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Hello name is Isaac,
I have this reoccurring dream where my mother is shot and then kidnapped and sold as a hooker. After this my sister and I go looking for her and we eventually find her in a bar and she’s dancing inside of a claw machine and I have to try to win her out of this machine but every time I try the claw cuts her and eventually she’s covered in slashes, I usually wake up at this point. I’m slightly concerned with why I dream this, and why I keep having it, if you could help me out that would be great.
This is a response to Isaac,
Hi Isaac, You have this dream because metaphorically that is what happened to her. It is difficult to hear that, but if you meditate on the metaphors and think of your mom you will see that I am correct. The problem is not that she was kidnapped and sold as a hooker, however awful that was for her. The problem is that what you are doing to help her escape only make it worse for her. You need a different strategy.
It seems like that is the only strategy possible. A better solution would be to turn off the claw machine, open it up, and pull her out. What happened to her, happened in her family when she was young. Who she is truly inside was killed, her true self was kidnapped, and she made into someone who has to give herself to others. It is pretty horrific stuff. Now I am going to tell you and your sister how to heal her, so I want you to follow what I say closely. First, the best parts of you, that is the best qualities that you and your sister have are inherited from your mother, but because they were killed as a child, they haven’t been able to develop as they should and hence, you and your sister have not been able to develop. So you have to go inside and do a kind of guided imagery or meditation and begin to get glimpses that come in pictures of who your mother truly is. When you see it, it might show itself metaphorically, but you will recognize her because you also have the same energy in potential. Then when you see it and you figure out who she is, then you can start telling her who she is. This will so resonate with you that when you say it it will be like saying it to yourself and your sister. If you have questions, feel free to ask me. You can write to dreamsforpeace@gmail.com.
Hey there,
My name is Jonathan. Last night I had a dream that it was my birthday and the girl that I’ve liked since 2nd grade was coming over to give me my present. When I opened the present it was two plates. One plate had my name on it and it was complete. The other plate had her name on it, but her whole name wasn’t there or there was something missing. Both of our plates were chipped at the same place. After I saw the gifts I ran and cried. I was so mad at her. I thought she might as well have not even given me a present if it wasn’t done. I felt like I was fully committed to her, but that she wasn’t fully committed to me or something. I know she doesn’t like me anymore, but I still hope that soon she’ll like me again. hahah
Anyway we liked each other back in elementary school and then in high school she didn’t like me anymore. Thank you so much
This is a response to Jonathon’s dream,
Hi Jonathon, The reason that you have this dream about her and that the plates have the same chips is because the two of you are like “twin” spirits. What does that mean? It means that the two of you share a lot of the same qualities that are positive. The reason that you were good earlier, but are not good for each other now is that you both have the same chips. This means that you both have the same weaknesses. When this happens the relationship doesn’t work. It does not mean that friendship does not work. It just means that a long term relationship life marriage does not. This is tough to get over.
What you should do is use her as a mirror and then you will find out who you are that is really strong and be able to be yourself. It is like she is you and you are her. When you get it and let her go, then the right person will almost instantly show up.
I just woke up and my dream is still fresh in my memory….
My deceased mother was dug up and reburried. In the dream we were grieving her again. The whole process was relived. It was crazy because I was crying in my dream and I woke up crying.
My second dream was that all of my family was visiting and my mom was there. We were watching Jurrasic Park one of her favorite movies. It was more of a peaceful dream.
This is a response to Lori,
Hi Lori, Re-grieving means that you are calling up the loss of your mother and feeling the loss. This is so you can remember the positive things about her and then integrate those positive things fully into your own life, to be like her positive self. It is why so many cultures do a memorial service after one year so that the positive aspects are not lost in the next generation. When you do it, you have a sense of peace in your life.
Hello my name is Emily
This is my dream 03:13 so I’ve wrote it now so I don’t forget but I am terrified and would like some reassurance…
I was an actor and we were all fighting in the film we were making (the cast) then I had to escape from them all but they never got me they were trying to kill me (this was acting) then when the actors had finished there was a fairground beside it. we went to the fair I went with my boyfriend (I don’t have one) and our child (I also don’t have one)Then a man came up to us with a large sharp blade and I took the child while he started chopping down the centre of my “boyfriends” head while I watched and “our child” was distressed and crying wanting his “daddy”. The man made me watch while he was chopping and he said I was next but then I don’t know wether I run off or I just woke up. What does this mean??
This is a response to Emily’s dream,
Hi Emily, That was a very gruesome ending. What you were acting out in film is what you are trying to work out in your real life. It is like you represent the feminine energy in you and the boyfriend in the dream represents to masculine. The child represents what comes out of the union of the two. Your masculine part gets chopped up because, just like in the play, you believe the masculine part to represent negative aggression. It prevents you from integrating those energies in you. It is probably because you have a lot of experience with those energies being so negative. What you are going to need to do is start turning them into really positive associations rather than negative. The positive masculine energy is like the courage to go after a positive goal or the strength to withstand negative obstacles. They are really positive things. When you have them, your life is going to produce amazing things.
Hello dear
It’s true that some of my relatives betrayed my trust, they ditched me. I had to suffer a lot just because of their lies.
In real life sometimes i plan that i should have a word with them, i should tell them what they did to me.
I had a few dreams(after regular intervals) in dreams – A conversation is going on between me and them… I am getting emotional… Tears started to come out of my eyes while i am revealing the truth to them(that they ditched me). I am telling them what they did to me while i was so good to them.
The thing that makes me wonder is that after speaking a few lines clearly, the moment tears started falling off my eyes it’s like i can’t speak anymore … It’s like my voice goes mute … I am trying hard to speak loud but i am helpless…only the whispering sound of my words is left, i can whisper but can’t speak loud, and i felt pain of my sorrows clearly…
I don’t know what is going on.
Please, if you can, explain it to me .
This is a response to Tim’s dream,
Hi Tim, Sorry I didn’t respond earlier. I just found your dream. The reason that your voice goes mute is because you are speaking to deaf ears. They will not respond to tears but will only regard you as weak and leave you more alone. However hard it may be in the first steps, you have to remain clear of them in your interactions other than being polite. They are acting out of meanness. You are better off away from them for the time being. In the meantime, you can begin finding true friends that can as relatives. You will know them because you will be able to speak freely with them from your heart.
Thank you so much for the interpretation of my previous dream. It was very helpful.
I saw a new dream yesterday. It was a ship I was in and I saw one of my female teachers and two of my friends from highschool. My teacher was distributing books for a new year and I went to her to collect my books and other materials for the new year and she saw me and smiled and handed me my books and I paid for it and then I chatted with two of my friends. They were smiling at me and then gave me two CDs of movies about Cats and I was so happy. I hugged them and took the CDs. Then this dream transformed into another dream and in this new dream I saw that I am in a beach side and its afternoon time and a beautiful,mild breeze was blowing and I was walking along the shores and there were beautiful palm trees and the scenery was so beautiful. I was so enjoying the beautiful sight. I was walking alone enjoying the beautiful weather and there were some people playing cricket but I didn’t gave them any attention. I was enjoying the beach waves when suddenly the cricket ball came towards me and I caught it and everybody clapped. Then I gave the ball back to the people and was walking along the shore and then I woke up. Can you please interpret this dream? Thank you😊
This is a response to Suzi’s dream,
Hi Suzi, I am so enjoying your dream life. You remind me a lot of my daughter. This dream is pretty straightforward, but it shows you just how joyful life is for you when you don’t have any pressure with jealous people. This is so who you are. The goal of the dream is get progressively better at living in that positive space every moment of your life. The positive energy state is joyfulness. Feel it.
In my dream about 5 minutes ago i tries telling my mother and father that their drug abuse made me feel like i was watching them die a little more each day.. my dad cried and said to my Mom that they must get clean but when she refused and stormed off she went into a sort of seize with her eyes open after fainting and then just stayed silent with her eyes open and I yelled get out of her and then i woke up.. what does this mean?
This is a response to Samantha’s dream,
Hi Samantha, This is an interesting dream in that you are trying to help your parents get over their addictive behavior. When you do it with your father, he responds, but with your mom she gets really angry. This is because whatever her addictive behavior is she is really severely dependent on it and doesn’t want to give it up for anything. The way I would do the treatment is to start with your father and then go for your mother. Your mother will respond after your father responds. Usually when someone is addicted they are using something that has long term bad effects, but they use it to get to a positive intention like feeling loved or joyful or something. So you can help your father by seeing what he is really after probably feeling loved.
Hi, I had a dream last night that I found this small dog, but the dog was really mean but only to me and it would follow me everywhere. It would jump on me and attack me. I kept trying to run away from but it kept finding me. I even tried asking other people to take it so it wouldn’t attack me but it always found me. I had huge terrible bites all over my body. Then this man took the dog and trained it and told me to go grab the dog so I did and he was soo nice and in the end of the dream we were best friends. He would follow me everywhere I went and was so sweet.
Can you please help with an interpretation?
This is a response to Christina’s dream,
Hi Christina, This is dream is about the way you treat yourself. The dog is a symbol of friendship and loyalty. In your case the dog has turned vicious toward you. This shows you that instead of being friendly and loving to yourself, you are mean and nasty probably with the way you talk to your self and are hard on yourself. What you need to be is friendly and loving and treat yourself in a positive way. The dream teaches you to train yourself so that you are friendly and loving to yourself, not mean. The way to work with yourself is to start catching how you talk to yourself internally. You can go inside and listen to the mean voice you use and then train it so that it is a positive voice and friendly. You will notice that as soon as you do that you will relax and be a lot calmer.
Hello!
Thank you so much for your amazing advice and help.
I have a question and it’s that you said that if I have a jealous authority I should stay away from them. I wanted to ask that if in future I encounter a boss who is jealous, what should I do then?
And I saw a new dream yesterday and it was a little blurry. I saw that I am in a bathroom and a baby lizard pounced at me and sometimes it was jumping on my hands and then on my legs and then my whole body and I kept on shooing it away from me but it again pounced on me and I attacked it and flushed it through the toilet but it came back again and bit me on my hands and then I woke up.
Can you please interpret this dream?
Thank you😊
This is a response to Suzie’s dream,
The lizard would be a jealous boss in the future. If you try to pounce on it or flush it away, it is just going to keep coming after you. The way you deal with it is to get as far away from the boss emotionally that you can and have as little contact as you can. It is better to get a new job altogether this is because with a jealous boss, the more you are successful and do good work, the worst he/she will treat you.
I’m 38 weeks pregnant and I’m happy with my relationship. The father of my unborn child has became my fiance and I wouldn’t of had it any other way. But its about to mark two years since my ex boyfriend and I broke up. I haven’t spoken to him in quit some time…. Last night I had a dream I was in the car with my ex younger brother. We went to his house and I waiting in the car. Once he came back, he came back with my Ex. He smiled at me the same way he used to smile and look at me. He then got on behind the steering wheel. We drove and then I turned around and told his brother “you haven’t told him!?” His brother grind and said “no”. As if in the dream I was having a baby with his brother, when that’s not the case… Some how my ex and I both knew that I was already in my committed relationship and with who. Needless to say, then rubbed my belly and for what it seemed to be, was excited and happy for me. My dream than changed and it was a dream about my Fiancé and the mother of his 4 year old daughter. They were face timing, but I felt it was it a hit odd given that we had the little girl for the week. So my question lands on “why would you facetime her just to see her” and she didn’t completely showed her face. More like the side of it with the side of her body. & that’s when I woke up.
This is a response to Stephanie’s dream,
Hi Stephanie, What these dreams mean is that first whatever you needed to learn in the relationship with your ex boyfriend you learned well so you can let him go and realize that you are better for it. The dream with your fiancé shows the issues ahead for you in your marriage. Despite the fact that you two get married, he will still have to be in a parental relationship with his ex wife because of his daughter. There is no getting around this and then being able to work out how to parent their daughter which now involves you, is the best for the daughter. The daughter only needs to know that everyone loves her and that she is not responsible for the break up. She will have a natural tendency even at a young age to believe it is her fault especially if there is a lot of negative energy between the two. Your role is treat her as if she is your own child. In that way she will grow up feeling loved and cherished and then be able to do great things. The difficult may be that you get jealous. You just have to watch for it because she will be the victim of it. This is a big challenge especially since you have a new child. Just stay full of love in your heart for everyone.
In the morning i dreamt i was in a train with other passengers.we passed our destination and we cudnt xplain why we didnt get off there.also, the train stopd at our destination for a few seconds only.not possiboe for us to get off anyway.the train slowly moved on but onto tar construction combined with rail road.we all got off at next stop just a few seconds from our missed stop.we all on the station,2 young drug infested men start causing fear, threatening to kill everybody.one had a broken piece of glass, the other a screwdriver.one paasenger seated next to me was stabbed repeatedly with the screwdriver.b4 it started i got up and ttied to escspe.they spotted me in my red jacket.i moved atound the crowd.the one with the broken glass got infront of me.i persuaded him i have money for them to get themselves more drugs if they let us go.he asked if its alot.i said not slot in my bag, ut i cud get alot.he told hs partner.they agreed.i told someone i know to escape with me as she was sifting thru her blue suitecase.they almost changed their minds when they saw me talk to her.i ran without my bags i didnt want to leave behind.they didnt follow me as i ran for help.
This is a response to Esther’s dream,
Hi Esther, These dream tells you that when you set a particular goal or destination where you want to go in your life that it is not all that complicated to get there. This is because you have the skills to get there and you can use them. What is preventing you from getting to where you want to go is the deprived condition of the world. Your strategy is to avoid them, but the reason that they are at the next stop is that really where your life wants you to go, the real destination is how to deal with all of the people who are in a drug addicted state. Your goal that your inner self wants you to do is to help people out of their negative states and into a more transformed one. The fear of what they might do to you while they are in the drug addicted state is what you are fearful of. What will work with them is to deal with them one at a time rather than as a whole group. Then the healing of one will become the impetus for all of the healing.
I had a dream last night that my mom and I went into her house and noticed one of her dogs was in the cage in the living room (the dogs cages are normally in the kitchen) I went out to the kitchen to get the other dog and a burglar jumps out of the bathroom and grabs me and starts after my mom with a gun he pulled from the back of his pants. I somehow jolted the gun as the burgled fired and then I woke up……please help me decipher what this dream means!!
This is a response to Lisa’s dream,
Hi Lisa, The fear that you are having is someone is going to take something from your Self. What does this mean? It means that you have had the experience in the way someone has interacted with you that it has robbed you of something in yourself, probably your friendliness.
What you need to do is to first find your friendliness again or what was burgled, and then give it out to others in a generous way. I don’t know how it was stolen or at least attempted to be stolen. My wife has this kind of fear because when she was working as a teacher she had a really bad supervisor and he robbed her of her ability to work hard. Now she has to get it back.
Thank you so much for your interpretation. 🙂
I dreadem that my ex whom I’m n loe with bit me n my arm and split it open like a spider four places… Very weird but he’s an abusive person….who ran away for life this time I think,what does this dream mean?
This is a response to Anna’s dream,
Hi Anna, This dream shows you that, despite being in love with him, he is not the right person for you because of his abusive nature. He probably has some redeeming qualities, but the angry parts are what rule him. He would have to do a lot of work for awhile to get out of the angry state. Stay clear.
I dreamt that I was on an arctic base in combat when the sky began to fade to black and time in the dream( excluding myself ) began to freeze. This is when a light purple dragon landed on the ledge in front of me but showed no signs of hostility and I didn’t feel any fear, in fact he felt kind of familiar. He began slowly pacing as our conversation continued but I don’t remember much of the conversation. The only thing that stuck out at me was when he said ” you don’t remember me do you?” It sounded more like a statement than a question. Now I feel like I should remember him but I don’t know where from. Any ideas what this means?
This is a response to Finn’s dream,
Hi Finn, The condition of your dream is Arctic, dark, frozen time, and combat. These represent external emotional environments that keep you from moving forward in your life. You can work out the emotional metaphors. The big one is coldness as in people are really cold. What you need is the purple dragon which you seemed to have had in the past, but have now forgotten. A dragon is a representation of power you have inside that takes away those conditions and replaces them with their opposites as in warm, light, flowing time and cooperation and friendship. During Chinese New Year you can see people practicing the idea only they tend to take it too literally rather than metaphorically. Imagine your dragon as a positive force.
I had this dream where I was a character from my favorite TV show. She was a villain, but has now since been redeemed. In the dream, she is going on a mission with the rest of the main characters. Suddenly she wakes up in a desert, with next to no memory of anything since the last big move she made as a villain. Upon finding and seeing her friends, she feels love towards them, but doesn’t understand. She suddenly grabs the weapon that controls the one of them with immense power and takes off, but has no idea why. Its a lot her running from her friends and not knowing why, until it ends with her killing her friend and stealing his power. I think someone was influencing her mind? Its hard for me to even think about and I don’t know why.
This is a response to Maya’s dream,
Hi Maya, The problem that this dream brings up is that you can change from a villainous part of you a more positive one, but when you get out into the world where the spirit is so non supportive and empty like a desert, you only remember being a villain. This is because being a villain is protective to your spirit. Your protective energy is really negative and though it was redeemed, it was never fully transformed into positive energy. Once you transform the villain fully you will not forget yourself anymore when you are in the desert. Whoever the villain is, your positive self is exactly the opposite in a positive direction, not a negative.
In my dream I was at the backyard, walking then suddenly I sat down.
In my hands there was two black snake. One being regular in size and the other was really small.
Suddenly the big snake dissappear and the small snake stay in my palms, at that moment I was really afraid that I tried to run away from it but it suddenly leap at my stomach.
I don’t know if it bit me, I suddenly wake up. Feeling scared for some reason.
This is a response to Jolina’s dream,
Hi Jolina, When you have a snake in a dream, it means that you need to make some kind of change in your life that is new to you like the development of a new part or ability or energy in you. The big snakes represents a big change and the small snake represents a small change. The fact that you are so fearful means you are fearful of making the change, any change. So if you make the change, then you will confident to make a bigger change. The fact that it is in your hands means that you need to build a skill probably that will develop an ability so that you can make money. You have fear about making the change because of experiences in learning that you have had in the past where you got bit by a poisonous person.
hi, my sister dreamt of my uncle, fetching a heater and told her her that she must let me know that he is feeling cold
This is a response to John’s dream,
Hi John, Your uncle’s heart is cold from things that have happened to him in his life. He is asking for help to be able to warm his heart. He has a good, big heart, but it needs warming. This is done through visits and through encouragement and support.
I had a dream I was in a war and shot in my back 6 times but lived I was hiding in a closet and came face to face with a enemy but was not able to shoot him..what does that mean?
This is a response to Tina’s dream,
Hi Tina, A war in a dream means a fight or conflict with someone specifically or a group in general. In this case the person who shot you in the back was a man and it means that you were shot down behind your back by comments that he made. When you see him face to face, you can’t shoot him and that is a positive thing because it shows that you don’t hold negative feelings against others. The best thing and hardest thing you could do is to resist the temptation to fire nasty words at him and instead bathe him in positive words about himself. That is what he is missing. It is like his life is poisoned by so many put downs that he just doesn’t often. If you can do this, you will be a really advanced soul, but you cannot do it hypocritically which means to say nice things but hold the negative feelings as well.
Thank you so much for the interpretation of my last dream about the snakes.
I have some questions regarding this dream.
1) What do you mean when you said I should think before giving out love,does this refer to the people around me and my friends?
And you are so right about my family. They are very supportive and love me a lot. I wouldn’t be what I am without their love and support.
2) And I wanted to ask you about the test you said about? Will it be a huge ordeal that I have to face?
And you are right about people being jealous and I really don’t know what to do about it,sometimes they say it to my face that they are jealous of me,a classmate told me once.
3)Can you tell me how can I deal with the poisonous people you referred to? What should I do?
Thank you so much and I hope the questions are not too long😊
This is a response to Suzie Dee,
Hi Suzie, You have a lot of positive energy to give out, but jealousy can kind of sideswipe you. Here is how you deal with jealous people.
1. Make a realization in your mind when you start getting the jealous behavior that they have gone through some kind of major abuse in their life because the trauma is the source of how they got acting that way.
2. Instead of thinking of them as a poisonous snake, see who they would be without the jealousy which is almost always something like an eagle.
3. See that their true self wants to act in the opposite way. It wants to be positive and loving and encouraging, but now it is stuck in jealous behavior.
4. See what you can do to start bringing out the eagle in them. Usually it is doing something that gets at what they really want, not what they are doing now. That what they are doing now is not getting the results that they want.
One more thing Suzie, Working with jealous power people according to how I described doesn’t work with people who have authority over you. It is best to get as far away from them as you can.
i dream that my husband punched the face of my father and a neighbor because they provoked him to do so i cannot believe that its my husband s faults because i know my husband is a strong temper holder one ans he dissappear and that neighbor man got very angry so he broke our kitchen door just to get in our house to find my husban so i search him and found him and hug him and telling him i am in his side no matter what i told him that we are gonna report this matter to the police station for i know its not his fault but my husband said its ok he will just keep it and not to report for he dont want any truoble but i insist…so in that part i got finally awake..hope ur good office will entertain me..thank you.