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Still Shelly I should tell you that the back of my gate cars cannot drive through only my front and he has never uses that gate
This is a response to Shelly-Ann,
Hi, The fear is on the part of your Aunt that now that he can’t come in through the regular door he is going to go around the back to get to you. This means that she is fearful of him being devious to get to you. It is probably a realistic fear that she has so you have to careful with him. Only deal with him face to face.
I am Shelly my husband and I separated six weeks ago and Last night my Aunty who is living with us dream that she saw him at my back gate driving his car heading towards the house with a bright head light immediately she jump out of the dream
Hi Sir,
Im Lyn, i have a dream last night that im riding in a balloon (small size, good for my butt) that shaped of an airplane, when im in up it blow out and i fell. I remember the place, it is in the drive way of my work place. What mean is that?Please help me thank you.
This is a response to Lyn’s dream,
This dream means that when you try to be light and up about things at your workplace, you get the air knocked out of you which means you get lightness taken out of you. This probably has to do with the way your boss interacts with you or others. Being light and up is a good thing because it makes everyone else including yourself to feel a lot happier. You can stay up when you learn how to let go of the negative reactions of others.
Hi, i dreamed that i planted some vegetables in a small patch in the hallway of my workplace the ground was sandy & dry but these vegetables have grown & ready for harvest. But when i looked closely on the leaves there’s green caterpillars on it, but not eating the leaves. I Tried to cross on the otherside but that means i have to jump. So eventually i did & seen some green caterpillars stuck on my pants & i tried to get them off but kept finding a few more. Some that i was able to get them off my pants i killed them with my barefoot. Can you please tell me wwhat is the meaning of these 😊 so curios. Thank you.
This is a response to Christy’s dream,
Growing vegetables in the hallway of your workplaces means that you are nurturing the positive growth of others at work. This does not deal with work directly because it is in the hallway but it has a positive effect on others anyway. The caterpillars are things that destroy what you are trying to grow because they eventually will eat the leaves and kill the plants so that you have no vegetables. In the dream you did all the work to get to the harvest, but the caterpillars represent all those kinds of people who want to have the benefits of your work but not have to put in any effort at all. They are like people who feel that you don’t need to put in a lot effort to get results.
My wife and I have been trying for a baby for 7yrs and she had a dream that her dead grandmother asked her to lay beside her and her grandma kissed my wife on her lips immediately my wife felt something in her womb like 6 wks old baby in her belly please richard could you interpret this dream to me. Joseph
This is a response to Joseph’s dream,
Dear Joseph, If I had this dream I would do have your wife do two things. First of all realize that her grandmother is trying to assist her to become pregnant, but first she has to remember the positive things about her grandmother and then develop that in herself. There seems to be some connection between your wife becoming a mother and her grandmother’s positive qualities. I cannot tell what that quality is only that it is important because she was lying beside her and kissed her.
I had a really terrible dream .I was out on a night out and decided to leave and go home to get changed then return.
I left hotel and a man was outside watching me .iwas going to phone my husband then changed my mind because the man was watching.he was wearing a grey suit and he had neck lenghth black hair.
to get home I had to go through a close . shouted to him ha ha here are 3 women coming I will go through with them.i held on to the blond woman arm .and entered the close with 2 elderly ladies coming behind.
When we got to other end I saw another man standing with his back to us he turned round he was evil .I looked at him and I was on my own the women had vanished I was now in a brick courtyard with no way out .and I was murdered. I could see myself dead and I watched while lying there my husband and youngest son looking everywhere for me I could feel their panic and pain .
This is a response to Anne’s dream,
Dear Anne, In this dream you are trying to go have a night out, which means that you are trying to go have some fun and get out of the normal life routine. What happens is that you meet up with really bad men and then get murdered. This is because, for the most part, that is what happen to women when they try to go out. They meet the dark side of men and then the relationship is murdered. It is not an actual death. It is death to the relationship. Men go out to have fun primarily to get high and to have a night of sex which is about the worst thing you can do in a relationship because after the sex they are totally gone.
What you really want is a break, not a night out. It is better to do something like going to get a massage or to get away in nature where everything is pretty chill and you have no expectations on you. That is where you can restore your relationship and bring new life to it and yourself.
tonight i had two unusual dreams. i never dream about having sex and if i do, it stops before it actually happens. but i dreamt about some really weird and awkward intercourse going on. and i was very obviously a person in that dream. i woke up, didnt feel uncomfortable about it, and fell asleep again. i never have nightmares.. well, if i do, theyre not like this one at all. it wasnt exactly like i was a person in the dream, it was more as if i was watching tv, maybe an episode of some criminal drama. there was something about solving a murder. the father of a little girl was thw main suspect, but no one could bwlieve it. he wasnt like that at all, he was really nice. so the dream was kinda like a documentary at that part where i could see people defending him and stuff. i dont quite remember that part. but i do remember the last part. the father took his little daughter to the woods. she climbed a tree. i could feel what she was feeling but mostly i saw her from afar, i didnt see thriugh her eyes. her father took out a gun, while looking happy, and told her to run. she ran on a path in the woods but there wasnt so many trees so she couldnt hide. while, her dad took out some kind of long metal strip eith holes in, like a cheese/carrot grater. i got scared cause i didnt want to get hit with it, but he took out a normal cheese slicer and when he hit them on eachother, pieces of metal came flying on the little girl,and i couls feel it. weirdly enough, she could rum all she had, but he was still walking calmly and catching up with her while using that weird torture device. she was bleeding but somehow my dream was leaving many things out as if it knows im sensitive and was trying to protect me. i could see a friend of the girl sitting further away on the path, shes an artistic girl and was probably taking pictures in some weird way. as the girl ran past her she took a picture, and my dream zoomed in on it but censored it with some text. then it changed to some years afterwards and i know that the trial had been long ago, the dad was gone out of her life hopefully forever in jail i think. the girl was older now and was sitting on the porch with some friends, talking. then i woke up and my back felt weird but i dont think im hurt for real.
i never have dreams like this. my nightmares scare me, they dont show gore or torture.
i think i need to tell you this: none of my family members are in prison, none of my family members would ever torture or murder me, especially not my dad. but i do have a depression that im hiding from them. bad thoughts make bad dreams, they say. but i never think about torture. my depression is somethinf that feels like it will never go away and im scared ill take my own life sooner or later. could it have a connection to this unusual dream? many months ago i dreamed of water and huge waves when i was depressed
This is a response to Soap’s dream,
There are two parts of the dream which kind of show you why you stay in depression. The first is that your spirit or your true self wants you to develop the quality of intimacy which is how to get really close to other people. That is the first dream. The second dream shows you why you are depressed. It is because when you think about going for intimacy or closeness, not necessarily physical intimacy, but just closeness, then your ego mind, protective self, goes to the dissociated place of seeing torture as if that were going to happen to you if you get into relationship like you were a young child being chased by a big mean man who tortures. The depression is really about giving up on the vision of your true self which is relational closeness.
So what you are going to need to do is to activate your enthusiastic self so that you can start learning how to get close to others. The images that you have are going to need to change mainly from going to the very worst imaginable to the very best. Probably you will need some help. If you are getting help, but it is not working, then you should try something else. It is not complicated what you are changing, but you do need help.
Richard
Hello, last night I dreamt that it was day but it was a really strange day. A large group of people had made a kind of rebellion and everyone was trying to hide himself. I tried to hide myself underground, and there was a man, I guess he would be 50 years old, his name was Gus, but in real life is unknown for me. He had a daughter named Helen, she was studying Medicine. Then, I asked him to marry his daughter. And he accepted. Why did I see such a dream with people I’ve never met in my real life?
This is a response to Tan,
The rebellion is a symbol for the kind of changes that are happening in the world which threaten the old power schemes in the world, but will open up new possibilities for everyone especially you. At first you have to hide because the old power is still very strong in the world, but when you to go the underground world where all of the change proponents are that is where you find your love. Helen can be an actual person or she can be a metaphor for the love you have for the new changes. When you commit yourself to the new ideas, no matter what the danger it allows for great love to happen.
Hi richard last night i had 3 dreams and ive never had that many dreams before my first dream that i had was about my brother what i can remember is me sitting at the table with a group of my co workers who are mexican but what i dont understand is why cause i dont usual outside of work But then the dream continues to where i look out the window and on top of the roof i see a group of mexican women shouting at me and i begain to shout back i spanish and my coworkers are laughing and then i notice my brother tied up on a pole and the women are pointing at him so grab so poles and sticks and begain to run out the door to where my brother is and ise my uncle and i ask him was my brother ok and he said hes dead and i ask him who did it and he said he wouldnt tell us so i run out the door into a field and start crying and then i wake up the next dream i had was strange cause i was at work and i wasnt wearing any pants and no one seemed to care that i was working without pants but then we had new employees coming to work that day so i didnt want them to see me without pants on so i went into the bathroom to put my pants on and there was a homeless young lady who was very pretty living in the bathroom stall so i put my pants on and left i cant remember what happens after that but then the dream starts out with me being picked up by a male friend who i once dated and he was in the back seat of the car and i was in the front and there was another person in the back seat to that i couldnt see his face but there was no driver i remember driving down a street that look dangerous and begain to feel very scared like i was being set up i remember the lights being on in the car but they were only on in the front of the car so you couldnt see in the back then the car starts approuching a group of people who were parting outside and the man in the backseat jumps out the car and starts chasing a man and a few minuts later a female approiches the car and said he killed tyrone and then she walks away and i notice that she has a type recorder and then she drops it and we exit the car and my friend tells me to grab the tape recorder which was actually a phone and tells me to walk the other way so i did and then i was stopped by 3 women in a car that was dressed alike and one got out of the car and grab the phone out of my hand i got the feeling that they gonna kill me and she deleted the recording off the phone and thats when a group of people approuched us and shot her in the head and the car drove off the man told me that if i tell him who the killer was that he wouldnt kill but i didnt know who it was and i didnt want to tell on my friend but then the cops came and i got away and ended up in a abandon building with a lady and a man who were living there and then i woke up
This is a response to Myiesha’s dream.
Dear Myiesha,
Basically these dreams have a lot to do with the way you relate to men. Your way of dealing with them is too loose morally and then that gets you into trouble and everything goes bad for you. If you want your life to work and to have really great relationships, you are going to have to have stronger morals and principles. Men need to know that what you want in a relationship is someone who has a good character, who is going to be there for the long term, not just a short term romance. When you do this,you will get a huge amount of respect.
I need to know what is it when you dream of your hands being nailed together
This is a response to Terry’s dream,
Hands being nailed together means that you are not able to use your abilities to get things done that you want to get done in the world. Hands are symbols of skills or abilities. It is important to find a way to use them. That will be a key to your happiness.
Hi, I had a dream the other night and my fiance brushed it off trying to say its because we fell asleep watching star trek, but i disagree, I feel like it was the devil working on us. In my dream everything was the same we were laying the same way with our newborn next to me closest to the edge of the bed and my fiance back to back, in my dream he was laying next to me half asleep with the TV off, just like it was when I awoke from this dream. But ANOTHER person looking just like my fiancé walks from our living room, past our room and stops at our door and takes his pants off to where he is now naked. He walks into the bathroom, turns the light on, and I turned to my fiance and said hey why is our bathroom light on, he didn’t respond more that. I dunno babe and falls back to sleep, I said were all here why would it be on. Just then the other him walks in our room and comes to the foot of the bed and points in between us and says “let me get right here”, I said what? No. THEN he goes to touch our newborn and says “let me touch your baby” I then started swatting at his hand and was trying to scream “no nooo!” I swatted a few times but only grazed his fingers once. My scream was muffled even tho I was trying to scream pretty loud. Frightened from terror I woke up to everything being the exact same as it was in my dream..
This is a response to Rheanna’s dream,
Hi Rheanna, The person in the dream in the room represents the more negative aspect of your fiance. It is like we all have negative and positive aspects. Under stress and when they are allowed to be dominant, the male ego can turn into like a devilish person. You can stop this from happening in new life by having a lot of compassion with your fiance and seeing his positive qualities and reminding him of them each day. Then he will be more heavenly rather than devilish.
I have a reoccuring dream please tell me what this means, in the dream my friend gets raped she tells us all what happened, how and by who. I end up at this guys house with my child he turns nasty spike my drink which does not disorientate me in any way then rapes me in his driveway. I then have to trick and sneak about to get my child out of his house…..then 2 of my other friends, myself and my child are at the house again….i try to warn my friends but they dont listen and they throw me out without my child….i then see my friends running down the drive….he had raped them too, i try to run past to get my child but he grabs me and we all pretend to have sex with me (again this takes place in the driveway) and i pretned i need something from the house so i can get my child out of the house. For some reason i need to use a fork to get her out of the bedroom but we dont say the work we use something that rhymes with it…..then the guy mentions a fork. We have to sneak out of the house, climb a wall and run down a busy road.
This is a response to Steph’s dream,
Being raped and seeing others raped in a dream means that you have been taken advantage of along with others and are fearful of it happening again. It doesn’t mean actually rape it just means that the use of male dominance has taken advantage of you as if you were a non-person. The first step is to be aware of when that power is around, then to stay away from it and develop your own really positive energy inside that will only do positive. At this stage you need to be more aware of negative egos that are trying to dominate you.
Thank you Richard. I will take your advice to heart & and work on developing my own calm so that i can weather any storm. I’ll also take your advice and learn to paddle board so that i can learn balance as well as calm. Thanks so much. Many blessings to you.
Dear Richard, i recently had a dream in which i was walking into a room of my apt in a hurry and as i walked in i paused & looked to my right. When i did so i saw large windows & a glass door open leading out to the beach. From my vantage point i could see the clear blue gren water of the ocean w/ almost no waves and a friend of mine standing just past the door wating for me near the water to go surfing/paddle boarding. In my dream when i looked at the water and looked at my friend who was waiting for me with a smile i felt immediate calm. I told him that i’d be right there in just a minute and then woke up. I dont know if this dream is a metaphor or more literal. Two days after having this dream i dreamt that i was at a beach esort swimming in a pool that over looked the ocean sunset; everything was calm.
In my real life, i do go kayaking w/ this particular friend; and he’s been wanting to teach me to use paddle board for some time. Plus i’ve always enjoyed kayaking w/ him b/c he’s easy going and always calm. What is disconcerting to me is that I’m married and we’re currently having some issues. The friend from my dream is moving away to another country next month and it’s very unlikely that we’ll see each other after that. Would you be able to tell me what these 2 dreams mean? Thank you in advance for your time and attention. 😊
This is a response to Georgia’s dream.
Hi Georgia, Usually it is better to take a dream metaphorically even if it appears to you literally. Windows in a dream mean vision as in having a vision. So when you look out in this vision in the dream, you see the possibility of doing things that bring you a lot of calm. Since they are with a person who exhibits a lot of calm, it is natural that you would be attracted to him. However, the purpose of the dream and the intention of your spirit is to develop the virtue of calm by modelling him and not to be in a relationship with him other than friendship as long as you are married.
Developing calm should help you with your marriage that is probably a bit stormy right now. It will get you through the tough times so that even if it doesn’t work out, you will be as if you are paddle boarding on calm waters. The goal is to learn how to be calm and paddle boarding is the method. What it does differently than kayaking is adding the element of balance.
Just to warn you, this dream is super weird. There was this kid.. Maybe 14 1/2 Well he had a crush on me first but I didn’t want him to. And then there was a horse race that anyone was free to enter. I lost but I fell off in this area where there was houses but no one lived in them and the boy found me. He told me something but I can’t remember, it was something funny, then we started kissing and he made me hide behind the trees so no one could see us. He was about 5′ 9″ and he had abs he had blonde hair and he was tan.
This is a response to Maddy’s dream,
Hi Maddy, This dream is actually about developing parts of yourself that are like the boy in the dream. It may seem weird. Mainly it seems to be about being more forward with others like he was with you in the dream. That will get you to wherever you want to go and win the horse race.
Dear Richard,
Thank you so much for your previous interpretations. I am still having dreams about this same guy friend, and now most of them involve me reclining with my head on his chest. However, my dream two nights ago was especially bewildering.
I dreamt that I was at an event and this guy friend-who was the son of the host- was supposed to be there as well, yet he was nowhere to be found, so the butler of the estate enlisted my help to find him. I found my guy friend buried deep beneath the snow-even though it was summer- and breathing through a straw. I tried to communicate with him through this straw, but this kept him from being able to breathe, so the butler told me to leave the guy friend alone. However, as I walked away, I received a text from my guy friend on my cell phone, saying he had left the snowbank and to meet with him. So I went walking through the neighborhood to find him. I finally found him at the center of an entourage, riding a baby blue bicycle and looking obviously unhappy. The entourage consisted of three boys and two girls. One of the boys was a younger version of my friend, the age he was when we we were close childhood friends. I tried to talk to him, but I found that he was a ghost, along with a redheaded female member of my friend’s entourage. I observed the other two boys and their interactions with my guy friend to see if there were any romantic attachments between them, and found none. The only person my guy friend connected with on any level was a beautiful girl who looked like an angel with a magnetic smile, endearing eyes, freckled porcelain skin, and wispy flaxen hair. She flirted with him constantly, and I felt jealous and threatened. But as I tried to leave, she stopped me and told me that she’s been flirting for a while and couldn’t make him love her, that she thought I was his girlfriend, that I was the one he loved. He stood beside me, and though his face was as stoical as it had been the entire dream, he didn’t deny what she said about us. And I, unable to believe it, broke down and cried because I wished so deeply that it were true, but I feared more that it wasn’t.
This is a response to Empire’s dream,
The purpose of this dream is to not give up on others, especially your guy friend despite the apparent lack of response i the beginnning. The problem is that his heart and mind have been frozen, probably from past experiences as if he were in deep snow. It is difficult for him to respond to true warmth because of his past. If you persevere, despite the lack of response, it will give you great rewards.
Hello, I’ve been have a recurring dream…
I’m at my home by the pool and the water is a bit clear but still dark and I look and see my dog at the bottom with his nose up almost trying to breath I go in to rescue him but he swims away, eventually he gets out. Then my cat is in the water too so I go and try to rescue her and same thing couldnt really get to her and she gets out, mind you I don’t remember how they get out if they do it on their own or if I did pull them out. Anyways at the moment a Chinese black Dragon flys toward us and kinda goes through the screen porch and my dog barks at it at first it looks like the Dragon was gonna attack my dog so I yell and run up to my dog trying to protect him and at the same time calm my dog down which he does so. The Dragon stops too and looks at me and leave s us alone and just flies around. At the moment I look at the clouds and there is a clear humongous jellyfish in the clouds and swims or glids through clouds. And that’s all I remember
This is a response to Madelein’s dream.
Swimming is an environment that means you want to have positive relationships with your self and others. The dog and cat swim away because there is something in yourself that drives your friendliness and independent self away from you. The Chinese dragon shows us to transform the situation. Western dragons are fire breathing, but Chinese are transformational. It wants to help you change what you are doing and so that you can have positive relationships. What you seem to be doing that is negative is imagining (your head in the clouds about negative things -jellyfish) This means that the positive switch you need to make is be on the ground and doing simple acts of kindness and relating. When you do this, the dog and cat will be with you and everything will change.
Dear Richard,
I had a doppelgander dream last night. The dream was regarding a hotel staycation with my beloved grandma and aunt. We were chatting randomly and heard the door opening so I turned my head behind and saw the door was about to open however the door was my house door, it wasn’t the hotel door. So as I watched the door open, I saw a doppelgander of my aunt and grandma and it was a weird and negative feeling as I am confused which is the real. So I asked them which of you are real. They looked at me and I was so scared that I tried to shout but I couldn’t and I forced myself to wake up. Pease let me know what is my dream about. Thank you and have a blessed day ahead!
This is a response to CTAN,
A doppelganger as a metaphor shows that everyone has two sides to themselves, an ego which is the negative selfish protective side, and a true self, which is made of up of all one’s positive qualities. In this case sometimes a person is ego and sometimes they are there true self. Most people go back and forth and tend to get into their ego under stress. The key to relating to the doppelganger is to get them into their true selves and then keep them there.
Ive had this reoccurring dream since the age of 3.. Every since i can rem ive live big cats. IN this dream im in a cave full of tigers, lions siberians about to get married to a woman whom i cannot see. I say i do and when its her turn she instead takes off running. I catch her only to unveil and faceless woman who then turns into Salt? Im 33 now and have had this dream 4 times since then? Any clue to what this may mean?? Thank you
This is a response to Michael’s dream,
Hi Michael, Big cats are symbols of being hugely courageous and independent. While these are wonderful qualities to have in terms of what your purpose is in life especially carving out new paths or new directions for things, they are not the qualities that need to be dominant in relationships. The woman in yourself would represent your softer qualities and women in real life have relationships that have a lot of love and compassion. So you can separate the two sets of virtues and use them appropriately.
I was walking along a highway, speeding cars going past. I saw a large bearded dragon lizard laying on the side of the road, just out of harms way. As I walked water starting rising along the sides of the road. I walked to the edge and the water was so clear I could see the bottom and there were the same dragon lizards in the water resting. I noticed more and more lizards all different sizes everywhere. Some swimming, laying under the water or sitting on things just out of the water. As I kept walking the road disappeared but I found a kids fort or open cubby house. There were the same dragon lizards everywhere all different sizes. The water rose so much I had to start swimming, at first I wasn’t frightened but as I realised the water was so deep there was no bottom, the lizards started following me and the current became stronger I felt panic starting to rise slowly. As I started to struggle I woke from the dream. In the last few moments 2 ducks appeared very close to me & watched me struggle.
This is a response to Audrey’s dream,
Walking along the highway with everyone speeding by means that you are on a path that others are on, but you are going much slower in getting to where you want to go. That is because you using the wrong animal metaphorically to get to where you want to go. You are using a dragon lizard a lot of them as the metaphor which don’t work in this case. The path you are on is the same path as other which is creating a world full of peace and unity, but you think you need to be dragon lizard like which is cold-blooded which means kind of hard to what the world gives you. A better metaphor in dealing with the water is a duck. A duck can live in the water and swim easily and then just lets the negative waters fall right off. This means that to get on the road of unity and love, you need to be like a duck by letting what people do just fall off you.