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I had a dream where i could hear my sister cussing out her husband for herself falling off the bed then as I leave that room I can see my husband with his backed turned as our baby falls off the bed and hits her head on the clothes basket.
This is a response to Beth’s dream,
Hi Beth, Falling off the bed is a metaphor for falling out of comfort. When your sister falls she gets really angry and when your husband is not attending the baby falls. People fall out of comfort for one basic reason and that is the lack of gratitude for the positive situation that they are in. Living in positive gratitude which means being grateful all the time is where you have to be to receive grace. You can live in grace only when you let go of anger or an attitude of thinking things should be one way or another.
So in my dream i am pregnant. I dropped my phone into a pond of piranhas and dove in after it. I came out with the phone but the piranhas were inside of me trying to get to my uterus. I could feel them biting. As i walked alone i was pulling them out with my fingers. I don’t know if its relevant but before i went to sleep i was sending someone healing energy via meditation and got so unbearably nauseous that i had to stop.
This is a response to Mellyt31,
Hi, Being pregnant means that there is a new part of you like a new ability that is growing internally inside of you, but is not developed enough to have outer applications in the real world yet. If it were a small child, it would as if you were at the beginning of applying the energy. Dropping the phone into the water means that when your ability to connect or communicate is dropped then the piranhas go after you. It is best when you have a negative animal to ask the question who are the piranhas in your life trying to get to your uterus. Your uterus is a symbol of where your new life or new energy is nurtured/nourished and the piranhas are representative of people who jump all over you and attack you by ganging up on you when you make the slightest mistake. Pulling them out means that you are trying to deal with the attackers one by one. What would be helpful as a kind of solution to the dream is realize that what you really want to do with others is the opposite which is to positively attack them with healing energy. You can do this via meditation, but also you can do it outwardly as well. Outwardly just requires have the skills and then also developing enough rapport so that people will allow you to work with them. Before you do this, you have to do the step of letting go of attacking people.
I had a dream about a friend that I use to work with and hang out with quite a bit. I heard that she died in a car crash (in my dream). I was very sad and beside myself! I contacted her husband giving my condolences and even attended her funeral!
This is a response to Mel’s dream,
Hi Mel, The key to this dream is “used to”. The car crash means that the relationship died as if it crashed probably because you didn’t attend to it because you were no longer working with her. What you can do mentally inside is make a mental belief switch that you are in charge of whether a relationship continues or crashes by the degree of how much energy you put into it. The simple solution is to give the person a call and go hang out with her.
I keep having this dream where everything is so happy the beginning is always different like this time is was christmas and now this is the part that keep happening for over 2 years. I go out of nowhere to visit my boyfriend at work but yet it isn’t at him actual job location and I see the street sign m8 and all of a sudden I’m on the phone with my boyfriend and he is telling me he is already home, I get this horrible feeling cause now I know that when the random dead girl come out so fast towards me then all of a sudden I’m so startled awake.
This is a response to Amber’s dream,
Hi Amber, So your dream starts in a happy place and then ends up you being confused about what is happening then wake up fearful. This means that in your personal process you can start in happiness but you are going to end up in fear. To solve this what you need to do each day is exactly the opposite. Wake up in the morning, get into a comfortable space, and then begin writing down what you are afraid of in your life right now. Mostly you seem to be fearful of things not ending up the way you expected them. So then instead of thinking about how you expect the day to go, you can think of opening yourself up to positive experiences that you didn’t expect. Be open to the experience of life, that God has a lot to show you that is amazing, but you need to be open. First you have to let go of the expectation of how you expect things to end up.
My husband has been having a lot of dreams and visions lately. God has given him clarity of the revelations but I’m/we’re having a problem trying to figure this on out. Two days ago he had a dream about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.. They were both walking to a black board and suddenly Malcolm X got irritated and start walking fast, he then began to yell at “his people” to turn on the air conditioning. Martin turn to look at him and asked him what was the problem and why was he upset.. Malcolm replied, we are dead Martin. No matter how you look at it, we’re going to die. He then said , I keep seeing it over and over again. Sometimes you die first and other times I die first but either way, we are going to die. Martin Luther King calmly replies, well if that’s what it’s going to be then that’s what it is…. Now Im wondering why were these two strong already deceased men were used and my husband said he woke up trying to figure out if it had a spiritual meaning.
This is a response to Mrs. White,
Hi again, good to hear from you again. I love this dream so much. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were after the same goal, but went about in two different ways. Malcolm X started in distancing himself from the other races, building up the Black community, and then gradually over time integrating with the rest of the world. Martin Luther King went for integration from the start. The death of the two figures is the death of people’s consciousness about the importance of the race issues in America. The purpose of the dream is to give new birth to the issues in America because really it has only just barely begun. It is like they made a lot of progress, but the racial problems still exist. Personally I favor Malcolm’s approach because no matter how much the other community is willing to integrate, in the end self-development is the first key. This is because integration is reliant on two strong energies not a weak one integrating with stronger ones. The African American community has so much to give America. It is like exactly what America needs if people could realize it, but racism continues. Time for your husband to continue his work.
Hi Richard. I’m an 18 year old girl. Last night I dreamed of several things on extreme detail.
First, there was a huge party and I got to dance with one of my favorite singers on stage. Several times in the dream, I saw a picture of myself leaping just slightly above the crowd while holding the hand of the singer. Then it switched. I was in a car with a boy, someone I was in love with. He was drunk and devastated and I gripped his hair gently, telling him everything would be alright. His hair was dark and curled around my fingers. We ended up in a ditch but we were fine. Then it switched again. My family and I were trapped by an evil, promiscuous queen. She was having an affair while the king was away. To escape I disguised myself as the queen, but then ran into the king who had come back early. He was kind and let my family go. But his son, the prince was the devastated boy I had seen. He was sober and I tried to kiss him goodbye but he was shy, didn’t want to. Instead we agreed to email eachother everyday. Also, the prince looked a lot like my favorite actor Douglas booth.
As my family and I were leaving, he tried to chase after me and….I woke up.
Please tell me what it means.
This is a response to Kayla’s dream,
Hi Kayla, The problem with your relational fantasies in life is that you want them to be with famous types like the singer, etc, but the dream is warning you that most of them have an evil side as if they are stars on the one hand and evil queens on the other. Generally speaking when you have this kind of dream, it means that you should pay attention to the people who are exactly the opposite, people who are excluded and unrecognized in the world. This is what you are likely to be most gifted at, in helping them rise out of their negative condition. Trying to be with a singer means that you have some of your own recognition issues which you will no doubt have to battle especially at 18 when you are no longer attached to high school. God knows that the world needs people who will help the excluded.
Richard,
Thank you so much for responding to my comment. I try my best to always pay attention to those who don’t otherwise feel included, but I think one day I can make every underdog, people like me, realize that they are much more than just misfits. People don’t really pay attention to me, sometimes, I feel like my voice isn’t being heard. I believe that makes me stronger and one day I’m going to do something big and I’m going to include as many of the misfits as I can, so one day they can also do something big.
Hi Kayla,
I am so inspired by your aspirations. I can see that you are already on your way. All I can say is go for it.
I can’t remember the detains around the dream but all I remember the I had a hair on my penis. I started pulling on it and it end up pulling out a ” hair ball” out.
Thought it was weird.
This is a response to Channing’s dream,
This is a metaphor for being self-conscious for having a hair out of place. A hair out of place in life means that you cannot act unless things are just right. When you concern yourself too much with a hair out of place it turns out to be a hair ball instead of just a single hair. The dream wants you to jump into action more and think less about what others might think about you.
Hi Richard,
This is about a re accuring dream that I have at least once a week if not more. The dreams are the same except for the characters and scenes change in every dream. I’ll give you two examples that I have had recently. The first one is set in a place I do not know but I am on holiday with my family. (Little back story- I had a personal tradegy in my life and I had to give my dog to my sister because I couldn’t take care of her and the dog passed away about 6 months ago). Back to the dream my sister had my dog with her and I asked her how my dog was still alive? And she told me she lied to me about the dog dying because she didn’t want me to see her anymore. At this point I start screaming and trying to hit her because I’m so angry. In the dream I figure everyone will be on my side but when they see me angry at her they tell me I’m crazy and that I shouldn’t be mad st her. This in turn makes me even more angry and I start screaming and crying which only makes it worse and everyone thinks I’m nuts. The other example is that I am at a circus and my fiends and family are there and we are having a great time. We are also rock climbing at the circus for some reason. I try to climb up the biggest wall at the circus but my cousin tells me I can’t do it. When I ask him why he starts telling me I’m being rude and to wait my turn. When he says this I start getting angry at him and he starts laughing at me for getting angry which in turn makes me even more angry and I start yelling which only makes it worse. In both dreams when everyone starts turning against me I always look for my boy friend but I usually can’t find him and i spend so much time looking for him. When I do find each other we go home and I always feel way better. The similarities in all the dreams is that someone in my life will do something that makes me angry and when I argue or fight back in turns everyone against me and makes me feel very alone. Then I always find my boyfriend and go home.
What does this mean!!
Thanks
This is a response to Hayley’s dream,
Hi Hayley, The reason that you are having the dream is so that you can learn how to deal with your anger. Anger is one of those emotions that when you have it, everyone turns against you whether you are right or wrong. When you get angry in the dream at people, they get further away and you feel all alone. You are morally right in terms of what you are doing, but anger is the wrong response.
The idea of life is keep having friendships with people even though they make mistakes and do the wrong things. Just because someone did something wrong does not mean that you have to get angry. Becoming angry shows that you are being controlled by their actions rather than being in control of yourself internally. For instance, when you were climbing in the dream, which means that when you are trying to reach and climb for a higher goal in life, people will get angry and call you names because they aren’t doing it. If you just ignore them, then the name calling and ganging up do not happen because it has no response. People name call because they get a response. No response leaves them with nothing so they stop.
The purpose of the dream is to teach you to just let go of anger because you obviously have a lot of ability and will need to be in partnership with people rather than alienating them by angry responses. It is not easy to learn how to do this because it takes control. Probably doing meditation or something like it will help with the anger which in term will give you a lot more relationships.
I have has this dream for years and I don’t understand. In my dream I’m in a train car restaurant eating lunch with my dad and another person and his daughter. I don’t know them but in my dream I do. Anyways the “other persons” daughter got up to go to the bathroom and was gone for a long time so I went to go check on her . The car was like a long hallway just forever going and there was up stairs with quite a few stairs. The bathroom was more down the hallway, so I don’t even know why I went up the stairs. Once I was at the top I saw the girls coat. There was a bult in desk that had a tv looking thing on it. The doors were short doors like child size, I went into the one first on the right and I say this crazy looking lady her hair stood up, it was red with some gray or green blended in with it. And their was blood everywhere. I ran out and went to the room next door and hid. Once she was gone I went back to my dad and he was gone, I was in a panic and this guy with a thin white tank top and short black spiked hair, asked if I was alright. And I walked back done the forever hallway and back up the stairs when I got to the top he was al ready up there he had an electronic saw and was cutting open the desk and when he did thousands of baby cockroaches came out, they were black. he told me to go tell everyone to leave and shut down the place, when I got down the stairs and stared back for all the tables people in what was maybe swat team uniforms started shooting people with machine guns. I ran back up the stairs and every body was gone. Then I woke up. Over the years I’ve had different versions on this dream, like most reasent I was looking down watching myself go through it but I had blue hair and this girl that I knew from high school was there talking with me (the me in my dream) were weren’t even friends. I would say I’ve had this dream for about 11 years. I have this dream at really no special time, just at random. Thank you I hope to hear from you soon!
This is a response to Jessica’s dream,
Hi Jessica, Traveling in a train means having one track for your life, which is good if the dream were positive, but as it turns out negative, it means that riding on a train is the wrong metaphor. Your father and the little girl probably represent that your father is the one who has chosen your one track and the little girl has gone along with it. The rest of the dream sequence is the negative result of going on the single track sort of like being railroaded.
What you want to do is have more than one option in getting to where you want to go in life because where you are going requires that you learn a lot of things in various kinds of settings, not just one. The girl going to the bathroom represents trying to let go of the train metaphor, but when she does one bad things seems to follow another. This may have something to do with being forced into a track. Anyway consider what your life would be like if you had more options.
Last night I had a dream about one of my guy friends. We were both in my school auditorium (he was seated in the back on this padded bench that is not actually there in reality) and I was trying to find a seat. As I passed him he asked me what I was doing to which I replied that I was trying to find a seat and he replied with “No no come sit next to me”, patted the seat next to him, and smiled. I went over and sat next to him and we were really close. Next thing I know he’s telling me that he has feelings for me and that he wants to be with me and we spent the remainder of the dream snuggled together on the bench. I do not have any feelings for him and I was not thinking about or talking to him before I went to bed so I was just wondering where this dream came from.
This is a response to Ashley’s dream,
Hi Ashley, This dream shows you that you have the ability to warm up the positive selves of others, especially guys. It is not necessarily about a relationship, but more about helping them to become who they are as if they are warming up to who they are supposed to be. You do this by becoming friendly and close and then they are able to share more with you and develop themselves. It is not necessarily about that guy in particular but more about guys in general because for the most part guys have a difficult time dealing with their emotional selves.
I had a dream about my dead grandmother once again.In every dream she is taking somebody baby away but in this dream she used her body as a shield protecting the baby from some type of explosion also she had on a dress that looked like it came from the 40s or 50s.Whatdo this men.
This is a response to Tanyrr’s dream,
Your grandmother is trying to show that you need to protect the positive baby like aspects of yourself that need a positive environment for growth. These are your spiritual qualities like honesty, compassion, courage, endurance, and love.
My gal friend dreamed of us with long Hair sitting under a tree shaving each other to Short hair
This is a response to Lucky’s dream,
Long hair in a dream represents positive empowerment so when you are shaving it under a tree it means that there is something in the relationship between the two of you that is cutting off your power. It is probably being too dependent on each other rather than depending on your own positive selves individually and then coming together.
Richard,
My dream was about me arguing with my sister and my other two sisters were watching and not doing anything. My sister grabbed my hands and kept pushing me. A pool popped up and I don’t know if she pushed me in or I jumped in. When in landed in the pool, I was in a chair somehow. When i was floating around, she said ” i f******g hate you”. What does this mean?
This is a response to Viridiana’s dream,
The problem in the dream is the arguing. Arguing is about someone insisting and pushing the other to do something. It just doesn’t work in a relationship. What needs to happen is for everyone to relax and be calm and peaceful like you were all laying around in a pool relating. You can do this easily by resisting the big temptation to get into arguments with people.
hello my name is gareth I need some help or advice it’s not for me but it’s effecting my relationship with my partner .
ever since my partner has seen a picture of my ex girlfriend she keeps having dreams about her and sometimes them dreams involve me.
it’s coming to a point where she has trouble sleeping as it hurts her and gets her upset and then when we talk about it we start to have problems she has asked if I can find out a way of getting her out her head so we can move on from this wired thing that keeps happening every night .
many thanks gareth
This is a response to Gareth’s dream,
Gareth. Your girl friend is suffering from an extreme feeling of jealousy that is totally imagined. She so needs to get some help. She could have a few session with me and I could help her a lot with her mind spin. You can see how to do it on the site. Your relationship will not work if she continues in a jealous state.
Hi Richard,
Maybe you can help me I had a dream where I was in my old room in a former apartment and a woman came with a receipt that had a balance on it. There was a box that I opened up and inside was a small beautiful black baby horse. The woman informed me that in order to keep the horse I needed to pay an additional $20 which I didn’t have. I pushed the box with the horse back towards her. I’m quite confused. Please help
This is a response to Rita’s dream,
The old apartment is a symbol of having a part of you that went undeveloped in the past that you were supposed to develop there. That is symbolized in the horse. A horse means enthusiasm and strength together which is really good to have when you have a set goal and skills in place already. The $20 means that you need to invest in yourself in order to get the results. If you meditate on the qualities of the horse, then you will get where you want to go.
I had a dream I was in Russia, all the Americans were in a big open field. A women was going around with the Americans trying to keep everyone together. There was a large fat, fleshy head that had no body that was ordering. The women followed me, I let her know something was going to happen to the Americans if we didn’t get out. I left through some bushes with others. We meet up with other Americans who told us that we needed to pretend to be Russian. We got to this house with a father and daughters help. In this house there was a cute young boy about 3 years old. Then there was twin infant girls starving. There were Russians outside looking for Americans, we could go out. The little boy said he would go get food, he went out and a Russian women hit the boy with a baseball bat. We got him in the house he was unconscious. This young girl showed me old milk, I gave it to the twins so they could eat. Next thing I was in this place with beds king, queen, and single. They had quilts different colors. I asked if I was in the American embassy and was told yes. I was told the other Americans were coming, but there wasn’t enough room. I said people could squeeze and share beds. There were white old fashioned cars bringing the people. Then I woke up.
This is a response to Tina’s dream,
Hi Tina, During the Cold War the Russians were the great enemy of America because of the autocratic nature of the Russian government. While it has made changes, it still retains some of this heritage. What you have in you is leftover memory of the fear of autocratic rule because you have experienced the negative effects of it in your own life. The reason that you have the dream is so that you can begin to let go of those memories and then start going for things where there is a balance between individual initiative and cooperation for the common good. The problem we had in the world in the previous century was the conflict between the two ideals. We lived in an either or world. in the future we will have both energies working together to create an amazing peaceful world that keeps advancing in positive ways. It is a combination of team work and togetherness with encouragement to try new things and go for starting new things. It was scares autocrats to death. Both Americans and Russians are scared of this type of system because it means that people who have amassed huge power unjustly will fall by the wayside. So your work is to let go of negative memories of the Russian old style and then think about how to implement a combined style in your own life.
What does it mean if I have had several dreams of my mom trying things I don’t want her to (smoking etc.) and I tell her I don’t want her to do them and she still does?
This is a response to Bl’s dream,
Hi Bl, The main thing that is important about this dream is to realize that what your mom does is really none of your business. She will learn for herself when she does her own negative things and when you pay attention to them, you forget to do your own positive things for yourself. So leave her and go for your own self.
Hello ,
My.dream was kind of two in one..First i hit this child so hard on the head,i was soo angry and the child was so annoying but i felt guilty right after,i would never do that in real life. Then i went to meet up with some friends of mine and cousins to talk about something ,we had decided to sit under a tree ,suddenly a green and yellow snake dangled from the tree ryt infront of me,in real life i hate snakes so obviously i screamed,everyone else didnt seem that bothered with the snake but when they saw i was so terrified i could barely breath,they suggested we go sit else where but everywhere we went there was soo many snakes of all sizes,i was losing my mind from fear n two other girls were screaming too so the others decided to stay n handle the situation while we went home,they handed two babies to the two girls n we left using a different road. It was nite time in seconds and we met a man n two other ppl who told us to give them the babies for witchcraft sacrifice and we tried to ran but could not.They took the babies and asked if any of us were the mothers ,we said we were not n they told us to leave.We rushed to the police station to report but we knew they would never believe our story and that we were in big trouble,i woke up feeling hopeless knowing the poor babies had died and no one would ever find out the truth
This is a response to Maureen’s dream
Hi Maureen, When you get a snake dream like this one, the first thing you should say to yourself is that I need to make a big change in my life. Snakes are symbols that tell you that you need to make a major change. The problem is that you are hitting a child in your dream. This does not mean hitting a real child, but hitting the child inside, your inner child. This lets you know that what you need to do is to wake up and nurture the child in you which is like your playfulness and curiosity. These are precious gifts, but you are letting them go in your life rather than bringing them in. It is as if you are under a spell of witchcraft, not actual witchcraft, but cultural witchcraft that tells you to grow up and not be playful.
My husband and I are seperated,I had a dream he was with his first wife and was going to leave me for her.I was riding in a car with my deceased sister,I was tuning in the radio and discussing that my husband was going back with his ex and she said,hasn’t he been cheating all along?Then I was with him and he was packing up his stuff (it wasn’t our house)and I was trying to talk to him and he just kept packing and wouldn’t talk to me.
This is a response to Colleen’s dream,
Hi Colleen, First of all I hope that you are going for help from someone who has worked in this area of separation before. Being separated is maybe the most difficult thing to go through in life. It is a crazy period so go for help if you haven’t already.
Your husband has been metaphorically cheating if not actually cheating on you. He does not have his loyalty to you in the right place in his mind or spirit. He is loyal to his own ego, his own selfishness. That is the problem. Your sister is like your guide and helper so you can freely ask her for help, but it is usually a rough and bumpy road. It is usually difficult for men like him to change. Make sure you are seeing someone who can help your mind get clear.
Hi Richard.
I dreamt I heard something strange outside with my little dog and told my late husband that something is going on outside with my little dog and he responded no it’ s nothing. I tried closing the sliding door but the latch on door would not secure as if door had come off rail. As I began to sit down in the lounge I saw black hands coming through the door busy putting surgical gloves on. I froze and could not say ir do anything. My husband just sighed and started taking his watch snd ring off. It’ s an odd dream because my late husband does not know this house I am in now.
This is a response to Charmaine’s dream,
Hi Charmaine, The little dog in the dream represents some very positive and powerful energy in you. It is the quality of being friendly to yourself, more friendly than you can possibly imagine. You probably had that with your late husband and the mystery of his death is that now you need to have it inside of you. It is something you need to do for yourself which is to learn how to be friendly and loyal to yourself. The thing that prevents you from being this way is the fear of the negative energy represented in the black surgical like hands. It just means that you are fear of an intruder harming you. What you need is to be friendly to yourself. Then you can intrude into others lives in a positive way to do positive things, but first friendliness toward yourself.