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i dreamed i was coming back from the store with my son in the night and some Africa American guy came after us and started chasing us we ran into my grandma house & we had trouble locking/closing the door & that’s pretty much what I remember
This is a response to Kimberly’s dream,
Hi Kimberly, The purpose of the dream is actually to get you to start doing the exact opposite of the dream which is to be inclusive and welcoming to all kinds of diversity. You have some experiences that lead you to being fearful of African American men at night, which you are going to need to overcome if you are to do what the dream is asking. While it is wise to have proper self-protection at night and in dangerous places, the really important thing is to have a heart that overflows with love for all humanity, especially people different than yourself, and then to be able to include that all times into your life.
hi richard, i am always having crazy weird dreams like someone i know being murdered so i’ve kinda gotten used to them. The weird thing is i will always forget the details of the dreams and have to write them down, but this one i’ve had just really frightened me. I was what looked like a big city with lots of people, everyone was going crazy. It looked like a world war was going on. I was with my younger sister, and all i see is a pile of guns, ammo, soda, and vests. A little after that this huge tank like thing comes from the air and hit the building across from us. Before it hit anything my first instinct id to run so i push the people in front of me and yell at my sister in front of where to go. Then the building we are on start to collapse she has jumped to the next but that is also collapsing, then she dissapears. Next i am running to what looks like a train station and some black guy in his 20’s is waving at me to follow him so i do. he helps me find a table to hid under then i tell him it won’t hold because it was a sort od aluminum table and it wold bend and crush us. He leaves. Then after a few minutes by myself this white man about his 50’s helps me to an out side concrete area and we start grabbing tables to get under. Then this other white man in his 30’s maybe, someone he seems to know, comes up to us and says something i can’t remember. Then he helps too, and the next thing i rememebr im on my phone trying to call my sister, on snapchat to see if anyone else i know is alive. Then woke up. This dream really scared me, it felt as if it were really happening. I have no idea why this scared me more than my other dreams of someone being murdered or me murdering someone, i guess since i always dream those dreams i just got used to them. I rarely ever dream so when i do it always crazy things.
This is a response to Miranda’s dream,
Hi Miranda, What this dream is about is the fear of losing all of your relationships when you around a lot of people. In the dream you are in the big city, but in real life that means being with a lot of people you don’t know or a big crowd. It is like your mind goes out of control and thinks the worst and then you kind of get dysfunctional. The way to solve the dream is to relate to one person at a time right in front of you or first starting with someone familiar like your sister. For the most part people are really friendly when you are open and friendly with them. That is the key always. Then you will have lots of close friends.
Hi. Last night I had a dream about a house that I bought but never actually lived in it (this hasn’t happened in real life). It’s a brand new house similar in size value as the one I’m in now. Im sure I’ve dreamt of this house before and checking on it. When i woke it seemed so real that i was like did i buy another house?!?Anyhoo, it sits empty and I check on it periodically. This time, my friend was looking for a place to stay so I suggested she could stay at my place since it’s empty. So I took her to see it and this time I had a few boxes and old things from my moms place in the basement and my bike. The basement window was open like someone broke in and then I tripped over a blanket and there was kid (10 yrs oldish) inside and he jumped out started laughing and ran away. I was yelling at him that I own this house and I was calling the cops on him. Then I went upstairs and somehow I knew that people were stealing insulation from the ceiling and I was mad. Then suddenly those people were there and I was yelling that I own this house and they were trespassing and stealing and I wanted my insulation back or i was calling the cops. Then more people came in to look around and I kept saying I own this place get out, I’m calling the cops. I pushed the insulation guy out the door and he fell over the railing and died. Then everyone cleared out cuz the cops were coming. Some sketchy guy asked me if I reupholstered furniture. I said no and then he handed me a sheet of houses for sale. Then a kid from across the street looked out his window and said my mom likes your house but she didn’t buy it cuz she didn’t want to look out the window and see there old apartment everyday…. Then I woke up. The unnerving thing is I’ve dreamt of this house before. It’s mostly empty and I am just checking up on it. I haven’t dreamt about it in a long, long time.
This is a response to Desiree’s dream,
Hi Desiree, A house in a dream is a symbol of your Self. So when you dream of having a new house that you don’t live in, it is that you have a new self that is ready for you to move into, but you are hanging onto your old self. This seems to have started around the age of 10. Because you are not in your new self, it is being stolen from you.
To solve the dream what you need to do is to imagine your new self, act as if you have it like in the past, and then actually start living like you have a new self. The new self will give you all kinds of new ways of being especially with being together joyfully and united with others.
I had a dream about two of my ex and my boyfriend who is now in jail they all came where I was but only one have my attention and it was my boyfriend but he is in jail.It slow came to me that it was him and he was drunk. And I was happy but disappointed. Because he is in jail with so serious charges murder arm robbery and more can you please tell me what this means. He tells me all the time that he didn’t do nothing they have him for being with so other guys
This is a response to Connie’s dream,
Hi Connie, The problem you have in your relationship with your boyfriend is that you are living in the present with the positive feelings you have toward him. While you may have a positive relationship with him, his future and his ability to sustain a long term relationship with you should be something you seriously consider. You can be a friend to him for a long time and support him, but it is questionable about what kind of serious mate he would be for the long term even if he is proven innocent. He needs support because he is in a difficult position in life so you don’t want to abandon him, but he probably would not make a great husband or father in the long term. You need to figure out a way to tell him honestly that you want to be his friend and support him, but not a boyfriend. He probably won’t like it, but it is what you need to do in your life.
Hi Richard
I had a dream where my brother and his wife was over for a visit. They brought a brand new car, a Gray Charger. They let me drive the car. They came back and said they wanted to show me something. I don’t recall whether it was the back or front seat. The seat had a blood stain of a drawing. I started to clean the stain but I woke up.
Richard, in the dream I was on my period and I was concerned if I stained the seat. When they came and showed me I did, I tried to clean it. I hope this helps. Thank you….
My husband had a vivid dream of yellow shoes in a puddle at a school bus loop eveybody was in a bus except him and all the buses left he said i was next to him then i disappeared thats when he aaw the shoes.can u help us
This is a response to Jahdal’s dream,
Hi Jahdal, The problem in the dream stems from your husband’s experience in school which means that he is probably going into a new situation in his life that requires learning. His experience is that of being left behind and alone. Even you disappear which means he believes everyone is going to leave him when he goes to the new learning. It is probably a bit irrational, but the fear he would have on learning new things would be tremendous because of the association he has with school. To drop the fear he needs to replace the negative feelings of being left behind with positive feelings of including himself fully into whatever he is doing and learning. This will make him extremely successful at whatever endeavor he is involved in.
I had a dream last night where I was asked to come and when I go there, my fiancee had given birth to two babies. I was rejoicing and so excited in the dream. Please what does this dream mean?
The is a response to James’ dream,
Hi James, Giving birth to two babies in the dream means that she is giving birth to two new potentialities by marrying you. It is difficult to know what they are based upon the context of this dream, but it does mean that the energy that you give off in the relationship is very positive and will be helpful to her. It is especially great that you are joyful and excited about the new birth.
Yeah I dreamt last night that I was sleeping in my bed n I felt like someone touched me n without looking back I asked I their is someone you me again n a spirit touched me I looked back it was a famous guy not really my crush but I like him I had to close my eyes if ill open my eyes in dream the spirit will start becoming fog he hugged me it felt soo good n then he became a real person my mum came n I acted I slept n my mum said who is he I said idk him n I cant remember anymore it felt so calm when the spirit hugged I was wondering if any spirit wanna contact me’) thanks
This is a response to Momina’s dream,
Hi Momina, When you have a dream about a famous person like that in the dream, you have to ask yourself what is it that touches you about him. This means what is it that you admire about him. There is something positive about him that you need to have in your character like friendliness or courage or sincerity or something like that. It is not about being touched physically or hugged by him physically. That is not what the dream world is about. Whatever you admire about him will make your life work in a really positive way if you can develop it in yourself.
My dream was I was in my crush’s house. I liked my crush for months now and I have never been in a conversation with him, except in text when he asked me about schoolwork but that doesnt count. Anyway. In my dream we were together and i was in his house then his mother greeted me and said she’d get him later his sister walked by, she had a gothy mean vibe and she didnt notice me. Then his dad walked by ang greeted me and told me to sit down, then her sister also sat down, and we talked and we got along. Then my crush went down and greeted me and we walked out of the house. He was holding my hand, then later in the walk i was holding his arm, like how I do with my father, it was a really comforting feeling, no awkward feeling. It was a short dream but it felt so good to have that kind of dream
This is a response to Alex’s dream,
Hi Alex, The basic problem you are having is that your crush lives in your mind in the world of possibilities but not with you in the real world. No doubt you are fearful that he doesn’t want to be you, but the dream says that things will work out for you if you make an effort. This is because you have a good relationship with your father. You are a good catch for a young man so just go for it. If he doesn’t respond there will be a lot of others who will.
This is one of my Marth dreams.
It was something else before it became a scene where Marth and Phoenix Wright were connected by string tied to their fingers. For whatever reason, they were being interrogated, and then so was I.
On the table in the interrogation room, there was a pile of papers. They all fell off and I helped pick them up.
Suddenly, I was moving into an apartment with someone. I can’t remember who it was, but he informed me that Marth was missing, and so were parts or the carpeting. This carpet had a pattern of different colours. I already had a section of colour, so I laid it where it needed to be.
I went to a forest which was further away. There was a cabin, and apparently I promised to find Marth. Luckily, I found him wandering about, dazed and sick. He threw up and said he was fine. Something told me he was pregnant, so I grabbed him, and we went to find something for him.
There was a garden, and I can’t remember what I was looking for, but what we found made him feel better, and we stayed the night in the cabin.
There were parts where I was back at the other house.
It was the next morning, and we got ready to go home. Outside was a couch. We put in in a rapid and took a ride through a tunnel.
We got home, and he decided to rest across the road in a different house.
After a few days, I’d made a heap of buns, so the other guy and I sat around the table and ate some, only they made us hungrier.
I went to visit Marth, so he could come home, but for some reason, he was angry at me.
I had a dream that I was in school and I walked into the bathroom and saw my teacher and asked to go to the toilet and she replied “no” this must have repeated a couple times and then she finally said “yes”. The next day I had a different dream but it was as if I was in a game, I was walking around and I could see loads of torture objects and I would find weapons to kill this creepy murderer guy. This would keep repeating a couple times.
Thank you.
This is a response to Eleanor’s dream,
Hi Eleanor, Going to the bathroom in a dream is about letting go of negative things inside of you like anger or fear. Having to ask the teacher to go the toilet while you are already in the bathroom means that you don’t think you have permission to let go of things like anger, like you have to have an adult’s permission to deal with anything about yourself. You need to let go of this idea. The next day’s dream is a consequence of the first day’s dream. Killing someone with torture objects is what young people do metaphorically when they don’t like someone because of what they have done to them. Instead of just being able to let go of the hurt and anger and moving on to better relationships, they waste their time thinking of diabolically ways to hurt someone, to make their lives miserable. When you let go of the negative, then you can begin thinking about ways to make the relationships really positive. That is the key.
Hi I just wondered if you could help me understand this dream..
I had a dream I was on a train slightly off to the left of me was two guys they didn’t speak very good English in from of me was a man and a woman, next to me was another me a different Version of me, we seemed to talk telepathically to each other while everyone on the train thought we were crazy… I seemed to get a bag of coins out and the two guys that didn’t speak every good English also had a bag of coins at the same time we both dropped coins I saw where mine fell and picked them up but one of the guys said that ones mine, before I could say anything the woman in front of me said no it wasn’t, I also said no.
This is a response to Eron’s dream,
Hi Eron, The key thing in the dream at the beginning is that you are on a train. Traveling on a train in a dream means that you are trying to get somewhere in your life by following a single track that everyone else follows. The dream, however has two selves in it. You are in the one self, which is the self of being on a single track, but you never get into the other version of you, which is the self of you that has a lot of different options for doing things. So when you have both selves operation, it is as if you have a choice to follow the path everyone else is on or you can choose alternative ways of doing things. When you only have the single track way, you have a tendency to lose your resources and then have to try to find them again and then not being able to trust new people. When you have multiple choices, the resources will increase tremendously (the bags of coins).
First off, my name is Clay. Any help you can give me will be amazing.
For the last couple of years, I have been having recurring dreams about a Witch/Demon. The first the dreams are like a story, with the same ending. In them, my ex wife is taken by to men, I never see there faces. She is always brought to some kind of room and is tortured. In the dream, know where she is at, but I cannot get to her no matter how hard I try. In the dream, I go into the room, but it’s like I’m watching a movie. And I am forced to watch as this thing tortures her. In my dream I realize that it’s just a dream. But I can’t wake up. Whatever this thing is has the power to keep me in the dream until it’s done torturing her.
Last night, I had another dream about the Witch/Demon. But this time the woman is a good friend that I do have a crush on and care about very much. In this dream we are going for a walk at night and we are just talking. Then this Witch/Demon stops me while the two guys take her. They put her in a van and shut the door. When the dream goes to me, I am chained to a telephone pole. I am then forced to listen to her scream in pain and this thing tortures her. I then appear in the van, again, it’s like watching a movie. I am forced to watch this thing scratch her so badly, it looked like a bear had attacked her. It starts to rip here clothes off and hurt her from inside. Then my dream goes back to me, I am trying to break free from the chains, but I cannot. I then realize once again that it’s just a dream. I try to wake myself, but cannot. This thing has the power to keep me in the dream, making me watch and listen to her be tortured until it is done. The scary part about this, I know that I’m going to have another nightmare like this about her and it will be soon, and I can’t control it. But the thing that scares me the most, is that it’s about somebody I care about so much and I have to watch her be tortured, and I don’t know why.
Any help you can give me will be very appreciated. This was very hard to tell and I hate thinking about it. But I just need some help understanding these dreams.
Thank you!
This is a response to Clay’s dream,
Dear Clay, The dream about your ex-wife is the metaphoric experience of what her life was like for her, which is what probably ended the marriage. Because of some past trauma, like childhood abuse, her life for her was like being tortured by a demon/witch constantly with you not being able to do anything about it. What she would have needed is therapy to disengage the mental patterns learned by the trauma that were trying to protect her, but were not useful. The second dream is more about that you are imagining that the new woman is going to have the same issues as your ex wife. You play the issue in your mind constantly. It is as if you cannot escape the thinking. That is why you cannot wake up.
The problem is that you were affected deeply by your ex’s mental state and it plays itself in all new relationships. What you need to have help with is having a positive view of the person you are with, i.e, seeing her positive qualities and then relating to those positive qualities. It will require that you disengage from the effect that your ex’s behavior has had on you. You should definitely go for help on this one because it will do amazing things for you in your new relationship and have a lot of compassion for your ex.
In my dream, me and my sister were sitting outside our apartment, on the curb. Some people were walking by, laughing, and I think I seen a brown horse or pony trailing behind them. It was night, and it was a full moon, except the sky was colorful like a sunset. When we looked up at the sky, we seen an asteroid going south, and we felt excited and curious. I ran back upstairs to my apartment to tell my mom, who was in her room on the computer, but she calmly said she had seen it from the window. So I went back downstairs and outside to see if it was still there, but it wasn’t, it had passed to the other side of the building. So me and my sister went to the other side, where there is a playground. We stopped right before it, and looked up at the sky, only to see looped lines everywhere from the asteroid we guessed. Well we were trying to see if it had landed anywhere, so we ran barefoot across the sandy playground, and I was a bit worried about stepping on a sticker, but didn’t. When we got to the other side of the playground and stepped onto the green grass and sidewalk, I can’t remember what happened, but all of a sudden my dog was with us, and my sister was holding him on his leash, and I all of sudden had a black dog on a leash. Then I looked up at the sky again, and seen another asteroid, or it could’ve been the same one, except this time it was coming from the east. This one we got excited about because it looked like it was going to land near us, and we wanted to check it out curiously. Well it came and flew to the ground right in front of me, but caused no damage. Instead it bounced like a ball, and I touched it for a split second trying to catch it and kicked it. Then after no longer paying attention to it, I mentioned an object to my sister while we were talking, and that object I mentioned, fell from the sky. Me and my sister didn’t know what was going on, so I joked about it and told her sarcastically, “Oh so what, now coins are gonna fall from the sky?”, and then gold coins, like from a game, were falling from the sky, but just in a small area I was looking at. Next thing you know, I was testing it out, I started thinking about food, but decided to say healthy ones instead of junk food, so sliced lettuce and tomato fell from the sky. After that we turned around because of some African American man with black facial hair, in jeans and a black t-shirt. I can’t remember the words exchanged, but I felt a little uneasy because we didn’t know him and he was just some strange man telling us something. When we were going to walk away after, I noticed the big moon. It was very close, but flat, and I pointed out to my sister how it looked pasty light purple, like it had been painted there….. Then a little while after, I woke up.
This is a response to Patricia’s dream,
Hi Patricia, What this dream is mostly about is the virtue of curiosity and wonder. When you have this virtue, things begin to happen magically to you by just wondering about them. Your friendships even get better. In the dream you are fascinated by everything you see and then begin to wonder what will happen if you just think about things. They materialize. This is because your thoughts are your reality. When you think positive thoughts, positive things happen and when you think negative, that happens also. Since you have this ability, you should wonder about positive things like wondering what it would be like if people were unified or there was more peace.
Thank you for this insight, and what you said is actually very true about the positive and negative thinking having impact in my life 🙂 and also thanks for the advice on how this ability can help, I have never thought about it that way, or thought that it could even help others!
This morning, I had a dream that I was watching in the CSI crime lab. Hodges wanted a kid so bad that he wanted to be the pregnant one, so he asked Sidle to be the donor. Stokes was also there and kept asking him why he wanted to do this. Hodges said “I already told you why.”
Stokes finally accepted it and asked if he wanted to go and get whiskey. Hodges said something along the lines of “Yeah… Well, I probably shouldn’t.” and the three of them went out to hang.
Another dream I had, I met Lee Hi at her school. It wasn’t actually filled with students. In fact, there were only six other girls in her class. I asked her parents if I could get a picture with her and I commented on how strict YG was with photos. Then there was a table and we all had dinner. Alas, I still didn’t have that photo with her.
This issue you are trying to deal with here is wanting something for the wrong reasons and then trying to pressure people in going alone with it. The solution is to go for things for the right reasons and then cooperation will be forthcoming.
I m constantly having dreams about my school days , the previous house i used to live in and my music teacher teaching me in dreams. In dreams I m back to the school i was in 5th grade and the one I completed my high school from, and it’s like i waiting for the big moment to make my appearance in front of everyone in school to perform in front of them .
The home I used to live in when i was 10-17 years old, its in good condition .
My music teacher teaching me stuff on the piano which is some pro level thing i still couldn’t do , and she is helping me develop my skills in dream.
What do they mean in waking life??
This is a response to Vaibhav’s dream,
Hi Vaibhav. The experience in the dream sounds like your teacher was giving you things above your level and wanting you to perform it really well for her sake and not your own. She wanted you to perform at a higher level than you were ready for so that she could get a lot of recognition as a teacher and not for your own development. In your life this will make you think that you should be doing things at a higher level than what you are ready for. What needed to have happened was to build your skills more systematically over a longer period of time. When you build your skills more gradually and systematically, you end up with a lot more confidence.
My daughter had a dream that her father was a crocodile, that he was trying to give her money, and she we afraid. She said he was ferocious, but just hanging around, and that he was dark green.
I should mention that she was 7 when she had this dream, and she is now close to 13. She rarely remembers anything from her childhood, clearly, but remembers this clearly, and still brings it up. Her father and I had just divorced, and he was with a woman who didn’t like my daughter or her sister.
This is a response to Leanne,
Hi Leanne, The reason that she is remembering the dream now at 13 is because she is in a new stage in her life but has left over feelings from age 7. At age 7 a person is beginning to have mixed feelings which means that they can see people in a positive and negative light both at the same time. Probably the divorce had a negative effect on the development of this process. In the dream she is fearful of the crocodile aspect of him, but probably could not relate well to his positive side. It may have been totally hidden because of the other woman.
Now that she is 13 and entering into a stronger relational dynamic with others she will have a tendency to see boys as either black or white, crocodiles or really nice. What she needs help with is seeing with a compassionate eye, which is to realize that everyone has positive and negative sides to them, it isn’t one or the other. You can relate to a positive and let go of the negative or use a lot of wisdom with the negative. Unfortunately none of this kind of information is ever taught in school even though it is probably the most valuable to success in relationships.
Crocodiles are animals that lurk which mean that they try to remain unseen before they strike. She may have some left over fear about guys lurking which would also make it difficult for her to trust relating to others.
Now this dream was kinda super cool. I was holding my guitar and I put the pieces together when I stepped out onstage. I was opening for a band! So cool! I played my best and exited the stage. Then, after the concert, these animatronic animals started coming to life and we had to get out of there. This girl (who I recognized as one of the crew members for the band) came up to me and asked if I wanted to play some gigs. I hesitated, saying that I didn’t have a way to get to any of these places, but she insisted, saying that there would be transportation provided. Then my dad took pictures of the band for me.
This is a response to Hannah’s dream,
Hi Hannah, This dream is about you putting yourself out there in the world as if you are on stage in a band. This is because you obviously have a some good energy that other people need to feel. It is not ego energy like a lot of stage performers. It is more positive. It helps others to feel like they can get out there with their lives.
I had a dream last night, i was in my highschool and i think there was some kind of fair. And i went to this booth with my friends, it was a horror booth with a maze and in the last part one of the boys, who is one year younger than me and is part of the horror booth,pinned me to the door and started kissing me. The door was the way out so i reached for the door knob and opened it and we fell on the floor and i started beating him up.
This is a response to Mope’s dream,
Hi, This dream is about the fear you have of going out and having fun but it turning into guys just wanting to grope for your body. The key to handling those kinds of situations in your life is to have clear boundaries ahead of time. The reason most young women do not set their boundaries with young men is that they believe that they are not going to be loved if they set boundaries. Then they get into situations that they don’t want to be in. You need to know what you want and don’t want ahead of time.
Hi Richard
I dreamed that I was at a mall, and I stopped at a chocolate store. The clerks was helping people, when she came to me, I told her I wanted chocolate candy with peanuts or pecans. She said OK and went to the back and brought out a brown woven basket and said they don’t have it now but when it comes, they will put it in the basket. I was thinking I wanted it to be enough to last. She runged me up and it came to 28.02. I didn’t know if I had that amount. I opened my purse and pulled out, a lot of twenties and hundred dollar bills. I counted out the money. Put aside a twenty and went through the bills to find a five, I couldn’t find one. I thought if I couldn’t find one I will give her two twenties. I checked again and found a five, and three ones that came out of nowhere. I reached inside the purse and with the tips of my fingers pulled out two pennies.. I handed the money, she gave me the basket. I held it to me, and walked away. I woke up.
This is a response to lovelyaslace’s dream,
Hi, In the material realm you do exactly what happened in the dream which is when you want something sweet, you go to the chocolate store and pay for it. Sometimes you have to wait. In the spiritual realm it is exactly the opposite. You go inside and find your sweetness, realize it is infinite, then you give it out to others as if it were never-ending. Most people live their lives with trying to get the material world to give them a spiritual feeling like chocolate giving you sweetness or a drug giving you joy so they end up being somewhat stingy with giving it out to others. When you realize that it is an infinite source internally, then you can just be free with it.