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Hello,
In my dream I was laying on my bed and felt the urge to look under the bed. There was a beautiful pink fish with its mouth open under the bed. I thought the fish was dead so I got up but as soon as I moved the fish began moving like it was still alive and swimming. I began to panic a bit and walked to my bedroom door (the fish followed me). I walked into the living room where my father was with the intention of telling him to come get the fish out of my room. My mother and some other family member I did not recognize was in the living room also. When I explained to them what was going on they were very calm as if they knew why the fish was in my room.
Then I woke up.
This is a response to Kamisha’s dream,
Hi Kamisha, To understand what the dream means you have to get the metaphor of being a fish out of water. A fish out of water is like you feel like who you are does not fit into the environment that is around you in the world. Most likely you are a fish out of water in school, but it is hard to tell. Your parents are ok with who you are, but often you are a fish out of water in school. What you need to do is to find the environment where the fish can swim as if you are the fish. It is one that totally accepts who you are and what you are strong in.
I had a dream that I was with another woman. As of now my partner and I are on good terms but we had some trouble a while ago. The woman I was with is a friend of mine, who I’ve had a crush on. In the dream, I first remember being in my grandfather’s mini van with her and some of my family, and then my family exited, leaving the two of us alone. We shared a kiss, both of us laughed a little and I asked her out to dinner the next night, to which she said yes. The dream skips into the next day; I felt really happy and excited. I remember texting my friend/date a rose emoji, however I don’t actually think the dream covered our dinner. In one image I remember seeing her naked in the bathroom of my parent’s house, not necessarily before or after our date. I’d say the one parallel between the dream and reality is that my girlfriend and I don’t text as much as we used to; in the dream I definitely knew about her, and we were definitely still together, I just wasn’t texting her at all, all my attention was on my friend. I’d say that in my real life I don’t feel as if there are strong problems in my relationship, but in my dream I felt happy, almost happier than in my current relationship, rather than guilty at all. Additionally, this dream was followed by another in which I was caught in the rain after school, looking for my bus (that would never come) and I ran to another friend’s house to seek shelter, and was easily welcomed by three of my friends. I really hope you can shed some light on what these dreams mean, thank you 🙂
This is a response to Robert’s dream,
Hi Robert, When you are happy in your current relationship but dreaming about someone else in a positive and intimate way, it means that the person you are attracted to in the dream has some specific positive energy in her that you need in your life. In the dream it often feels so physically real that you want it to be work out, but it is never really meant to be. What is meant to be is the energy that you have to work on. What does this energy do? What it does is help you learn what you were supposed to learn in your family, but you never fully got. It is probably about intimacy for you, how to get close to others. The girl in the dream knows how to do it so if you study her energy and work really hard to incorporate in yourself, then you it will hugely improve your current relationship in ways you never thought possible. It does take work. Inner emotional work of bringing out new energy is a bit like learning a new sport.
This morning I had these open cages with birds in the middle of my living room. There were at least four white cockatiels and a couple of conures. The tiels didn’t mind being picked up, as long as it was with one finger. They were very pretty little fellas.
Somehow that turned to pop culture conventions. I had Karu with me and we talked to people. Around the end, we were about to be on a Q&A panel with at least three other people. I stood in the audience area for a while, watching people walk in. Hugh Laurie was amongst them, so I said “the House is in the doctor” (as in his famous role). Someone came up to me with two pairs of men’s briefs. “Give him these” they said, referring to Karu.
I went behind the table and headed for my panel seat (and I knew which one, because there was a notebook with my handwriting) but not before giving Karu the underwear and telling him “You’re gonna need these.”
Then mum woke me up.
Also somewhere in the midst of it I came into contact online with some guy who was across the pond (a literal pond) from me. To indicate he was talking to me, I held up half a lemon and sucked my lips in like a Simpsons meme.
The open cages with birds are a symbol of liberating people’s positive energy which is the goal of the dream. Getting to liberation requires answering questions. The underwear is probably protection from questions that make you lose it. But the real key to liberation is being close and sweet instead of distant and sour.
Whoa, that’s my approach to life! Thanks, Richard!
Hi there, I am back after finally finding you for a second time, because I was greatly satisfied with your reading the my last time :). So in my dream, me and my family had moved into a house. I got a room, that when you walk in, you’re walking into a small walk in closet, then there is another door on the other end, leading to my room. Well I remember when I first went in there I seen something on the corner of my eye, but didn’t think much of it since I figured I was just seeing things, tired from moving. Well the second time when I walked through my door, I was for sure that this time, I seen a (ghost) teenage girl in a white puffed dress run behind a mattress leaned up against the wall across from where I was. Well instead of getting scared off in my dreams, I usually build of courage, usually anger, and stand up to mean ghosts and fight them off myself. So I walked up to the mattress and quickly pulled it off.. The girl had a black, blue pale like face with sleepless dark circles and long dark hair. She looked up at me with hatred in her eyes, then she quickly ran left, but I quickly chased after her on impulse, and she didn’t get far then dodged behind my big TV. She then held the TV at its sides, leaned over, and screamed horridly in my face, and I backed away for a second, then out of anger, yelled back.. Then she left. Then later throughout the dream, when I went back to my room.. I called to her gently, meaning no harm, just wanting to talk to her or something and see what she wants or why she’s there. I wanted to play nice and maybe gain her friendly trust, thinking if I played my cards right, I wouldn’t have to worry about her harming me. Well when she came out, it turned out she would.. IF I played her “game”, as my Nana likes to call it. As I was on my back, she was on top of me with sharpened colored pencils or some things sharp, gripped in her right hand. She kept trying to hit me with them in my chest to inflict pain, but I kept fighting her off.. Well then I thought, well, that’s all she wants to do. So I yelled in fake pain, as if she got me, and I leaned over on my side.. She then stopped and sat beside me, looking at me with some sort of pity, as if I passed the “game” and it was now her job to take care of me and look over me. As I lay there, I wanted to test out and see if we were “friendly” now.. She was messing with a makeup box and was holding a pink lipstick. So I mumbled and gasped, trying to talk, acting like it was a struggle, acting for the lipstick. She seemed annoyed, but turned to me anyway, and applied it for me. (BTW, sorry if this is a bit long, but I really want to know the meaning if anything at all, and I appreciate the way you interpret dreams 🙂 …) Continuing, the next time I came to my room, she was “playing video games” on my small tv and my little sister had walked in for my laundry (Everytime my little sister is in my dreams, for some reason, I usually have to save her life from something bad or evil). When she was on her way out, she asked cheerfully unsuspicious and for some reason wearing a flower headband like a hippie or something, asking who “the girl” was, and I quickly said she was just a friend, rushing her out before “the girl” did something bad, because she was looking at my sister with the same hatred she did me the first time. Well as soon as my little sister walked out, I then realized I made a mistake, because “the girl” was still staring at the closed door, and I just “knew” that she was going to get my sister hit by a car, I felt it. So I quickly turned to her and yelled NO! and I ran outside.. My family was getting into a car that was backed out of the drive way, close to the oncoming traffic of the highway! I quickly ran towards the car, yelling “NO! Everyone get out the car! Run!”, and I grabbed my sister. As soon as everyone was piling out of the car, I seen a car crash into another and another in the distance, swirling in our direction! Then my toddler nephew ran out of the other door, running into the highway, but my mom yelled and ran after him, saving him just in time…… ( once again sorry, it’s only very long, cause I’m very detail oriented ) …. Later through the the dream, we were having a party. I went outside to say something to some people outside, and after I called to them, my mom called me off to the side as she was starting fire for a barbecue, asking me to get some gasoline.. When I went back to her she told me “Everyone stopped and looked at you, the same way they look at me”, and everyone was just stopped and listening as I asked her “like what?”.. She then said “with wise order and initiative” or something like that ( I payed attention to it, because I heard if someone tells you something in a dream, listen, because it might be important )… A few minutes later, some party guests were in the driveway on a long big white bench. Then some guy asked “who the heck is she?” sitting next him.!! was the ghost girl, she was now in the sun, and I could see her better. She now had light pale skin, short light brown hair, sleepless dark cirlcles, and a hot pink long sleeve shirt.. She now looked 10 years old and was just sitting there, head leaned, staring forward, and I just said “oh it’s nobody, she just my.. Friend! Ha-ha” with an awkward cover up laugh, I grabbed her hand and led her back to my room as everyone went inside to the party.. When I walked into the closet, heading to my room, there was now a small table with two people sitting at it, warning me that there were people partying in my room. Then, now there was a big window instead of a wall looking into my room from the closet. I looked inside, and they were right.. There were party lights, but instead of teenagers and adults like in the rest of the house.. There were elderly senior couples wearing party stuff, smiling and laughing together, having a blast as they left my room. (This dream is almost over, in case you’ve stuck around :)..) I went into my room, and the girl was now “sleeping” (ghost don’t sleep) on the floor over on the side, in front of the sofa and tv.. As I turned around to clean out whoever else was in my room, there was a big tiger, about the same size as me, standing beside a table. As I backed away slowly with my hands out trying to calm it, it gracefully walked towards me, then all of a sudden leaped for me and pounced at my left arm (which isn’t good, cause that’s my dominant hand)! It didn’t have sharp teeth, they were more rounded like a dog, but it still had a good grip.. and no, it wasn’t gruesome, it was like he was aggressively “playing”. I tried getting to the girl, yelling for her help, and when she finally got up.. She stood up and looked deeply into the tiger’s eyes, as if speaking to it telepathically, then waved her hand, and the tiger released my arm.. Then a toddler was hitting him from behind, trying to help as well, but when the tiger turned to look at it, the baby just smiled. Then dream wise, the baby ended up being a peaceful black cat, walking round gracefully as the tiger continued to look at it in deep thought.. Suddenly, whatever he was thinking, was displayed in a floating box off to the side. He was thinking “Well now I could kill it, but then again, defending her (me) like that, could make of a great mother..”. And all this time he (the tiger) was thinking of what to do next, I decided to get my phone on the couch and take a picture of my slobbered arm and the tiger as proof of what was happening! But just as I ran to pick it up…. I was woken up by someone… Anyways, if you took the time to read through my dream, I greatly appreciate it, and would love if you could analyze it and give me your thought on it maybe :)? Thank you
Hi, This is a response to Patricia’s dream,
You are right. It took awhile to read. So when you dream about a new house and your room in that house it is about your new self and the special place you have in your family that is unique to you. You even have a special way to get to it. Generally speaking when you have ghosts dreams they are about negative illusions or imaginings of the mind. They are not real. They are your mind creating negative thoughts. It is like thinking that bad things are going to happen when an environment is safe and secure. So you think she is so bad and when you think it, she starts to manifest or act in that way, but when you are more sensible about her, she becomes more passive and less threatening. The same is true about how you imagine the rest of your family. So what you have to watch out for in your life is how your mind gets out of control in its imagination. When you have a strong positive mind, it counters the negative imaginative one.
Tigers means that you need the virtue of courage so that you can also be the cat which is a symbol of independent thinking. The dream then basically says that you are developing your ability to think independently, that you have some issues with an out of control imagination, and that you need to be courageous like a tiger so that you can have your independence. The work for you internally is to control your negative imagination which is a lot different than a positive one.
Hi,
I have dreamt my dead mother teaching (she was a teacher in real life) to some children: I could only see those children sitting down with dirty filthy legs and without shoes all of them – I think I could 4 or 5, but the rest of the body was wrapped into the darkness). On the floor my sister was on her knee helping the children by mouthing the world of the song. It was a japanese song I wrote it as soon as I woke up: akawakuma akaragawa noto kiru kawa. Then when the song was finished my mother said in Italian (she is Italian so do I) “Bravi bambini” and she smiled, but her teeth looked awfully yellow and she did not look like her anymore. I think I did not really see her face in the dream to be honest but I knew it was her: she was using gentle hands trying to direct the children as if she was an orchestra director.
What is the meaning of all of this?
Thank you in advance.
This is a response to Floriana’s dream,
Hi Floriana, Your mother comes to you in the dream to show you that she is busy in the next world doing teaching work. The dream world is metaphoric so you can think of it as if she is teaching young children, but it is more like people with undeveloped abilities that you need in the next world. Since you are her daughter, it means that you and your sister have some of her abilities as well, not that you would have to teach young children, but that you have some gifts in teaching others and developing their capacities. When you understand and act on this, it will make your life really meaningful.
Hello Richard
I dreamed that someone who lived far away took two of my horses. I told my father and within minutes he brought my horses back. I led the horses through the house and I woke up.
Hi, The horses represent power and enthusiasm mixed together to achieve a lot in the world. They are important qualities to have in your house (in your self). They were stolen from you but when you are strong like your father, they will come back and then you can use them. Imagine being a horse and you will get what I mean. They are great animals to come in a dream.
My mother died 4 years ago. I dreamt my mother, she was putting shaving cream on my face and wiped it off with a tissue paper. She was so gentle and loving.
The is a response to Marsha’s dream,
Hi, Your mother showing a gentle and loving touch to you means that she is trying to teach you how to be that way with others. When you remember her and her touch, you can do the same to others and it will be like your mother is there with you because she is with you in those moments. When you are rough and angry, she will leave.
Hai sir my name is janakiram I had a dream that iam travelling with my bike my friend sit beside me….suddenly tsunami water coming towards us (not a big wave…..level of water gradually increasing) we run for sometime suddenly bike turned off at that time we reached hill begning……but still water level is increasing……
This is a response to Janakiram,
In your dream is you are just traveling in a normal manner with your friend when suddenly a tsunami comes. A tsunami in a dream means a sudden large negative interaction from someone else like criticism. At first it doesn’t seem big, but the longer you hold onto it and run from it, the bigger it gets. This is how negative communication grows inside your mind. It is like a tsunami. To solve the dream you need to be a tsunami of positive communication and action, that is, you need to really be positive in your communication with others. When you do this, really great things will happen for you. You will have lots of friends and positive opportunities will come to you from every direction. Be a positive tsunami.
So my mother passed away almost a month ago now. Anyway last night I had this dream of her where my family and I were at my grandmothers house (mums mum) and my grandmothers phone kept ringing and no one was answering it so I picked it up and I said “hello” on the other end I heard my mum talking saying ” hey Andrea” I replied in shock ” hey mummy” all my family looked at me and were just as shocked as I was. My mum on the phone asked me what I was doing and I told her and then I asked her what she was doing? She replied with “not much just sitting down” I then gave the phone to my sister so she could talk with her and my sister said to us “it’s really her voice talking” we all were crying of happiness but also sadness because we knew she wasn’t Alive anymore. My sister not long hung up after that. I then woke up. Can you please help me understand this dream. Thank You
This is a response to Andrea’s dream,
Dear Andrea, The reason that you are having the dream is to let you know that your mum is fine and doing well in the next world. If often helps the person who grieves the loss of loved ones to have a dream from them saying that they are alright in the next world. It helps make us feel that death is not so final. You can continue communication with your mum as if it were a phone call if you know how to listen internally. She will be there to help you.
In my dream I am in a white room that stretches out forever holding a pillow over my chest. When I look again there are hundreds of copies of myself in a grid in front of me. I start running in place and they copy me. The worst part of the dream that is a voice in the background that is counting up from one, and gets louder as they count. When they are yelling it is still in a whisper. I sometimes experience this in the morning. A specific word I think will be repeated in my head in this manner. This makes me feel extremely anxious.
This is a response to Amelia’s dream,
Hi Amelia, The reason that you have a dream like this is because when you would have made a mistake in your life in the past, you would have been reminded over and over about it. The copies of you in front of yourself tell you that everything you do is going to be put in your face to see multiple times getting progressively louder.
The way to solve the dream is to consciously move the you that is multiple and in front of you to one of you that is behind you and speaking to you in an encouraging and positive and supportive voice. You can try to doing this yourself. It will work miracles, but you probably are going to need some internal counseling work to help you to make the change. Holding the pillow over your chest is a big clue because it is a symbol of needing comfort instead of being beaten over and over verbally for what you did. You can try doing this work by yourself. The key is multiple to one and in front to behind making sure you have a really positive voice.
Saw myself as a traveller in Auckland, tired of walking so resting and lying on lush green grass. While lying there i noticed a local family a young man , his wife and son (approx 2 years old), both the lady and his son have unbelievably beautiful golden brown eyes with slightly green outline, the child is in her mother’s arm and is giggling. I followed child’s gaze and notices a playful baby deer. The baby deer caught my attention n i made sounds and tapped the grass beside me to call that baby deer, it started running i was expecting it would sit beside me but instead it playfully jumped on me and tried to hug.. the way most animals looks for love and affection from people. At first i was reluctant then i given in.. as it looked pretty cute trying to seek attention. In the meanwhile that lady came near and told me that the baby deer is their pet n she thinks it wants to play with me.. she was still holding her son who looked pretty serious now. I agreed to play with the baby deer .. instead of some running chasing kinda game they told me that deer is pretty genious n likes a high rech game they brought a plasting kinda white wheel type device with some vibration mechanism in it.. a line was drawn one and on one side of the wheel atood the deer holding it n on the other side i was standing holding that device.. the one who maintained balance n moved the other person beyond the line once the device starts vibrating would win. The deer made funny faces while moving both front feets before the start of the game. The game began n the wheel started vibrating all of a sudden deer’s face became quite competitive it made me laugh n i lost my balance n lost the game. At that time i realized that when i lost my balance i made the same gestures deer has communicated by making funny faces at the start of the game as if it had known what would happen. The boy who had been serious started giggling again and the deer again came to so that i can pat his back. Never in my life i have felt such joy in losing as i am very competetive but i was so happy in my dream after i lost.
This is a response to Aemon,
Hi Aemon, The deer is a symbol of gentleness. It is like the quality of gentleness is trying to embrace you so that you can get involved fully in what you are doing, but not have to be hugely competitive or overly concerned about losing. I saw today the number on tennis player in the world lost today. He needs the same thing as you right now, gentleness like a baby deer. When you get it, it will change everything. Whenever I work with a person in counseling or give a presentation I always invoke the quality of gentleness to remind me that when I work with people it isn’t a competition. I was a highly competitive athlete in the past so I know what it is like to be in that state of feeling like you have to win. The deer is a reminder that it isn’t the winning and losing. It is the really going after important goals that is important.
Thanks alot for the detailed interpretation.
Thank you for the previous dream interpretation.
I saw another dream. In this dream,I saw that it’s night time and when I looked at the sky,I was amazed because there was sun in the sky. I was amazed that there was sun in the night sky and it was so big. It was like I could touch the sun but I didn’t. Then I got to know that the sun is about to die if Swami Vivekananda(I think he’s an Indian guru) dies and will be replaced by Saturn. I was terrified. I went in search of Swami and I found him covered underneath some rocks and he was injured. I went to him and told him that he must be alive to keep the Sun alive. He said that he only have a few moments and is about to die. I was crying but he said to me that-“Only you could save the Sun” and after that he died. Then when I looked at the sky I saw that the Sun died and got replaced by Saturn. And the Saturn looked real close and it was like I could touch it and it’s rings. And I took all the people I knew about in my underground cabin to rescue them and then I woke up. Can you please interpret this dream?
My mother passed away 3 weeks ago. Last night i had a dream i was at some family gathering but there was a lot of people there, next minute my mum walks in i said mum your here i said look everyone mummy is here no one could see her she said only you can see me i was yelling at them all saying she is here. I then asked her if she seen god she replied yes but she said i haven’t seen Jesus she was upset as she said this.. my youngest brother was sitting there with his head down i said mum have u spoken to him she said no then i woke up.. funny thing is i rang my sister and told her she said she had pretty much the dream 2 nights ago.. she said i walked in with mh arm linked to my mums saying shes here but no one could see her then she said out of no where everyone satrted to see her abd we got to say our goodbyes individually expect my youngest brother she said in her dream she was trying to call him to say his goodbye but he wouldn’t answer his phone then she said her goodbyes then woke up… please help me understand?
This is a response to Leni’s dream,
The reason that you have the dream is that your mom wants to let you know that whatever positive qualities she had in her life, you also have in you. You are carrying them forward to the next generation as if she were inside of you. It is extremely important that you validate those qualities in her and then act out of them because they will keep your family and everyone else you meed unified. Your youngest brother is in the most grief. That is why he is turned away. He needs a lot of patience and attention so that the grief does not turn to negative behavior. You are the family togetherness person. It is as if God has passed that role down to you. Unity is the most important thing you can do. First with your family, then in your community and then with the whole world. Just think unity.
Dream of being in a new house with mum cleaning then changed to cousin walking into a shed and bringing a lion out and makeing it mad then the lion take my cousin off in to river and we can’t find her while
This is a response to Maryann’s dream,
Hi Maryann, This is a dream that shows you what happens when you try to like a new person. The new house represents your new self. Your mum seems to be helping, but your cousin really stirs up a lion, which means that she does something that makes the aggressive energy in the extended family come out which makes her have disappear. This means that becoming a new person makes someone really aggressive like they don’t want things to change the way they are because they have an advantage by keeping things as they are. The purpose of the dream is help you realize that you have to deal with that energy.
Hello!
I saw a dream in which I was not in the present time period. I was in Victorian time period and the people were wearing dresses of that period and there were horse carriages and the weather was pretty dark. And I was wearing a Victorian era gown and I was dressed like the people of that period. I was in the market probably and was chatting with three of my friends(unknown faces,I’ve never seen them in real life but they were my friends in the dream). Suddenly a man came and he was wearing a hat similar to what Johnny Depp wore in the movie “Charlie and the chocolate factory”. And he told me to follow him. I left my friends and started following him and I saw that he was doing magic with some cards while walking. I was amazed by the kind of magic he was doing and he told me that he can give me everything in life like success and stuff. Then I woke up. Can you please interpret my dream.
Thank you😊
This is a response to Suzie Dee,
Hi Suzie, This dream is very unusual because you are wearing clothing that represents a more restricted era in the life of women for opportunities to do what they wanted to do. The man doing magic means that he has an internal process that appears like magic that can make anyone successful. He is inviting you into the process. The first thing to do would be to get out of the Victorian mental mindset that many women have which is that possibilities are not that abundant for you.
Then you need to do what makes people really successful which is to see possibilities that you are attracted to and go for them. If you can combine action with seeing possibilities, you will be hugely successful.
Ok me and my friend went to some kind of thing,we went in the building and I remembered I left my car doors unlocked so we run back to my car and someone had broke into it.the girl was sitting in her car waiting on someone to come out so I reached in and pulled her down got my money and buy her lip of and spit in her face then me and my friend left…we went to another place to talk to some friends . As I was talking to one person standing in front of me as I faced the door ..I looked up and a girl came in and pointed the gun straight at me…but two bullets hit the girl in front of me…and the girl ran (I saw her face) so everyone helped the girl that got shot and I go in the closet for a few seconds then come out and me and my friend ran down the street.looked at where the other girl I just beat up was and the street was full of people…so we kept running..
Then I woke up…..what in the world does this mean??????
This is a response to Kim’s dream,
Hi Kim, This dream teaches you about the consequences of taking revenge when something bad happens. You end in the negative space running away. When something bad happens, you get really aggressive and angry in the dream and then one bad thing happens after another. You suffer. What you were really trying to do in the dream is to go to a place where you could get close to others rather than running away from them. The thing you are going to need to work on is how to get justice without totally losing it. When you get that justice is a little dispassionate, then everything will work well for you because you will be able to get really close.
Hi Richard! Would be very grateful if you could have a look at my dream and some of my interpretations here https://wordpress.com/post/afterlifelovestory.wordpress.com/144 and let me know what you think! That would be very helpful as I’ve been waiting for this dream for a long time and it’s very important for me to understand its messages. Thanks!
Hi I couldn’t read the post. Can you maybe copy it and send it on this page or to dreamsforpeace@gmail.com. This I can take a look at it and write back. Richard
Hi Richard, thanks for getting back!
My post follows. Would be very grateful for any thoughts!
Post: Wind in the sails of oneness
I don’t recall if there was any wind…It was calm and dark. We were alone in a boat. He [my friend/soulmate who died 4 months ago] was telling me some funny stories as he used to and showing some photos. I only remember the last one now and perhaps its important somehow, maybe in that I will be able to validate it at some point. It was a story of how he on one occasion tricked his family about his whereabouts by altering some photos. I only recall vividly one photo where there were about 3-4 different chairs and a person sitting on the right end of the photo, presumably him but I’m not sure. [End of the dream recall though I have the feeling it was much longer and I just don’t remember the details of the talk.]
For the first time in 4 months he came to my dream. Not a lucid dream, unfortunately, despite the daily training and some success in other dreams. After a long time of waiting and chasing him in my dreams, I had decided to loosen my grip a little, as it seemed my too ardent attempts were pushing him even further away from me, as was my depressed and grieving attitude. A week of no tears and here he was bright and careless in my dream.
I was so excited in the morning that he finally appeared, that I didn’t quite give a lot of significance to the details. I now wonder, how could I!
On the next day I was browsing some books to read and videos to watch on the subject of metaphysics, astral projection etc and there was a title that got my attention: Boat. At the moment it just reminded me of the dream and I felt warmness and went on doing my stuff with him in my thoughts as usual.
It was not until yesterday night that I finally was thrown this in my face when my five-year-old daughter, who was going to bed after shower all of a sudden, while I was drying her up with a towel, declared – “Boat!”. OMG! I was startled. I said: “What? What boat? Why did you think of a boat” and she was confused, as she could also feel it came out of the blue and was not related to anything. So she said “Hmm…I guess it’s in the street.” But that was not enough for me so after some time I asked her again, how come she thought of a boat, and as she was drowsy and ready to go to sleep, she mumbled another phrase: “The only one!”. When I asked who’s the only one, she said “you, mummy”. And again she got surprised and asked me: “What does the only one mean?” (in our local language there’s a single word for this phrase which she never used and so didn’t know the meaning). I explained her and she seemed satisfied and went to bed. But I was left totally speechless. At the same time very warm again – as if he was telling me through her, “Hey! it’s me, your friend in the boat, and you’re my only one…we are one”.
This is when I made up my mind to explore a bit further the significance of the Boat as a symbol.
I’m still at it as I’m writing the post and there are some immediate findings, some good some not so much, but I tend to focus on the positive ones. I would welcome any interpretations from more experienced symbolists.
Boat as a symbol for a means of travel on the spiritual path – this one is very relevant, as I’m currently exploring all things spiritual and trying to find my unique mission in this life. I would assume that having him in this boat would mean that he’ll be guiding me on my way.
Boat on a river between this reality and the afterlife. The crossing line for the spirits and the meeting place for souls between the two worlds. I guess this one doesn’t interfere with the first one and could just complement it. It somehow gives a more realistic touch to the dream.
Boat as a transportation for the spirit to a new incarnation. I found this one somewhere and I didn’t quite feel positive about it, as this would mean that my friend was going to be reincarnated and would lose any memory of me. I have a lot of fear associated with this version and I have thought on numerous occasions that if he chooses to reincarnate, I would please ask him to give me a hint of where and who he would reincarnate into, so that I could somehow identify him. I’m sure I would feel this, but my mind just keeps on asking for facts…silly mind.
The last and least attractive interpretation is the one which is always associated with dreams involving deceased persons. It’s when they take you with them and that would symbolise the dreamer’s passing away. He didn’t call me anywhere, we were just spending time together, and it’s more like I called him into my dream, so I don’t take this as an invitation. I am not afraid and I will happily join him someday, but I just know I still have a lot to do here and my intuition just tells me this is not it.
I guess I’m done with the main findings. Will be researching further, but any ideas and suggestions would be very helpful!
Love.
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Many thanks for your time!
Hi Wantedtobe,
In the dream you are in same boat. This means that you are on the same spiritual path with the same issues. It is better that you did not have a lucid dream, because really what you need is understanding, not feeling. The understanding that he is giving you is in the photo. The photo is a doctored one which gives the impression you are in one place, when really you are in another. This is the challenge that you face (we face) in the modern world. The culture teaches you that you need to have it all together, when really no one does at all. We are all challenged and often lonely, but the culture wants you to appear doctored up like you have it all together. It makes it convenient for those that have financial and other types of advantages over others if they don’t have to deal with the actual truth which is that no one really has it together. We all have challenges and issues, but they are difficult to deal with it because they are supposed to be hidden. You are supposed to be perfect like all of the super models on the magazine racks in every store in the world. It seems like what you are trying to do on your site is to create a space where everything doesn’t have to be pretty all the time. Life is not easy. It is probably much better that the person in the dream is in the next world and not this one because he can probably help you a lot more from that realm. You are going to need to keep going forward in a positive way by looking at the negative and using it as a means for transformation. You are really on a great path in a good boat. I love what you are doing.
Richard, I’m speechless. That was amazing. All of it was right there, so simple, but I couldn’t make it out on my own. It was probably him again to bring me to you for this interpretation. The photo thing in particular, this was something he wrote in his antemortal letter to his friends, that we should end with this masquerade and be ourselves and live our real lives.
Thank you so much for this and for your words of encouragement as well. My friend’s passing was really a soul-shock to me, but it was also a wake-up call and indeed his being on the other side brought him even closer to me and he has already helped me bring my life back on track and there still is a wonderful journey ahead.
Love.
Hope
Richard, I know this is probably impolite to turn to you for so many dream interpretations, but I just want to be sure I’m getting the messages from my friend on the other side correctly. Today’s visitation was very brief and mystical. I saw his face imprinted on the super-large full moon that I saw right above me. Again very beautiful, serene and positive. What do you think that could mean? I could find some symbolism about the full moon as spiritual transformation and travel to new dimensions. I read seeing own reflection in the moon means death, but nothing on seeing deceased people’s reflection. Would be grateful one more time for your thoughts on this. Thank you!
Hi, Not to worry on the dreams. The moon is a symbol of the feminine side of the divine qualities because the moon receives the light and then shines it back. Since he is a twin-like present for you, he is showing you just how powerful and strong your feminine qualities are and that they can be used amazingly to help others. It is great image to keep forever.
And again, so true, Richard. I even went goosebumps. I’ve always felt I should give people happiness by sharing my love with them and this has worked perfectly and transformed lives and destinies for many. Got me thinking and I should probably keep that going. Thank you so much. As to the image – indeed, so beautiful, I get breathless when I recall it and I have even photoshopped somewhat a similar picture with his face proper to keep it in my memory forever. You can see it here https://afterlifelovestory.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/twin-moon/
Many thanks for your time and willingness to share your knowledge and support to those in need.
Best,
Hope
Really enjoyed the photo. Amazing.
Thank you, I really needed to hear something positive…
Long time no see! A lot of my dreams since last time involved calendars and ended abruptly until recently.
In this one, I was on a cruise liner. I watched the sun go down on the horizon and all the stars coming out over this huge ocean. The woman from my other dreams appeared next to me. She asked if I was coming for dinner, so I said yes. She slipped on these sparkly white shoes and this dress appeared on her. It was a princess dress with blue and silver. I followed her to the door. Once she opened it, she told me to take off my hat. I didn’t realise I was wearing one until she mentioned it. It was a captain’s hat, and it hit me that this was my ship.
We walked inside, and I gave her my jacket because she was shivering. Everything in this room was covered in ice. On the other side was an empty ballroom so we carefully shuffled along the carpet. Might I mention that there were bouquets in gold vases as well, and the tablecloths were the same red as the carpet.
We got to the ballroom and the chandelier on the ceiling was absolutely giant. I look back at the woman and the jacket is gone, but her face is painted with blue makeup.
A friend of mine comes up to me with his heart bleeding and says he needs a pacemaker. I look down and I have all these rings on my fingers. I tell him I’m going to sell them and use that money to buy him one. The woman says she can sell me one if I trade the rings to her. I do just that and implant the pacemaker into my friend. He is an old man in real life, and when I looked back up it was like seeing him twenty years ago. He thanked and headed for the buffet which wasn’t there before.
There was also a white piano on a stage. The woman asked me to play a tune, so I went up and messed around. Suddenly I was playing something I don’t recognise. The woman sat beside me and harmonised with me. Somewhere in the middle of the song, I got a little scared because this song was so surreal.
The room got dark and there was suddenly a crowd cheering me on, then it started rain inside the room. I got such a rush that I threw my hat in the crowd. Then everything faded out.
I woke up rather refreshed, surprisingly.
The basic theme is that you are surprised at who you are, what you can do, and who you are with are with. They start in a kind of positive way, but then go to ice which means coldness in relating and then being rained which is to dampen what you did. However, you ended up feeling refreshed and high so that means that the identity of who you actually are and who you can be with really invigorates you.
This brightened my day! Thanks!
Richard
I had a dream where I was living in a department store. I was in bedroom area sitting on the bed. There were other women in the area. I had a event to go to so I went and picked out a outfit. Laid it on the bed. The night crew came in cleaning the department store, yet I needed shoes and other items so I walked around the store picking out things I needed. The night crew helped me with items I couldn’t find. I heard all their conversations. Some complaining about others not working… Others about their families, they saw me walking around at night with my pajamas on yet they moved around me like I lived there. The department store was dark and I needed finger nail polish I saw a red one among others and blindly grab one from the back hoping I picked the right color. I went back to my bed so I can start to dress. I walked around the bed and the automatic doors opened. The store was closed and I didn’t want anyone seeing me in the store. I walked around. And started to dress than I woke up.
The day before I had a dream where I was in a foreign country.. One was where I was at place where everything was brown and rusted. Dirt was blowing and I was walking around this plant looking for something. Men will warn me to be careful and I will continue climbing over things. I found what I was looking for and I was happy wanting to tell my husband. The other dream, was short, I was nervous seeing my husband for the first time and I saw myself with short hair in a tiny pony tail, the front of my hair was gray. I had facial hair and I looked older than I really was.. My face was sagging and I was looking up at my husband with a look that said this is the real me, He was young and handsome. He lifted my chin, with a look of pure love and gave me a long kiss right on the kips. He took my hand and we walked away. I woke up.
Hi, Very interesting dreams. All three dreams have a similar issue which is best stated in the last dream. You are worried that others are going to see you in negative like seeing you old and saggy, but instead you get the opposite reaction. This means that you are not perceiving yourself in a positive manner. It is so much better than you think. Whether you are a new place, in a shopping center, or just with your husband people really like being with you and helping you out. This is because you are an amazing person on the inside. You can just completely let go of any concerns about how others perceive you because you are truly awesome inside. When you feel this way, you will be comfortable anywhere you go. Believe me. It will be great.