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Ming,
This is the response to the animal dream. The purpose of the dream is to show you how to be more effective in the use of one of the most important virtues on the planet, cooperation or working together with others. You seem to have a natural gift for being able to see the positive qualities in others and working in harmony with them to get you to where you want to go in positive way. The animals represent different positive qualities that people have. When you work with someone’s positive qualities then you get positive results and it takes you where you want to go. Birds have the quality of freedom so when you are in the mode of seeing positive and working with it, then that is when you are truly free. It is a great feeling.
The crows being killed by the spiders have to do with the fact that in a lot of environment, the crows, which stand for justice because they tell the truth, are killed by jealousy represented in the negative spiders. A negative spider weaves a web of deceit and backbiting to undermine justice.
When you are faced with injustice born of jealous, then you try to kill it, but it is so deceptive that you begin thinking that the good guys are the bad ones. That is when you hurt that good guys and wake up with guilt.
So the goal is to be able to keep working cooperatively with others to reach your goal. You do this by recognizing positive strengths that others have, naming them and acknowledging them, and working together with them and at the same time, being able to recognize jealousy and staying very far from it.
This is exactly how socialist ideals have always been killed or destroyed. The idea is to have people working together, each with their positive gifts, but people jealous for power have always usurped the process for their own person gain, but still saying they are interested in cooperation.
It is extremely important to be able to identify a person who is filled with jealousy because they can easily sabotage everything good you want to do. They are usually clever about it, but you cannot get into a fight with them because they love fighting and are really good at it.
The job is to keep finding positive people and working together with them and you will have great success.
Samantha,
The reason that you are having the dreams back and forth with your ex-boyfriend is that there are parts of him that are very positive which you are attracted to and then there is a part of him that is pretty negative. When he has to face that part of him, the negative part, so that he can stay committed to a long term relationship, he runs away into the arms of someone else. If you were to go back to him, the pattern would repeat itself again.
It is important for you to have the dream because you were attracted to him and there is a part of him you like being with. However, since he probably is not going to face the committed part where he has to be responsible, it is best to stir clear of him. This is a common mistake for women. The romance is good in the beginning, but when it comes to a commitment where you have to be responsible, then the relationship falls apart. It would be nice to have both, a lot of love in relationship combined with being very responsible and mature. That is what you are really looking for.
Hi,
I have been having dreams every night that I can clearly remember. So far the past 4 or 5 nights they have all been about my ex-boyfriend. We dated for 5 months and broke up 6 months ago. I saw his current girlfriend this past week and she was very rude. Then I saw him for the first time since we broke up and he was very friendly and nice to me. He even told friends of mine he’s not into his new relationship and that I was a much better girlfriend.
I thought I got over him but ever since I saw him I have been having dreams about him. One dream was that I was with him, his girlfriend and other people and he was rubbing it in my face that he had a girlfriend, basically just being very romantic and affectionate.
Another dream I had about him was that he apologized for how he treated me and wanted me back. But then the next night I had another dream about him and his current gifriend.
Every night it goes back and forth, him being a good guy or a bad guy. Im sick and annoyed by these dreams and just want to know what they mean and what I can do to make them stop!
Thanks!
So ive been having the same dreams twice now and it seems so real that i cant dismiss it as a normal vivid dream no matter what
It starts in my house where theres a whole open hill behing the house and a small metal structure in front of my house. infront of my house in the corners of the structure theres a crow nest and i cam speak to any animals. i negotiate with them and i forgot what il give them in retun but they agree to let me ride them somehow despite their small size i manage to rride them and fly around really high amd to tthe hill behind my house.everyday i keep searching for birds and talk to them to convince them to allow me to ride the birds
I keep riding them and one day i see the crows infront id the house all killed by spiders.
This is where it gets weird so bear with me.
Somehow i decide to tell or publicize the fact that animals can talk but some people try to stop me and so i pretend im one of them and get into a test room to pretend im like them.
I sit in a lab with computers, and there are 10 other people with me. 4 of them are people like me trying to get the word out, and somehow we decide to kill the real bad guys. somehow i get a knife and start fighting this pink haired girl( ik its stupid) until i finally stab her in the ribs and i look away.
Suddenly the other 3 gasp.and say she was one of the helpers and ur friend from past and i feel guilty as i watch her die
i wake up
When i do wake up that guilty feeling stays with me even as i am writing this and all of this feels so real and two nights in a row
the bird part was the more realistic part so if u cant understand all of it can u focus on the birds also what does the dream mean and who or what the the girl stand for? No matter how stupid it sounds please answer
I know the killing part was like a nomal ream so can u focus on the bird part
when i say animals i mean all birds especislly the crows thanks
So ive been having the same dreams twice now and it seems so real that i cant dismiss it as a normal vivid dream no matter what
It starts in my house where theres a whole open hill behing the house and a small metal structure in front of my house. infront of my house in the corners of the structure theres a crow nest and i cam speak to any animals. i negotiate with them and i forgot what il give them in retun but they agree to let me ride them somehow despite their small size i manage to rride them and fly around really high amd to tthe hill behind my house.everyday i keep searching for birds and talk to them to convince them to allow me to ride the birds
I keep riding them and one day i see the crows infront id the house all killed by spiders.
This is where it gets weird so bear with me.
Somehow i decide to tell or publicize the fact that animals can talk but some people try to stop me and so i pretend im one of them and get into a test room to pretend im like them.
I sit in a lab with computers, and there are 10 other people with me. 4 of them are people like me trying to get the word out, and somehow we decide to kill the real bad guys. somehow i get a knife and start fighting this pink haired girl( ik its stupid) until i finally stab her in the ribs and i look away.
Suddenly the other 3 gasp.and say she was one of the helpers and ur friend from past and i feel guilty as i watch her die
i wake up
When i do wake up that guilty feeling stays with me even as i am writing this and all of this feels so real and two nights in a row
the bird part was the more realistic part so if u cant understand all of it can u focus on the birds also what does the dream mean and who or what the the girl stand for? No matter how stupid it sounds please answer but the part of killing seemed like a just a normal dream the bitd seemed almost real
Hi… last night i had an odd dream. I am a male, but in this dream i had big breast and a vagina. I was naked and i started to play with my self and it felt really good… what could this mean? Im certain im not gay, or in any way curious. So what could this mean?
Thank u so much richard for ur advice n suggestions. U r right, i need to first focus on my inner self, n try to b a good person and make everyone happy around me, n stop neglecting n betraying myself. Only then i might be able to get, what exactly i want 🙂
Yasmin,
It is really important that when you look at a dream it is mostly about the personal work you have to do internally. I usually avoid making predictions about the future because the future is really God’s business. My business is to work on myself and be the best person I can be. Then God will send to me what is best for me.
In your dream your ex-husband comes to you and wants to get married again. The best way to think about this dream is that your ex-husband represents a part of your inner self that you had to get divorced from. The reason that it is your ex-husband is because he shares the same problem that you have. This means that you both have the same problem that contributed to your divorce.
The dream is showing you that if you work really hard to improve that part of yourself, then you will be able to able to be in a relationship that works. Whatever you see wrong with your husband is also what is wrong with you. You both were probably easy to anger and expected from the other person what you couldn’t give to yourself.
To do the inner work you have to be able to be able to look in the mirror whenever you angry and say who I am really angry with is myself. Then you will grow and transform very rapidly.
Thank u so much richard for giving answer.
I need to ask u another dream interpretation. Actually i got divorced by my husband 8 months ago.
Few days ago i saw a dream that after a long time my husband came back to my country. I went to airport with my brother in law, but i was bit nervous and worried about what would be my husband’s reaction, when he will got to know that i also came to the airport to recieve him. Then my brother in law said to me, dont worry he will be fine. When my husband came out of the airport, he got hppay to see me, but pretends to me and everyone that as if he was angry to see me.
Then scene changes and i saw i am in a room with my husband, and asking him, do u really think that u have that much courage to face my parents and family? Are u sure u can convince them to marry me again?
After that he looked at me smiles and said to me that u know it already that i can do this forsure and v easily, u dont worry. After that i wokeup.
Could u please tell me richard that is this dream really have any positive meaning, or it is just i saw because i really want it to happen.
Yasmin,
The purpose of this type of dream is to show you that the people in the next world are there to help us in this world. It is as if when you cross over you continue to have service that you can give. In this case your mother and uncle are there to help you by listening to your problems and then being of assistance. This lets you know that life continues after this life and you continue to have a relationship with others in the next world. They are closer to you than you can imagine even as if you are talking on the phone.
When you can tell someone your problems and they listen without judging you, then it also serves to get the problem out from inside of you so that the solutions start to appear better. Oftentimes just being able to tell someone your problem and having them listen to you allows you to solve things by yourself.
The other teaching for you is that what your mother and uncle have done from you from the next world you can also do with others in this world. They are showing you how to listen to other problems which gives people a lot of hope just the way you felt hopeful in your dream.
hi Richard. i need ur guidence about my dream.
yesterday morning i saw a dream that i was standing beside my telephone. Suddendly bell rangs, i then picked up the phone and say hello, then the voice come from the other side of the phone saying “hello” to me. At that moment i became so much surprised and happy that my dead uncle call me. After that i again hear another voice coming from phone saying “hello” to me, at that moment i got extremely happy because it was my dead mother’s voice. After that they talk nothing more to me. They called me just to listen to my problems. After that i start crying on phone and tells each and every problem and difficult time of my life which i am going through.
My uncle and mother were silent on the phone, they were just listening to my all problems. After that call ends up. And i became so happy and relaxed in dream that finally i have shared everything with my mother. Now she will going to help me out. Then i wokeup.
Hey Richard!
Minutes ago I dreamt about seeing my ex girlfriend and having to fight her ex boyfriend for some reason but in my dream he was a giant and none of my punches hurt him..
What do you think it means? It has been a year and a half since our break up but I still think alot about her.
Lips are metaphors for first contact. It could be the first contact in a relationship with others like how we kiss when we greet or start kissing when we are intimate or it could be first contact like when we are introduced to new ideas or new possibilities. When you have old skin that needs to be removed from your lips, it means that you have old ideas about first contact that need to be discarded first.
The most common thing I can think of is how in Hollywood they always have this idea in a movie that your attraction to someone else is based upon the first kiss. If nothing is there, then relationship is over. It is pretty stupid but it seems to be good for the movies.
In your dream you big rip a big chunk off your lip and then fear that it actually happened in real life. The fear is that you are not going to make a good first contact that will lead to everything else so then in real life you don’t make a good first contact because you are so obsessed about it. When you wake up the lip is ok which means you are capable of making a good first contact with others and new things, but you don’t have to make such a big deal about how important it is.
We used to be taught about how important the first impression was in order to have a lasting relationship, but it just isn’t all that true. Some people like clothing and make up people have made fortunes on this idea. I think they promoted it. It is much more important about what you do after the greeting. The deeper part of a relationship is so much more interesting. If you can let go of your obsession which is probably culturally based, then you can get to what you really want which is deeper relationships.
Dear Richard,
I keep dreaming I am licking my lower lip and trying to peel any loose bits of skin away (rather like one sometimes does in waking life) and then suddenly it causes me to rip a big chunk of my actual lip off (like a third or so) and I literally wake up screaming out in pain and holding my lip taking some time to realise if my lip is ok…
This in an great dream to have, but it only really makes a lot of sense to you personally in your life right now if you look at in a metaphoric way, not necessarily literal. A dog like this in the dream is a symbol of companionship in a loyal way. The reason that dogs are such great pets in real life is because they make such good companions. They are always loyal and always ready to go with you. Now your physical dog is no longer with you, but inside of you there is a part of you that is a loyal companion with you all the time. You can call this part your friendship part or your companion part. It lets you know that in order for your life to really work right now you need to be really friendly with yourself, not distant or aloof. A dog means that you need to be friendly with yourself rather than hard on yourself. In practice it usually means focusing on the positive in yourself rather than the negative. You know you need to be friendly with yourself when you do a lot of self-criticism.
I dreamt about my dog who we had to put down 3 weeks ago. She was with my uncles dog who has also passed and they were hanging out in our backyard, my dog was sleeping in a big pot thing(that she’d never even looked at when she was here) and my uncles dog was digging up the backyard pretty much. What does this dream mean?
Richard,
Thank you so much for answering my last dream. I have another that I need lots of help with. So recently I had a big scare, I drank this really strong coffee that made me start to feel like I’m throwing up but it was just burps stuck in my throat. I kept burping & I still burp to this day like excessively. I went to my doctors & he said I was fine, that it’ll pass, but I’ve been burping for months now & sometimes I feel nausea. My doctors says its normal, but noe I really wanna get my blood tested. Two nights ago I had a dream that I went to the doctors again & as he was walking away a white truck comes driving next to my grandmother & I & there’s a nurse inside & she says ‘You have teenager indigestion, you’re way skinnier than the other girls’ I shook my head & told her that was impossible because I was thicker than the other girls. Then I woke up, then last night I had a dream that I kept insisting on going to the doctors & my grandma said I was okay. Could this mean something about my health?
Dear Victoria,
When you are smothered in a dream, it means that you are or have experienced a sense of being smothered in your life. It often happens from mothers who are trying to get something from the relationship with their children that they do not have.
The second dream recalls the way people are controlled and made to act in ways that conform to what others want them to do with their lives. The dreams feels like you are all the same which is the way young people are often made to feel rather than unique and talented. You are told that you demonic which means that you have bad qualities that need to be leased (controlled). If you get away from the lease, then you have to face other demons (bad qualities in others).
Demons are nothing more than ego states based upon fears in yourself and others. It is the way to control someone by telling them that demons are going to get them. This causes you and others to run away from yourselves, rather than toward positive ends and end up in a kind of grey mist which is a depressed state.
The key to solving the dream is to change the demonic thinking into positive thinking. Instead of needing to be leashed you need to be set free by seeing the positive in yourself and others and then create a sunny and warm place for your abilities. You have a lot of positive things that you can give to the world, but you need to recognize them and let go of thinking that you are demonic in anyway. You also need to ignore anyone who focuses on your negative aspects because what you need right now is a lot of positive energy and to be surrounded by people who see the best in you.
Hi Richard, I’m in need of some help with a dream. It comes in a bit then a much longer more detailed dream.
The first is simply something or someone smothering me until i am about to pass out. After that i dream i am with a small group of people. We are all the same somehow, i can sense it. We make our way to this building that is set up like a haunted house inside, but i get the feeling that it’s really not used for that. There are men waiting for us inside and begin to leash us. I try to take mine off but the man that has leashed me has kept me at the front. He says demons have to be leashed to go further into the building. I obey and am leashed, only to just get free without him knowing as we walk. Me make it to a large room before we are attacked. The men that leashed us say something about the attackers being free demons. As the fight starts the group i came with and i get the feeling that the three free demons are way stronger then us. We look for a way to leave just as one of the men are thrown out a window. We jump out as well and start to run. We turn the corner of the building and find an empty gray parking lot, it looks like there is heavy fog out making everything gray. And then my alarm goes off and i wake up. O feel this dream is important. Please help?
Gina,
Generally speaking the purpose of the dream world is not to give you specific answers about what is going to happen in your day to day world. The important thing is to live your life fully in the present and then leave the future in the hands of God. For you the most important thing in your life right now in your mind would be to get a call back from someone in Hollywood. The problem is that the producers and directors have their own things that they are looking at which may not include you even if you are the most qualified.
Getting a call back in the dream world means that you have to give yourself a “call back”. So then you have to ask yourself what it means to give yourself a call back. Giving yourself a call back means being able to keep working on your craft and going for it despite the reaction of people in authority. Where you want to go and where your spirit wants you to go are sometimes two different places, but if you work really hard at getting better at what you do, it will serve you really well regardless of whether you land a part in a major movie or show.
Sometimes the doors open and people get famous and make a lot of money, but it doesn’t mean that it is the best thing for their lives. You can see all of the unhappy, drugged up, divorced people in that profession and know that fame is not always the best thing, but if you keep working everyday on getting better at whatever you are doing, then it produces a lot of great results and happiness. The key is keep control of your happiness by working on your abilities each day and not putting your happiness in the hands of often ego-filled producers.
It is not an easy thing to do because the cultural pattern for most of us to put the control of our joy into the hands of others who have a lot of resources and authority.