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Greg,
Sometimes if makes sense in a dream if you just flip the negative images over into their positive opposites. This is like a formula for where you life really wants to take you right now. So instead of being on top of parking lot garage being fed bad food, you need to be in your car driving. This means that you need to be going forward with your life driving it forward with your own goals and plans. Your mind is like the fuel. Instead of looking at images on facebook, you need to be having positive relationships with others and being really electrified by them.
The fear only enters and stays there when you are stationary doing nothing. Just get moving forward and everything will work out.
Hey Richard, just woke up from a scary ending of a dream. All I remember was being on too of a parking garage with a friend and we were handed some tacos by some guy in his little car, my friend tried one and said “these aren’t real tacos” and spit them out. The Last thing I remember was looking on Facebook on my phone and seeing a close friend and she was in a swimming pool and she was making out with an electrical outlet nothing was happening to her, she just kept going. It scared the shit out of me and my heart rate rose a lot until I woke up. Any ideas about this one?
Hey Richard, just woke up from a scary ending of a dream. All I remember was being on too of a parking garage with a friend and we were handed some tacos by some guy in his little car, my friend tried one and said “these aren’t real tacos” and spit them out. The Last thing I remember was looking on Facebook on my phone and seeing a close friend and she was in a swimming pool and she was making out with an electrical outlet. It scared the shit out of me and my heart rate rose a lot until I woke up. Any ideas about this one?
First of all when your friend had the dream about you, the dream is about him because whatever he sees that is negative in you he also sees in himself but has not yet fully accepted the negative reality. So really the best way to handle this dream is for you and your friend to work on yourselves simultaneously. The issue that the dream presents is your vulnerability or susceptibility to taking things that are not beneficial for you because others convince you that you should. When you follow the advice of those around you, you run the risk of doing something to yourself that is harmful and then you need to help to overcome the harm.
The purpose of a lot of so-called recreation drugs is to escape the current reality by feeling feelings that you cannot feel on your own. However, when the drug leaves your body, you go back to the current reality only now you have more fear.
The positive way to approach life is to realize that there is a positive energy inside of you that is a solution to the negative energy that you feel from the current reality. The goal is to open and develop that positive energy so that you feel “up” all of the time in the current life situation. When you are convinced that you should do it by physical means rather than internal ones, then you not only have to deal the current reality but each time you do the drug you add to the fear of the current reality. So in the beginning you only needed to deal with the difficulty in front of your face, but when you add a drug, the difficulty goes out into the future as a really frightening thing. The more you take the drug the worst the nightmare gets.
So say you hate your teacher because he is so critical and unfair and makes unreasonable demands. As a solution you decide to go out and drink to take the pressure off. When the alcohol wears off, the teacher is still there so the next time you try to do the same thing it doesn’t quite work as well. The internal drug you need to solve the teacher is to see where you really want to go in your life with a positive vision, become detached from the teacher, and then have a lot of enthusiasm for where you are going.
Dear Richard
i was wondering if you can help me out .. a friend of mine had a dream that i was sitting with some people i just met and they were convincing me to take drug injection and i was actually convinced and when i decided to take it she ran to pull it away before i inject myself however we both got injected with the same drug and then a doctor gave us both injection to prevent the drugs from getting into our body .. ever since she told me the dream and ive been asking ppl around im soo freaked out .. they said something really bad is about to happen to me .. can u please tell me what you think .. i would really appreciate your feedback .. thank you
Hey Rachel! Sorry but I wasn’t the one who posted about Michael Jackson haha the famous person in my dream was Neymar the soccer player. Chandler would be an awesome ‘friend’ in a dream! Your input on the ghosts were interesting, it is healthy to get excercises and I need it sometimes for an anxiety moment. But sometimes I would run too much wen I could of been pursuing fun, kind of like how your ghost was sucking you into the vortex, there were maybe some characteristics in that dream with negative qualities that you have been sticking with instead of getting rid of. The answer for those questions seem to be or what I think is surrounding myself with the wrong people, when I should be opening my mind to where I should actually be. It really bothers me and one of the ways I have to get past that is grow some balls haha and cut some connections before they change me, and not let me be me kind of like the ghost. If you have anymore info on your ghost dream maybe I could have some input as I do like to look up details in dreams ALOT. Thank you Rachel!
And to Richard, definitely something I would really like to fix as it is easy for to slip into that at times. Thanks, Greg
Greg,
This dream shows you how you sabotage yourself and then get really far from where you are hoping to get. In the dream you sent me previously you needed the virtue of playfulness because it makes things light and easier to go through. In this first part of the dream it may be helpful for you to just see the girl as an aspect of yourself, but at the same time see how you sabotage your efforts at relationships. She approaches you in a kindly way and then starts criticizing the worst parts of you. This is reflection of what you do to yourself. You first start to approach someone in a kindly way and then you go off into the worst kind of negative attack on yourself. The next part of the dream you go chasing after a child and then let go. This is because instead of focusing on your positive potential or your positive qualities inside, you believe that if you attack yourself that somehow you are going to get better or change. When you attack yourself, it is like chasing after a pack of ghosts. Even if you caught them, they wouldn’t be there. Negative aspects of yourself that you attack that you are trying fix in your garage of yourself will get you nowhere.
The key is flip the negative thinking into focusing on your positive qualities and see yourself with the qualities that the famous person has. You admire the famous person because of his great qualities which you have in you. When you relate to them everything will work. The girl in the driveway will turn real and be really friendly.
Let of go attacking yourself. Find your positives.
Dear Greg,
I also dreamed of a ghost the other night. It was spinning in my living room and as i watched it I got sucked into its vortex. In the second part of my dream an ex-boyfriend and old friend (who both in real life abandoned me) and in the dream I forgave them and then we played some awesome games together. When I read your dream about Michael it also reminded me of dreams I used to have about Chandler Bing from Friends! He would be the one encouraging me in my dreams. In my dreamwork of the spinning ghost I’ve realized that when I get into that spin it leads to a wall – meaning, it takes me away from my True Self or true purpose (which is to notice lots of really great opportunities to bring inspiration and Unity to people and go for them with a lot of courage and trust in the positive outcomes/results). When I detach from the “spin” (or maybe that is like “not following the running ghosts”) then I can find it easier to forgive myself for the relationships I’ve had with people who hurt me and learn to have more play and enjoyment in new and more positive relationships.
When I read your dream these questions come to mind:
When I’m working on something I enjoy creating or fixing (like a project in the garage) how do I let memories of past mistakes interfere with me going forward?
If the solution has to do with detaching from ghosts (running packs of them or spinning ones) and attaching to the character qualities I admire in these other personalities (playful being one of them), what can I do today to bring more play into my day?
Are you interested in sharing your thoughts on these questions? I will also reflect on them today as well as your dreams are giving me further insight into my journey as well.
I thank you for sharing your dreams on this open forum.
Rachel
Hey Richard thanks for te last interpretation, keeping playful is definately something I need to do in life. I had another strange dream last night as I was working on something in my garage a girl that looked like someone I knew from school walked up my driveway and started talking to me very nicely, then she started chewing me out. Picking out some things how I used to treat people and some things I absolutely hate about myself. I tried to talk to her be she forcefully left and walked away. As she was leaving I saw some of my neighbors outside and a little kid in a big costume that for some reason I tried to chase. I caught the kid but I let go and kept on running seeing a figure if power I tried to run or meet him, when I was closer I saw a group of cross country running ghosts who I followed around my neighborhood for alittle. And I stopped after not that far of a distance thinking, “Why am I following ghosts?” And then I woke up.. The famous person is someone I look up to and would like to be like, so why did I follow the running pack of ghosts?
Happy holidays, Greg
It is really good to listen carefully when someone visits you in a dream that has passed on to the next world. You are fortunate to get this dream. It is so true what he said about you that you are special and can do a lot of amazing things. You should really take what he said seriously because then you can be of great benefit to others during your life.
He also said that the people who wanted him dead are the same people who cause the bad things to happen in the world. So the question you have to answer is who are they?
They are people who have a lot of jealousy. When you have a gift like he did, you are surrounded by jealousy and it can be so deadly to you that you get really weak and ill from it like he did. The only solution to jealousy is keep doing positive things and be detached from the attacks.
You are lucky to get the dream now because when you start producing good stuff, you can remember it and then not be so affected by the jealous attacks. He didn’t have the best family history so that made him very vulnerable.
The main thing now is to use every ounce of your energy to develop your gifts. That is the important thing.
Hello Richard, its Cody. I had a dream that really shocked me and I think maybe its more than just a dream. I had a dream where I got a phone call from the late Michael Jackson. I picked up the phone and said “hello.” He said, “hello Cody. This is Michael.” I said, “Michael who?” He replied, “Michael Jackson.”
I didn’t believe at first but he said some things that had me convinced that it was really him. I asked him how he was able to contact me if he was supposed to dead. He said that “someone higher” allowed him to do so.
Michael told me about what happened to him in regards to his death. Saying that he knew in May 2009 that he had about a month or so more to live. That he was deteriorating. He also mentioned that several people wanted him dead. I asked Michael who these people were and he replied, “the same people who are responsible for all the bad things that happen in today’s world.” He said to me that he was okay with dying because he knew his children would be safe.
He went on to tell me that the reason he chose to talk to me is because he believes I am a special person. Michael said I will have great life and be able to do so many amazing things.
At the end of the conversation, he told me to not give up hope and that one point or another we will speak again. Then he hung up. I then felt a warm touch on my shoulder and woke up.
This was a such a crazy dream that I can’t seem to wrap my head around.
This is my dream from last night that I am very puzzled about, please help.
Well it started off good, it was a group of people from church and we were saying how to church and the pastor has helped us, and we were running and jumping off a pier into a lake thing and everyone was having fun, but it went all dark and everyone had to get out and it became more like a pool and we were made to walk around it and try to get up on the sides of the pool-lake thing, and if you grabbed someone who was already up, lets say Jim already got up on the side, if you grabbed on to Jim to try and help yourself up, these scary people dressed in fully black would come with a black cloth ribbon thing and suffocate Jim. Anyway, then I finally got up on the side and I was standing there hoping nobody would try to to grab me. But the people just kept walking round and round trying to get up and people just kept getting killed. And then I noticed that off to the side there was a group of people that must of been in with the scary people, and they were all sitting there in suits just watching everyone be tortured. And one of them said something to me about leaving their dryer or something random on at home, and told me to go get it, then I was like what? Like there is dozens of people here being killed and you want me to go get your dryer? Then she got up and I walked over a bit to her and there were these eggs where they were growing the people in black. And she was like ‘let’s see how it goes down with you being next to me when I do this’ and chucked an egg on the ground and these two girls that looked like that had been possessed or something started chasing me and I ended up stabbing them with a key. Then three others came for us and started chasing us (another girl which had been walking around the pool joined me) and we got chased around for a while and then we tried to stab them with keys but the keys wouldn’t break the skin so we just injured them then tied them up. And we went back to where the people were walking around trying to get up onto the side of the pool, then I woke up.
Naomi,
It is easiest to understand your dream if you first think of human beings as being dual-natured. This means that there is a part of you that is higher self that is a permanent part of your character and positive, and then there is a lower self that is negative and fearful and tends to be self-centered.
When the church and pastor are a positive experience for you, it is because they are encouraging you to act out of your higher nature. When you act out of that nature your relationships are really positive like being in a lake swimming with your friends. Everything seems good.
However, you soon find yourself being dragged down by dark forces that you really can’t deal with well. What most churches and most cultures teach is that the dark forces lie outside of yourself out in the world. While it is true that there is a lot of bad stuff out there that happens that pulls you down and chases you, it is also helpful to see that you have the same forces inside of yourself in your ego or darker side that are pulling you down. On the one hand you have an experience that is uplifting you, but on the other you are pulling yourself down and threatening yourself internally so that you won’t go fully out there and do something extraordinary. The ego pulls you down so that you are protected from really going out there and doing something that will change the world.
This is very common in your culture, but also common in others as well. When you leave the confines of the church to transform the planet, there are huge internal forces that tell you to stop and protect yourself. Most people in your position do exactly that. Stop.
The dream wants you do the opposite which is to go forward and do extraordinary things with your life for the benefit of the world, but it is showing you what you have to get over internally and externally in order to do that. Since the internal dark images are just protection, you can just simply leave them behind or transform them into positive ones. Instead of being stopped by darkness, you ignore the darkness and see the goodness or light in others and then go after it.
You have a very bright future ahead full of possibilities of really changing the world around you.
This is the first time I’ve had such a dream and it was quite terrifying…
I dreamed that I brutally murdered someone. I am sure it was a female because I kept referring to the person as “her”, and I am sure she had short wavy blonde hair (which not a single person I know has), but I have no clue if I ever saw her face. The entire dream involved me panicking because I was guilty and scared.
I did not witness the actual murder in the dream, but I cut up her body and stuffed it in a bag. The bag was left open on the floor of my dorm when I was dragged out by my friends, and I had to run back up the stairs and get there before they did later in the day so she wouldn’t be discovered. I threw up when I zippered the bag, and tossed it into a pile of miscellaneous stuff (I’m a messy person).
My friends left and only my roommate remained with me. We sat in the common room outside of the room with the bag, and I was panicking internally. I have never been so terrified in my life, either in or out of a dream. I knew that I couldn’t leave the body in the bag in my room, and I knew that I had no clue how to get rid of it. I started sweating and remember being frozen with my eyes wide open.
My roommate asked me what was wrong, and I took a while to answer. I asked her, “she could still be alive, right?”, regretting killing her and thinking that she could very well be fine and walk away without causing me any trouble. I pictured the image that I had seen when I zippered the bag again; a bloodied severed arm was resting on top of the pile of body parts. I could just not accept that she was actually dead.
I asked my roommate to check the bag to see if she was still alive. My roommate refused at first, but after rolling her eyes, eventually accepted. She walked in the other room, grabbed the bag, and my panicking increased as I heard her unzip it. I heard her shout my name, followed by a “what the hell?!”
I called out, “Is she alive?”, knowing that I would have had a heart attack on the spot if the answer was no. My roommate called me into the room and I walked in and looked into the unzipped bag. Stuffed inside was a life-size rag doll; no blood, no detached limbs.
That is all that I remember from the dream. Let me repeat that I have NEVER had a dream as terrifying as this one (and none that came close). My roommate told me the next morning that I had been shouting in my sleep. A quick google search told me that murder dreams are common with waves of depression, which I have always struggled with. I have also very recently gone through a nasty breakup, and am in quite a rut of depression now.
Kristine,
Despite the horrifying nature of what you experienced in the dream, it is extremely educational for you and can explain a lot about the depression. Murdering in a dream is a metaphor for how you end relationships with others. It is actually very positive that you are doing the murdering, even though it is such a negative experience for you because when you are the murderer you can take responsibility for your actions and then change yourself into a more positive person that keeps relationships rather than murdering them.
The important thing in this dream is who you are murdering. The girl has short wavy blonde hair. So you can say that what you are trying to stay away from or murder in your life is a relationship with blondness. What is blondness? Blondness in the culture is what women try to be so that they are more attractive. You have murdered your blondness because you probably have the wrong association of what it means to be attractive. Attraction in the true sense is based upon positive qualities. For instance, when you are compassionate or courageous or honest, you become attractive to others. When you have enthusiasm or determination to achieve something, you are very attractive to other people. Your depression happens because you have some kind of bad association about being attractive. You probably think that blondes are shallow or something like that so it is important to just be rid of them.
The solution to the dream is to change from feeling guilty and horrified over murdering your blondness to giving life to positive qualities inside of you that are of a serious nature. The way you can begin to start giving yourself more life is to take on a serious cause and then be really devoted to it.
The fact that you were feeling guilty about the murder means that you have a compassionate nature and that you would be good working with a cause that dealt with people who have been excluded. The first quality that seems to need awakening is your compassion. Then every other door will open to you.
Hows it going Richard, Had a strange dream last night.. Started with playing some basketball in a gym and then we went outside, there was some people that i work with and a couple of friend’s that were just messing around having a good time. The next thing I knew we were walking inside a building when a doctor in blue scrubs walks through 2 doors and says “Come with us.” I woke up immediately because I must have been frightened. Any idea what these things mean, the doctor part is puzzling me. Thanks, Greg
This is a reply to Greg’s dream. The dream begins with you playing basketball and having fun with your friends. This is obviously a positive experience for you so the dream is showing you the value of the virtue of playfulness. Playfulness allows you be light and fun while you are doing any activity. It also allows for a lot more inclusion. When the doctors come in, it is probably because you don’t feel like you have a very healthy attitude toward work and being responsible and serious. You may have conflict inside where you do not believe that the two energies can coexist in harmony. You don’t want to give up play because it is enjoyable so you may believe that you need some kind of treatment or surgery to get more responsibility. The two energies like all positive energies automatically coexist as if they were best friends when operate with them. You can be very serious and you can be very friendly. They go together really well. We have serious issues on the planet, but they are dealt with much more easily when we have a playful and light attitude about them. You need to keep your play.
Hello Richard, Cody again. I had another confusing dream involving the same two women I’ve been talking about, Kelly & Jessica. The dream involved me and Jessica sitting in a car. We apparently were having a serious, deep conversation. She told me that Kelly loves me very much and that she loves me very much. Then she asked me to tell her things and to be honest. I told her she’s very beautiful and I always think of her. Then, I got lost for words. We began kissing and I reached up her skirt. Then I woke up. I’m not sure why I keep having these dreams. Its a little awkward. What do you think? Ill post the link to this website on my site. Thanks Richard.
Hi Cody,
Based upon the transformation that you have already done in your thinking process by working on being more positive in your outlook and actions, this means that now that you are much more leaning in a positive direction, people who need your help will want to re-connect with you. That is because people change when they are around positive energy, not when they are around negative and depressed energy. It is a great dream to have. I would certainly reconnect with him and then be open to others as well. It will show you where your own work is also to maintain a positive outlook.
Richard
Hey Richard, its Cody once again. Thanks for the interpretation the other day. It gave me a lot of perspective. I had a dream this morning about my friend Mykal who I haven’t had contact with for months. Last I heard he had some issues. In my dream, I got a text message from him saying he was sorry that he hasn’t been in contact. The particular day was Christmas Day in my dream. What does this mean? Thanks.
Cody, If you want to have a relationship that lasts with Kelly, the dream says you need to have sex with her close friend. Fortunately the sex in the dream is a metaphor. It is not real life sex. The sex you need to have is with her positive self. She has a quality that you need to have a relationship with Kelly. She is Kelly’s friend because she has the quality, but you don’t have enough of it now. So your work is to meditate on the positive quality that Kelly’s close friend has and then work to incorporate it in your life. Without it you don’t have a lot of hope in the relationship. The relationship can really work.
Hello, there has been a recurring dream i’ve had thats been bugging me lately. There is this girl I love, her name is Kelly. We split up about a year ago due to some issues I won’t discuss but were still close and I think were close to getting back together but ive been having dreams about a close friend of hers named Jessica. In these dreams, she and I have sex. I do not have any romantic feelings towards her. We did have a thing at one time. In these dreams, the sex is very passionate. It bothers me because I feel like I should be having these dreams about Kelly and not her. What does this mean? Thanks for reading.
Thankyou for your reply, it means a lot.
God Bless xx