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Richard Hastings
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I’m with a man who is prison in real life, but I had a dream that he I went to visit him in a county jail and he handed me a picture of himself. Then the dream shifted and I myself had a feeling and knew I was going to jail also for some reason.
This is a response to Anna’s dream,
Hi Anna, The reason that you have a feeling that you are going to jail because have a relationship with a man in prison is like being in prison yourself because of the limitations it puts on you. Basically the way I think I would react to my life if I were in your position is to be fully supportive of him when you go to visit, but live your own life fully without limitations outside. If you are not married, then you probably ought to consider having other relationship with men as well because you have to consider your whole life ahead of you. If he has a good character, but was convicted unjustly, that is one thing, but it his character is questionable, you should consider other men. This is because you want someone who is responsible , a good provider, and a good mate and father. It is something you should give a lot of thought to.
I dream about my oldest grandson standing alone frightened in a field ( aproximate age 6 give or take). His father (my son), mother and brothers no longer living because of some sort of “mad max” type of sinister event that jyst happened. I don’t see them but can feel what happened. I see and feel him terrified there and want to get to him before someone who preys upon children or circumstances but even though he’s a 2 -3 mile straight shot across from me, I’m afraid I will not make it because of my trouble walking.
This is a response to Anita’s dream,
Hi Anita, 6 years old is a critical age in the development of a child because their brains are switching over from thinking as an acting of only perceiving to being able to think in more than one dimension. It is such a big jump that it requires a lot of bonding with the parents and family. A child facing the learning world without a lot of emotional support is like living in a land of predators. This means that he needs your support. That is the big thing. You may have experienced similar feelings as a 6 year old which should help in the empathy process. The rule is that bonding precedes major shifts.
I had a dream I was leaving in my old elementary school. I was on the lunch room table and I was giving birth to a beautiful baby girl who was light skinned. While on the table I looked down and she was coming out of me I didn’t even know she was coming out cause I felt no pain. On her knees it looked like she had a patch of hair black hair on both of them but i never knew who the father was what do this mean spiritually
This is a response to MM’s dream,
Hi MM, living in your elementary school means that your true self wants to develop something that you should have learned in elementary school. Now you are giving birth to it. It is beautiful and has hair on its knees. This means that you are going to gain a huge amount of empowerment when you can learn the quality of flexibility. The knees in this case represent your flexibility. When you have it, which you should have developed a long time ago, then it will make every difference in the world.
I had a dream there was a 6 month old bald headed baby I never seen before.i forget him at home when I return I can’t find him then I search and search and find him sitting under the christmas tree feeding bread crumbs to black bugs. The frantic fear feeling was so real I caught myself when I woke up looking for a baby I know is not here
This is a response to Kerrie’s dream,
Hi Kerrie,
The 6 month of old baby is a part of you inside that wants to grow. It is like a Christmas gift to you that is why it is under the tree. The problem that it has is that it is feeding bread crumbs to black bugs and you are fearful that you lost it. So what you can do with this is to think about what energy or part is trying to develop in you but gets away. This is where your being is attempting to grow. It is a really great thing for you. Serving bread crumbs to black bugs is a symbol of giving like your least important effort to the things that bug you. This means that you need to give a bigger effort to the things that bug you, learn from them, and then go forward with your new energy. I am guessing that because there is a black bug that besides fear there is also anger. That would mean that the virtue you need is patience.
I like this guy and I’m actually in the ‘friendzone’. So we are ‘friends’ but he knows he confuses me… Anyway, Last night I dreamed about him. While in class, I sat alone in the back row of the room and left the other seat if he came. Then he came and I watched and I had noticed that he had sat in the front row with one of our classmates. I stared at him and he just looked down. Then from where I was sitting, i said whispering ‘sit here next to me’ pointing to the empty seat i had beside me and he whispered ‘yes’, but a few seconds later, our history teacher came to our classroom and said that some students would have a test and that she would carry those students with her for a few minutes and then the guy I like turned and acted like he was sleeping on the table and then the teacher told his name and so he had to go with her.
Later, during recess, I was sitting in a large chair and there was another chair next to me where he was sitting and he was watching his cell phone and i suddenly saw his parents (I don’t even know them in real life). His mom asked me for my name and told me that “his son” (the guy i like) spoke of me a lot and stuff but then his dad told him ‘she is there go talk to her don’t waist your time’. I was looking at him and his dad was making me nervous and so he was and his cheeks were turning red
This is a response to Camila’s dream,
The problem in the dream is that you are not direct enough with him in your interactions. The way seems to be open to talk to him more directly, but you have some hesitancy. It is natural to have this because of the fear that something might not go right. What you should do is practice visualizing and being in the best outcome. Then when you are in a situation where you can talk to him you will be more relaxed and positive which will allow him to be more attracted.
I dream I went to use my pastor bathroom and her father walk out of it as I was going in and I couldn’t use it cause he stop the toilet up and I heard a nose while I was in there and it was a bat hanging from the ceiling of their bathroom. I ran out the bathroom and told my cousin then I woke up.
This is a response to Shalegra’s dream,
The pastor’s bathroom cannot be used his letting go facility inside of him is all stopped up. This means that his ability to listen and help up others is all plugged up. This is because he has a dark side, the bat, that he hasn’t let go of. What you need is a different alternative for letting go of your own issues inside one that is more compassionate and receptive. Don’t use the pastor. Use someone who is better qualified.
So I guess I was walking home one of the emptyshort backstreets that leads to the main road and I notice this guy walking closer to me so I cross the street. He crosses the street and gets mad close so I smack him in the head and say “what the fuck do you think youre doing walking up on me like that”. He says some shit and then mad people come out of this one apartment that I didnt evem know was an apartment. I see my dad in the middle but before I say anything they mainly surround me and I said something to my dad and he laughed and said they were high. I try to hit them but I have no upper body strength so. I see a lady looking at my through her car.Then it flashes to all of us in my current house and im on the floor in the kitchen, which has no door. Its the 2nd floor and attic in a 2 family apartment. I was in different clothes. I had on a white shirt and shorts that were wet and my hair was wet too. I get up and run in my room, which also has no door normally, and pick up a bunch of pencils to stab them with. A big big holds up a scooter and a metal bar like he’s going to throw it. He stands in my doorway and threatens to throw the pipe in my face so I run to a corner when he does. While he does that some blonde guy goes downstairs and leaves the house idk where he went. My phone is on my bed so I turn the voice recorder on instead of taking it idk why. The group is having a conversation in the kitchen so none of them are looking so I run down the stairs quietly and go outside. I hear one of them say “who went outside?” and another “it was jesse”. Jesse is probably the blonde guy. I look around to see if Jesse was around and the I run out the gate and try to decide which way to go. If I went to the left I could of went to my friends but idk if she was home. I could of went to 3 old people’s houses but idk if they were home so I went to the right. I was running to my grandmothers, which is a 30 minute walk but I have a heart murmur so I was dying running that distance. I tried screaming or speaking but the sound wouldnt come out. I got to my grandmother’s house and I was banging on the door like crazy. A 3 of my uncles 2 of my aunts and a cousin live with ny grandma so I knew someine was home. They opened the door and I ran in and told them to lock the door and I told them my dad and his friends were high and that they trapped me in the house. Btw its not like my dad and I have a bad relationship.
This is a response to S’s dream,
The problem that you have according to the dream is that you get into conflict and aggression as a way of solving everything. The more conflict you get into the worse it becomes until you have to run and escape. Basically you need some other options besides conflict to solve your difficult situations. The problem with being aggressive and fighting is that if it works, it is only temporary like with the first guy.
No doubt this comes out of a need to protect yourself from being hurt. It would be useful to try some other things like patience, for instance.
Hey Richard,
I was wondering if you could help me find out what this dream meant.
So it’s starts with me helping some family members move out of a house. My whole family isn’t there but I know it’s their house because I see my uncle there. My dream was also set directly on the beach. As the house started to empty out, I noticed a dead dog chained to a post when I moved a box. It felt normal to see a dead dog. One of the other movers asked what it was & I told him nonchalantly “it’s only a dead dog.” We kept moving and when we moved the next box I noticed a dead cat under it. That’s when the dead cat jumped up & started attacking me. I ran out the door down the beach towards the water to get away from it but it followed. I felt I had to strangle the dead cat to kill it and to stop it from attacking me. So that’s what I did and then I woke up.
This is a response to Lauren’s dream,
Hi Lauren, Helping your family members move out of their house means that you were trying to help them move out of their old selves conceivably so that they could become new selves. The dead dog represents the death of friendliness in their old selves and the dead cat represents the death of an independent mind. These two things are like the most important things you can have for a healthy self. The cat revived is that aspect of the family that holds onto the wrong independent ideas so you have to kill it to get rid of it.
All in all it is very tricky business to get people to move to their new selves. Most of all it requires patience and wisdom so that you know when the right time to act is. First you have to be really friendly like a dog and then gradually introduce new ways of thinking after you have really good rapport, but then only in small amounts.
Dear richard, I was having a night mare about something big and in the sky at a stand still almost similar to a ufo. All kinds of lasers type lights was coming down, and shooting, and electrocuted people and everybody was running and 911 couldn’t save anybody. I was scared to death. Then I stray Tom cat was at my window the whole time crying until I woke up. What does that mean
This is a response to Carrie’s dream,
Hi Carrie, This dream is about the fear of unknown things in your life being really negative attempting to shoot you down. It makes you feel all alone like a stray tom cat. What you need to do to solve the dream is to have the most positive view of the future that you can possibly imagine and let go of the negative thinking. It is a strange cultural phenomenon that when we think of the future and unknowns, most people go to the negative first as if people from other planets are going to actually come here and do really bad stuff to us. This is largely because that is what we have done to each other. We are probably one of the least developed planets in terms of relationships. So you can think of the future is really positive ways.
I’m a single Caucasian male at the age of 33 at the moment.
I had this dream last night and experienced some emotions i had never felt in a dream ever..it really freaked me out. in the dream i felt love, compassion, desire, pleasure…a sense of being cared for and loved.
this is going to sound crazy like i said it really got to me.. i haven’t had a moment of peace from this since it happened.
well here goes… I was a women in her early 20s and had a twin sister but she wasn’t the same as me.. we took turns on who got to pick the theme for our party. This time it was her turn. I and her were both slender reasonably attractive women, I dirty blonde and her sort of an auburn red hair color.
the theme for the party was quilt like blankets and they were hung and draped over every table and window. I was walking around the house checking out the quilt things and turned a corner, there was my twin sister.
She smiled and jumped me for a hug, the hug immediately turned into a kiss, the kiss became very passionate. We sort of fell? to the floor. I tried to say no, but all i got out was a gasp of a moan. from there it got even more sexual… we were still fully clothed but the kiss led to touching and bumping and grinding.
Every touch, every bump, every time our nether regions bumped it made me moan and gasp in pleasure. this went on for what seemed like hours. its hard to describe it was the most pleasure I’ve ever felt (no i didn’t have a wet dream) it was just pure sexual pleasure. I’ve never experienced anything like that..
I just allowed her to have her way with me and i was enjoying every bit of it. after what seemed like hours went by ( i never achieved a big O in the dream) we where walking (holding hands) along what i think was out side of the house in a big well mowed yard when we came upon this tower like thing that had a kind of capsule at the top (think a back hoes driver seat) My twin sister looked at me shifty eyed. I felt so overwhelmingly loved.
She tugged my hand and ran towards the tower thing, we both ended up in the capsule and she whispered into my ear that she wanted me and couldn’t hold back any more. from there it was more kissing and fondling and me moaning out in pleasure, She stuck her hand in my pants and i said we shouldn’t do this here someone might see.
She looked me in the eyes and said i don’t care lut them see us…. I couldn’t refuse her… i said i don’t care either then.. she slid her hand down my pants and began manually stimulating me. this went on for a bit then right as i was about to finish and achieve the O i woke up, sweating and uneasy.
This is a response to Jason’s dream,
Hi Jason,
The purpose of this dream is not to be a woman or to have a sexual experience with your sister. It is for you to begin exploring the more feminine side of yourself. This is actually a metaphor because there really is no such thing as masculine or feminine in the spiritual worlds. It is only in this world. Feminine qualities are more like compassion, love, and receptivity, which masculine ones are more like strength and assertiveness. The drive for the qualities are pretty strong in the dream so it is a type of work you need to start with yourself right away. It will make every difference in your life when you have more of them, but they take a long time to develop. Start with one and give yourself a year to develop it.
I was walking a road with my friend who was riding a bike but suddenly we stopped because there was something in front of us. My friend looked behind and said: “What is this lead doing here?” She said this to my mum even though I wasn’t aware of my mum being behind us until my friend said this. Then I walked closer to the something and realized it was an airplane wing. Also, I heard a voice saying: “This is a wing of an airplane..” Suddenly a building-like thing popped in front of me. Above the airplane wing there was a staircase… also made of some metal. I was looking at the thing for a while and then I suddenly climbed up on the wing. And I was floating then. I very quickly flew at the top of the building following the staircase and looked around the rooftop. There were some metal blocks. Then I flew back to the wing and again flew up but I stopped in the middle of the staircase. You see, I was not flying the stairs, the staircase was right in front of me so I was flying next to it. I would interpret it as walking the stairs but since it was unusual this way, I’m not sure how to interpret it. Could you please tell me what is the meaning of the dream? Thank you very much.
This is a response to Daretodoso,
The gift you have inside of you is “floating”. You get to the floating ability when you have a friend with you and your mum behind you which is like friendship and support. So then the question is what is the gift of floating. Floating means that you lift yourself up to a higher spiritual state which is the feeling inside of being light and uplifting. When you are in this state and can maintain it, your life will ask you to help uplift others.
Think of being uplifted and then uplifting others and your life will really work for you.
Hi Richard, I whad a dream last night and wondered if you could help me understand it as I dont normally remember them. I went to a new school, a boarding school where for my first lesson I was the only one in class. Then at break I wanted to sit and read in an adjacent room but the teacher made me go outside in the pouring rain. I said id only go if Itook his umbrella and went outside where it was actually sunny and people were roller blading across the property to make sure they got places in time. In the next lesson It was a medical procedures class and everyone else knew what to do, I kept asking people but how do you know and people were sympathetic but couldn’t answer me. I made friends with a boy who helped me. In the next instant im at my locker which is on a mezzanine type platform outside and someone fires some kind of projectile from below which then I get blamed for. The school os a buolding ive dreamrd about before, more like an old house woth secret passages behind panelling on the walls and owned by people I knew as a child. What does all this mean? I must add that I haven’t been at school for a long time in reality! 🙂 many thanks.
This is a response to Jo T’s dream,
Hi Jo, The purpose of the dream is to get you to change the way you approach new learning situations. It shows you the blocks to being a great learner. First is instead of being really active and taking advantage of the outdoors, you are trying to be protected from being rained on and prefer reading. This is to show you that most learning is active rather than passive. Then when you go into a class everyone already knows everything. This is a fear that you are going to be behind everyone in learning and not figure out how to catch up. The way to change that is to get out of comparing and take each learning task as it comes. Finally the last thing is that when you try to make friends you are getting shot at and blamed. Friendship is important also in learning because it keeps you relaxed and open. So those are your challenges. It is probably all based upon the time when you went to school. Your being really wants you to be able to learn new things now. That is why you are having this dream.
Dear Richard,
There was one dream, a few nights ago (I’m shaking and tearing up just writing about it) where I woke up while being raped by my ex in a strange room. The walls were white and blank. Nothing else was in the room except the bed and a TV set, playing something in the background. When I realized what was happening, I was already tied down to the bed and I started to freak out. Screaming and trying to throw him off of me, but that only excited him. He stuffed his hand down my throat to muffle my screams. That’s when I noticed the shotgun sitting on a chair, aimed at the only door to the room, the trigger connected to the handle by a rope. Then I heard my current boyfriend (AKA My Love) outside the door. My ex released my throat and whispered, “Go ahead. Cry out for help. Let him come in.” I had that self-internalized realization of what I had to do, in order to protect the one I love most. I screamed through the door, telling My Love to fuck off, I hated him, I wanted to go back to my ex, etc. All the while realizing my own fate by saving his. I was filled to the brim with fear. That night I woke up sweating and my heart wanting to escape my chest.
This is only one dream. I’d have to write you a novel in order to describe the others. This is happening almost every night for the past two years, (I’ve been separated from my ex for almost 4). It was a mentally abusive relationship and what ended it was actual physical abuse. But, my ex has become my own “Boogey Man.” It has become severely stressful and I’m at my wits’ end with how to deal with this. Please help.
Dear Vanessa,
In the psychological world you are suffering from post-traumatic shock. This means that you were under huge abusive conditions that continue to haunt you. The reason that they haunt you is actually because of wanting to have a really positive relationship with your new boyfriend. In your mind when you want to go for love, your mind has an association with the abuse. This means that love equals abuse in your mind. When you go for love, you get the fear. Probably your new boyfriend is not abusive in anyway, but your mind still has the fear. If you want to go to love now, you have to disconnect the fear. However, your ego which runs the fear will want to be protective so it won’t let go of the fear without some assurances internally.
You probably are not capable of doing this work by yourself. You should seek some help with it because once you get over it, it will be so amazing how great your new relationship will be. I can do the work with you if you want or you can seek some free service in your community. This kind of fear does not usually go away by itself. Feel free to contact me at dreamsforpeace@gmail.com if you want to work through it. Richard
I dreamed of a new born baby. It was understood to be mine, yet already born. Just born. He was bare skinned, wearing only a diaper, booties and a hat. He was sucking his thumb. My father wanted to hold him and l said don’t let him suck his thumb. What does this mean?
This is a response to Cynthia’s dream,
Hi Cynthia, The birth of a baby boy inside of you means the birth of your male qualities inside, which we usually say is inner strength. This is the ability to be strong in the face of tests and difficulties and do whatever it takes to reach your end goals. You are just beginning the development of this quality that is why the baby is there. Your father is saying to not let him suck his thumb because he wants you to develop toughness inside. This is an amazing quality to have. You will really love your life so much when you have it.
I Had a dream that me and my friends we’re getting on a plane and I got left and when I went home they we’re there
This is a response to Shakera’s dream,
Hi Shakera, An airplane flight is a symbol of having a vision and moving toward. So in the dream whatever the vision is, you get left behind. A home is a symbol of self so when you go home to yourself, your friends are there. This means that, in a way, you are your friends, but you leave who you truly are behind or out. Your self has become them rather than you having your own self. The best thing I can recommend for you is to start doing lots of things without them where you are developing your own talents.
Me walking through the woods with my mother pregnant sister my grandma and a strange woman while walking we see a pack of white wolves they dont try to attack us and a brown bear and a dog we walk right into a lake that is covering a children’s classroom we can breath under water and speak to each other through though when I realized I freaked out and rushed to the top of the lake
This is a response to Alicia’s dream,
Hi Alicia, This is a really awesome dream for you until the end where you freak out. The people that you are walking with are like your pack as if you were a pack of white wolves. This means that you can act and support each other as if you were one team. The only problem is that you have some fear of them even though they don’t attack. When you see the women in your life as a pack that can aggressively go for what you want like a wolf pack, it will make all the difference in the world. The same is true of the bear, which is about having inner strength and the dog which is out loyalty. When you have animals dreams it is good to imagine that you are the positive side of being that animal then you will know the quality you are supposed to develop. Breathing under water means that you can have a deep relationship and speak about deep things, not things only about the surface. The fact that you freak is the problematic part. Probably this happens because most of the people in the world live on the surface of things rather than being deep. You can go deep so it is best if you just allow yourself to go there.
Thank you very much for your interpretation. I appreciate it so much, the dream was so disturbing I was feeling scared when I go back to sleep.
I had a dream that I was on a bus carry lots of stuff blankets coats etc. I also had my grandson with me. What does it mean?
This is a response to Lupe Silva’s dream,
Hi Lupe, It is difficult to know specifically how to guide you base upon this dream, but being on the bus means that you are trying to get a place when you can help others by providing warmth to them. Your grandson is with you because you are trying to provide warmth so that the next generation can thrive. Warmth is your gift and it is exactly what the world needs from you.
In my dream I was sleeping (in the same position as I was in real life, with one arm streched out) and I felt someone touching that arm trying to wake me up. When I opened my eyes a newborn baby, still with its cord, was trying to strangle me and I was trying to pinch its arm with my thumb and index finger to get it to stop. I could here the baby with some sort of evil breathing but the baby didn’t look evil. I was scared in the dream but pretended not to be, closed my eyes and said “aha, aha”. When I woke up my fingers were moving like they were still trying to get it to stop.
It was so disturbing because I could hear the evil breathing and panting of the baby so clearly. I just woke up and had to find its meaning.
This is a response to Kay’s dream,
Hi Kay, The evil baby represents something new that someone is trying to put on you that is strangling you. You are in a fight with it. What needs to happen is to let go of the fight and find the real thing that is trying to open up with you. It is like you have a really positive baby that really want to come out in you which is a new ability that is specifically just for you. Now you just have to find it.
I keep dreaming my friend is attracted to my fiance and last night I dreamed she started taking her clothes off in front of him and he liked what he was seeing. In the dream I approached her about it and she said you thought I was talkibg to you for nothing, and laughed. In the dream I let him know what happened and he laughed and teased me about it then said she nice and not my type but I only want you. What is this dream about?
This is a response to Sylvian’s dream,
Hi Sylvian, If this were to happen in real life, you would most likely end your relationship with your friend, but in the dream world it has a different meaning. Taking her clothes off means showing her true self to him which if she did that, he would be attracted to because she has a lot of positive qualities. Despite liking what he sees in her he still prefers you. This is because the two of you are a better mix than him with her.
This should give you confidence in your relationship with him and not feel like you have to worry about it.