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Richard Hastings
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Last night I saw that I was in my aunt’s house. I was sitting with her in the dining room and my grandmother (who passed away 2 years ago) was smoking in the balcony looking to us (she was smoking in real life, too). I told my aunt, “Grandma doesn’t want me.”. Then, my grandmother came in the house, grabbed my hands and started crying. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what she said.
This is for Henry’s dream. Henry, to understand this dream it is really good to understand the metaphor of smoking. Smoking in real life, before it becomes just a really bad addiction, is what people to do to get a full breath of air in their lungs and then relax and have a sense of being freed up. Your grandmother, in real life, was supposed to develop the inner quality of being liberated to go after the things that were dear to her, but she never fully unleashed that quality inside of herself. The crying in the dream is to communicate that to you. You are in your aunt’s house, like being in your aunt’s self. Both of you need to develop this capacity of being liberated inside. It was supposed to have been passed on to you by your grandmother, but she couldn’t get there. Now that challenge is passed onto you. If you do a substantial amount of inner work, you can get there and then your life will be so amazing that you will hardly recognize yourself. The essential structure of the ability is to see a worthwhile vision of possibilities and then go after them unrestricted. It often takes getting passed internal and external beliefs that tell you shouldn’t be doing something.
Thank you for your precise interpretation. Yes, I do believe that great things are coming and I’m up for the adventure!
I dreamt that my grandmother who passed away two years ago, was dancing and my sister’s friends were clapping. What does that mean?
This is for Dan’s dream,
The virtue that shows up in this is joyfulness. This is what your grandmother is trying to show you. Dancing with people clapping is a joyful environment. This means that joyfulness is what you need in your life. It is the quality that lifts people’s spirits up high.
On Friday I had a really strange dream. I was in a ship, with one of one sister’s friends. We were having a romantic lunch. Suddenly, the ship started shaking and the girl said she was scared. When we went to the port, my friends told me that I looked weak and skinny and they took me to the hospital. I was there all alone, I was running in empty corridors looking for my friends and when I found them, they were all smoking (None of them smokes).
This is for Tony’s dream.
Going on a ship means that you are interested in pursuing a long term relationship with a woman that would lead to marriage. When you get to the romance, she has fear, which means that she is fearful of taking the relationship further and then the ship gets shaky. The shaking ship means that relationship possibility is not calm and moving forward, but nervy. This causes you to lose your ability in the relational world and then feel all alone. When you are trying to get support from your friends they are all trying to get breathing space by smoking.
What you need to do to solve the dream is to steady the ship. It is likely that most girls will have fear of a long term relationship because there is so much at stake. So you can stay calm, enjoy the moment, and realize that you are on a long voyage. Then you can let the relationship build over time. The most important thing to do to steady the ship is to enjoy your time together.
Thank you Richard for your response! You are so right i went through a very hard marriage with my ex husband. I appreciate this alot. Have a great day!
So b in my dream it starts off me and my family are in a red convertable and were getting chased by a fly thing looked like and angel but it wanted to kill us suddenly the car flips and we went flying we tried to hide somewhere and all we could find was a shed .we decides to go in it but the thing that was chasing us started to hit it to bring it down. Seeing my family scared of dying at the hand of that being mad me get angry and i started to feel a great amount of power kinda like a charachter from my favorite cartoon dbz goku i went. Out sidevthe shed and we started fighting but niether one of us was losing it all seemed tied our fist were coliding and then i was seeing the fight from far away and all i could see were the sonic booms of our fist coliding the thing i was fighting seemed to be an angel and part devil suddenlyvi herd a scream look to my right and it was the girl i liked. Was back fighting with the thing then i woke up just before i won
Dear Juan, (Fighting Dream)
In this dream you become extremely powerful and able to defeat a devilish kind of opponent. This should be considered by you as a really positive event and the end result of a difficult process that involved a lot of fear and anger. The start of the dream is being in a red convertible with your family. This means that you are trying to get somewhere in your life in a positive way.
What you don’t realize is that the devilish figure is the thing that helps you develop your super human abilities. Because the devilish thing was so negative, you had to arise to the occasion to overcome it, which you did in the end. That thing made you develop your positive ability.
So the dream teaches you that now when you have a really difficult challenge like a big goal, that you can rise to the challenge and overcome all of the obstacles because obstacles in your life path are the same as that devilish thing. They just make you a lot stronger.
The reason for the dream is to show you first that you can develop those abilities, but second that you only developed them because of the negative thing. Now that you know you can develop them you don’t have to have that kind of devilish thing to go for it. You can just wake up and face every challenge with a lot of courage and determination.
Hello Richard,
Thank you for this opportunity. Your link was passed on to me by my friend, Roxanne Koteles-Smith. She said you really nailed it for her.
I’m not sure if you need background. So, here’s a bit anyway.
Two years ago this March, my husband was rushed to the emergency room. he spent two weeks in ICU, 1 1/2 weeks in the neurovascular step down unit, then two weeks in the hospital rehab center. he received seven units of blood and multiple bags of plasma and other fluids. he had developed a slow bleed due to the blood thinner for his A-fib and his years of heavy drinking. He went through DT’s for over two weeks. His other heart issue, aortic stenosis had worsened as well. The long story short, he had dementia and was given six months or less to live, nearly dieing three times. I had him in an assisted living home and had hospice care as well.
But then, he had a dramatic turnaround, was able to come home after six months and was released from hospice. he has lost 13 years of memory and short term is bad as well.
meanwhile, I sold our home and most of its contents and moved to a tiny apartment, preparing to be a widow. I grew stronger knowing he would finally be at peace since he had suffered from severe depression. And, I realized how much of an enabler an codependent I had been. He went back to his beer and wine. I know that what he and went through was a preview of what’s to come.
After feeling the peace, tranquility an freedom of his absence, I feel I’m in limbo waiting for the final end. I learned that I have much more to give in this lifetime and am ready for abundance.
My dream two nights ago: Just a short flash of visual…the apartment is on the second floor with a cement outside stairway. We have two apartments below, two above. As I began to walk down the steps, suddenly the concrete turned to warn and broken wood, with large open spaces, like I’ve seen in movies of rope ladder type bridges over jungle ravines. I remember looking down with my foot out…then I woke up.
Thanks again for your time,
Sandy Evenson
This is a response to Sandy’s dream,
Hi Sandy. Thanks for the background information. The problem in the dream is that you are going in the wrong direction. Instead of going up to your higher self, you are going down to the place where you are worn out and tired from all of the care and struggle you put in over the years.
I think that what I can tell from your experience is that you have gained a lot of inner wisdom and strength from it, but it now it feels like maybe you have to go back to step one which is down below.
So what you have to do with an experience like this is to first analyze what you have gained from it and then ask yourself what your next step is in your life. As difficult as it you have to ask the questions as if he is not around because despite the fact that he is still alive, he has chosen to go back to alcohol which keeps him from being fully present.
The next part of your life is going to have a lot more adventure into it. You can start planning for it now. You will be able to get out and start going for new things. It may not seem like that now,but you are going to have a lot of freedom to do things that you may not have ever dreamed of doing before. So just start going for it.
Sir richard this bird im talking about is color black,i think its a crow but beak is white and like a beak of a parrot..hope to interpret my dream im so scared to death..
Hi sir richard i want to consult my dream..this is the last time i’ll consult my dream i cant sleep because of what i dreamt last time.. I dreamt that im waiting for my boyfriend to pick me up,(in waking life he used to pick me up everyday starting1pm and we go home at 10:00 pm its a routine,we go to his busness i accompany him everyday)but in my dream its like past 1pm and he’s still not arriving,in my dream im putting make up on my sister’s eyelid and i ask her about my bf being late..then i ask this guy downstair if he already see my bf and he said he havent seen him already,cause i thought maybe he is downstair waiting for me,but he’s nowhere to found. Then i started crying in my dream theres so many things coming to my head that he leave me again (like what he did in waking life last year he use to withdraw and not contacting me but he alteady change)..then in my dream i started to look for him while crying then i got into this place where i saw a black bird pecking a hallow blocks wall..im so scared mr hastings with my dream cause everyone told me a black bird is a bad omen..i hope u intrrpret it thank u very much
Hi Tina, (Dream of boyfriend leaving)
I sent an email response to you about this dream.
Richard,
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. I appreciate your assessment. I will give it consideration.
Thanks again! 🙂
Hello, I had a dream last night that i was having sever pains like labor pains and i was pregnant. When i got to the hospital it was bright and my boyfriend was with me there was this sweet nurse helping me. I began to scream and cry because i felt like something was coming out the nurse took me to the toilet and i felt the fetus come out. I was soo scared and sad i just kept crying in so much agony i could actually feel it like it was this most mortifying lose ; ( the nurse helped me and then idk what happened because i went back to my room and couldn’t find the fetus my boyfriend had hid it so i would be scared or sad anymore i unwrapped it to look at the fetus and it was a boy with blue eyes and blonde hair. Get this Im Hispanic. I almost felt like it was my ex husband’s baby but i was worried my boyfriend would be sad so i didn’t say anything the fetus was beautiful then i saw it dried out. All of a sudden my family and friends were all dancing and it became this joyous celebration to make me happy for my lost it was beautiful i felt happy. And the. I woke up. What could this possibly mean?
This is a response to Angel’s dream.
The baby represents a new part of you that has come out into the world. It is like a new energy that you are now nurturing that will make you a much better person. The reason that the labor is so difficult is because the new birth was a result of the pain and difficulties you went through with your ex-husband. When you go through a difficulty time, the benefit is in the learning. It prepares you for the rest of your life and it is a cause of celebration for everyone close to you because you have brand new energy.
Hello, last night I had a really strange dream. I was leaving my grandpa’s apartment and when I opened the door, there was an obese woman, unknown for me in reality and my grandpa and I helped her to lose weight and then I saw her as a really thin and beautiful woman. What does that dream mean? I would really appreciate your interpretation..
This is a response to Tony’s dream,
The nice thing about this dream is that you are able to help the woman transform her obesity into beauty. Being with your grandfather leaving his house means that he has a quality that he has passed down to you that if you use it, will help the obesity turn into beauty. The question you have to ask yourself is what is the quality that your grandfather has passed onto you that is so powerful and then you can use that quality to do the work. It is important to meditate on your grandfather’s great strength. Obesity is a type of protection that people have which usually helps to cover some form of abuse in the past. So the transforming process is largely about helping people letting go of the protection. This means that the quality has something to do with your positive relationships with others.
I have dreams of a friend of my husband. It only occurs after we have seen him, which isn’t very often. I admit that I’m attracted to him, but I would never do anything towards it. Every dream is different. The last dream we were at a public outing, my husband was with us and we would sneak off to talk. This time there was no intercourse or touching. It was if he was trying to not do anything or calling it off. Compared to other times where there would be sex involved or kissing. Although there was definitely sexual tension between both of us. I will mention also that when I was just coming out of high school I had a dream of younger friend of husbands. Which ended in us being together. This was before I even met him.
This is a reply to Tisana’s dream,
Tisana, the reason that you have this dream is that there is something really positive in terms of his character qualities or virtues that your spirit is really attracted to. The sexual tension or acts in the dream mean that you want to have this quality in you like a marriage or intimate bond. It would be totally inappropriate to act on the sexual feelings because that would mean that you were trying to get what he has through physical contact. It doesn’t work. The really interesting thing about doing this kind of work where you analyze what his quality is that you are attracted to and then work really hard to make it a part of you, is that when you do it, you will find that your current marriage gets even stronger.
Richard
Hello Richard,
My sister and I are on some type of base. There are warehouses all of the place with people working. The sky turns dark and we turn and see a twister coming down the lane. My sister is on the phone. I pull on her arm holding her phone to her ear and say “We need to call and warn Mama”. She ignores me. We run into the workshop in front of us along with the other people around us. No one lowers the doors down to close the area. We watch the top of the twister move closer over the tops of the line of buildings in front of our safe spot. As the twister comes closer it sends a huge metal scrap into our safe spot. It stops a good ways away from us. The twister is closer than ever now. I turned to my sister and said “I don’t wanna die. I don’t know if I am going to heaven or hell. I don’t wanna die.” My sister looks at me, kisses me on the cheek but says nothing. The twister is now at the end of the lane. It can either come left towards us or turn right and go away from us. It turns right and heads in the opposite direction from us. Just then we see a second twister following that one. It has a skyscraper in the middle of it. It gets to the end of the lane and chooses to go away from us just like the first.
To my recollection, my dream ended there.
Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
Thanks!
This is a response to Jen’s dream. Jen, in this dream the key part is when you say you don’t want to die because you don’t know if you are going to heaven or hell. This is actually the purpose of being shaken up by natural disasters or other calamities. It forces you to assess your life to see if you are on a really good path and doing positive things to better humanity. When you live a positive life that is helpful to others, then it is like instead of being a victim of a natural disaster, you can be a great bounty to others.
Dear Richard,
I am quite confused about this dream I had yesterday.
It begins where I am in prison but nobody can seem to tell me why I am there. Then I find myself in prison clothes on a beach doing clean up from a hurricane. As I am cleaning up I get stung by 5 or 6 jellyfish. It seems to be extremely painful. The officers rush me back to the prison infirmary to patch me up and make sure I’m ok. Then one of the guards comes to tell me that I will be in the hole for a long time because I “murdered” another prisoner. I protested knowing that I hadnt. He agrees with me saying that he knows because he is the one that killed the other prisoner but he was framing me. And proceeded to tell me that if I try to tell anyone then he was going to kill me. And he showed me my death certificate and autopsy report. Apparently the coroner couldn’t conclude how I died. Even though I was very much alive. I also had a friend on the outside who was trying to break into prison in order to communicate with me and another friend who was on the inside trying to break out. They looked exactly alike so they did a switch. And it ended with me holding a gun pointed to the guard who was framing me. I was crying and saying “I don’t want to do this” over and over again.
What does any of this mean? I’m especially curious as to the death certificate and autopsy report.
This is a response to Kristin’s dream,
The purpose of this dream is to teach you how to live life on your own terms rather than someone else’s. You are in a prison and don’t know why you are there. When you live life unconsciously by just going along with what the culture or others tell you what you ought to do it is a like a prison where you are work that others command you to do and get stung and thrown into holes and accused of all kinds of things. The death certificate means that living a life that you don’t choose is like death to you.
Living life on your own terms means choosing the life you are going to live based upon who you are and then actively going forward to that kind of life. You can live that kind of life rather than being in someone else’s prison. You need to choose that life and really go for it then it will be like a rebirth.
Hello,
In the last two months or so, my dad has had three dreams, each featuring a different person saying “tell them about the 11th of March”. The first time it was his late father, the second was a stranger, and the third was his old history teacher. He has no idea what the significance of that date is, or who it is he is supposed to tell about it. It would be interesting to know if this type of dream has been experienced before, or whether it has any meaning. I am kind of worried whether something bad is going to happen on that day now…
Ella,
Time has a different kind of meaning in the dream world than it does in the real world. It is a lot more flexible in the dream world than in our world. When you think of the time in your daily life, there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. Time goes in a singular direction. In the dream world there are states where time does not exist or where the end is in the beginning. It is hard to imagine because our daily reality and minds are locked into thinking of time in a rigid manner.
The 11th of March, in your mind, is a date in the future, but the people in the dream are more connected with people in the past, so the 11th of March is something that has already happened most likely, not what is going to happen. The most significant event that happened in the world in recent history was the tsunami in Japan in 2011. If it is about the tsunami, a tsunami is a large destructive wave caused by an earthquake in the ocean. A human tsunami is when there is a large destructive wave of attacking caused by the misuse of power. While it is impossible to stop a tsunamis caused by nature, it is possible to do something about human tsunamis. Human tsunamis are prevented when the culture is very positive and people are engaged in positive acts that benefit the society. Human tsunamis happen when people are apathetic and in a culture of blaming others. That is when a really self-centered power hungry leader arises and causes a lot of damage. It is apparent that, while a lot of leaders of this type have met really terrible ends in recent years, there are still many seeking the kind of environment ripe to step in and take over with a lot of power.
What is important is to create a positive tsunami where people take responsible rather than blaming and become active agents of positive change rather than being apathetic. This is the meaning of the dream.
Hi Richard,
In my dream I was supposed to meet a special friend of mine, but I got lost in a control room of some sort and I found a big glass case beside one of the control panels. It was half-full of eye balls, and one of the eyes looked at me. There were also others that contained skin, and was a woman inside the room. When I first entered she had her back on me, and she was sitting on a chair. But when I saw the cases she stood up and walked toward me. I had a feeling that she would try to trap me and take my eyes to add to the glass case. When she got near enough, I felt something prick my skin, and I knew she would make me undergo a skin graft as well, or possibly just skin me alive. She failed however and I escaped and eventually met up with my friend.
Hi Darla,
This dream brings up a fear that you have of being controlled by others and then not being able to connect with people you want. You are fearful that the controlling types will take away the important parts of yourself which are represented in your eyes and skin.
What will help you is to realize that despite trying to control you, you met up with the person you wanted to in the end. This should be a good lesson to you that nothing can keep you from being with the people you want to be with even when they try very hard. There are a lot of controlling forces in the forces, but they have no power over you in the long run, even if they try really hard.
My father given me blank paper
Dear Richard,
In my dream I’m at a festival maybe, it’s just a busy place and I feel like I’m having fun. I’m with this guy that I obviously love him so much. I have never met this guy in my life but he feels familiar just because I love him. Everything’s great but then a shooter comes in to this busy place and starts shooting everyone. He tells me to go and runs toward the area where the shooter is. I can’t see the shooter yet but we hear the commotion. Next thing I remember is being a car with one of my friends and someone’s in the backseat. I’m not driving. We are driving crazily through all of the chaos and the whole time I keep saying how we need to go find this guy(I don’t remember his name) the shooter suddenly appears by my passenger window and starts shooting into the car. The driver is shot in the arm, I didn’t notice the backseat but I just closed my eyes and braced myself because my head was right there and I expected the worst. The sounds were so clear. I felt the vibrations of the shots and my ears were ringing and I could see the brightness of the sun behind my eyelids. It was so realistic. He didn’t shoot me and we drove off. I finally saw the guy I love and got him into the car. I was in the backseat with him. I don’t know what happened but I looked over and he was shot in the head and I was devastated. I think I woke up for a brief time and fell back asleep and I was at the point where we saw him and pulled him into the car. So it was like saving him again or trying to. This time we start driving and a bullet comes from nowhere and hits him in the stomach. I start crying and telling him how much I love him. He said he loved me too and slowly slipped away. I couldn’t save him. The sadness was so real. I still feel a little off today. The power that dreams have is so fascinating. I do have a husband so part of me feels a little guilty too. I know it was all fabricated but it was still so real. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
This is for Cs dream. This is a little different than Ellie’s dream, but similar in some ways.
In this dream you start in love and then the shooting happens, whereas in Ellie’s dream, the bombs happen and then she says how much she loves him. This means that you in the past you have fallen in love and then the person you are in love with and others have been shot down. Shot down does not mean literally killed in this dream. It means that you are put down with words and criticism. The criticism and bad words kills the love you have inside for others. That is the big message in the dream. So what you have to do to feel a lot of love inside is to just learn to let go of the criticism and shooting down behavior because when you do, you realize that you have a huge heart that can give out a lot of love. It will probably help your marriage and all of your other relationships as well. Mostly you need to know that you have a lot of love to give out. This is a big issue for a lot of people because criticism easily destroys a person’s spirit. Once you are detached from it, your life will be amazing.
I dreamt we were out somewhere in a town, and suddenly everyone started shouting and bombs were being dropped. But nobody knew were the next one was going to be dropped. It was just luck and there’s nothing anyone could do. I was just cradling my boyfriend so tightly, stroking him and telling him I love you.
With the first bomb that hit, my boyfriend had been filming on his phone at the time and caught it on camera. He was very close. It was incredible. It hit and there was a massive explosion a few streets away. Orange and red flames everywhere. Then just this big load of the thickest smoke you’ve ever seen just funneled down all the streets at such a great speed. Luckily he was on a higher glass platform and the smoke didn’t hit him.
I just felt so protective and clingy. But so scared. I didn’t know what to do. People were trying to evacuate but it was pointless. Nowhere was safe. So I just huddled with my boyfriend with my arms around him just repeating telling how much I love him. Not even sure if he could understand me but just telling him over and over.
Nobody knew there was going to be a bomb though. My boyfriend was already filming when it hit and just happened to catch it on camera. I took it from his hands and watched it and that’s how I knew what had happened.
There was this big thing hovering in the sky above us that looked a bit like a hot air baloon, deciding where to drop the next bomb. It came over us a few times and god it was just so terrifying.
What does this mean?
This is for Ellie’s dream. In this dream the fear comes when you have no control over where a disastrous act of terror is going to happen which is much like the world we are living in right now. What happens to you in the moments of terror when there explosions is that you cling to your boyfriend and tell him that you love him so much. This is often what people do in disasters.
The reason that you have the dream, however, is for you to recognize that you have a big heart and that when you give your love out ahead of time, then it is like a positive explosion of joy to others. Love is virtue that we need more of, but people often wait until a dangerous or threatening time to say anything loving to others. What you need to do to turn the fear around is start each and everyday with giving out love to everyone around you. You will be so amazed at what a difference this makes to world around you. It will make your life so peaceful and joyful. The fear will completely go away.
It usually helps when you begin to live like this to not pay so much attention to the news.