t know why me and my mom were in the country side to begin with. We pulled over onto the side of the road and my mom walked out of the car and grabbed a small pumpkin from a pumpkin pile on the side of the road, as the directions said to do. She got back into the car and locked the doors. Some Native American people, dressed in traditional Native clothes, came into our car despite of the locked doors and tried to take the pumpkin away, which was a traditional Native ceremony in my dream. This frightened me slightly but we were mostly annoyed and wanted them out so we could continue our trip. After a while, they left with the pumpkin and we locked the doors again. We continued driving, leaving the country and abruptly interring a shabby neighborhood with run-down houses. We passed a family of Native people, this time dressed like people of the 21 century. Some of them were crippled, one was missing a foot and another had this metal leg brace (think polio brace) on both of his legs that caused them to bend in the air as if he were kneeling. We turned down a narrow street and got to this beautiful mansion at a dead end that looked out of place for the neighborhood we were in. It was orange with black trimming and had a tall chain-link fence around it. On the porch of the house was a huge witch’s hat covered in a blanket with a halloween pattern on it. My mom thinks that we aren’t going the right way and has me read the directions out loud to her. This is when the bag-directions makes an appearance. I realize that it is near halloween, and that it is the autumn, not winter. The end. A few notes- I am not Native American (if that is helpful at all). Also, the country side we were in was not somewhere I have ever been in my waking life, but it is a country side that often appears in my dreams. Thanks so much!
Nathan,
The problem that you have in the dream is that you are friends are all going out and dying. The good thing is that you have icee like substances that make your girl friend stand up again.
The reason that your friends have their names on his Death Note is that they are living a life that is death to who they truly are inside. Even your girl friend is almost like them, but only mostly on her way to that kind of death to her true self. When a person is true to himself, he needs two abilities which you seem to have. One is the ability to kill the negative elements of the life you are living and then other is to give energy and life to the positive things you are doing. Most people go through life with a death note because they are not living their own lives but the life someone else is telling them to live. This is all pretty unconscious for most people.
You seem to have the give to see with your own eyes and question the way things and then be detached from what others tell you to do and then do what is good for your spirit. This is why you can help revive your girl friend. The killing part of the icee substance is the ability to kill the negative in your life like bad habits or fear or limitations. The blue icee substance is what gives energy and life to your true dreams. You have to be able to do both because you cannot live true dreams without a lot of questioning and detachment on the one hand, and enthusiasm and joy on the other.
The water pistol is a metaphor for saying that you have the tools to help others in this process.
This dream is a bit odd to me. I was in this place, it had sort of a pinkish redish ambience of light to it. A bunch of my friends were there including people that I obviously invented because I don’t recognize them, however I knew that they were my friends. My girlfriend was also there. slowly but surely the people were leaving through this archway that had some hanging plastic strips like a curtain. The last two people in the room were me and my girlfriend. If you have read or watched Death Note you will understand this. At this point I realized that Light Yagami/Kira was writing their names in his Death Note and it was making them walk out of the room and subsequently die. My girlfriend began to walk out and I grabbed her arm and said “but I’ll be the last one left” She then proceded to walk through the archway. I then noticed another archway and walked through it. There were two boxes attached to the wall and a water gun pistol. In the boxes were two icee like substances one red and the other blue. The red would kill anything it hit when shot out of the water gun and the blue would revive. My girlfriend crawled out of the hall almost dead so I shot her with the red then the blue. She then stood up. This dream doesn’t make sense to me at all.
Sian,
It would be so great if everyone would have this dream, so thank you for sharing it with us. It is what we are all after in the world. I hope you can share this experience with a lot of people. The ocean is a symbol of the vastness of the divine world. It is a world without beginning or end and you are in a wooden ark as if you were Noah sailing with the rest of humanity . You are on a journey to and from the Divine.
The rainbow is the vision that the Divine wants you to see that humanity is like a rainbow of colours. When you embrace the vision of the oneness of humanity and see everyone as beautiful, then the Divine will bring you into its depths so that you can learn the wisdom necessary to carry out the vision. When you allow the ocean of Divine wisdom to embrace you, then you can learn how to proceed with the vision of oneness. Many people talk about the dream of peace and unity, but few people are willing to be embraced. You have what it takes to do the journey because you carry the dream. Your future is indeed bright.
“Such beautiful dreams last night….I saw the rainbow bridge..I was in a wooden ark ..like boat.. it was all so peaceful and everyone was so joyful…I looked behind me an there it was, The ocean we had come from was all rainbow.A trail was left behind us on the water. All of a sudden the energy in the craft changed and I felt some fear come in as we realised that we were going under a wave that had risen…we all took the deepest breath together as one as we went under.. without any panic but with such ease…as we did this the wave embraced us and seperated and took is in. We came through the other side as one…Safe beautiful together as one..The dream was full of peace .It was very white in colour exept for the rainbow”
The issue that you are facing started in high school. That is why you are in high school in the dream. The hallway that is narrow that you never saw before is about the path that everyone is squeezed into in high school. It is narrow and not seen when you are in school because it just seems like that is the only option and everyone has to do it in order to have a successful life.
The gunman in the school represent the culture of most high schools which is the culture of comparison and put downs if you do not follow the narrowness of whoever is in charge of the program. Either you are being put down by the school admin or teachers or you are being put down by the popular group who decide what the narrow rules should be about how to act and look. Anyway you look at it the culture is narrow and put downs or being shot at and shot down dead is how you are kept in the narrow pathways. It is a form of terrorism.
In your dream even the SWAT team is shot down because the shooting comes from both the teaching side of the school and the student body and that is because in the culture people rise by shooting other people down. It is the deadliest part of the culture and what makes it difficult for you and others to be themselves and actually develop their true abilities. What we ought to be developing is a culture of upliftment or encouragement, of finding the positive in each other and then bringing it out, but the opposite is what mostly exists. What seems to happen is that a person with lesser ability who is envious of higher status learns that by finding faults and putting others down that they can advance. When they do this and actually advance it gives them a sense of power over others. Then that becomes addictive and they begin to use it as a way of advancement while maintaining average achievement. When you get people in high positions who don’t have qualifications, they use criticism, shooting others down, and power to maintain themselves in those positions.
This is what happens to you. It is not an easy one to overcome because you achieve and work on the basis of inner drive rather than ego power so you are unable to understand how to work in an environment that is power-based. What you need to learn how to do internally is to ignore or set aside or be detached from criticism, put downs, and power moves on the one hand, and then have a very positive voice inside of your head telling you about how positive you are on the other. You also probably need to have some work on internal beliefs so that you can believe in yourself and function in a world based that is based upon the other methods without being so affected.
The reason that the dream is so real is because the culture of put downs is so real and it destroys you easily. The reason for the nightmares that are repeated is that in order for you to live your true life, you need the opposite, which is a cultural of encouragement to be happening inside of you.
I was at my High school in the Hallway, but it was a hallway that didn’t actually exsist in my school. It was narrow but looked like a hallway that would be in my school.It was a long narrow hallway, on the left was all wall with a opened door at the end leading to the rest of the school. On the right were rows of doors, but not my regular school doors, like sliding closet doors. I was walking in the hallway with oher students I didn’t regognize around me, suddenly one of the doors slid open and two SWAT members came out, screaming THE GUNMAN IS JUST SHOOTING THIS ATTACK MUST BE PERSONAL!
Without the SWAT people even trying to tell the other students to run, it seemed as if the students didn’t hear SWAT screaming their conversation, but I did. They than began to say EVERYBODY NEEDS TO–, and they were both shot in the head. Then the students ggot crazy and everything got chaotic with teachers screaming and kids crying, and smoke and people just being shot every where around me, and then I picked up this Golden Handgun and started shooting at the shooters, I began to run to the opening of the door by end of the hall and I almost made it to the end before I was shot in the back a couple times by one of the gunman. The content of this nightmare was scary but it was how realistic the nightmare was that scared me so much, I woke up screaming and crying, It was like I could feel the gunshot ener my body. I could feel my self dying, I woke up terrified. This is just a serious of terrifying nightmares I have been having in the las t 2-3 months. There getting worse and becoming more realistic. I’m afraid to sleep at night, I get worried in the daytime, If I will be able to sleep that night, and with school starting soon, I dont know what to do. Any Interpretation, Please?