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I had a dream that I saw there is one house near by my house sundly that house got burned with fire people were inside they were working and they get burned, this dream is to much weird I dont understnd wt does mean tht ?
This is a response to Tabitha’s dream,
Hi Tabitha, This dream is about your neighbor’s becoming having a lot of angry and being really hotheads. You have the dream because you need to be able to learn how to deal with people who are angry so that you can help them cool down. The way to do it is to not be the least bit affected by the anger. Then you can listen to someone’s anger without taking responsibility for doing anything about it. The anger belongs to them for them to learn how deal with it.
i hada dream of lizards running away from me snd a dirty house and death grandparents. what does it means.
This is a response to Ruchinder’s dream,
Hi Ruchinder. Lizard-like behavior means behavior that is really selfish and cold-hearted. A dirty house means an impure self and the death of your grandparents means the death of the negative influence they have on you because of their selfish expectations. What you need to do instead,now is to have positive behavior that is inclusive and helps everyone and is not motivated by self-interest but in helping others. Then you will feel totally alive inside.
I had a dream that I was in my car and the tint was coming off of my windshield so I started peeling it off. What does this mean?
This is a response to Krissy’s dream,
Hi Krissy. The purpose of the tint on the windshield is to keep out some of the rays of the sunshine. Now it is like you need to let the sunshine in and that will get you were you want to go. Sunshine is like warmth and light which are hugely positive energies that will make everything work for you.
I had a dream last night that I was going into a building that looked kind of like a wooden house with a staircase raising it off the ground, I dreamt that I was with several other people that Im sure I was working with as some type of job, maybe an assassin. Our orders we’re to go into this place and kill about ten various people i didnt know who were sitting around 3 tables eating food. I remember going and slitting these people throats one by one while the others just sat around not reacting to what we were doing. Once i slit someones throat they didnt act like they were dying they just put their head down slowly and didnt move so i assumed they were dead. Although I was with other people I remember killing everyone in that room myself. It’s not like I wanted to do it I just kept telling myself that it was something that I was supposed to do before I left. I remember the rest of the dream being me and the others running from the cops and trying to hide the fact of the killing. Afterwards I didn’t feel happy about the killings but I felt relieved that our objective was achieved. It wasnt even a bad dream, it just felt strongly that I was doing something that had to be done so I felt no remorse for what was done.
This is a response to Jake’s dream,
Hi Jake, When you kill someone in a dream, it means that you end a relationship with others in real life. So you are cutting their throats which means that they can no longer communicate with you which is why they are dead to you. The reason that you don’t feel remorse is that there is a reason that you needed to cut off relations with them. While it is not a good long term strategy to end a lot of relationships, it may be a good short term one so that you can learn how to develop the abilities to handle people’s negative behavior without coming undone. This is true especially around negative people, people dong a lot of criticism, or abusive people. When you get really strong and develop what you need to develop inside, then you will be detached from their actions and be able to create unity with others and have more relationships. It is very common in today’s world to have to do this because there are so many self-interested people and leaders.
Dear Richard,
I don’t know the meaning of this dream & I need ur help trying to understand it. Its about my uncle I remember him going to grandmas house begging me to sleep with him because his wife left him & he’s heart broken I constantly kept telling him no then he started getting really aggressive gripping on to my waist very aggressively. I went to the bathroom to try & get away from him I remember seeing my grandma & her telling me she’s sorry I looked at her asked her why you sorry grandma she smiled & kept walking away.. Then I turned on the bathtub water he followed me into the bathroom grabbing my arm really hard begging me repeatedly. I said now let go I pushed him in the bathtub he was flowding his fingers flowing around his face body looking really cold like if he was flowding in a lake I ran to my father asking him if he’s alive my he looked st me asked wat happened I told him then I went back to the bathroom and my uncle was getting up looking at me evil picking up his fingers I asked are you ok I thought u were dead he replied do I look okay looking straight in my eyes very evil. He showed my a picture saying this is you right he later me on the bed telling my father she was the same leg same tattoo same ass check my aunties showed up coming to pick us up she seen wat happened i didn’t say a word we all said we wouldn’t tell mercadies my uncles ex wife we went out side I was little again looking around all over it was night when the sun goes down my cousins saying come one Adrii before he gets you they started running & he comes walking twords me with something in his hand I was trying to run but I couldn’t I felt like I was being held back from running.Texas chainsaw massacre was going after him he turned around & killed him I made it inside the shed it closed on me lighting up laughing I said is this hell getting up & then I woke up breathing hard that was it
This is a response to Jaylene’s dream,
Hi Jaylene, The important thing to learn from this dream is that your uncle is trying to depend on you for his love probably first emotionally, but he would also want to have physical love because he is extremely immature and unaware of how to take care of his own needs. Your job is have extremely strong boundaries with him and then go for your own positive life. If you don’t do this, then his energy will dominate you, but you seem to be able to do it in the dream. Your family doesn’t seem to be much help to you probably because they all have difficulties feeling loved.
My husband has been having nightmares about demonic spirits for two or three years. Either trying to attack him or just being present
This is for Christian’s Mom,
Hi The best way to look at a nightmare like these is that your husband has a fear that started a few years ago that is in the place of where some new positive ability should be. A demon is a symbol for negative energy usually selfish, self-interested energy that is present. If he is working, it could be a selfish boss or supervisor or colleague that keeps him from developing new aspects of himself. You can tell him to think of the energy that wants to come as like angelic energy. This means energy that really helps others and helps the work get done well. I can’t tell what the quality is based upon the demon alone. I would need more context and then I can figure out what quality wants to come out and how to guide him.
Last night I dream I went to visit my boyfriend unknown to me that there is another lady in the house who happen to be his girl friend also to my greatest surprise the lady was speaking his dilate she rush to the kitchen brought knife my boyfriend was trying to defend me but she threatened to stap him then he back off she then chasing me with the knife I had to run outside the house so en brassing because she naked me then started flying but still she was still throwing the knife at me on all t the trees flew to the last one was when she threw the knife I catch the knife from the tree wanting throwing directly at heart then I wake up from the sleep!
This is a response to Simon Lisa’s dream,
Hi, the problem that you have in your relationship is shown to you in this dream, so you need to listen to what I am going to tell you. The girl in the dream is the woman that your boyfriend wants you to be. It is a fantasy that he has in his mind about who wants to be in a relationship with. That fantasy is out to kill the relationship you have with him right now. It is not uncommon for men to do this when they don’t have a life of very fulfilling life, but if it is left unchecked, that fantasy is going to end the relationship because he will be angry at you for not being that fantasy.
What you can do when you are with him is only focus on the positive qualities that he has. Tell him that you see positive things in him and what they are. When you focus this way, it helps a person to get motivated to live a fulfilling life rather than trying to have a fantasy girl, but you also have to be careful about having a long term relationship with him if he is not living a fulfilled life because he will want that other woman. If you don’t become that woman, he will look for another who will. But let’s hope that you can have a positive effect on him. You can if you focus positively.
Good day sir thanks for replying back I’m frm Africa. I had a dream that my father in law asked my wife to tend for him 2 baby goats which she did but I saw her carrying one of d baby goat but this was my wife I told you abt that we are trying for baby for 7yrs now, but I saw that she heard a noise from outside where she went and behold there was an arguement b/w her young late sister Tosin Mercy Ezirim and their father but she tried to settle it but couldn’t cos her late sister was angry with their dad but her late sister left while my wife was running after her. Her late sister was crying and sad plus she was angry with their dad but she was wearing black dress and when my wife wanted to stop her she was behaving like a mad person. Please sir I want you to interpret this draem, Joseph from West Africa.
This is a response to Joseph’s dream,
Dear Joseph, I am going to tell you how to have a baby with your wife, but it is very important that she do a lot of emotional work first. The goats are a symbol that she was asked to care for things that were not her responsibility. She was responsible for her younger sister who was in conflict with her father. Because of the conflict with the father, she could not do the responsibility even though it was not hers in the first place to do. Her responsibility was to her own development, not to her sister. That responsibility was her father’s. So now when she thinks or wants to have a baby of her own, it is emotionally wrapped up in the situation with her sister. This means that, while she has a desire for her own child, it is associated in her mind with what happened in her family so her being protects itself from having babies. There is too much unresolved conflict.
So what she needs is to realize inside of herself, that her sister is ok in the next world, she no longer has in responsibility, and that her father won’t interfere with the raising of her own child. She needs to stay out of conflict with her father, be positive, and realize that she is not in that situation anymore. Her mind believes she still is. You can help her by convincing her that you will help her a great deal with the baby and that what happened before does not have to happen again. You can write to me at dreamsforpeace@gmail.com if you have more questions. It can get pretty complex.
Evry night I saw only one dream , I saw my ex boyfriend who brokeup wit me e and he alys come to dream I reallyl dont knw wt was the reason behind it , I saw he came to to my dream he was angry with mea then afterwards he strdd fighting with to me then we solved evrything btween us , and next day I saw a same dream he was fighting to mea still angry , m so tired of this y he came to dream again and again to irritating, I dont why he comes to dream ….plz give me some advice help me plz
This is a response to Tabitha’s dream,
Hi Tabitha, The reason that you broke up with your boyfriend is probably because of the fights you got into with him. So the dreams are replaying the fighting situations so that you won’t forget them. When you are in a fight with someone else, it is because you want to be someone else that they are not capable of being. In other words you are trying to get the person to change so that they will be how you want them to do with you. So the first rule of relationships is to not try to make a person change. Changing is their own business. It is not yours. When they are not acting how you like, you have a choice, but first you must be committed to staying out of fights. Fights are unproductive. The choice is whether or not you want to stay with the bad behavior of the other person. The best thing in this case, is to let him go, stay out of fighting with others to get them to change, and then to really focus on changing yourself in a positive way.
When you really truly focus on changing in a positive way, then the right boy will show up and you will have an amazing relationship. Go for it but stay out the business of trying to get someone else change. We all do it, but it is none of our business.
Had the dream yesterday night.
From what I can remember… me and my aunt (who in real life is living with me + my family, also she is someone who partook in making my holiday an emotional wreck – although I keep quiet about it to a great extent) moved into a house with an unattractive old man. He welcomed us and after a while I ‘etabrutsam’ on the stairs with a blanket on me (clothes on!!!!!). I soon spot what seems to be a camera and I click the button to turn it off and go to continue my ‘act’ (urgh) on my bed and soon after spot another camera and turn it off too. To my surprise just moments after I finished my ‘act’ 3 or 4 handsome blonde men enter my room. One of them is my classmate in 2 subjects who feigns an interest in me and flirts for my confused reactions (I know he doesn’t like me really but I still hope…..I’m such a lonely soul…). He appears to have a impressive and irresistible appropriately/perfectly muscular body which I’m shocked to see (he’s just a tall fellow with an rather good-looking face, not having any visible muscles in real life – note I do not like hulks). Lastly either me or my classmate says that we are now living together which makes me feel excited and nervous.
*etabrutsam = in reverse
This is a response to Sarah’s dream,
Hi Sarah, This dream says that when you are living in the emotional nightmare of having your aunt inside your head which is probably what happens, you try to get yourself pleasure, but even then you feel like you are on camera. This has a lot to do with her being in your head because of her negative presence in your head. Then you start fantasizing about being with guys based upon their looks.
So I am going to give you a formula for dealing the aunt that lives in your head and in real life and then that will change your relationships with guys forever in a positive way. Be ready for this because it is powerful, but only if you fully can do the process. First of all, in real life it is like your aunt is living in a war zone. She is at war with others all the time and tries to create conflict and negativity. The first important thing to do when you see engages in a fight is to avoid being in conflict at all costs. Fighting with her with actions or words is the wrong action. This neutralizes her, both in real life and in your head. Then and this is going to be difficult, only focus on the positive in her. If you can’t find anything, it means you are at war still. So you have to stop the war inside, and then find the positive. When you do this with her, you will find that, at first, she won’t know how to respond or will respond in a weird way, but then when you persist, she will change with you right before your eyes. Believe me. Then you do the same strategy with boys. Stay way from conflict and then find positives in them and tell them. This will make a huge difference. You will have lots of boy friends soon thereafter. But you have to do both steps completely.
Twice I’ve had a dream about serial killers and I’ve influenced them to be better and they both turned to love me. Please email me.
This is a response to Shanel’s dream.
Hi Shanel, This is a pretty remarkable dream almost like a super power dream. Serial killers in the dream world are people who constant kill relationships between people mostly because they are so focused on negative realities and telling people negative things to them. When you can change a serial killer into people who love you, it means that you can do two things. First you can stay completely out of conflict with them. And second you can find the positive in them and tell them repeatedly when they do positive things. Staying out of conflict is huge because serial killers, both real ones and ones that kill relationships, have wars raging inside of them and always believe that life is a war zone. When you stay out of the war zone, they can’t do what they do with most people which is to fight. Serial killers are used to just fighting so when you stay out of the fight and say positives they have no other choice but to love you. Pretty awesome.
Hello, I lost my boyfriend a little over a year ago and for the past two years before that I had not remembered any dreams unless they were nightmares. I was thinking about seeing a doctor about it, I thought it was strange, but after he died, it had almost been a year and I was dreaming and remembering all of them. Then I started dreaming about him and it was like we both knew we wouldn’t get to spend much time together so we held on to each other as much as we could and always say how much we miss each other. I wake up so emotional, I feel like he’s visiting me in my dreams…I never want to wake up bc i get to see him, hold him and kiss him again. Also when I was little we lived in a small town, moved into an old country house and I constantly dreamed about this lady with long white hair on a white horse. Never showed her face I wasn’t scared of her I just thought it was strange I dreamed about her a lot. When I was 18 I started working at a cafe in town and we had our morning coffee drinkers, a group of older people. We started talking about dreams and I told them about her, how I dreamed about this lady all the time. They told me she had been spotted around that town for years, by a lot of different people.
This is a response to Baden’s dream,
Hi, It must have been a big blow to you to lose your boyfriend. I am sorry that it happened. There are three sets of dreams here that are important to deal with. First, you had nightmares after his death. Nightmares happen when you are supposed to be developing a new quality or aspect of yourself and you have to overcome a fear. The fear in this case, is living your life without him. This is because he had some amazing qualities that made your life together pretty remarkable. When the fears began to subside is when you started dreaming of him and you together, the ones that were hard to wake up from. As difficult it is to continue without him, the purpose of those dreams with him are important to be understood if you want to continue on in a happy way. The dreams are asking you the following. They want you to analyze the best quality that he had in his life with you first. Then they want you to start developing that quality in yourself. Then they want you to have that quality so much that it is even like being with him. When you get to that stage, your life will be amazing. It is important, however difficult it is to let go of your grief because grief has an effect on what your boyfriend is supposed to be doing in the next world. He has important work to do, but the grief keeps him from fully being engaged in it. As far as the woman in long white hair is concerned, this dream shows you that you have a great deal of intuition and that you shouldn’t hold back from letting it guide you. You can know something is about to happen without having any real knowledge of it. Using intuition requires a lot of trust which may be the quality that your boyfriend had.
Sorry Braden. I wrote Baden in the response.
J keep having a reoccuring nightmare(for over three years now) that im in a maze of swamp misty dark forest and reapers cloaked in black shadow chase me and cut/kill me. I die and everytime i do i start at the beginning and i normally cant wake up till i make it across. The other night it was same dream except i was rhnning and a hole in the ground appeared and a firey arm grabbed me and i burst into flame. When j awoke all the reapers nine in all started hacking and slashing me to pieces and i awoke… Im terrified of this stupid nightmare i wake up in panic attacks every morning from it.
This is a response to Brandon’s dream,
Hi Brandon. I am going to help you get rid of the nightmare and then set on a good path of growth. This dream is about getting into situations that are almost impossible to escape from and then feeling completely killed inside. They keep repeating themselves. First question. What is the situation in life you get into that is like a swampy maze that you cannot escape from? Possibilities. School/Work/Relationships/Your family For me it seems like the education system but don’t have enough data. No way to win and they just want to destroy who you are for someone else’s economic gain.
If you answer the first question, then I can take you to the second question.
I had a dream about my brother who is serving 16 to life in prison.
In my dream he was sitting in my fridge (it was his cell) he wanted hygiene items and so I took the bottom of the fridge off (grill piece) and gave him soap.
Next thing I know he got out of the fridge, he looked like he was dead with all his color looking sorta blue/gray.
I gave him a hug and told him how happy I was to see him.. it has been so long.
But I told him “I’m sorry you are going thru this, if I had a gun I’d let you kill yourself. This is no way to live” he responded “don’t forget about me when you get one”.
My brother ran around the house playing with my kids for a while
Suddenly a knock on the door.
We panicked, but it was my mom and her ex boyfriend. (Wierd)
My mom was kinda rude. And being loud, so I told her to be quiet.
I asked my brother how he sat in the fridge he started moving things around to show me.
I opened my eyes and tried to close them fast to talk to my brother a little bit more. But I woke up. He was gone.
What does this mean??
This is a response to Confused,
Hi, So in this dream you are trying to work out how to deal with your brother who is in jail for 16 years. The metaphor of being in a fridge means that the only way he can protect himself is by being cold to the world. Cold to others is how he protects himself. Wanting soap or hygiene means that he wants to make amends for what he did to get his life cleaned up and go forward. You are his lifeline to his true self. What you did in the dream was perfect. His mother, your mother, cannot help because she is too busy with her own mess. As much as you can you should write to him and encourage him and keep him warm in your heart. This will do more than you can ever hope to imagine and will help him survive the prison. God does not punish people twice. Your job is to help him keep his hope alive. I wish that I could offer you more, but I can say that you are like his angel. He needs your support.
I dreamed that I was with my girlfriend and we were almost raped twice.
This is a response to the anonymous dream.
Being raped is one of the great fears that women have because it is a brutal act that is completely selfish in design. When the fear is really strong in you, then it keeps you from doing what your heart wants which is to be close and intimate with others in a positive way. Since there are brutes in the world, it is important to have real world protection, but you can also begin to loosen the fear and then get a lot of closer to people.
My (almost) 5 year old daughter had a scary dream last night and came running into our bedroom. She said a lobster was pinching her and made her bleed. She said Gigi’s (my mother) mom saved her and put a bandaid on her booboo. We asked how she knew it was her great-grandmother, as she has never met her or seen a photo.. She passed away years before I was even born. My daughter said she “just knew it was her”. Tonight she told us that her great-grandmother had pink & red eyes in the dream… What could this possibly mean?? I’ve been told by 3 psychic mediums that the same woman is one of my guided and protectors. Thanks 😊
This is a response to Caitlin,
Hi Caitlin,
5 year olds have a tendency to blow up things in their mind which makes an other ordinary experience much worse than it is. This is because they do not hold two realities in their mind simultaneously. They can be scared and then use their rational mind like adults can. The fear tends to get larger than life. A lobster is a creature that lives under the water at depth and then trap prey with the claw. This will make it difficult for her to go deep with things like meaning and spirituality as long as the fear exists. It is usually connected to school for a 5 year old because the culture of school is such as to not allow people to go to deep. They usually prefer that you become a workaholic and control how deep you go.
Really I find that most CEOs that I have met are stuck at the 5 year old level. They get self-centered and cannot go deep with meaning.
The work of going deep with your daughter is with you, Caitlin, not the school, so don’t expect much from school. Her great-grandmother is her guide. I have a great grandmother who we called Gigi and she has been my guide for a long time when it comes to loving the rest of humanity. What she needs the most, your daughter, is protection from the culture of school. A lot of children lose a sense of who they are when faced with the culture of other children.
The dream I had is water pipes leaking on a hotel roof in approx 50ft area, my brother is there with me but just as a silhouette, my boss is in roof she is wearing Hi heels I tell her to be careful she slips and falls on roof sliding towards edge than falls into a miniature water play ground that justs pops up on roof (it wasn’t there before) I go to check on her find her wadding in a kiddie pool than she is gone and I see myself laying on the floor in a hotel room and my brother is laying on bed eating a jelly doughnut but is looking pale and distant than my alarm went off and I woke up
Me and this guy I hardly know are watching TV chilling. Then he starts talking to himself and then starts to scream things to the ceiling. Sounds kinda demonic. Then he starts pushing things over. Like he would get up and go to the TV and he pushed a candle off the top of the TV then would sit back down. Then he got up and went back over to the TV and knocked something else over and sat back down. Then he started getting more violent, he walked back over to the tv, and started punching it lightly and then got harder as he went until the TV busted. And when it busted it went completely dark and he came over to me he had a machete. He screamed in a deep voice that if I moved or said anything he would kill me. Well I asked what did I do and he smiled a little and looked down at my stomach as if analyzing where to stab, I felt it coming because he nodded to himself slightly and drew back and stabbed me in my lower gut. He didn’t go in all the way just like the first 3 inches. Didn’t hurt when it was in and there was no blood. Weirdest scariest dream I have ever had.
This is a response to Zack’s dream,
Dear Zack,
The best way to think of this dream is see the guy watching TV as the part of you that gets addicted to TV watching or addicted to being entertained. The longer the TV watching goes on the worse the guy becomes until the addiction really tries to kill your real self. What the dream wants you to do instead is to get out in the real world and have more real world experiences. That is the goal of the dream. If this is true and you have a hard time getting away from the TV, it means that you have some issues about the bad things that might happen in the real world. It is worth asking yourself about this and dealing with it.
When I was younger I would always have reoccurring dreams of things like, being on a step that suddenly grows to 1000s of metres high and I fall. Or being dragged down hallways and running until I can’t anymore but never reaching even the first door, or every dream about water I would always drown. Now all of a sudden over ten years later I am re-living every single one of those dreams to the last detail, except I don’t fall, the ground comes back to normal as I step off, or I reach the end of the hallway in ONE step! And there is always a boat or a person waiting to scoop me up out of the water. I’m not complaining or anything, I’m no longer dying in my dreams, but why are the same dreams I had as a kid changing all of a sudden? Thankyou so much, sorry if this is a bit too long! c:
This is a response to Ashleigh’s dream.
Hi Ashleigh, This is really good news about yourself because when you were younger you had no control over the negative things that would happen to you. That is the structure of the dreams. Now you are having a positive end when something negative begins to happen. This means that have the capacity to turn negative beginnings into positive outcomes. The next step will you be able to visualize positive endings and then end up in them in the real world. This will probably be fairly easy for you because you can already turn a challenge to a positive outcome. Start visualizing positive outcomes. That is the important thing now.