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My grandma died a year ago a few days after she died i had a dream with her saying that she was leaving now. But we didnt really talk to eachother it seemed as if she really didnt like me but in the dream she was very sweet to me i just wanted to know what it means.
Jennifer.
In this dream your grandmother wants you to know that even though she maybe couldn’t show it in real life how much she loved you and cared about you, now that she has left her physical body and is only spiritual, she can really show it to you. She must have suffered a lot in this world, but now she is free and is there to help you when you need her. She will probably need a period of healing, but she really wants to be there for you.
Richard
Thanks for the clarity….yet I am still unsure whether my conscious is trying to tell me to not do it or to do it.. Your correct this is the reason why he doesn’t want anyone to know because of the publicity…yet why all of a sudden I dream of this. Will I be in a situation where I have to decide? Thank you for the on the spot interpretation. I await your answer.
It wants you to go forward enthusiastically in your life to do positive things and have great relationships, but also be detached from others when they do bad things because they will do them. It is kind of like warning that says, “Hey look you cannot prevent the bad stuff so don’t sweat it.”
Your Awesome! Thank You!
Richard
I dream that I was in a large room with lots of tables and chairs. There were workers sitting around talking at the tables. One of my husband’s friends doesn’t know that we are married and I decided to confess it to him. I was able to get a meeting with him and we were at a table. I would start to tell him and strangers will sit at the table and would give me a look that said do not tell him. They would crowd us and his friend will tell them that he need something from another office to make them leave. they will stare at me then reluntantly leave. When one will leave two more will come and will openly try to hear my confession. In my dream I knew they didn’t want me to tell him and they were trying to stop me. His friend told me that what your trying to tell me will open my eyes to things I never paid attention to. I said yes I told him that it is about Theo., he’s been wanting to tell you but he was forced not to tell you. He got up and walked me through the far side of the room and people will follow us and try to intervene. He will give them something to do but each time someone will stop me from telling. I would think, that I would have to tell him how we met, all of the prayers I sent to everyone for Theo, and all the things we went through and how God married us, and I will have to say it quick before someone interfere. His friend looked at all of the strange people around us and looked scared. He said what you need to tell me is really big and they don’t want me to know. How can you tell me without them hearing.. Then I woke up.
Hi Lovelyaslace,
The question you have to ask yourself is why would you not tell people about your marriage. What is the fear? When you are fearful of being open about something to others, it is because you are fearful that they will be envious and then try to do something to cause the break up between you two. This is because there are actually people who feel that way. You have to choose carefully who you choose even your greatest joys with.
Dreamt I was having intercourse with my boyfriend. We stopped because he wanted to go find a more suitable place. I suggested another room and he ignored me and kept walking. He disappeared and one the girls i believe he was attracted to walked by going the same direction he was walking. Immediately I went back to the room we were in to look out the window so that I could look across the water to the other rooms (I could see inside the windows) it was sort of like some hotel or apartments. While looking out the window into the other rooms I expected to find him cheating with the girl that just walked by only instead he was cheating with a man. They were in a tub and it was full of blood the other man got out to grab something and then I saw my boyfriend fully dressed and sneaking out the window to skyline across the water to get back to the building I was in. I knew he was coming back so I locked all the doors turned my phone on silent in case he called then locked myself in the closet with my iPad watching a movie. I heard him come in through the bathroom door forgetting that he could get in through the suite door which I forgot to lock. I turned my iPad off so he couldn’t find me in the closet but he still opened the closet door and I woke up.
Dear Constance,
Intercourse in a dream is about getting closer, more intimate to the other person. So when you try to get close to your boyfriend, he ends up cheating on with a man. What does this mean? It means that he has trouble with intimacy (not sex) with a woman, but can get close to men (like his guy friends). If you get into a long term relationship with him, then this could be very problematic. This dream is a bit of a warning about him because when he acts the way he does, you hide and stop communicating. If I were you, I would keep a lot of other options open for relationships. I don’t think he is going to be the kind of partner you are going to want. Sorry to say that. Just reading the dream.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Hello everyone, I had a dream but not sure if it’s meaningful. I just remember me having a conversation with my husband’s mistress and her husband and before I left them I grabbed both of their hands got in the middle of them and began praying I remember asking them if they prayed in tongues and they said no. That’s all I remember. (My husband and I have been going through a divorce for a year now over this so it’s not too recent)
Dear Shay,
Prayer is normally a powerful tool because God is capable of doing whatever He pleases. In this case, however, it is the wrong thing to do. You are going to have to get on with your new life not being with your husband. It is going to be a big transition. You will need a lot of help dealing with the trauma and with your new life. Your focus should be on your new life with all of its new opportunities. You can pray for that and leave them to themselves.
I had a dream my sons deceased father visited me, it was clear as day. I told him everything bad that was going on in my life, but as I was I was trying to literally build a bed for us to lay in. He told me he was going to fix the issues in my life. I felt the sincerity in his words. Help me please
Dear Celia,
When someone from the next world speaks words as he did and they were sincere, it means that he is going to actually help you. What you have to do is to be in communication with him through your meditative processes asking him what to do so that things will work. You don’t know how things will work out, but he is going to help you. You have to make a lot of your own efforts because without effort, you can get help from the other world. You may think this is a bit odd, but he is really keen to help. You have to show your sincerity or it won’t work.
I had a dream where I was in possession of a stolen defibrillator, all I remember is that I was walking calmly with a friend in a hospital towards the exit before a member of staff yelled “Who stole the defibrillator?!” before everyone started charging at me. What does this mean?
Hi! I had a strange dream and I can not make sense of it. I was sitting in my living room with a new package that was delivered to me. I opened it up and it was a cute pair of leather boots and I was so excited about them. But then they started to float up in the air and the went all the way up to the ceiling and Stayed still. I had a wave of panic rush over me and had a big flood of realization that I was alone in the house and then I started to tell for help but I wasn’t loud enough and I could feel the evil creeping over everything then I screamed and I woke up. Can you tell me what my dream means
Dear Taylor,
Boots are made to be put on your feet to keep you grounded so you can walk forward with determination and confidence in your life. You are hoping that they will do more like give you a lot of recognition and make your life fly. They won’t do that. When you think that they are going to give you more than grounding, you are in big trouble because you will attract the wrong kind of guys in your life who think you are easy. Keep your boots (feet) solidly on the ground, love that they look good, and then really go for great positive things in your life. That is the message you need. When you live in this manner, the creepiness will go away.
Hello, I’m Mariam. I submitted a lengthy dream a few days ago and you kindly interpreted it. It was about school and a relationship and you told me it meant that I was a prisoner of time. I found your interpretation quite insightful and accurate so I’m back with another dream I had today.
We started out at a cashew bar on a school trip including the guy I previously told you about who moved away, then we arrived at this area with a door that led to a small room with red sofas and wooden backs. Students were waiting for parents. Everyone’s parents arrived, I met mine outside then went in, for some reason in the dream my mother is Celine dion and I introduced her as such but no one really reacted how I wanted them to. In fact, my “mother” was pretty awkward and turned her head away. The guy made a point of holding someone else in his arms, I don’t remember who. It saddened me so I also turned my head away. The class went to the main purpose of the trip; visiting a local kids restaurant and cooking for them while the staff were out. All the parents, teachers, and cooks left and only a bunch of students were behind left to running a restaurant. He was actually trying. I saw two dogs outside in two different squares of the park and left because I couldn’t handle being around him, the first one was long and and saluki-like and the second resembled a small bulldog/chihuahua. I went to the long one first because it was in front of me and it jumped on me and it was very overbearing and heavy on my chest although endearing nonetheless, so I tried to wait for it to calm down before petting it or praising it, and it responded surprisingly fast to commands. I visited the other one which was out of my field of vision for a while and in place of the small dog was what looked like a giant, bumpy infected toad or frog. Colorful and swollen. It was implied that the chihuaha-like dog changed into the toad rather than leave and have a toad take its exact place and similar outline. However, I did not see this metamorphosis as my eyes were on the earlier less attractive dog. I went over because I felt bad for it and I did mentally promise I would pet both regardless of how they looked. I tried to help it move but it was rock solid. I couldn’t turn it over, move around, to no avail. A stranger came up to me and told me this was apparently an upcoming phenomenon where frogs/toads get stuck in place until they die, and expressed sorrow over it. I invited him into the restaurant to provoke jealousy in the guy I had a crush on, and I ended up zip lining across the restaurant with the stranger, which was fun until everyone came back, this time with my real mum scolding me for lack of productivity instead of Celine dion. I genuinely have no idea what this means.
Dear Mariam,
This dream starts in cashew bar which means that the dream is trying to get you learn how to be nourish or nurture your social abilities. You have a few things going for you and them something major to work on. The positive aspects of yourself are represented in the work with the dogs. In both cases you show kindness and calm and patience. If you are like that in your relationships, they will get you a long way. It is impressively positive. The negative aspect is first represented in Celine Dion and then in the boy. In both cases you are trying to get recognition by who you are with rather than acting directly with the boy in question. Celine Dion’s image means that you are trying to get recognition because you are related to someone famous. It actually does nothing for your success which is also true about real life. Fame gets you nowhere in a relationship. Most famous people end in multiple divorces. Also trying to get the boy jealous is the worst strategy you could ever possibly imagine. It is dreadful. What you need to do to win him is to be exactly like you were with both dogs, kind, calm, patient, straightforward. When you do these qualities, you will be absolutely 100% successful. Try it and see if it works. I know it will. Don’t use devious tactics or recognition seeking. They don’t work.
I had a very weird dream. It was almost midnight when my mom’s friend visited us just to say…
“I dunno what happend or who is your daughter’a ex. But I have a premonition. He’s coming back so don’t stop your daughter from marrying her ex. He’s serious with ur daughter and he has plan for her and their baby..”
In my dream, I did show him some pictures and asked her to point whom shes talking about..
And he chose my ex fiancee’s pic and said, ” Yes, he’s a playboy, he has a gf now but he will come back to you.. ”
My ex and I didn’t have a formal break up..he worked abroad. Were suppossed to get married next year but i found out he has a gf there. I stopped talking to him to make him realize what he really want. its been a month without communication. We have a baby. And I really dunno if I he would choose us over her.
What does it mean?
Dear Millie,
This is a pretty straightforward dream. It means that while he could be serious about your daughter, he obviously is not serious about the relationship with you. You should allow him to do his fatherly responsibilities including his financial responsibilities and spending time with the daughter, but you shouldn’t try to get back together with him unless he does serious therapy. You should be very strong with him, not angry (polite), but assertive about his responsibilities. Your daughter will need him.
In my dream, my family and I were inside a house and it was dimmed, so I’m guessing it was night time. Well in the dream, we had two dogs whom we actually seen as “pets”, because usually in my waking life, we always see our dogs as family. One was a black Great Dane, and the other was a white Golden Retriever. Well me and my sister were in the Livingroom and I was telling the dogs to lay down on the couch because it was time for bed, but then my sister got food, and so they got off and followed her to the kitchen because she would usually give her food to them. So then I went to my brother’s room, who was folding his clothes, and he had said something disapprovingly of the dogs, like I guess how they get on the couches and such. Well then the black Great Dane had followed me, and jumped on my brother’s bed while he was turned, so I quickly commanded him to get off before my brother noticed because he knew better. So after that the Great Dane went back to the Livingroom, and I went to the kitchen as the white Golden Retriever was throwing an empty carton in the trash, like a helping dog. Well my parents were so excited about the dog doing such a neat helpful task, so they kept calling my brother to look, but he usually doesn’t care, so he took his time and missed it… Then I woke up. Now the black Great Dane was sad for getting in trouble when I made him get off the bed, like a puppy, and I felt like he gets in trouble multiple times for doing things he knows he’s not supposed to. As the white Golden Retriever seemed more confidant when told demands or tasks like throwing the trash, and I felt like it was the good obedient dog that always did as told. I think their color black and white is significant as their behaviors? I’d like to see your thought on it 🙂 Thank You.
Dear Patricia,
Dogs in dreams represent the quality of friendship. Your dream shows that friendship can be either an inconvenience or really helpful depending on who you are friends with. Some friends require a lot of work because they are more self-centered while others are really mutual. It is not that you have to reject one or other, but you need to know how much you can take the self-centered ones because they can be draining. They will need your friendship more than you need theirs. We call those friendships service projects.
My son (7) had a dream he wanted me to post on here so he can get an interpretation.
Aiden’s dream
I was with my friends alone downtown at the river walk and we were sitting near the water suddenly 2 cops came and pushed me in the water. My friends tried to get me out but they couldn’t. I can’t remember the rest.
This is a response to Aiden’s dream,
The purpose of this dream is to show you that the people who are supposed to serve and protect you sometimes do the opposite. It shows that justice is not always available. The goal is to be taken down the river in a negative way, but learn that you can always rely on the justice system being just. When you get this,you can learn to be self-reliant and wise. Those are the two qualities that will really serve you.
Hello again!
Last night, I had a dream that I was in my backyard. Everything was normal, except for the grassy area, which was a ditch. There’s a concrete footpath behind our pool and dug a hole in the path and found a crystal cave underground. I walked around and then jumped back to the surface. I filled the ditch and the grass returned to its normal self, but wondered why I couldn’t fill the cave in, because for some reason, I wanted to.
Hyong,
The crystal cave represents the gems inside of you. When they want to shine, they will be not covered no matter what you do because it is their nature to shine.
That really brightened my gems- I mean, day. Thanks!
Hello thanx in advance but I had a weird dream I saw I think that women was my mum idk who she was but she was a nurse who seduced a man to show his dick because she knew he had some disease so when he showed I saw his dick to it had green bumps all over it idk what disease was it but then I called emergency hospital but they came in a normal car I was like where is the ambulance n they said ur mum stopped idk y but it was quite disturbing can u understand it it was so weird
Dear Mina,
The question is why you would see a man with a diseased penis and then try to get him to the hospital. The penis in this case, is for having sex with a woman, which is a symbol of integrating with a woman. Because of your mom’s relationship with men, it is affecting your perception. The main thing you need to do with men is to think of them in healthy positive way. Look for their really positive qualities and relate to them. Then you will have good relationships all the time.
Two days ago a friend dreamed I was soaked in the rain outside and invited me to come in the inside where it was dry as I was dripping with rain water alone on the outside whilst she was inside
Then I dreamt that I need to cross a river but am afraid of doing it on my own and was asking for help last month. There two paths that were given one meant going around the river to get on the other side and the path was to to go across the river. I don’t remember which route l took but I woke up at this point.
Dear Eunice,
When you are trying to cross a river, it means that have a troublesome relationship that is between you and getting to where you want to go in your life. In the dream your friend had about you, you are rained on by bad relationships that keep you from coming into yourself. The river dreams gives you choice which is what you need to have in crossing difficult relationships. Before you deal with the difficult relationships, slow down, take your time and decide on the best course.
Hello
I am writing here hoping you can help me, 2 days ago I went to bed and I felt like my heart was so slow it was about to stop then suddenly I hear somebody whisper my name and I woke up and seen a small palm size yellow light fly away from my face really fast? Something similar happened last night expect I was terrified, I went to bed normally and my heart rate again was slowing down i felt like I was being pressed into darkness then the dream started, I dreamt I was drinking a alcoholic drink downstairs with my boyfriend and I got tired to lie down, as I soon as I laid down ears went deaf like water was clogging them, my body was too heavy to move, I could smell a bleachy smell and looked up towards my kitchen and seen a pale smokey white light coming from behind my kitchen door then heard a man and womans voice I’ve never heard before yelling at me to get up and go into the kitchen were the smokey white light is.
I woke up suddenly and took a huge gulp of air and out of breath, i felt really terrified and confused, iv had sleep paralysis in the past but for some reason this did not feel like sleep paralysis, it felt strange and different until the point it made me cry, I don’t no why this has happened the last 2 days? Could it be a spirit? Il appreciate your reply & thank you
Dear Jessica,
What these dreams are trying to show you is that when you alter your experience like with alcohol, the light inside of you leaves and then the world becomes really dark and you are paralyzed. The altering lets you maybe relax temporarily, but it has the effect of putting your spirit to sleep and you losing your light. You need to start with your light and stay with it because you have a lot to give to the world. When you get stressed or dependent, you have to work on yourself rather than altering your experience.
Dreamed of a bright, sunny day… My boyfriend is looking back at me like wanting me to come with him and trying to nudge his head toward the track.. My boyfriend is married and we are at a crossroads with which way we must take…. He is afraid to commit to me so he wants me as I am single but stays with wife for security even though their relationship is over and their divorce is suppose to be final within weeks????? Can you help us to understand??? We argued over this wife thing and I blocked his number to rest from the Tramma.
Dear Pammie,
Blocking his number is the right thing to do. He is not really in the relationship for your sake, but for his own selfish interest. You should stay away from him. It is only going to bring you trouble to be in that relationship. Your life will be much better off.
I had a dream about my eight year old nephew who came to me crying intensely and begging me to let him buy his mother flowers, because after coming back from drug rehab center, she has been treating him with much more love and affection and thus deserves to get some flowers.
I was so moved by my dream that I actually got up the following morning and went to go and buy my sister in law a bouquet of flowers and took it to him so that he could give it to his mother.
Dear Sally,
The important thing in this dream is how you are moved by seeing a positive reaction from your nephew. This teaches you to focus on how people may be feeling inside even though they don’t show it externally so much. Most of the time people have a lot of deep feelings of love but the circumstances of their lives and the things they have gone through don’t allow them so show it. When you show kindness and tenderness, it will help open up that love.
had a dream about going shopping with people i didnt like and my mother. It was a large department store like Walmart. I was supposed to do something for this church but everyone was asleep and when it was time for me to get up there they all said good I can’t wait to get out of here. The church was so hot inside and it was making them sleepy and not want to listen to anyone. Then the people that I didn’t like ; received all kinda of free stuff and money like a 250 dollar gift cards. One of the guys said the next card was 350. “Too bad it wasn’t Amazon!” I wished I had got something and was jealous they did and I didn’t say anything. It was time to go and mom was driving my car. The two idiots were already in the back seat and It had all kinds of junk in inside and no room for me. that made me angry I couldn’t get the things I purchased inside. I tried first to put the bag in the back over one of the guys heads and couldn’t. I seen a spare wheel in a cardboard box ” I guess so the car wouldn’t get dirty. Mom decides to pull away and then got left there. she was paying more attention to her phone than realizing I was left there. i got angry and started running around the parking lot. Found a purse that looked alot like my girlfriends and forcefully hit things with it like a hammer. It made quite a shock wave! Thought hey I could call but she wouldn’t learn her lesson then went back inside the building and seen two people talking about their day and all the tables were ready for some group from Indiana university to put their fruit out.
Dear Quentin,
When you have anger and jealousy in a dream, there are two things you need to learn how to do. They are both so important for you. The first is to learn how to completely let go or ignore the people that annoy you and not even pay one second of attention to what they have versus what you don’t. When you pay attention to them and what they have, it takes you way away from your own self and where you are supposed to go in your life. What you need to do instead is pay attention to only your own self and what you need to develop because in the end it is all of the positive capacities that you develop that will help others and sustain your life in an amazing way. This is a really common issue that most people deal with incorrectly. You can let go of your anger and start going after your own development.
Richard
I have had numerous dreams about Michael Jackson, but was never able to remember. Yet this time, I remember walking around alot of people, it was like a outdoor function. I notice on the side some people gathering around someone I peaked through the crowd and I saw a man dancing in light speed, I can see his legs moving extremely fast but his upper body was still. I walked up to him and it was Michael Jackson. I asked him why he was here, he had a childlike demeaner, He said he was Moving, getting ready to settle down, I asked him where, he said a small town where he can relax.. There was a urgentcy about him, he wanted to leave, yet his personal people was not doing things fast enough I can feel what was going on with him. The air was filled with his frustration. I was standing in front of him and feeling everything he was thinking and feeling. I was then in my room trying to find something to wear. I was going through clothes not satisfied with anything, I was trying to get back so I can finish talking to him, yet I was still trying to find something and it was getting late, I would sneak back to see if he was still there, each time I would see a glimpse I would go back looking for clothes. I gave up and went back and he was gone, there was people sitting on benches eating and watching TV a child started talking to me and I was entertaining the child, Everyone was smiling with a proud expression all around me, I would help them with various things, yet all I was thinking was Where did Michael go. I missed my chance again. Than I woke up
Hi Lovelyaslace,
The problem in the dream is that you do not see Michael Jackson as just another person like you. You see him as a big star that, by association, will give you fame. It is a common mistake. What he really missed was having a childhood and being able to settle down. That is what he needed for his soul, but he couldn’t do it. You can let go of the fame and just help people like that rather than thinking you will be famous. They really aren’t very happy. Then the clothing thing won’t matter. The goal of the dream is for you to see that helping others is the important thing, not fame.