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I had a dreamt that my ex husband who is currently the owner of 2 cats, took in a young seemingly docile stray cat. He knowing how much I love cats, was reassuring me how loving the cat was, proceeded to caress & pet the cat He then beny down to the car’s eye level & used his head to caress the cat. As he was aboit to say something which i believe was reinforcement that the cmat was trustworthy, “she” reared her long sharp fangs opened jaw to bite his face. I woke up before that could happen. Interpretation 😌
This is a response to Elle’s dreams,
Hi Elle, This is a really interesting dream partly because you are not the main character in the dream. Your ex husband is the main character. Cats are symbols of independent thinking or independence in general. When you are a cat, you can have a certain amount of independence. When you are in a relationship and you love your independence too much, then the independence bites you in the face. This is because cat like energy is not the only energy you need to make a relationship work. You also need something that is more like cooperative, that does not have to be right all the time.
Being too much of a cat is probably why the relationship failed and this is what you need to know.
Hi Richard! I dreamt of a person maybe a friend or a relative (When i woke up i cant remember anymore who she was) giving me a small snake in a white color with yellow spots as my pet, and she told me to take care of the snake as i was holding it. May i know what is the meaning of this dream? Thank you
This is a response to Joyce’s dream,
Hi Joyce, Taking care of snake that has been given to you by a friendly person means taking care of the transformation of change that you need to make inside of yourself. The snake represents change so when you are holding it and caring for it, it means that you need to think about and starting working on the changes you need to make in your life. I always look on snakes as a very positive symbol. They come at the beginning of the change process. If that were my dream, I would start to wonder about what things about me want to change right now. Then I would pick the most important one and go after it.
I dreamed i was having an ultrasound scan and I was told that I was three months pregnant. When I walked out of the room, a man I met a few years ago was waiting for me.i
This is a response to the Anonymous dream,
Being three months pregnant in the dream world means that you are sure that there is a new potential growing inside of you. It is hard to know from the dream what that potential is, but the man in the dream represents the support you will need to have the potential inside of you develop. It is as if he is acting as the metaphoric father who is supporting you the mother. This means that for you develop what is inside of you, you are going to need a lot of positive support.
Dear Richard,
Usually I’m pretty good at analyzing my own dreams and nightmares, however, I need help with this one.
My dream started off in a huge supermarket where I was being chased or hiding from someone (who im not sure who it was). I was climbing on top of the isles themselves and was hiding in things. The next thing I remember is my family literally out to get me and me resenting them really harshly for some reason. I was on the move throughout a bunch of different scenes, with blood all over my face, nudging my way through angrily. At one point I was on the phone with my father and he replied “that’s because you’re high” I got really angry and started defending myself (this I interpret as me feeling misunderstood). I remember finding my aunt and asking her to bring me home (from wherever I was- it wasn’t a clear picture or distinction) and she agreed. However when we got to the car, I realized it was my grandmas car that I went there in with all of my family. The next scene cut to my family in the car, with me in the front seat and my grandma driving. She was trying to park. The first time, she scratched my car with hers, the second time the car randomly was about to flip but I pushed off the fence and rebalanced it and the third time my grandma was going straight into a huge pool of water, where I hopped out and pulled the car back up (in my dream it was easy and lightweight). After this my mother got out of the back seat and insisted I switched seats with her as if I did something wrong and didn’t just save us and the car twice. I refused and stayed up front. The fourth attempt at parking my grandma parked fine. This is all I can remember from my dream. There were also random chaotic scenes and one where I remember looking into a bathroom and the two women standing there had blood all over their backs and splattered on the wall.
Please help me this dream is really bothering me! Thanks!
This is a response to Dimitra’s dream,
Hi Dimitra, The metaphor of shopping means that you are shopping for a new way of living your life. The reason that your family is after you is because they feel threatened when someone does not follow the way the family acts. They don’t want you to find a new way of living. They want you do things as they have done. Your grandma driving the car means that the family has to follow the inherited way. Even when you save them, it doesn’t matter because they are so locked into the tradition. Be people following the traditional way it gives certain members like your father and grandmother power and control over others. When you find a new way of living and doing things, they no longer have any control over you.
When you are in the stage you are in now, which is a shopping stage, then it is best to stay distant from the family and not tell them what you are doing. Gradually over time, they can know, but it doesn’t help you or them to know much about your alternative way of thinking too quickly. They have too much fear which turns into aggression like in the dream. The dream is a warning. It says stay on your shopping path, but keep your family out if as much as you can at this time. Eventually they will be able to be included.
Hello,
I had another dream last night & I can’t stop thinking about a certain part of it. Last night was very odd to me. I usually can’t control myself when I’m dreaming but last night I told myself to wake up, & I did. I’m now regretting waking myself up.I’m curious to know what was about to happen. So basically I was in the woods & theye was a guy in front of me, I couldn’t make out his face but I knew he was a friend. He all of a sudden told me to stop, & not to move what so ever. He said there was mountain lion prints surrounding us & he heard something. As I stood there frozen I decided to turn around and look behind me. When I did there was a HUGE American flag. & upon further investigation there was a Bald Eagle who was camouflaged in the American Flag. The Eagle saw that I noticed him & then simple shook off the American Flag print that was all over his body. I then saw a huge American Eagle staring at me, I could tell he was angry, he made a shrieking noise and then started to fly towards me. This entire time I was frozen in the same position the faceless man told me to stay put in. I then told myself to wake up & I actually woke up. Is there any specific meaning behind this dream I should know about? Thank you again for your time & what you do.
This is a response to Lauren M.’s dream,
Hi Lauren, The faceless man in the dream is a symbol for a cultural person. Generally speaking Americans are friendly and generous so him helping you is what most Americans would do. The eagle is a symbol of America so what you are fearful of that made you wake up is what American is becoming. Instead of it being a positive eagle of vision and strength, it is an aggressive one that is after you. When you have a dream like this where you wake yourself up, it is because you don’t really want to see the reality of what certain people are doing in America that are of the aggressive type. Really American is about friendly and generous people, but sometime there are groups and leaders who believe that through aggressive means they can get whatever they want. The American history is a struggle between these two forces. When the rest of the world is in love with America, it is because it is so inclusive and friendly and generous. When it hates America, it is because it tries to be aggressive. This happens both within and outside the borders.
What your dream really wants from you is to be a positive eagle and a positive mountain lion and friendly and generous like the man in the dream, but it is important that you also see that there is a dark side to America that is aggressive and corrupt. The long term future is always going to be about higher levels of inclusion and unity so when you go in that direction, you will be on the right path.
I had a dream where my late father was dressed like a pastor/minister in a black suit with purple top that has that pastor’s white collar. I asked him why is he dressed like that but I was woken up before he could answer. What does this mean?
This is a response to Nthabiseng,
Your father in a pastor suit means that he has something important to tell you about your spiritual guidance. That he didn’t tell you means that you can just ask yourself what your father would tell you if he were about your spiritual condition and where you should go with it.
My boy friend had a dream of running towards me and as he got closer to me he a trap sprung a d he was half way out. As I was running towards him to help him he kept going further away and deeper in. What does this means
This is a response to Stacy’s dream,
Hi Stacy, The trap is something he is not seeing about being in a relationship with you. It is not specifically about you because you are running toward each other meaning that you both want to be with each other. The problem is that someone else is trying to trap him and take him away probably another girl, but I am not sure exactly who that is.
Hello Richard,
I’m going you can help me understand this dream that I had last night. I’m not sure how it started, but I find myself sitting on my parents front lawn holding a beautiful baby girl, around 6-8 months old. She’s happy, but has a hard time breathing out of one of her nostrils. I look in there and see a big round diamond duck in there. I was able to pull out the diamond and as I looked at it I noticed that it had a pearl inside the middle of it. It was beautiful! Any idea on what this dream could mean?
Barbara
This is a response to Barbara’s dream,
Hi Barbara, In your dream you sitting on the front lawn of your parent’s house. This is a metaphor to mean that you are ready to stop being your parent’s child and move to having your own life that is different than theirs. Holding the baby means holding the self that you are becoming that is unique to you, that has nothing to do with your mother and father. She can’t breathe because until now you haven’t seen the diamond-like qualities that are unique to you with a shining pearl in the middle. When you discover who you are that is different than your parents, you will have an amazing and unique life that will be beneficial to a lot of other people.
Hey richard this is the dream i had
I just just got off a plane amd i was on the airport. I was going to book a flight going somewhere and all the lines were full except for 1 airline. There was only one person in the line. And turns out that was the airline i was going to book my flight in. It was a cheap airline. In my dream i was pregnant and just saying i was wearing white. When i reached the counter The attendant was trying to be nice to me but was still rude. Anyways when i turned back the guy before me was there and said we should go to the plane together considering we were the only ones in the plane.
In this scene i wasnt pregnant anymore. When we got to the plane we were talking about how we didnt like how the went up and down. It felt like i was falling for him. There was a part in my dream where the plane went down and semi landed on a bridge and when it reached the tip of the bridge went back up. While this was happening i was reaching out for the guys hand but i dont remember if he held it.
In the last part i remember the guy bringing me to my doorstep at home.
This is a response to Alex’s dream,
Hi Alex, This dream is about your desire to have a long term relationship that works out for you. A flight is like a long term vision which is like a relationship that ends in marriage. That you are pregnant and dressed in white in the first part means you are ready for that type of relationship and your motives are pure. That the flight is going up and down and the attention is sometimes rude is a metaphor for the way things have been with you up to the moment, up and down. The fact that you are allowing yourself to be vulnerable and taking risks is a really positive thing. That only one flight is right is a metaphor that the right guy will show up for you. You just have to be willing to take risks of vulnerability.
Dear Richard,
I recently had a dream about me walking peacefully and relaxed through an old cemetry and seeing my lover there, but he was outside the cemetry gates and shouted to me to wait for him, he is coming. I continued walking though the patio in the cemetry until i got to the end of it, went through the gates into a street and saw my lover sitting there and waiting, but at that moment my ex husband approached me so I had to walk away with him
I am buffered by this dream, what could it possibly mean, because me and my husband devorced long time ego, but recently got back together, but i dont think its working, so mybe that dream is saying something?
Thank you so much, God bless
Dear Andrea,
The cemetery is a symbol of where you bury the dead, in this case, your old relationship with your husband. You cannot get on with your life and be in love with it as long as you are in the cemetery with your husband. It doesn’t mean that you have to end it with him, but it does means that you have to bury the old relationship and start over, like a new birth as if you were never together before. Think about leaving the old relationship in the ground. If the both of you can start a new one, fine, otherwise, you are going to have to let him go.
I had a dream where im trying to set up some sort of structure up but the land goes from regular grass to wet marshes full of little holes where little black and grey cobras slithering around everywhere some i kill but they keep on moving and theres a woman in my dream that says they are some type of water snake i dont get bit but they slither between my toes as im walking fast
This is a response to Jairo’s dream,
Hi Jairo, This is such an interesting dream. Setting up a structure means that you are trying to build something like an organization or a new life for yourself. The problem that you have is that foundation you are trying to build it on is full of poisonous kinds of relationships that is just going to ruin everything that you are doing. What you need to do is to build the foundation or structure with people that are solid and trustworthy and have pure motives. This dream tells you that you are so with the wrong people. You need to change who you are with.
Hi there my name is chuck
I had a verry strange dream that was like an out of body expire nice as I fell asleep in my jeep behind safeway I started hearing this noise of something huge spinning I woke up and I saw a old train no cars rolling back and forth next to me on tracks on a platform rotating and the rotating platform was on a long iron chanel with a counter weight which was also rotating and this was on top of safeway I looked down I saw my jeep and my brother in law in his car asleep “wich he was there in reality assleep ” and then I looked at the rolling back an forth train and noticed a digital timer on I wired to a bunch of dynamite I imidatley panicked and yelled to my brother in law. DONNY GET ME OFF OF THIS THINK IT’S GOING TO BLOW!!! I felt pain and adrenalin in my chest I was looking for a way down and suddenly a I found another platform I safely rolled on to and jumped on the dumpster and I woke up in fear and gave up going back too sleep
This is a response to Chuck’s dream,
This dream is about being stuck in the old ways of having a single-track way of thinking. If you stay stuck in the old ways of thinking like you don’t have options, then your life will blow up in your face. What needs to happen is that you think about your life as having many options and a lot of new ones like things you would have never seen yourself doing before. Then your life will have a lot of explosions of new opportunities and positive things. If like you have to let go of a lot of old thinking.
Hi please help me figure out what this dream means! For some reason I keep having dreams of a guy I never met. I have had about 5 dreams with this same guy in it. Each dream is different but they are all focused on just me and him. I don’t know his name and never met him in real life. In each dream we are dating and I feel really content and happy with him like I’ve known him forever. One dream in particular I was at church in front row and he walked up and grabbed my hand we looked at each other and smiled and then faced each other and joined both hands together and prayed together. Another dream I had he was sitting in a hospital bed and I was sitting across from him in a chair I was worried about something and he walked over to me hugged me said everything was going to be okay then we just cuddled up on the bed and then I woke up. I remember he looked fine to me in the hospital. A lot of my dreams take place in a church w him and its just me and him in the dream together. Years ago at church my pastor told me god told him to tell me that my future husband is in a church. I was wondering if this could be a prophetic dream or not. Please help me figure out what these dreams mean! Thank you
This is a response to Vincenza’s dream,
Hi Vincenza, There are two ways to look at this dream. First of you can look at the guy in the dream as a real guy in real life and secondly, you can look at the dream as the guy being a part of you that needs to develop. Either way is really positive for you and if you look at them both ways, then it will be amazing what you will develop. The guy represents a kind of ideal partner because he is so service oriented and focused on his spiritual life and development. This is the kind of person who you want to be with in your life. At the same time, if you were like the way he is in the dream, you would also be an amazing person because you would be completely focused on service and a spiritual life. When you do get married, this is the kind of person to look for.
So I was wondering if you could help me out here. I had a dream 2 nights ago and I can’t seem to get 1 part of it off my mind. I usually remember my dreams with great detail and this one was no different, except it was like having a ton of different short dreams play out instead of 1 long dream. I can’t stop thinking about 1 part in particular. In my life, I’m scared of water because I have a phobia of sharks. Sometimes this fear translates to my dreams. This dream I was standing on a little piece of land, I was surrounded by water, which I’m usually scared of, I wasn’t scared though. When I looked up I couldn’t see anything but apple trees, they were surrounding me, growing out of the water. Standing over me. All of a sudden I saw a horse tail fling out of the water, I look closers at the water & noticed there were about a dozen horses under the water, they would lift their nostrils out of the water, take a breath and go back under. In my head I knew they were there to eat all the fallen apples from the apple trees that surrounded me and. It left me with a very uneasy feeling when I woke up and I’m not sure why. I’ve had nightmares that have left me uneasy but I wasn’t scared in this dream. Any thoughts? Maybe I can’t stop thinking about it after this. Thank you for your time.
This is a response to Lauren’s dream,
Hi Lauren, What the dream is trying to do is to get you to begin thinking about water as a positive element rather than a negative one. Water in a dream is a relational element so when you have water dreams it means that the dream world wants you to begin thinking about having better and more positive relationships in your life. It shows that having positive relationships produces fruit like apples. This is something like when you have a friend and you nice things for each other, then the relationship has produced. The fruit or the spirit of the relating then feeds the horse-ness in yourself or others. The horse aspect is like a combination of strength and enthusiasm. This shows us that positive relationship produce a lot.
So the phobia probably has something to do with the fear of being attacked by people who act like sharks which may have happened. Your transformation is about taking a big bite of the positive world of relationships which will be magnificent for you.
okay so I’ve been having a lot of dreams where an event is happening and I document it by recording it or taking pictures of it but then theres problems with my phone and it won’t let me use the camera or it glitches or the photo’s or videos delete after the event. Does this mean anything? cause its been happening quite often in my dreams now
This is a response to Vlada’s dream,
Hi Vlada, Recording or taking photos of something is an attempt to remember it. When you can’t get the phone to work, it means that there is a part of you inside that doesn’t want to remember the event because it will be threatening to you if you remember. What you can do is find the part of you that feels threatened by remembering things and then realize that you have a lot of choices in what to do with whatever happened/happens to you. When the forgetting part feels comfortable that you are going to put yourself in threat by remembering, then it will open up opportunities for you to take more memories.
My aunt dreamed 3 snakes upstairs in her house..she was downstairs in the dream…then one of the snakes a large silver snake slithered downstairs towards her…what does that mean?
This is a response to Heather’s dream,
Hi Heather, Snakes can represent either something positive or negative depending on the context of the dream. When you see a snake in a dream, what you should immediately say to yourself is that something in me really needs to change profoundly. Snakes represent profound transformation. The snakes are upstairs in her house which means that the changes she need to make are in her higher self, her true self. The snake coming towards her means that the snake wants her to make a profound change right now from her present state. Probably she will be afraid of the snake especially if it is poisonous. What probably happened to her in the past is that when she tried to become a different person, she was frightened away from it maybe by the culture. I do not know as if is hard to tell from the dream. I am only guessing. You can help her by telling her that the time for becoming the person she has always wanted to be is now. It is open to her now. The snakes are inviting her to change.
Dear Richard
In my first dream I saw my boyfriend( with an on- off relationship in real life) had invited me for dinner, when I went to the venue I found that there was a long table crouded with strangers, he came along to me and without saying a word , he put a boiled egg on my plate and went to sit at away
The second dream , I was supposed to be pregnant , and my due date was on January 16, 2016, but I found my belly still flat , so I understood that my baby had died inside me
The third dream was that I was holding a diamond ring with a big central blue diamond , I put it away in a plastic bag , along with a white shoe of a baby girl, and with one of my shoes which was black and dirty
Thank you
This is a response to Sarah’s dream,
Hi Sarah, In your dreams you should be able to see that you are not getting what you want out of the relationship. The egg metaphor means that there is no potential for growth and the pregnancy one means that you are not really pregnant with the possibility of a good relationship. The third dream tells you what to do with the relationship, put it away in a bag.
So it is important to stay away from the relationship, then find out what you really want in a relationship and then go for it fully.
Hello Richard,
I saw a very strange dream i was going somewhere and not able to find my way. i was going through jungles mashlands strange landscaping ways were quite unkniwn and difficult with lots of insects and rodents. suddenly i found myself at a train station and took a breath of relief. I am not able to understand what it means and there were nos like 8, 9, 17, 18, 19..I am not able to understand what it means.
This is a response to Ragini’s dream,
Hi Ragini,
The dreams shows that, despite the difficult journey in the negative environment, you are going to find your way to the right single-minded path that you want to get to. The numbers mean that you get lost and things are difficult when you are in the material world of quantities. The way becomes clear when you have a spiritual focus, not a material one. The material world is like a swamp full of rodents.
Dear Richard
My father told me he dreamt that I was murdered by silent serial killers who are my friend Kevin and his mum,as they are seeking someone who has no family living in Canada. (My father lives in England)
And something not right about them buying a house in Arizona and taking me out there.
This has freaked out as we have been friends over 18mths.Due to visit them before Christmas.
Now I don’t know if I should fly to England
This is a response to Sonia’s dream,
Hi Sonia, Murder in a dream means ending of a relationship. Probably your father is sensing that there is some energy there that is not very positive. What you can do when you have this kind of information is to try to go inside yourself and sense what that energy may be. If you cannot find anything, then you should continue the visit. If you do find it, then you can have some choice about how long and under what circumstances you want to see them. Silent relationship killing is about the things they say when you are not present.
I dreamed of alligators bring in my roommates veins. They were trying to eat her.
This is a response to J.O.’s dream.
Hi J.O, Alligators are animals that lurk in order to catch their prey. Since they are cold blooded animals, they don’t have huge amounts of feeling like higher primates for instance. They will just go after her. You can help your roommate by realizing that the quality she needs more of is wisdom, which is the ability to judge people’s characters so that she does not get attacked by people who are like alligators.
She probably leaves herself vulnerable because she feels needy inside, but when you can not see that a person is an alligator, you are in for a lot of difficulties.