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I have been looking for a place to have my dreams interpreted as i have extremely vivid dreams that i remember almost every detail in most of the time on a regular basis. I happened apon this site and hope you can help. This is the dream i had last night…
My husband and i had gone into a warehouse to look for something that i wasnt sure of. When we first walked in we entered a smaller room with some lockers in there. Not too much else laying around, but i noticed a cage with a cat in it. I figured the people that previously owned the garage had abandoned the cat. I opened the cage and let it out. Then we walked through a door into the main open part of the warehouse. There were some more lockers up against a wall but what shocked me were that there were cages everywhere. Mostly old rusty looking cages. Every cage had a cat in it. I couldnt believe that anyone would do something like this. Some cats were already dead, some were barely alive and some were still ok but wanted to get out. I was a little wt about being attacked by the cats, but i didnt hesitate in open every cage door, even the cages with the dead cats in them. During that time my husband wasnt around in the dream too much. Then as we were saying we were about done with whatever our original purpose of coming in there was for, i saw there were a couple of white plastic outdoor chairs with some suitcases behind them closer to the exit door. The chairs were facing each other a couple feet apart. As we were about to leave, a guy i have feelings for (in real life, and in the dream ) came through the door we had come through into the main warehouse. I was happy to see him and surprised that he was there. I said hi to him in a happy voice, and at that point my husband and i were sitting in the chairs. He came over and squatted between us. He had his hand rested on my leg and we were talking. I was nervous that my husband would see, but at the same time, he didnt seem to care and was looking across the room. He seemed to not even be mad and appeared to want to be elsewhere and the guy i have feelings for were just happy to be sitting there talking.
Then as we were talking my alarm went off and i woke up. ( this next part isnt part of the dream ). I got up to get my kids ready for school and within just a minute the dream came flooding back in detail. Thats when i started googling it.
Now there was another part of the dream that was part of the dream but at the same time it was seperate, if that makes sense.
So me and another guy ( who i dont recognize as anyone i know in real life ), were standing outside this same warehouse, we were about to go inside. As he got to the door first and was reaching for the door handle, we heard gunshots inside. I yelled for him to run and i ran and hid behind some kind of vehicle that was covered in a dark blue vehicle tarp/cover. Im not sure where he ran to. I was trying to hide behind this taro but for some reason it was hard to stay completely hidden. I was scared i was going to be killed and i could hear people coming towards me. At one point i peeked over the side and people in full riot gear were heading towards me just a few feet away with rifles pointed. The one in the front said it was ok, i was safe, they were the police and i felt immediate relief. I cant remember at what point in my dream that happened.
This is a response to Shiri’s dream,
Hi, So letting cats out of cages means that you are gifted at helping people to let out the cat inside of them that has been caged up. What does this mean? Cats are symbols of independence as in independent action and thinking. You can do this conceivably because you can do it yourself. The guy you have feelings for is not a true love, but an attraction to something inside of him that you need to develop in yourself. What that is is the support to be who you are, which is a person who helps others become independent. When you have his energy inside of you, it makes the work possible. You are also fearful that you are going to get attacked by outside forces if you start letting cats out of cages, but really you are going to be supported a lot from the invisible world. So go for it.
So last night I had a dream that my boyfriend/child’s father had poured bleach on me continuously and fought me. And not only that but the uncle he lives with kept saying disrespectful things to me. All I do was hit the uncle with a shovel repeatedly. I could never get to my boyfriend. Then all of a sudden I guess his side girlfriend appeared in the dream doing the same thing as the uncle but I couldn’t get to her either. But all I kept saying to my boyfriend was that I was pregnant and I could lose by because of all of this. And all he kept saying was f**k that baby and you, she’s having my baby. (Talking about his side girlfriend). But I still couldn’t get to them and all I could do was leave and cry. Out of no where my niece that’s the same age as me showed up and consoled me on the walk all the way home. I need to know what that means!!! Cause if I have to leave him alone, I need to start now before my baby is born.
This is a response to LovelyA,
Hi, Pouring bleach on you means that he is trying to clean himself of you as in get rid of you. This makes you really angry, understandably, but nothing you do is going to help. It is better to keep distant from him because whatever you feel, will be felt by the baby also. You need to get as much support as you possibly can. You have to get a lot of advice from people with experience in these matters especially on how to give him access if he wants it with the baby. The most important thing is the baby, not him. You are solely responsible because he has given up. So get a lot of help, but not from him and don’t expect it from him. You will just get angry.
I have two dreams for you which I had this morning! (And a bonus one from the day before)
The first dream had Captain Hook, Peter Pan and Wendy. They were all friends until Hook met someone else and had a falling out. We were in a jungle, and for some reason, I think I decided to stick around with Hook to see what would happen. The other person (who wasn’t really anyone) had left Hook. Peter and Wendy were way ahead of us with the Lost Boys. Eventually, we’d caught up with them, and Peter was fencing with someone (who was also a nobody). Hook remembered who his friends were when he noticed Peter’s sword skill. “I taught him that!” he said, then they got back together and they left me in the woods. There was a small glimpse of the Lost Boys, but they weren’t my concern.
There was a massive tree. A big hand was dressing the tree with a big organic tarp and netting at the bottom. While I was watching, I was seeing how the plans would work out at night. Once finished, McGee and Palmer from NCIS were lying on the netting and I listened to them talking about something nerdy. They turned to Kate and DiNozzo, who were hanging by their torsos in weaved vines. They were being punished by Gibbs for fighting, I assumed. Kate brought mouldy cheese, and shared it with everyone except Palmer, who didn’t want any. Abby was also there, but she was already asleep. I remember that the tarp was for keeping mosquitoes away.
In the second dream, I was asked a question about my favourite ad. I answered it, but I forgot the rest of my answer, which was a Toyota ad featuring Hugh Jackman’s cover of Kiseki by Greeeen (and that is an ad that happened in real life, and thinking about it makes me kind of happy). I tried to answer it in one of the hardest ways possible: by writing it on a hose and taking a picture of it. I tried to walk into a creek with this hose on the other side (which was overgrown with foliage, but I had no intention of staying there anyway. My mum was there, turning on a hose. The creek filled up to about waist-high. My sister had just woken up and mum asked her a question. Since the water was deeper now, I couldn’t take a very good picture of the hose with my answer on it.
Now for my bonus dream: A friend of my sister’s messaged me. I replied back and then it turned into this fantasy RPG world. I asked some questions to some characters, then headed off to a cave-turned-dungeon. I found the boss, which was a dragon. It had this weak area on its side, so that’s where I attacked. I was close to dying I knew because I had one heart left. Three others came after I slid down a rope ladder. One planned something with me, then I went around the corner. One of the guys started putting mascara you don’t usually put mascara on. There was a black bag in the top compartment of a wardrobe I used to have in my room. I helped him apply the makeup on the bag by being him.
The key to the Peter Pan thing is to realize that Hook was just trying to make PP grow up so he get live in the real world and still keep his creativity. It pretty well sums up everything else as well. The hardest part of being creative or radical is putting food on the table. The person who can do both is the real genius and deserves all of the accolades.
My husband has dreamed of a woman dying of natural causes and he buried her under a concrete porch he poured. This was at his mom’s house. He has dreamed that dream several times over the past 20 years. Today he said he had the dream lady night but he saw it was under the tree and an open grave.
This is a response to Debbie’s dream,
Hi Debbie, What this dream means is that your husband had to bury his feminine qualities as if he had to kill them for the past 20 years. Pouring concrete over them ensures that they don’t come up. The dream wants him to resurrect the feminine self like compassion and understanding and it has now moved to a tree and open grave so that this can happen. It is a difficult leap for a man to make this kind of growth who is used to burying it, but it will benefit hundreds of people if he can do it now. If I were him, I would start with the ability to listen to others. This means like paraphrasing when someone has a concern or is emotional. He has a big road ahead of him, but it will help him immensely if he takes it.
I was in bed with my girlfriend. It happened in the room we currently stay in. The window that cant be open was open and a little bird flew in landed on the bed and hopped to my girlfriends pillow and sat down. Then five more birds done the same. It was then i noticed no birds has come to me and i felt disappointed by it. I also noticed the bed seemed bigger than normal and my girlfriend seemed further away from me. I felt a calm when i saw the birds around her as she was still sleeping but i felt alone and very distant from her.
This is a response to David’s dream,
Hi David, Birds represent freedom. The birds come to your girl friend’s pillow to let you know that for the relationship to work, she is going to need to have a lot of freedom. When you give her freedom, it will feel as if she is further away, but in actuality she will get closer to you. Usually the work you have to do with yourself in this kind of situation is not let yourself be co-dependent on her like not being addicted to having to have her around you. That comes from not fully loving who you are, but trying to get her to fill you up. It is ok to act this way in the short term, but it is disaster for a long term relationship. If you give her freedom and then work on your own self, then the relationship will be amazing and last forever. You should be doing a lot of reading on co-dependence.
Is there any way you could take a look at my dream shows it posted yesterday but I have twice now not sure if it’s visible .. Thanks in advance ..
Hi Ashley, I answered your dream in an email because you also sent it to my dreamsforpeace@gmail.com address. I can post it here also if you want. Let me know.
For some reason it didn’t come to my email so if you don’t mind, lol thanks!
Dear Ashley,
According to this dream your husband seems to be gambling away his life in an unforgiving way. He probably is hoping for a big payoff, but he is coming up disappointed. He doesn’t realize that his relationship with you is at stake. That is why you panic because you are late in the realization of this.
At some point you are going to have to learn to put your foot down and take ownership of the relationship or else it will end in disaster.
Sorry that this sounds so gloomy. I am just reading what I am reading and don’t want to give you the impression that it is not as bad as it may seem. The dark room is the giveaway. It is the dark part of your husband.
Thank you very much! I only needed confirmation. Have a great day.
I had a dream that my dad and uncle were killed by either crocodiles or alligators
This is a response to Hannah’s dream,
Hi Hannah, Killed by crocodiles means that their spirits were killed by people who lurk and then strike. This is usually someone like a bad boss or a parent or something like that. When you are fearful of metaphorical crocodiles, it makes it difficult for you to get intimate in a relationship because you are afraid that the someone lurking is going to strike and find something negative about you or attack you in the wrong way.
second part 🙂
We both hate each other, i know him he don’t know me, we curse at each other, in short we despite each other, at my fourth dream, i told God if hes really the guy of my lifetime, make him appear again, well for me it’s just a risk cause i don’t wanna have a dream of that guy again, so i take the risk, then it turned out he still appeared 😥 what does it mean??? don’t tell me we’re meant for each other?
hi! this is Airish and i badly want to know what my dreams are telling me 🙂
i dream of a guy that i despite, i dream of him 4 times this week, but in my dreams hes nice, so far from the reality, and its killing me, i really hate him but hes so nice in my dreams, at my first dream were in mall, second dream were inside of 7eleven convinient store he smiled at me, and he got out and i chase him, he went to my house, my third dream is he accidentally kiss me below my lips and he accidentally kissed my boob at the second of the accident in my sofa, the fourth is i told god if hes the guy of my forever, my husband in future, i will dream of him, i just take a risk so i would not dream of him again, but hes inside of it again! and its on the last part, when i saw him helding a mic wearing a tux, i woke immediately at morning.. so what does it means?
This is a response to Airish’s dream,
Hi Airish, What you are dreaming about when it is positive with the guy is what his true self is like. You can think of people as having two selves, a selfish one, and a really positive one that isn’t self-centered. In normal everyday you are probably meeting up with his ego, the selfish part, but the dream wants you to know that he has another side that is really positive. You have trouble getting to that true self because all you see is the ego, the negative. If you could see the positive in him and relate to it, then you would have an interesting relationship, but as you can only see the negative, it makes it really difficult. The same is probably true of yourself. It is hard to see the positive in yourself.
I dream I was in my back yard my grass was high, I was wondering how to get rid of the grass, a thought passed that my yard was really bad looking, I suddenly was in the air and I was able to see my neighbor back yard the grass was high to the top of the fence. I was set down and I thought of getting a floor board, and putting it on top of the grass so they can walk. I didn’t think of my grass but how to help them, I was suddenly next door, the floor boards was placed on top of the grass as I pictured in my head. Their were kids playing on the boards, the boards let to a path. it led to a school. I think it was a school there were different types of people from all over the world in a groups. Some were doing cartwheels. I was asked can I do one I said I use to, I tried it wasn’t perfect so I did another, instead I flipped forward without my hands touching the ground. I did it over and over. I was proud, being able to flip forward and landing on my foot with no effort. I was walking through the different groups of people, they were applauding.
This is a response to lovelyaslace,
Hi lovely, This dream shows you that when you focus on the positive instead of the negative, then really great things happen and wonderful possibilities open up. What you did in the dream is what you need to do in life. Instead of seeing the ugliness, you can see positives and possibilities. Then the world becomes united.
Thank You!
I saw three silver spoons in my dream and then my dead friend appeared in my dream smiling at me. What does it mean?
This is a response to Silvia’s dream,
Hi Silvia, A silver spoon represents having an inherited ability inside of yourself that you got from your parents that you don’t have to work for. Your dead friend smiling at you means that you are really lucky to have them. If you practice being grateful for them, they will serve you well and get you very far in life. You are very fortunate to have them. I cannot tell you what they are from the dream context, but if you search inside you will find them.
I just remembered this dream I had that I was following Fat Tony around. I remember the walls were brown in this room. There was another room which was my old art class’ store room. I stayed in the brown room, and found my character, Karu, was standing right next to me, only he looked really odd. For instance, his skin was white instead of his usual beige (which might just be because I draw him without colour) and his head was disproportionate to the rest of his body (his height was more or less the same, though). Fat Tony killed one of his cronies, and told me not to tell anyone. I kept quiet, as promised.
I mean, I’m glad a dream of Karu, as I’d always wished, but he was really off-putting in this dream.
This is a response to Hyong,
When you follow Fat Tony around, people are not allowed to be who they are as in Karu being white skinned. You are not allowed to be who you are. Fat Tony gives you some kind of protection but at the sacrifice to your true self.
I had a dream yesterday that my father attempted to murder me.
Before I start, I must say that I’m not fond of my father due to abandoment issues and neglect caused by him.
It started out with my dad chasing after me in my mom’s house (he and my mother are divorced; I lived in my mother’s home). I didn’t know why, but him chasing me struck a cord of fear in me. After that, I went into a closet and fell down, backing up. He came in and stabbed me various times. An ice pick and scalpel appeared, then I killed him with them. He said “You didn’t do a lot, but you still managed to kill me. Good job.”, and then he died.
What does this dream mean?
This is a response to Kiki’s dream.
Hi Kiki, It is best if you look at this dream in a totally metaphoric way. Your dad, who you are not fond of, tried to kill who you really are as a person when you were young. He probably tried to do the same thing with your mother. The dream is more or less reliving in a metaphoric way what he did to you psychologically. Now you are in a process where you have to begin finding who you truly are, but you need to kill the fear of your father killing you again. Killing the father means keeping him out of the process both in real life and in your mind. He is still in your mind chasing you and killing you. So now you need to get him out of there and find your true self. The way to find it is by realizing that whoever your father wanted you be, you are exactly the opposite. Just a do a 180 of what he wanted and you will find who you really are. Probably you are really loving and non-judgmental.
I dream my sister is with me she is very sick(also in real life)but she told me she went to dr and then her husband come he was fighting with her and told het he won’t do it in front of me because he luv me as a sister then they walk away he start screaming and hiTting her next moment he have pulled a bunch of hair out of her head..I scream and pick up rocks to throught to him..then we starts running to our car to warn her children he is crazy mad(woke up)
(In real live her husband is verbaly abbusive)
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This is a response to Hellie’s dream,
Hi Hellie, The reason your sister is so sick is because she is living in an environment where there is a lot of anger and aggression. This makes her fearful which causes the illness or at least adds to it a lot. If you want your sister to get well, she is going to have to leave him or find a way to change the energy in the house. This is a difficult situation to be in, but it is one that can be overcome. The goal is to change the angry house to a joyful one. You have to make sure, when you are dealing with an abusive person, about the safety of your sister when she leaves or kicks him out. She cannot live with abuse.
All I can remember is reaching my hand out to an owl and it walked up my left arm to my shoulder until it was close to my head . I was happy , comfortable and strong . For some reason I really found power in this bird . I cannot remember it’s colour . I knew it was an owl as I called out to it and asked it to come to me.
This is a response to Brianna’s dream,
Hi Brianna, An owl is a symbol of wisdom. It knows how to act in the dark. This means that when there is a lot of darkness, like a lot of negative things happening like people misusing authority and power. you need a lot of wisdom to know how to act. The owl gives you that power. Without the owl a lot of people do unwise things like confronting the power or not being aware just how dangerous things are. With an owl you know what to do. If I were you, I would remember the owl and ask it what to do when you are troubled about a situation. It is one of the best energies you will ever have.
I had a dream about my departed father. He died of cancer 6 years ago. He did not appear in my dreams for years and this week he appeared twice. Last night he appeared in a darker room, and wrote something that I can’t remember on a long piece of paper. I wonder what it means, what I should do. Thanks.
This is a response to Camelia’s dream,
Hi Camelia, I think that what is happening is that he has come to help you with the darker parts of your life. He is giving you some guidance, but you are not getting it. You can go back in the dream as if you are dreaming it all over and ask him what to do. You can also write to me about the darkness at dreamsforpeace@gmail.com and can tell you what he probably said.
an interpretation of a
dream, whereby I see my current boy
friend being close with snakes in a
beautiful place whereby when I try to
escape there are huge gates and a huge pit
bull on the outsides of the gates
This is a response to Nikita’s dream,
Hi Nikita, The problem in the relationship is that your boyfriend is trying to keep you locked up because he seems to have some kind of problem with jealousy. I can’t tell exactly what kind of snake it is, but the feeling you have is probably that of being trapped and threatened with aggression that probably begins with anger to control you. If you are going to exit the relationship, be prepared ahead of time because it is highly likely that he will use his anger on you in an aggressive manner. His jealousy will probably make him irrational. In the beginning he probably wasn’t so controlling, but you probably are experiencing more of it over time.
Richard sorry for the typo..
I meant to day, I was cooking some of the meat wanting to put a dent in all that I bought them. Thanks again.
Hi Richard
I dreamed I brought my parents groceries. I wanted to make sure they had everything they needed. I opened the refrigerator meat of all kinds was in the refrigerator. I realize I brought more than they needed. There were lots of sausages wieners, fish filet. Everything was packed neat, I showed my father the fish because he love fish, he smiled. I was cooking some of the meat wanting to put S don’t in all what I brought them. My parents or no longer alive. Then the dream switch and there were kids playing with dogs I found one with its mouth And noes taped, I removed it went in the back and waited for the owner of the dogs, a man came and I told him what the kids done to the dogs, I woke up
This is a response to Lovelyaslace,
Hi, The reason your parents refrigerator is so full is because they are being well taken care of in the next world. Whatever you role was as caretaker is now over. They are well fed there. What seems to be your avenue of service for the world now is something to do with friendship. Since dogs represent friendship and loyalty, there seems to be a dynamic where people’s way of relating is being taped up (blocked). Your work seems to be to help them take off the tape which would be analogous to helping people be friendlier. I can’t ever remember seeing this kind of metaphor before. I have heard and read lots of dreams about dogs, but not one like this. I am sure that it will sense to you.
So I had this weird dream, where I was wearing this bracelet but somehow it was under my skin attached to my veins, and it was like a clear plastic tube like bracelet. Anyways it was stuck just below the outside my wrist and it was causing so much pain against my veins that I dug it out from the inside of my wrist by pulling the string and twisting it around until it came out (idfk) and thats when I noticed the charm of the bracelet was attached to my vein and it was this infinity symbol with a feather or something, but no matter what I could do I couldn’t pull or cut it off because that would mean cutting my vein and bleed to death. Lol. It was so weird. And I still feel that pain in my hand from the charm pinching against my vein. Like I was trying to move it so it wouldn’t pinch my veins but I noticed it was attached. I wasn’t afraid, it was like this was something normal that happens. Even the charm was clear and tubey like. Like a small iv tube under my skin. But each time I pulled trying to get it out I would be bleeding down my arm, not realizing how much blood came out.
This is a response to Samantha’s dream,
Hi Samantha, The infinity symbol means that your life is eternal. Infinity means never ending. This is the bracelet that you wear and should read each day that even though your physical body will die, your life will keep going. When you try to take out that reminder, your life gets really messed up. Life is not short. It is really long. If you mess it up, you will be messed up for a long time. If you live correctly, you will live a great life for a long time.
I had a dream I was in a nuclear missle bunker, there was two other people with me, a man and a woman, I was trying to stop the man from setting the bomb off, he set it off anyways, they both died and I survived, but in the dream I felt the woman die, can someone help me make sense of this please?
This is a response to Zoe’s dream,
Hi Zoe, What this dream is mostly about is that when people are trying to protect themselves from danger, it is like they live the danger over and over again in their minds and it is as though they die to their own lives because of it. It is not uncommon for this to happen. When you live your life out of the fear of something bad happening, then you lose your own life. The goal of the dream is to get you stop living your life protected, but instead to your life in the opposite manner. Live your life as if the best possible things are going to happen.