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Richard Hastings
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Also when we were together I always had dreams of him being my superhero if I was endangered or if I needed him he would always show up at a later time but he would be there for me!!
Dear Richard,
So a few nights ago before I went to bed I prayed for answers and that night I had a dream about my ex bf and me getting back together. Mind you I’m still in love with him and I want to be with him but in my dream I clearly hear him telling me we are back together and that he’ll tell his parents in two months and the dream took place first at my house in my room and after that we kissed and got intimate then awhile later we were in a place like India. Then before I woke up he told me he was going to txt me to look at my phone and in my dream I got heart shaped txts and then my phone vibrated in real life but it wasn’t him ( it was someone i dont know) what could it mean?
I dreamt I was in a large swimming pool underwater watching a man and woman getting their blood drawn with a syringe. I didn’t recognize them.
Amanda,
When you go underwater in a dream in a swimming pool, it means that you are trying to go deep in a relationship. This is because water is a relational element and going underwater adds depth. When you go underwater you see a man and woman getting the blood sucked out of them with a syringe. Getting the blood sucked out of you is a metaphor for having the life go out of you. What this means is that in your mind you have an association with going deep in a relationship and the life going out of you. Since it isn’t you in the dream, but some other people, it is a thought that is not based upon experience but what you have seen. You can go deeper in a relationship by realizing that a deep relationship brings life.
Usually dreams don’t have much of an effect on me. I dont even ever really bring them up unless they are interesting or strange. That being said, I had a dream recently that has left me upset and rather disturbed. In the dream, I am standing in a large crowd in a courtyard. We are all standing outside of a courthouse waiting to see a convicted man take his last walk to the prison, as we all received the notice that he was being put to death. As the man came out, he was angry and looked as if he was ready to kill again. Along with the police, reporters, bystanders, and guards, there was a small reindeer standing in the courtyard. As the prisoner came out, he began attacking the reindeer. He clawed at its face, kicked it, and beat it with his hands. The deer desperately tried to get away from the man but had no luck. I remember trying to get everyone to stop the man but they all just stood by and watched. I was horrified and crying, the feeling I still had when I awoke. I have no idea why this dream had such an effect in me, but I do know that I have never felt quite so upset and helpless. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts or opinions you may have for me.
I am not sure Ashley from your writing exactly which part is the dream and which is a description of your current living situation. Anyway, the important thing is that blood on your underwear means that you are capable of becoming pregnant as are the other girls in the house. On a metaphoric level this means you are able to create new things like new projects or give birth to new ideas. The potential exists in you and you can act on it. Real pregnancy should be about creating a new family which carries with it the most responsibility of any creation because it carries a human soul with it.
a few nights ago i had a dream of I had spots of blood in my underwear i think im pregnant but dont know for sure since also in in a house whole filled with females who are on their cycle…what does this dream mean?
Sincerely,
Ashley
This is the response for Ashly’s dream,
Ashly, this dream is pretty complex with all of the animals, but it is basically teaching about the qualities you need to be a mother. In your real like the pit bulls are in the back yard and small dogs in the front, but in the dream world, the situation is supposed to be reversed, which is the same for your qualities as a mother. The buffalo and goat represent the strong qualities you need to be a mother, while the little dogs represent the gentler and friendlier side of parenting. Parenting is a mixture of strength and nurturing.
In your own life you seem to separate the two sets of abilities by putting one in the back and one in the front. In the role of parenting they need to be together acting in unison. A baby needs gentleness, but also protection and cannot be left alone. I have the sense that protection is a more important function that gentleness. probably because of some fear-related issues.
Basically it seems that you would make a good parent if you get the two sets of things working together.
This is for Tess’ Dreams
When you put the dream into the context of what is going on with your life with having your stepson in your house, the dreams make a lot of sense. In the first dream you are overwhelmed with having so many boxes to deliver. This is because in your waking life you are doing a lot of deliveries, but you are not receiving a lot things that are positive. You are putting out a lot because of how your stepson was delivered to you in the form of permanent brain damage.
The second dream is about the role and energy that you need to have to make your life work really well. In this dream you receive a young child’s dress that is being blown in the air. What this means is that you need to have the joyful and playful energy of a young child and have time play in that role.
Right now the joy has been taken out because you are too much adult and not enough child. You probably need some help working through how to get to this stage where the adult and child are in balance because right now you don’t see anyway through it.
Hi Richard,
My name is Ashly and I had the strangest dream ever. I dreamt that I woke up and I had a lil toddler girl in the room with me who was suppose to be my daughter with pigtails. I left to go use the bathroom and as I was returning back to the room, I stopped to look out the back window to see how the weather looked and to see our small dogs ( but they’ve really been in the front already for over a yr now, and we have 2 pitbulls in the back now) but instead, of the dogs being there, it was a huge buffalo and an average size white goat around it. I was in shock, scared and couldn’t believe my eyes. As I went back into the room, the lil girl was gone and one side of the wall was built in with logs kind of like a barn and there was an opening where the window was and on the side of that, the wall dented in and there was a naked baby wrapped up in ceramic wrap from head to toe, laying in what looked liked the manger that Jesus was in. This wasn’t my baby either. Then I looked out the opening wall and saw lots of chickens and an older man feeding them. I asked him, “Where’s my baby?” and he says, “Right here.” pointing to the ground where the chickens were running around, but it was the baby that was wrapped up. He was starting to hand me the baby and I couldn’t tell if it was real and alive so I asked him if the baby was real and he said yes. Then the baby slightly moved around a little bit. My dream ended when my husband got home from work and saw the buffalo and goat outside as well and was freaked out about too.
Sorry so long Richard but I wanted to make sure I gave you all the details. Does my dream have a meaning to it? Please, I’m desperate to know.
~Thank You, Ashly
A few nights ago I had two dreams about mail. In the first, there was a room filled with USPS boxes and large envelopes which I had to fill with some sort of contents and seal up for mailing. There were TONS of them, and they needed to get to the post office in time, but I was overwhelmed with the number of them and knew there was no way I could get to all of them.
In the 2nd dream, I was upstairs in my bathroom taking a shower when I heard the mailman driving his truck up our long driveway. I called down to my 30-year-old stepson to get whatever it was the mailman was delivering, but I threw a towel around myself and ran downstairs because I thought I knew what was being delivered. As I went outside, I saw my stepson holding a hanger, from which hung a plastic bag which obviously held a dress. It was windy outside, and suddenly the bag blew off, revealing a beautiful short-sleeved frilly pink dress – much like the style a little girl would wear – very full – and then the wind took the dress, and it was in two parts – there was a sort of apron that fit over the top of it, and that blew, followed by the dress, and across the dirt driveway they both went. Curiously, there was a wash line across the driveway, too. I was running after the dress, trying to keep it from getting dirty, and to catch it.
This is the very first time I have ever dreamed of my stepson. He suffered a devastating brain injury from an ATV accident 3 summers ago. After spending 6 months in the hospital – acute care and two rehab facilities, he came to live with us. He will never be able to live alone again – he has the cognitive abilities of a 6-year-old, and having him here has put a great deal of strain on my marriage.
If you have time to think about this and share your perspective, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Tess
Carly,
In this dream you are in your grandmother’s house in her garden. She is showing you to grow things in the garden. This is a metaphor for your own growth process. Since it is your grandmother’s garden, she is showing you her strong qualities that are the key to the growth process. These are qualities she has inside of herself that are being passed onto you if you will attend to them. The first quality is that of a deer which is probably representing being gentle with yourself. This is a relatively easily quality because nothing happens. It is most likely a very strong quality in your family. The other quality is that of a grizzly bear which represents a lot of strength.
The problem that you, as a woman, have with developing a grizzly bear’s qualities inside of you, is that MEN tend to be threatened by that kind of quality in a woman and want to shoot it down in you.
What many women do, when faced with the fear, is to shoot themselves down and just remain only deers, but not grizzly bears and deers. Some women shoot the deer part and become only grizzlies, but the key is to have both qualities, gentleness and strength. They are a very powerful combination.
You need both working together all the time.
My dream:
I was dreaming I was in my grandmothers back yard, With her. (she’s alive but we live 5 hours apart) She was showing me her garden and looking at her veggies and some “new way to grow them”. When suddenly a deer was behind me (she live in the subdivision of a pretty populated area.)
It looked at me and passed… Then I saw a bear, a huge grizzly bear. But he was calm and walking softly infront of us and then he laid down in the grass and made a low growl/mumble. Not of anger –
But then a man behind me suddenly showed with a gun and was going to kill the bear. I watched him aim and before he took the shot he looked at me. He never shot the bear because I woke.
Greg,
The best way to look at a dream with an ex-girl friend is to relate to the most positive quality that the ex had while in your relationship and then believe that that is exactly the quality you need the most in your life. Making love means that you need to incorporate the quality inside of you as if you are in love with it. It is not a sign to rekindle the relationship. It didn’t work because it didn’t work out. You can let it go, but you need to do the work to get her quality in you.
The law-enforcement people and the priest-like figures are symbols that it is ok to proceed with the incorporation of the quality. Going up the stairs means that the quality helps you act out of your higher, true self, rather than your lower self. The problem for you is that when you go to act out of your true self which is like when you go up the stairs, you freak out.
This means that every time you try to act in more noble manner, some negative emotion is triggered inside of you that prevents you from getting there. However, if you have the positive quality of your ex, then it will make it much easier and then you will also be more successful in other relationships.
So you can ask yourself, “What is the most outstanding quality of my ex?” Then you can believe strongly that you need to have that quality and do everything in your power to have that quality working inside yourself. A quality is a virtue like enthusiasm, compassion, perseverance, honesty, or courage.
Any help is good help, thanks Richard.
Greg
I had a dream last night where I had a relationship with a girl I had previously talked to for a while. She was around my family and around just me. We also finally made love, more than once in it. It seemed as if everything was awesome we were in a living room when 2 cops walked in and had sat down with us, one started undressing and was about to have sex with her but she was using her hands.. No actual penetration. After that it took a wierd turn someone knocked at the door and some priests of unknown religion walked in, one cardinal looking priest was an uncle I barely see, after that I started walking up these stairsy where a lot of my family were at. They looked happily congratulating me walking up the stairs until I got to a room where I kind of freaked out and tried to go back down but ultimately walked back towards that room that I didn’t see much of.
This is a reply to Ann’s dream about the 3 people in her. The part of you that is dead and buried represents something in the past that happened to you that you would like to forget so you have died to it and buried it. Only there is another part that represents the present that would like to resurrect the past, but it is fearful. It is fearful because it is afraid that the same thing that caused the burial in the first place will happen again. The 3rd self is the future self. It lets you know that everything is going to be ok in the future so whatever happened in the past is going to be resolved at some time. It is ok to look at it.
You can imagine that there is a you out in the future who is already healed from the past. When you know this, then it is ok to start looking at the thing you buried and from which you are now so fearful. The reason for looking at it is that it has some important learning you need to uncover. Once you get that learning then you will be free to get on with things you want to do.
I rarely dream, but last night I had this out of nowhere dream. I’m currentlyin a relationship, but we fight constantly and I’m considering ending the relationship because I’m not happy anymore. So last night I had a dream that I was at this weird school event (which doesn’t make sense since I haven’t been in college for a while now. I dropped out.) and this girl I work with whom I’ve had a crush on for a few years now was there. She’s a good Christian girl and the kind of girl you take home to the parents. Well basically all throughout this dream we had to do these different little projectsand the entire time I kept trying to talk to her. Towards the end of the dream I finally worked up the courage to ask her out and she didn’t even hesitate to say yes. It seems as soon as she said yes my girlfriend woke me up. I can’t figure out the meaning to this dream, because I would never cheat on my girlfriend even when I’m considering breaking up with her. I wouldn’t go out with anybody else until I finally do end it. At the same time I’ve liked this other girl way before I knew my girlfriend. Please help me to try and figure out the meaning behind this dream because it is completely out of the blue. I feel its giving me some sort of answer or insight into something that I can’t come up with while I’m awake. Thank you for your time and hope to hear from you.
Hi! I had a dream where there was 3 “me’s”. One of me was dead and buried in a cemetary, the other was trying to get my 3rd “me” to visit the dead me in the cemetery but was too afraid to go. I was also able to travel into the future and see what was to come, then travel back to the present in order to prevent deadly outcomes. What does this mean? Please help!
Min,
Thanks for writing back. It is nice to hear from you. The Korean culture tends to be very competitive, but I think that naturally people are more cooperative in nature. The culture makes them go against their true nature. You just need to do know that you are gifted with cooperation and go forward.
Wow. Thanks a lot Richard! you have no idea how much you haved helped me. the situation you described about how i hurt the good guys due to deception is what happened! I had a problem with one of my friends because of what people told me and i currently have a hard time in my social life. oh and just so you know my name is min young not ming . im korean. anyway thanks a lot and next time i have dreams repeatedly like this i now know who to ask. thanks!